re: Has any movie star ever had the run of John Travolta from 1977-1980?

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You don’t think Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark were cultural phenomenons?

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I think that's a fair point. But Ford was a member of an ensemble cast in Star Wars. Travolta was the lead in all three of his. I'd also say that Raiders of the Lost Ark, while a great movie, wasn't a cultural phenomenon like Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Urban Cowboy, and to a lesser extent Grease were.

ETA: unless you were alive at the time, it's hard to understand the disco craze and the country music craze that followed SNF and UC respectively. Both of those movies impacted the way people dressed, the music they listened to, the cars (trucks) they drove etc. It was fricking insane.