bankable

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Stalin is being challenged by C. Joseph Vijay, 51, one of India's most bankable actors, especially in Tamil regions.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

Robert Redford became a bankable leading man in 1969, when “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” about a pair of outlaws on the lam, turned him into a paragon of the movie star.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

So the creative team instead relied on other selling points — namely, a hit filmmaker and a bankable star.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

Gene Hackman, who has died aged 95, was once described as having the face of a truck driver, but became one of Hollywood's most bankable stars.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025

There is method, too, in the colonel's associations, and all his acquaintance is gilt-edged and bankable.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various