bankable

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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

And that final fight is now - Saturday night - in Washington DC, bringing the curtain down on an illustrious career that has seen the American become one of wrestling's biggest and most bankable stars.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

So the creative team instead relied on other selling points — namely, a hit filmmaker and a bankable star.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

Concurrently, movies focused on white stories to avoid anti-miscegenation laws, not to mention white performers were seen as more bankable, especially to white audiences.

From Salon • Dec. 5, 2024

There is method, too, in the colonel's associations, and all his acquaintance is gilt-edged and bankable.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various