The 1978 film version of Grease was a smash hit ; its songs were original compositions done in a 1950s pop style.

The movie, which became the most commercially successful film of all time when it was released — along with his Oscar-nominated performance as Paul in Last Tango in Paris ( 1972 ), another smash hit — revitalized Brando's career and reestablished him in the ranks of top box office stars, placing him at number 6 and number 10 in Top 10 Money Making Stars poll in 1972 and 1973, respectively.

" When the film had its premiere on opening night at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, it was mercilessly drubbed, but no matter ; it was a smash ," observed the International Herald Tribune in a 2007 profile of Besson.

Gardner came to prominence in the Mark Hellinger-produced smash hit film noir The Killers ( 1946 ), which introduced Burt Lancaster to the screen in the lead role.

Four months later the film Foul Play ( with Chevy Chase ), was released and became a box office smash and revived Hawn's career in the film industry.

The film was a box office smash and Newman garnered his first Academy Award nomination.

Halloween ( 1978 ) was a smash hit on release and helped give birth to the slasher film genre.

The made-for-TV movie was a smash hit with viewers and critics, and was also released as a feature film in cinemas outside the U. S. and revived the career of Russell, who was a child actor in the 1960s.

He was on his way back to Hollywood for more film work, after the smash success of " Stormy Weather ".

The film received rave reviews and was a box office smash in 1973-74, taking in more than US $ 160 million.

The latter was a smash at the box office, grossing over $ 500 million, more than any other film of that year.

It was a smash box office success for the mid-level studio, earning a total of $ 2. 625 million in the U. S. and abroad, almost a million dollars more than the previous record for a Warners ' film.

The film received less positive reviews than Lean's previous work and was not a smash hit at the international box office.

A box office smash with a $ 41 million intake ( becoming the third highest grossing film of 1969 ), along with Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate, Easy Rider helped kick-start the New Hollywood phase during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The film was released 4 May 1972, and became a huge box office smash.

The film was Warner Brothers ' answer to Annie Get Your Gun, and included the smash hit song " Secret Love ".

Film Star & Producer Ford Austin premiered his cult smash feature film " Cerebral Print: the Secret Files at the Roxy Theatre in 2003.

Quentin Tarantino's smash hit film Pulp Fiction made heavy use of rock instrumentals on its soundtrack, spurring some interest in classic instrumentals, and revitalizing Dick Dale's career.

The film was a box office smash, and Christie's role as Lara Antipova would become her most famous.

The film is notable as being Gable's biggest flop and occurred at the height of his career, when almost every Gable film was a smash hit.

In the smash hit war movie The Great Escape, Garner played the second lead for the only time during the decade, supporting fellow ex-TV series cowboy Steve McQueen, among a cast of British and American screen veterans, including Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasance, David McCallum, James Coburn, and Charles Bronson, in a film depicting a mass escape from a Nazi prisoner of war camp based on a true story.

In 1977, Mason's performance in Simon's smash hit film, The Goodbye Girl, won her a second Best Actress Academy Award nomination.

His first two efforts Nowhere But Up ( 1962 ) and Cafe Crown ( 1964 ) were flops, but in 1966 he won his first Tony Award for his dazzling work in the smash hit Cabaret, the first of several noteworthy successes.

Jim Northrup then hit a hard smash to deep center ; Curt Flood, who won numerous gold gloves in his career, misjudged it and briefly started in on the ball before turning around to go back.

The movie was made one year after Lee Marvin won the Oscar for Cat Ballou ( 1965 ) and the year before his seminal World War II smash hit The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ).

The expensive, glossy Ross Hunter production directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Lana Turner was a box office smash ; Kohner won an Academy Award nomination and won the Golden Globe in the Best Supporting Actress categories.

As a songwriter, Naomi also won a Grammy for Country Song of the Year with the Judds ' smash hit " Love Can Build a Bridge ".

The film was a box-office smash, and Midler received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture ( Leading Role ).

In 2012, the selection was won by Mandinga with their already smash hit " Zaleilah ", the first time that the tele-voting favorite wins the contest.

's smash hit " Losing My Religion ", the latter of which won Best Video of the Year at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards.

The other was the 2009 Tony Award winner for Best Play, Yasmina Reza's smash hit God of Carnage for which Warchus won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play.

These included " Ooo Baby Baby " ( 1965 ), the million-selling Grammy Hall of Fame Inductee " The Tracks Of My Tears " ( also 1965 ), for which he won the ASCAP Award Of Merit, My Girl Has Gone, another Top 20 hit from 1965, " Going to a Go-Go " ( also 1965 ), ( where he came up with the song's initial percussion sequence ), and the multi-million selling # 1 Pop smash, " Love Machine " ( co-written with Miracles ' member Billy Griffin ) and the platinum album from which it came, City of Angels, among others.

In 1993, he produced another Aerosmith commercial smash, Get a Grip, which racked up sales of seven million and solidified the band's growing representation as international media stars.

There are seven basic shots in the game of tennis: the serve, forehand, backhand, volley, slice, smash and lob.

The film's theme song " Eye of the Tiger ", was written by the group Survivor at the request of Stallone, and became a smash hit single, topping the US Billboard music charts and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.

