Rags To Riches - Modern Times

Modern Times

  • Movies, such as Rocky, Citizen Kane, My Fair Lady, Scarface, The Pursuit of Happyness, Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush, Goodfellas, The Blind Side, Guru, Slumdog Millionaire, and Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story.
  • Video games such as Rags to Riches, a 1985 computer game released for the Commodore 64, or Grand Theft Auto: IV, wherein the character is a poor Serbian immigrant who rises up in the criminal empire.
  • Game shows like The Price Is Right, Queen for a Day, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
  • Reality television shows such as American Idol, The X Factor and Joe Millionaire.
  • Rags to Riches (TV series).
  • "Rags to Riches" (song), from 1953, by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, popularized by Tony Bennett.
  • Rags to Riches, a 1981 romance novel by Joanne Kaye (Rachel Cosgrove Payes)
  • Guns and Roses' song Paradise City features the term on its lyrics.
  • Rags to Riches (comic) a comic book by Four Color Comics Edition #356
  • A term used in many team sports when a team goes from a poor finishing position one season to a strong finishing position the following season.

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