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3rd place: Pvt. Lon McCallister — -"He reminds me on Ivory Soap ad grown up." (From sneak preview card of "Stage Door Canteen." 1943.
7th place: Lana Turner — How do you spell a long, low whistle?" (From sneak preview card of "They Won't Forget." 1937.)
4th place: Van Johnson — "Yessir, he's my baby!" (From sneak preview card of "Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant." 1942.) •
FAVORITE STARS OF 1944
■ One more New Year for this writer. She's had many of them writing for, the motion picture public. I have a number of people on my list to whom I want to hand a few posies this New Year 1945. High on my list is Modern Screen because it is doing something special for the Hollywood I love.
It is giving many movie-goers of ouf country a chance to express themselves through the Modern Screen Poll. The first time I heard about this Modern Screen Poll was soon after the release of "Stage Door Canteen." I mentioned young Lon McCallister and used a few of my best superlatives in complimenting the young man. Sol Lesser, to whom I was talking, grinned sort of sheepishly and said Modern Screen was right, so I asked him what he meant.
WelL it seems the Lesser organization put their money on another player in the picture and sent out scads of publicity, thinking "Stage Door Canteen" would
make this player a star overnight. Modern Screen wouldn't use the publicity. Sat tight and waited to see what their poll would tell them. The poll skipped that certain person and cheered for Lon McCallister.
All this made me curious. What was this poll, and how did it work? I discovered that it works through all of you who read the magazine. That you vote for your first three favorites. That number one scores three points, number two scores two, number three scores one. Whoever scores the highest is top man for the month, and so on down the line.
In other words, you spot the coming stars. And let me congratulate you. So far you've never missed. I'm not talking about people like Jennifer Jones. That's too obvious. As "Bernadette," a blind man couldn't have missed her. What amazes me is the way you point straight as an arrow at youngsters who first appeared in relatively small parts — (Continued on page 91)
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