Top-earning actor
Elvis Presley
$750,000
Double Trouble: $750,000 + 40% of profitsDeal
About $7.2 million in 2025 dollars
The last year of the Elvis movie machine at full speed.
The Million-Dollar Star · 1960s
1967
Top-earning actress
Julie Andrews
≈ $1,000,000
Fee for Thoroughly Modern MillieEstimate
About $9.7 million in 2025 dollars
After Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, Andrews was the world's most successful film star.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1967
By U.S. theatrical rentals, the studios' share of ticket sales
- 1
The Graduate
$43.1 million
- 2
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
$25.5 million
- 3
Bonnie and Clyde
$22 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.