A phenomenal box-office success, the film brought in more than a million dollars.Sam Goldwyn
, of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, credited EG
with being the first person to put sex appeal into the cinema.
qtd. in
Etherington-Smith, Meredith, and Jeremy Pilcher. The "It" Girls. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
This book came out with a new and bigger publisher, Michael Joseph
. When the Ladies' Home Journal bought the serial rights for $7,500 in autumn 1945, RG
's postwar poverty was substantially alleviated. But...