Vani Bhojan is an Indian actress, former model who predominantly appears and works in Tamil-language film and television.She made her cinematic acting debut in the 2010 Tamil film Orr Eravuu.She is known for her works in Tamil Language soap opera Deivamagal (2018). If an actor is working in a prime time television serial as a lead, his salary ranges between Rs.20,000 – Rs.30,000 for a shift of 8 hours.” Adds the source, “All actors are under contract with their respective production houses.
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1937 Was A Good Year For Film Salaries
Gary Cooper – Filmdom’s top paid personality in 1937
I find this sort of stuff fascinating.
In 1938 the U.S. Treasury released a report to Congress that listed how much compensation was paid to luminaries in the film industry for 1937.
The highlight of the report was that Gary Cooper ($370,214) overtook Mae West ($323.333) as the highest salaried film personality.
This was during the height of the Great Depression, so many of the salaries seem astronomical when compared to the average annual salary of a working person which was only $890 in 1937 according to Time magazine.
The list is interesting to look over and there are quite a few surprises. For instance Zeppo Marx ($56,766) is listed in the report and his more famous brothers Groucho, Chico and Harpo are not. Laurel and Hardy are there, and Stan Laurel ($135,167 ) earned nearly $50,000 more than his rotund comedy partner Oliver Hardy ( $88,600).
Ginger Rogers and those famous legs. Ginger received $124,770 in pay in 1937.
Studio chief and creative genius Walt Disney made only $39,000, yet William A. Seiter, director in 1937 of This is My Affair and Life Begins In College made $135,750!
Box office draws, Barbara Stanwyck, Ginger Rogers and Claudette Colbert were all pulling in over $100,000.
I recognized most of the names on the list, but there are also a handful of people I never heard of like The Yacht Club Boys, ($32,166) who were a popular singing group. And I should have known Alan Dinehart, ($39,666) a busy character actor who appeared in 89 movies during his abbreviated acting career (he died at the age of 54 in 1944).
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Olivia de Havilland, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart and many others who were big stars are unfortunately not listed.
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There are writers, directors, producers, and songwriters mixed in among the stars and supporting players of the movies.
Sadly, so many of these names are now completely forgotten except by a much older generation of contemporaries or rabid TCM movie fans.
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1937 Was A Good Year For Film Salaries
Gary Cooper – Filmdom’s top paid personality in 1937
I find this sort of stuff fascinating.
In 1938 the U.S. Treasury released a report to Congress that listed how much compensation was paid to luminaries in the film industry for 1937.
The highlight of the report was that Gary Cooper ($370,214) overtook Mae West ($323.333) as the highest salaried film personality.
This was during the height of the Great Depression, so many of the salaries seem astronomical when compared to the average annual salary of a working person which was only $890 in 1937 according to Time magazine.
The list is interesting to look over and there are quite a few surprises. For instance Zeppo Marx ($56,766) is listed in the report and his more famous brothers Groucho, Chico and Harpo are not. Laurel and Hardy are there, and Stan Laurel ($135,167 ) earned nearly $50,000 more than his rotund comedy partner Oliver Hardy ( $88,600).
Ginger Rogers and those famous legs. Ginger received $124,770 in pay in 1937.
Studio chief and creative genius Walt Disney made only $39,000, yet William A. Seiter, director in 1937 of This is My Affair and Life Begins In College made $135,750!
Box office draws, Barbara Stanwyck, Ginger Rogers and Claudette Colbert were all pulling in over $100,000.
I recognized most of the names on the list, but there are also a handful of people I never heard of like The Yacht Club Boys, ($32,166) who were a popular singing group. And I should have known Alan Dinehart, ($39,666) a busy character actor who appeared in 89 movies during his abbreviated acting career (he died at the age of 54 in 1944).
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Olivia de Havilland, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart and many others who were big stars are unfortunately not listed.
Deivamagal Serial Today Episode Youtube
There are writers, directors, producers, and songwriters mixed in among the stars and supporting players of the movies.
Sadly, so many of these names are now completely forgotten except by a much older generation of contemporaries or rabid TCM movie fans.
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Here are the 1937 salaries of over 160 of some of Hollywood’s top talent in alphabetical order:
- Don Ameche, $34,499;
- Heather Angel, $15,375;
- Jean Arthur, $119,041;
- Fred Astaire, $211,666;
- George Bancroft, $16,250;
- Warner Baxter, $284,384;
- Wallace Beery, $56,250;
- Ralph Bellamy, $16,791;
- Constance Bennett, $60,000;
- Joan Bennett, $18,750;
- Pandro Berman, producer, $202,186;
- Erie Blore, $20,888;
- Charles Boyer, $249,145;
- Alice Brady, $30,416;
- Samuel T. Briskind, R.K.O. studios, $157,000;
- Helen Broderick. $32,000;
- J. Edward Bromberg, $33,700;
- Frank Capra, director, $208,000;
- Leo Carrillo, $57,832;
- Earl Carroll, associate producer, $26,000;
- Madeleine Carroll, $287,913;
- Charles Chaplin, $125,000;
- Charley Chase, $50,187;
- Ruth Chatterton, $249,500;
- Claudette Colbert, $167,500;
- Walter Connolly, $66,541;
- Gary Cooper, $370,214;
- Ronald Colman, $262,500;
- William H. Conselman, writer, $62,250;
- Dolores Costello Barrymore, $25,000;
- John Cromwell, director, $153,665;
- Harry L. (Bing) Crosby, Jr., president Crosby Productions, Inc. $156,000;
- E. M. Crosby, secretary Crosby Productions, Inc. $42,337
- Irving Cummings, director $94,541;
- Cecil B. De Mille, director, $35,500;
- Constance A. De Mille, $18,200;
- Roy Del Ruth, director, $238,333;
- George G. De Sylva, associate producer, $75,350;
- Marlene Dietrich, $200,000;
- Alan Dinehart, $39,666;
- Walt Disney, cartoonist, $39,000
- Richard Dix, $89,062;
- Melvyn Douglas, $27,791;
- Alan Dwan, director, $52,666;
- Alice Faye, $45,500;
- Henry Fonda, $56,208;
- John Ford. $166,916;
- Gene Fowler, writer, $97,508.
