STAR LEADERS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 41, 28 November 1941, Page 3

STAR LEADERS.

Commenting on the box-office success of stars and pictures in the United States for the past year, “Variety” points out that although, according to its survey, the box-office bell rang loudest for Bette Davis, Mickey Itooney, Bob Hope and Abbott and Costello, also to the fore were James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, Don Ameche and Bing Crosby. The American trade paper also points up the immense drawing values of Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, Rosalind Russell and Dorothy Lamour, in the domsetic field at least, and also Katherine Hepburn’s remarkable comeback, after an absence of two years, in “The Philadelphia Story.” “Variety” gives its list of “femme box-office stars for 40-41” as comprising the following: Bette Davis, Deanna Durbin, Alice Faye, Judy Garland, Betty Grable, Katherine Hepburn, Dorothy Lamour, Myrna Loy, Ginger Rogers and Rosalind Russell. Toppers among the males were:— Abbott and Costello, Don Ameche, James Cagney, Charles Chaplin, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, Bob Hope, Tyrone Power, and Mickey Rooney.