The film was a smash hit, and Sommers received two Saturn Award nominations for Best Director and Best Writer in 2000 by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.

The company released a consistent string of minor hits through Paramount ; including the box-office smash Fatal Attraction in 1987, for which Jaffe and Lansing received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture the following year.

Her success continued with True Colors in 1986, which included two Billboard Hot 100 top ten songs: the number one smash " True Colors " and " Change of Heart ," and earned two nominations at the 29th Grammy Awards.

The first single, " Let's Get Rocked ", was an instant smash hit, and the band performed the song at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards where it was nominated for Best Video of the Year.

Tu-Plang was a smash hit, winning Best Alternative Release and Best Debut Album at the 1996 ARIA Music Awards.

Meanwhile, more artists took his songs to the top of the charts, including Willie Nelson, whose 1979 LP release of Willie Nelson Sings Kris Kristofferson proved to be a smash success.

By this time, This album produced several more hit singles, including " 992 Arguments ," " Sunshine ," " Time To Get Down ," and the # 1 pop smash, " Love Train ".

Featuring the singles, " Power of Love " and " Wild Night ", the album was a critically favored smash, though it failed to generate commercial success as did Reeves ' subsequent follow-ups on other labels including Arista and Fantasy.

The majority of Moodring was co-written and co-produced by Mýa and was influenced by different subjects and music styling's including techno, pop rock, soul, hip-hop, r & b, quiet storm, etc. The first single, the Missy Elliott-produced " My Love Is Like ... Wo " became a smash hit and a summertime anthem for women.

He contributed to most of Mariah Carey's albums, including her career comeback album, 2005's The Emancipation Of Mimi with the smash hit " We Belong Together ", which stayed at number one for fourteen non-consecutive weeks, becoming the second longest running number one song in US chart history, behind Carey's 1996 collaboration with Boyz II Men on " One Sweet Day ".

He has written 11 No. 1 hit songs, with 26 more that reached the Top 10, including the No. 1 international pop crossover smash " Harper Valley PTA " and the hit " I Love ", which reached No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The show would become a smash success not only in the U. S. but, in successive years, in syndication around the world, spawning a cottage industry of peripheral products, particularly in the show's first three seasons, including several series of bubble gum cards, two sets of fashion dolls, numerous posters, puzzles, and school supplies, novelizations of episodes, toy vans, and a board game, all featuring Smith's likeness.

Game was nominated with a total of two nominations, including Grammy Award for Best Rap Song and Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for the smash single " Hate It or Love It ".

Rags to Rufus was released in 1974 and two of its singles — the Stevie Wonder-penned " Tell Me Something Good " and the Parker-Khan composition, " You Got the Love " — became smash hits leading to Rags to Rufus going platinum and also landed them opening spots for the tours of several top stars including ( Stevie Wonder, Cheech and Chong and the Hues Corporation.

Prior to working with the Rolling Stones, Miller rose to fame by producing successful releases for The Spencer Davis Group including their breakthrough hit " Gimme Some Lovin '" and the follow-up smash " I'm A Man ," which Miller co-wrote with the band's singer-keyboardist, Steve Winwood.

During this time James also helped launch the solo career of Marie Osmond, producing her first three albums, including the 1973 smash hit, " Paper Roses ".

It features The Black Eyed Peas, particularly will. i. am, performing energetic dances while singing the song, while varying objects in the background ( including a grand piano ) smash against the ground in real-time, slow and fast motion, and in reverse.

The song was the first of four singles from the project's first album MCMXC a. D. and upon release became an international smash hit, reaching number one in 24 countries and the top ten in many others including the United States, where it made number five on the pop chart and number one on the dance chart.

The " Great October Socialist Revolution ," and the actions of nineteen capitalist countries — including Canada — to intervene in Russia to smash it, had a galvanizing impact on Canadian workers.

After recording several minor hits, including their first top 40 smash, " Twist & Shout ", the group landed a deal with Motown Records in 1965.

The band played for stadium crowds as the opening act for several successful acts at their commercial peak, including Ted Nugent, Loverboy, the Scorpions, Rainbow and REO Speedwagon's tour in support of their album Good Trouble, the follow-up to their smash HI-Infidelity.

After Smokey Robinson, Claudette Robinson and Marv Tarplin left the group in 1972, the group carried on with Billy Griffin, scoring two more hits with Motown including the number-one smash, " Love Machine ", before leaving Motown in 1977 for Columbia Records.

A man of many talents, he also began to design sets and costumes for the theater including Caroline Dudley Reagan's La Revue Negre starring Josephine Baker in the show that made her a smash in Paris.

The album yielded a string of hit singles, including the # 1 pop smash, " Get Busy ," the most successful U. S. crossover record in Jamaican recording history.

A third scandal involving credited vocalists also continued this year with the duo Milli Vanilli who hit the headlines when it was revealed that neither of them had performed vocals on any of their debut singles, including this year's No. 2 smash from November, " Girl I'm Gonna Miss You ".

Simon hosted a series of Movie Specials for ITV including Ratatouille: Serving up a Feast, a behind the scenes look as smash hit animation Disney Pixar Ratatouille.