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

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No, and most of the responses making comparisons with other actors are missing the point. The impressive thing about Travolta's run isn't that those films were box office successes. Each one of those movies was, in addition to a success at the box office, an absolute cultural phenomenon with impacts that lasted for years. No one else has done that in my lifetime.

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I was a kid then, and I remember. I know what you're talking about.

I wouldn't say "years", because disco died not long after Saturday Night Fever, and the Urban Cowboy craze didn't last more than a couple years. But they were HUGE socially, moreso than the box office numbers.

Closest thing I can remember, is Top Gun- and how everyone had to get leather bomber jackets afterwards.