BRITAIN’S FAVOURITE
DEANNA DURBIN TOPS POLL. .'■ > f , - t Youth has captured the cinema boxo lice, 'according to a poll - conducted by .the .Motion, Picture Herald; The,..three stajs who. brought in n ost money in Britain in 1939 are Deanna Durbin, Mickey Rooney and S lirley Temple. In America, Mickey Rnoney..led the. list,. followed by Tyrone Power, Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable, , l A “ Geo’rge Formby. is 1, again the most p jpular ” British star, with Gracie FATds- second. "’ ■ > .... The'7lists ’of money-making stars at cording.-to-this : Durbin, Mickey Rioney, Shirley Temple, Robert Tay1c iy:';Jeanette/-'. Macdonald, ■" Spencer T -acy, Err, ollnFlynri,:George Formhy, N )lson-Eddy;;Gary-; Cooper. America —Mickey Rooney, Tyrone - P )wer,\spgncerATra'cy,-’. Clark Gable: Shirley. - Temple,.- Bette, -Davis, r F;:ye, ‘Errpll Flynn, James Cagney, Sonja Henie....,-, e’ c:"" British. Stars r Only—G.eorge Formby, Gracie- Fields,. Robert Donat, Will ■Hly,' Anna ,Neagle,. ’.Leslie .. Howard, .CliarlpA Lapghtoji, ...Gordon Harker.. ißalpii'Richardson, Will Fyffe,.,-, . • y, 'n the" Western, class ..William Boyd. ga llpps; a? 'shortyhead ip front of Gene - Autry"the crooning cowboy.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 February 1940, Page 11
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