bankable

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Stalin is being challenged by C. Joseph Vijay, 51, one of India's most bankable actors, especially in Tamil regions.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

Studio executives and theater operators chalk up the improved prospects to several factors, including a better and more plentiful crop of bankable movies that are giving consumers more reason to trek to the multiplex.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Robert Redford became a bankable leading man in 1969, when “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” about a pair of outlaws on the lam, turned him into a paragon of the movie star.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Gene Hackman, who has died aged 95, was once described as having the face of a truck driver, but became one of Hollywood's most bankable stars.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025

The same cupidity has given rise to two new terms in the miners' glossary,—trade dust and bankable dust.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various