The New Champion of Champions

FOR more than 30 years Gone With the Wind has been Hollywood's ultimate picture--ultimate in the Hollywood sense of being the industry's alltime biggest moneymaker. Until last year, the only challenger had been The Sound of Music (1965), which leveled off a few million dollars below GWTW. But now Variety reports that in only nine months of 1972, The Godfather grossed a spectacular $81,500,000, surpassing not only Music ($72 million) but also GWTW ($77,030,000). The other leaders in Variety's compilation:

LOVE STORY $50,000,000 THE GRADUATE 48,300,000 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO 47,950,000 AIRPORT 45,300,000 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 43,000,000 BEN-HUR $40,750,000 MY FAIR LADY 32,000,000 M--A--S--H 31,100,000 MARY POPPINS 31,000,000 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID 29,300,000

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