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Broadway Luck and Risk Turned Box Office Gold
A New Yorker at Large chronicles Broadway risks and big payoffs. Dodsworth Street Scene and The Green Pastures defied early rejections to join million dollar successes. Selwyn brothers pursued Three managers gambled on Within the Law. it became a major hit. Dracula faced indifference yet yielded long runs and profits.
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New York
Broadway
Green Pastures
Selwyn Brothers
Bayard Velller
Eltinge
Marjorie Ratabean
Turner
Sadie Thompson
Jeanne Engels
Miss Rambean
Eugene Walters
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Charlotte
Walker
Ables
Horace Liveright
Broudway