The Exhibitor, 1950.

February 17, 2023 by Toby

We looked at Exhibitor magazine’s top cowboy stars for 1951 a while back. Here’s the 1950 list.

By the way, this was the year that Gabby Hayes left theaters with the Randolph Scott picture The Caribou Trail.

on February 18, 2023 at 10:49 am | Reply Bob

Solid choices all!

Curious that Wayne, Scott and McCrae are not there …. unless they meant ‘western’ exclusively.
on February 19, 2023 at 12:07 pm | Reply Barry Lane

Not curious at all. These are B picture stars, appearing exclusively in quickie westerns. The people you mentioned are A stars with Wayne and Scott making the top ten box office throughout the fifties. And beyond for Wayne. Of the B stars, Gene Autry made the real top ten several times.
- on February 20, 2023 at 9:14 am | Reply Walter S.
  
  Barry is correct, because in 1950 John Wayne was number 1 at the box office, Randolph Scott was number 10, Roy Rogers was number 19, and Joel McCrea was number 23. This information comes from the MOTION PICTURE HERALD and FAME, which was a trade paper of the USA movie industry published by Martin Quigley. These rankings were on the basis of ticket sales.
  
  Gene Autry ranked number 4 in 1940, number 6 in 1941, and number 7 in 1942. Gene went into World War II military service in 1942. Roy Rogers came in at number 10 in both 1945 and 1946.

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50 Westerns From The 50s.