This week, as The Unsinkable Molly Brown begins its tenth and final week at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, the picture will set an alltime Music Hall record for box-office gross—something close to $2,000,000. About 21,000 people a day have been queuing their way to Molly despite all the heat of summer. She thus breaks the $1,885,335 record of 1962's That Touch of Mink, a Gary Granter, which in turn replaced Fanny ($1,573,580), which in turn replaced The Great Caruso ($1,390,943).
The Music Hall runs a picture as long as it keeps earning at least $102,000 a weekend (actually Thursday...
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