Sentences with phrase «as box office poison»

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Katharine Hepburn, in one of the «icy» roles that would later earn her the onus of «box office poison», stars as Mary Stuart, who serves as the Queen of Scotland until she is jealously put out of the way by her British cousin, Queen Elizabeth I (Florence Eldredge).

That it was a remake (of Lina Wertmüller's squirm - inducing Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August) was strike one; that it starred Madonna, a lousy film actress considered box - office poison, strike two; that Ritchie is married to Madonna, marking Swept Away as the kind of vanity project that power couples make to spend more time together than their private life allows, strike three.