- Preston Foster, $40,173;
- Pauline Frederick, $16,066;
- Helen Gahagan, $20,000;
- Tay Garnett, director, $66,333;
- Janet Gaynor, $220,666;
- George and Ira Gershwin, $55,000;
- James Gleason, $52,333;
- Sam Goldwyn, president United Artists, $22,000;
- Paulette Goddard, $26,000;
- Margot Grahame. $16,637;
- Howard Green, $53,125;
- Zane Grey, $36,000;
- Edward H. Griffith, director, $98,000;
- Raymond Griffith, associate producer, $90,791;
- Jack Haley, $76,999;
- Ann Harding, $60,000;
- Oliver Hardy, $88,600;
- Howard Hawks, director, $112,166;
- Sam Hellman, writer, $67,791;
- Sonja Henie, $72,500;
- Katharine Hepburn. $206,928;
- Jack Holt, $58,269;
- Edward Everett Horton, $38,666;
- Rochelle Hudson, $26,875;
- Michael S. Jacobs, president Twentieth Century Sporting Club, New York, $55,000;
- Julian Johnson, scenario editor, $61,199.
- Nunnally Johnson, associate-producer, $123,160;
- Buck Jones $143,333;
- Victor Jory. $28,866;
- Jason S. Joy, scenario executive, $39,500;
- Arline Judge, $23,716;
- Patsy Kelly, $45,216;
- Jerome Kern (music.) $45,357;
- Henry King director, $143,750;
- Sidney Lanfield, director, $67,000;
- Stan Laurel, $135,167;
- Francis Lederer, $43,500;
- Sonya Levien, writer, $62,516;
- Howard Lindsay, $25,833;
- Anatole Litvak, $28,194;
- William P. Lipscomb, writer, $50,750;
- Frank Lloyd, director, $30,000;
- Harold Lloyd, $52,666
- Peter Lorre, $15,625;
- Edmund Lowe, $19,166;
- Kenneth McGowan, associate producer, $73,116;
- Victor A. McLaglen, $113.283;
- Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, songwriters, $54,500;
- Rouben Mamoulian, director, $68,000;
- Fredric March $245,000;
- Gene Markey, associate producer, $61,583;
- Marian Marsh, $15,391;
- George E. Marshall, director, $52.666;
- Herbert Marshall, $111,000;
- Nino Martini, $54,000;
- Zeppo (Herbert) Marx. $56,766;
- Ken Maynard, $37,100;
- Adolphe Menjou, $82,291
- Bess (Curtiz) Meredith, writer, $77,275;
- Grace Moore, 74,999;
- Victor Moore, $56,791;
- Lloyd Nolan, $37,116;
- Jack Oakie , $47,500;
- Warner Oland, $59,999;
- Moroni Olson, $15,411;
- Dorothy Parker, writer, $27,024;
- Harriett Parsons, $15,600:
- Joe Penner, $24,583;
- Walter Pidgeon, $40,000;
- Walter Plunkett, $17,216;
- Lily Pons, $65,000;
- William Powell, $60,116
- George Raft, $51,041;
- Basil Rathbone. $60,208;
- Gregory Ratoff, $67,600;
- Gene Raymond, $75,625;
- Harry Richman, $27,000;
- Robert Riskind, writer, $104,000;
- Al Ritz, $64,500;
- Ginger Rogers, $124,770;
- Edward Sedgewick, $10,000;
- William A. Seiter, director, $135,750;
- Nathaniel Shilkret, $52,966;
- Louis Silvers, musical director, $33,500;
- Simone Simon, $95,916;
- Charles P. Skouras, president Fox West Coast Agency Corporation, $52,562
- Edward Small, $97,333;
- C. Aubrey Smith, $23,833;
- Ann Sothern, $33,666;
- Ned Sparks, $26,250;
- Lionel Stander, $22,882;
- Barbara Stanwyck, $151,979;
- Fred Stone, $22,999;
- John Stone. associate producer $59,208;
- Margaret Sullavan, $63,333;
- Slim Summerville, $69,062;
- Sylvia Sydney, $226,812;
- Norman Taurog, director, $68,000;
- Gertrude Temple, actress, $68,666;
- Shirley Temple, $121,122;
- Lawrence Tibbett, $112,500;
- Lee Tracy, $33,416;
- Arthur Treacher, $28,900;
- Claire Trevor, $27,655;
- Rudy Vallee, $238,744;
- Josef von Sternberg, director, $95.000;
- Raoul Walsh, director, $67,500
- Mae West, $323.333;
- Helen Westley, $15,166;
- Warren William $65,000;
- Walter Winchell, $66,500;
- Charles Winninger, $16,625;
- Sol M. Wurtzel, executive producer, $163,166;
- Jane Wyatt, $20,000;
- The Yacht Club Boys, $32,166;
- Jack Selig Yellen, writer, $54,333;
- Loretta Young, $118,998;
- Victor Young, $89,092
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