| Summary: | Every year in the United States, the Quigley International Motion Picture Almanac draws up a list of the potential top ten money-making movie actors as evaluated by movie theater owners and managers. This evaluation gives great information on how these professionals perceive the most appreciated actors since 1932. During the past eight decades, the dozen actors most frequently mentioned by the Almanac have been listed at least thirteen years and all of them turned out to be white American males. It seemed interesting to examine the common and individual characteristics of these superstars who have shown their ability to build and sustain a literally exceptional career.But the changes in our relationship to time have condemned everything to a perpetual renewal, whereas those superstars have only been shining because they remained fixed, even frozen, in the characters or parts that had made their success. As the turnover rate among talents is now correlated with the movies’one, the appeal of movie stars may not totally disappear, but the ability to last which their elders enjoyed has definitely ceased, the doors of superstars pantheon having probably closed for long behind the current ones who are studied here.
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