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1. ALAN LADD
2. CLARK GABLE
3. GLENN FORD
4. BING CROSBY
5. MONTGOMERY CLIFT
1. LANA TURNER
2. BETTY GRABLE
3. JUNE ALLYSON
4. ELIZABETH TAYLOR b. SHIRLEY TEMPLE
still on top!
■ Dear Champions of 1949:
On this page are listed the final top standings on the Modern Screen 1949 starpopularity poll — the most extensive survey of its kind conducted by any magazine.
It is a remarkable tribute to you. Lana Turner and Alan Ladd, that for the second straight year our more than 4,500.000 readers have voted you their favorite actress and actor. This is especially notable in your case, Lana, since you made no films during the past year. But your fans remained intensely loyal; the hold upon them of your honest, warmly human personality was as firm as ever. Perhaps an important factor has been the fine way your marriage to Bob Topping has worked out. You have proved how wrong were the cynics and gossip-mongers and how right were your millions of supporters in their unwavering faith in you.
You, Alan Ladd, have stayed at the top by continuing to deliver straightforward, forceful screen performances, by living a private life that's a model of wholesome
family devotion, and by treating the public with simple, unaffected friendliness.
Betty Grable. June Allyson and Shirley Temple also repeated their 1948 success by again coming very close to the top spot. In announcing the winners last year, Betty, Modern Screen said of you then: "Betty Grable made little news — she just kept right on being the one-and-only wonderful Betty." And. Betty— that's exactly what we'll say about you this year . . . You, June Allyson, have long been one of the great pets of our readers. Your growing stature as an actress, and the courageous way you and Dick Powell fought down vicious and absurd separation rumors, have put you in even more solidly. . . . You, Shirley Temple, continued to be so strongly popular that Modern Screen broke publishing tradition by devoting an entire section of its April issue to you in celebration of your 21st birthday.
There's a newcomer in the front rank this time. That's you, Elizabeth Taylor. The extraordinary beaut)' into which you
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