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In Reply to: RE: Wake up people! It's time for movie trivia... posted by Spinner on April 04, 2008 at 13:07:21
For his role in Goldfinger, Connery signed a contract that made him the highest paid actor to ever grace the silver screen for a film going into production. The contract was for $1,000,000! A paltry sum by today's standards but considered an outrageous amount of money at the time.
Second part of the trivia question as to how that amount of money relates to another Bond film: The movie 'Dr.No', the first Bond film with Connery, cost almost exactly the same amount of mula to produce: a little more than $1,000,000!
Stay tuned for another 'quiz-post' about Connery in the upcoming days...That is if you all can stand the tension 8>)
Follow Ups:
Spinner,
As we're riding the trivia trail: In 1962, Elizabeth Taylor was paid $1,000,000 for the title role in "Cleopatra", which was released in 1963. I've heard more than once that Taylor was the first actor to receive $1,000,000 for a single movie.
Cheers,
Bambi B
Thinking back to that moment 44(!) years ago it could be that Connery earning that million dollars for Goldfinger made him the highest PAID actor in Hollywood because he had already singed for Thunderball. I believe he earned a nice 1.5 mill for that role. I'll try checking some archived mag articles to get to the bottom of this.
Thanks again for the response. I'm looking forward to more sparring along the way...
By the by, I think Liz got her million dollar salary in chicken wings so I might be right after all! Now that's a greasy Hollywood secret very few people are aware of.
You know, I read that as well. I remember reading about Connery getting his million as being the first ever paid to an actor and Liz Taylor also getting paid the same amount for her Cleopatra role. I guess the particulars as too why Connery was said to be first and who actually was have to be investigated.
Perhaps it had to do with the profitability of the two films determining when or how they both got paid. Although I doubt it. The three Bond films were overnight success's while Cleopatra was a budget-busting nightmare. Perhaps there's a website where film-star contract information and movie budgets can be examined. Now that would really be a great site- having access to film contracts and budgets sure would make for interesting reading.
Thanks for the response. This is something I will have to look into for more detail. Sometimes learning how actors made-out financially can be more interesting than how the movie they starred in suceeded. This could be one of those times.
1,000,000 years BC (Before Cleopatra).
Beat that!
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
chris.redmond,
Yes, good point, although the 1966 movie with Raquel Welch is properly called "One Million B.C.". There was another movie with the same title of 1940 with Victor Mature as the decoration!
And, let's not forget the wonderful suburban greed fantasy, "The Million Dollar Duck" of 1971.
Cheers,
Bambi B
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