Top-earning actor
Richard Pryor
$4,000,000
Fee for Superman IIIDeal
About $12.9 million in 2025 dollars
$4 million, and the same year a five-year, $40 million deal with Columbia.
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1983
Top-earning actress
Brooke Shields
≈ $1,500,000
Fee for Sahara, $1–1.5MEstimate
About $4.8 million in 2025 dollars
At 17, reportedly paid $1 million or $1.5 million for Sahara.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1983
By U.S. and Canadian box-office gross
- 1
Return of the Jedi
$253 million
- 2
Terms of Endearment
$108 million
- 3
Flashdance
$92.9 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.