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the CANADIAN MOTION PICTURE
VOICE of
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INDUSTRY
Vol, 8, No, 11
TORONTO, MARCH 10, 1943
$2.00 Per Annum
‘How Green,’ G. Cooper BO Best
Canadian Critics’ Choice
Greer Garson, MGM _ star, was picked by Canadian motion picture critics as the best player of 1942 in the Canadian Film Weekly Poll. Miss Garson, who earned fifth place in the boxoffice poll, won the Academy Award this year.
Irving Levine, 49, Passes in Toronto
Irving Levine, well-known Tor|
onto basso-baritone, died in Toronto last week at the age of 49. He was with Regal’s poster department at the time of his death. He had been ill for some time.
Surviving, besides his widow, are a son, Sydney, and a daughter, Roselyne
William H. Lane Dead
William Henry Lane, sound engineer and head of the projection department of the National Film
Board, died in Ottawa last week,
Proteet Your
Ten Best Pick of Pix and Stars
By Exhibs and Press On Inside
The Canadian Film Weekly Poll for exhibitors and critics |
to determine their respective
choices for the Ten Best pic
tures and stars is now complete and may be found on the
inside pages of this issue.
HELP THE RED CROSS DRIVE
the second Red Cross showmen not lost
We are now into week of the great Campaign and
throughout the Dominion, yet caught up with time during their fine effort in behalf of Aid to Russia, have pitched in all over again with fresh enthusiasm.
The helpless, homeless, wounded and imprisoned cannot wait. There is no stoppage in their suffering. There must be no stoppage in our efforts to help them.
Exhibitors voted “How Green Was My Valley” to be
1942. The film, a great story of life in a Welsh mining village years ago, had special appeal to
Canadian theatre patrons, many of whom are from the British |Isles. At the same time Gary
as their best ticket seller.
Canadian critics, who restrict themselves to films leased between November 31, 1941, and December 1, 1942, “Mrs, Miniver”’ as the and Greer Garson as the No. 1 star.
The various polls revealed that wartime tastes in films embraced every type from grim realism to fantasy.
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Garson Win Oscars
Greer Garson was awarded the Motion Picture Acad
emy’s statuette as the best actress of 1942 at the annual
gold. Miss Garson won the prize, while 1,300 movie makers
bumped elbows in their applause, for her role in “Mrs, Miniver,” a picture which won most of the
in the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove.
The film itself was judged best of 1942. William Wyler, now with the U.S. Air Force in Europe, received a prize for directing it, while Teresa Wright, who played jin support of Miss Garson, took the best secondary actress plum | (Continued on Page 2)
By playing ROY ROGERS PROD
other Oscars standing on the table |
dinner in Hollywood last Thursday, Joan Fontaine, last year’s prize-winner made the presentation. This year’s Oscars were made of plastic and painted® :
Theatres Unaffected 'By New Tax Raise
Though Finance -Minister Isley j}announced that the amusement {tax on night clubs and such had | been raised from 20 per cent to 25, the present 20 per cent federal
tax on movie admissions was al
lowed to remain unchanged Theatre men were more than
|pleased at this recognition that
}motion picture entertainment was ithe nation’s most popular and cheapest form of entertainment |as well as the most forceful med
ium of instruction.
\their best boxoffice picture of |
Cooper was chosen by exhibitors
did not |
picked | best film |}
‘Miniver’, Jim Cagney,
Canadian Boxottice Champ
| Gary Cooper, star of “Sergeant York” and “Pride of the Yankees,” whom Canadian exhibitors, voting in the Canadian Film Weekly boxoffice poll, named as the Dominion’s best individual ticket seller of 1942,
Legion of Decency Nixes "The Outlaw’
Howard Hughes much-disputed production, “The Outlaw,” which was held back a long time because
of the picture’s failure to draw Hays Office and other such approval, has been condemned by the
American Legion of Decency
Lieut. Paul Nathanson Posted to Ottawa
Lieut. Paul Nathanson, formerly lof Odeon and Empire-Universal, has been postex Ottawa. He's jwith the Direc of Military
| Training and will work on in
| structional films
UCTIONS. The King of the Cowboys latest releases
i 2 are “Heart of the Golden West” and “Idaho,” definite week-end money makers—and, Week-End Dates of course, they're REPUBLIC PICTURES.
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