
Top-earning actor
Elvis Presley
$750,000
Spinout: $750,000 + 40% of profitsDeal
About $7.4 million in 2025 dollars
His fees held, even as the films got cheaper.
The Million-Dollar Star · 1960s

Top-earning actor
$750,000
Spinout: $750,000 + 40% of profitsDeal
About $7.4 million in 2025 dollars
His fees held, even as the films got cheaper.

Top-earning actress
≈ $1,100,000
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? + 10% of grossEstimate
About $10.9 million in 2025 dollars
A reported $1.1 million plus a share of the gross, and her second Oscar.
By U.S. theatrical rentals, the studios' share of ticket sales

$15.6 million

$15 million

$14.5 million
★ Starring Elizabeth Taylor