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

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

Organising concerts is tough, as they often incur losses, so when the opportunity arises, bankable performers are exploited for profits.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024

Many merchants even keep a saucer of black sand in readiness to dilute their bankable gold to the utmost thinness it will bear.

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