How did The Towering Inferno get so many big stars?

Seriously? We didn't need ANOTHER "Towering Inferno" thread.

First of all, I didn't see that thread and second of all, I just asked how it got so many big stars.

OJ’s first movie, I believe.

It might be Susan Flannery’s too. She was popular on DOOL and this was her break into features.

Yes, Susan Flannery's first big screen outing after almost a decade on Days of Our Lives.

She received a Golden Globe for New Star of the Year for Towering Inferno even though she'd been acting in Hollywood since 1963 and one of the main stars of Days since 1966.

Mike Lookinland with blond hair!

How? Because it was a Warner Bros. + 20th Century Fox co-production, that's how.

OP- First of all ignore R1 and second my family and I saw The Towering Inferno in the theater in 1974. I was only 8 years old. Looking back it does seem a rather harsh movie to take an 8 year old to. On the other hand I asked my parents to take me to see EARTHQUAKE in senssiround ( spelled wrong) in 1974.

I was 15. There was a group of "developmentally delayed" adults on an outing behind us. Every time someone fell hundreds of feet to the ground or was burned, one of them said, quite loudly, "HE DEAD?"

It was like after I saw "The Town"

I was riding The Metro home and noticed a small group of three. One of them asked every passenger if they'd seen, "DA TOWN! DID YOU SEE DA TOWN? WE SAW DA TOWN. DA TOWN IS A GOOD MOVIE!"

In her autobiography, Dunaway wrote that this wasn't the tye of movie she wanted to make, but her agents reminded her that it was good to appear in strictly commercial pieces once in a while, that would be seen by a very wide audience. It increases your fame, and then when you do some quiet, quality drama next, maybe some of those new fans will come see you in that, too.

They paid a million bucks, each, to McQueen and Newman, a lot of money back then. I'm sure Dunaway and Holden got nice paychecks, too, though not a million.

The rest were "stars" but most of them were past their prime. I mean, Robert Vaughn and Robert Wagner and Richard Chamberlain's salaries weren't breaking the bank.

Was Richard Charmberlain past his prime in 1974?

they were all sluts

R11 He was not a big movie star in 1974.