Coming out of World War II, the major Hollywood studios had hoped to get back to business as usual. The distraction of the war was gone, rationing repealed, and the boys – 15 million of them — were coming home. But the expected upsurge in business didn’t come. In fact, almost immediately box office began steadily dropping (and would continue to do so for the next two decades), and the majors found that the kind of frothy and escapist fare which had dominated the 1930s no longer worked for a new generation of moviegoers. The people the studio chiefs had
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