The Most Popular Stars

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19365, 1 July 1937, Page 10

The Most Popular Stars

THE most popular stars throughout the world, excluding the United States, as indicated by their drawing power at the box-office, are, in proper order, Shirley Temple, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as a team, Charles Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Grace Moore, Laurel and Hardy, and Robert Taylor. The order of favouritism differs in various countries. In France, the list , includes, besides Charles Chaplin, Jeanette MacDonald, James Cagney, Franchot Tone, and Robert Donat, such French actors as Harry Baur, ; Annabella, Joan Murat, and Danielle ; Darrieux. In Vienna and The Hague, the list includes Willi Forst and Pola Negri. In China, they like Clark Gable, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Wallace Beery, Errol Flynn, William Powell, and Myrna Loy; and in Japan the list includes Harold Lloyd, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, and Joe E. Brown. 'he Hungarinn-roster of favourites includes such names as Paul Javor, Francisca Gaal, Ella Gombaszogi, and 1 Paula Wessely, and in Czechoslovakia there are Antonie Nedosinka, Adolf Woehlbrueck (v/ho since has become Anton Walbrook in Hollywood), Hugo Haas, Vera Ferbasova, and Hans Albers. Mexico likes Tito Guizar, Ramon

Pereda, Carmen Guerrero, Leopoldo Ortin, and Carlos Lopez; Brazil favours Martha Eggeyth; and Germany prefers Jenny Jugo, Willi Forst, Beniammo Gigli, Renate Muller, Pola Negri, and Carl Froehlich. Only Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, Fred Astaire, and Dick Powell (as members of teams), are on the list in Cuba, where they like ladies of the screen best.