How did The Towering Inferno get so many big stars?

Seriously? We didn't need ANOTHER "Towering Inferno" thread.

First of all, I didn't see that thread and second of all, I just asked how it got so many big stars.

OJ’s first movie, I believe.

It might be Susan Flannery’s too. She was popular on DOOL and this was her break into features.

Yes, Susan Flannery's first big screen outing after almost a decade on Days of Our Lives.

She received a Golden Globe for New Star of the Year for Towering Inferno even though she'd been acting in Hollywood since 1963 and one of the main stars of Days since 1966.

Mike Lookinland with blond hair!

How? Because it was a Warner Bros. + 20th Century Fox co-production, that's how.

OP- First of all ignore R1 and second my family and I saw The Towering Inferno in the theater in 1974. I was only 8 years old. Looking back it does seem a rather harsh movie to take an 8 year old to. On the other hand I asked my parents to take me to see EARTHQUAKE in senssiround ( spelled wrong) in 1974.

I was 15. There was a group of "developmentally delayed" adults on an outing behind us. Every time someone fell hundreds of feet to the ground or was burned, one of them said, quite loudly, "HE DEAD?"

It was like after I saw "The Town"

I was riding The Metro home and noticed a small group of three. One of them asked every passenger if they'd seen, "DA TOWN! DID YOU SEE DA TOWN? WE SAW DA TOWN. DA TOWN IS A GOOD MOVIE!"

In her autobiography, Dunaway wrote that this wasn't the tye of movie she wanted to make, but her agents reminded her that it was good to appear in strictly commercial pieces once in a while, that would be seen by a very wide audience. It increases your fame, and then when you do some quiet, quality drama next, maybe some of those new fans will come see you in that, too.

They paid a million bucks, each, to McQueen and Newman, a lot of money back then. I'm sure Dunaway and Holden got nice paychecks, too, though not a million.

The rest were "stars" but most of them were past their prime. I mean, Robert Vaughn and Robert Wagner and Richard Chamberlain's salaries weren't breaking the bank.

Was Richard Charmberlain past his prime in 1974?

they were all sluts

R11 He was not a big movie star in 1974.

Richard Chamberlain was never a big movie star. He had modest success in film.

Richard Chamberlain was known as a TV actor.

He tried to make the jump to the big screen in the 70s with his highest profile big screen movies coming in 1973-74 with The Three Musketeers, the Four Musketeers and Towering Inferno.

After that, Chamberlain fell into B-grade movies and began focusing more on TV movies and mini-series, where he had much greater success.

r9 Faye Dunaway... the voice of reason. Now I've seen it all.

TI had bigger stars than The Poseidon Adventure. TI was the bigger hit, making $205 million versus $125 million for TPA

[quote]R16 Faye Dunaway... the voice of reason. Now I've seen it all.

This is the movie where she kept William Holden waiting for hours on the set while her hair and makeup were being perfected. When she finally appeared Holden SLAMMED her against the wall and said, “You will never do that to me again!”

I wonder why they agreed to appear in NETWORK together after that little [italic]contretemps.

[quote] I wonder why they agreed to appear in NETWORK together after that little contretemps.

Faye spilled spaghetti on him at The Brown Derby, and all was forgiven.

r18 Probably a love-hate thing going on. You know how these artistic types are. Like Madonna and Sean Penn. He tied her to a chair and beat her up, but years later she refered to him as the love of her life.

[quote]TI was the bigger hit, making $205 million versus $125 million for TPA

The Poseidon Adventure is a million times better than the Towering Inferno. I recently rewatched the TI and I had to fast-forward over large parts of it. It's beyond horrible.

[quote]R18 I wonder why they agreed to appear in NETWORK together after that little contretemps.

[quote]R20 Probably a love-hate thing going on. You know how these artistic types are.

They were both alcoholic booze bags, as well. Maybe she gifted him a case of boxed wine.

There’s a letter where Marlene Dietrich bitches about how appalled she is by the MOMMIE DEAREST movie. She writes, “Faye Dunaway should be ashamed of herself, but then she probably needed the money to pay her liquor bills." ”