The Film Daily (1948)

TOE iFifu DAILY Friday, May 21, 194 Bergman, Crosby Head Companion Poll (Continued from Page 1) from 16 per cent to 21 per cent of votes cast. Other actresses named in the publication's annual poll are, in order, Greer Garson, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Irene Dunne, Rosalind Russell, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwick, and Lana Turner. Dorothy McGuire received a special mention, although she did not rate among the first 10. Following Crosby in the actor ballot, are Gregory Peck, Spencer Tracy, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, Ronald Colman, and Dana Andrews. Andrews and Peck received their largest number of votes from the young age groups, while Crosby and Tracy retain their popularity among the older women. Of the actresses, those most popular with younger women are the Misses Bergman, Davis, Allyson and Turner, while those most popular with the older women are Misses Garson, Colbert and Stanwyck, with Miss Russell and Miss Crawford the favorites with the middle age group. There were 68 stars mentioned in addition to the top 20 selections. MPAA Backs MPEA as Indies Under-Sell Pix (Continued from Page 1) where MPEA is operating, the prevailing feeling here is that the benefits of the export association more than balance the occasional losses arising from underselling by indies. As a matter of fact, said one official, a study of the complaints will show that "they keep coming from different companies." That there may be attempts by some members to get MPEA to cease operating in specific countries is conceded here, but, there is believed to be no strong likelihood here that the end of MPEA itself will be sought. Wray Opens Memphis Buying-Booking Office Memphis, Tenn. — Grover Wray, salesman with RKO, has resigned to open a booking and buying office for 13 Midsouth theaters. I ^» WW WW WW rv »-» »-» ww v-» v-» w-w w-v »-» ww v-» ww ww »-» »-» w~* »-» rv w « Sena Sirtnaau % Greetings C< May 21 Jeonne Bates Robert Montgomery Jed Buell Lola Lane Sam Jaffe Armida May 22 Benjamin Abner May 23 Dorothy Lee James Gieason Ben Silvey George E. Stone Loren Tyndall Stephanie Bachelor :; j'j ▼ ▼ ▼ Ringing Down the Netvs Weeh's Curtain • © © LEO McCAREY'S in town in quest of a story property to serve as his first pic for Paramount His own original, "Adam and Eve," winds up his RKO commitment. ... • Sam Goldwyn heads the Los Angeles UJW Fund campaign for the third consecutive year. . . . • New Gallup Poll is said to rank Ingrid Bergman, Jennifer Jones one, two in public popularity on the film distaff side. ... • DuMont expects to be turning out 9,000 video receivers monthly by the year end Eventual DuMont production goal: 20,000 units monthly. ... • Mexico City film attendance slumped under the impact of ice show opposition. ... • Eagle Lion now has its own spritely house organ, the E-L Leader First issue was supervised by Jonas Arnold, press book editor. . . . • Paramount is dickering with Paul Whiteman with a view to producing "The Life of Paul Whiteman" It could be a honey Remember "King of Jazz"? ... • Looks like Errol Flynn will play Thomas Seymour to Deborah Kerr's Elizabeth in Metro's "Young Bess" It should be right down the Flynn alley, if you recall his 1939 role in Warners' "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex." ... • Some memhere of British Equity believe that a ratio of one American star to one British star should be employed in regard to U. S. pix made in the U. K. T ▼ ▼ • • • AIN'T-IT-THE-TRUTH DEP'T: "What an industry this is: how it loves to know the other guy's business" — "Commentator" (Bernard Charman). in London's the Daily Film Renter. T ▼ T • • • TOP LEVEL PARAMOUNT reaction to the recent Supreme Court decision: Paramount stockholders won't lose. ... • Otto Preminger gets in by air today from the Coast, en route to England where he'll sign character actors for his next 20th-Fox pic, "The Fan" It will have Jeanne Crain playing Lady Windermere. ... • A doff of Phil M's chapeau to Jack Fuld, industry ad-publicity veteran, for his impromptu piano recital in Times Square the other noon Crowd had assembled early for the daily program in connection with UN Appeal for Children-American Overseas Aid drive To hold them until the scheduled artists appeared. Jack volunteered to fill in on the piano with a medley of old-time song hits Did the crowd love it! . . . • Siritzky Int'l's "Fanny" is showing in IS N'Yawk nabes simultaneously, something of a highwater mark. ... • Dean Harry J. Carman of Columbia College thinks it would be an excellent idea to study the use of films in the classrooms of New York city-owned colleges to ascertain just what makes 'em "take" Well, why not? ▼ ▼ v • • • ERNIE (LOEWS) EMERLING tells this one: A theater owner in the Midwest, received a lobby display from M-G-M in the form of a life-sized cut-out of Esther Williams, with poster reading: "You Can Have Esther Williams ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU!" (The title of her new Technicolor picture.) The exhibitor promptly replied: "We have no islands around here. . . .Will Miss Williams settle for a nice wheat farm?" T ▼ T • • • W. STEWART McDONALD, vice-president of Warners Theaters, last night took office as president of the Town Club in Scarsdale, the voice, eyes and ears of the community. ... • Smash ad campaign breaks in next Sunday's papers in 15 key cities to plug 20th -Fox's "Green Grass of Wyoming" Charley Schlaif er is using 600 and 800-line copy. ... • Never has he seen such intensive activity, reported Jerry Dale, JARO publicist, back yesterday from a month's visit to England, first since 1930 Rank studios are so abuzz with production that movies are even being filmed in an old dance studio. Dale said. T T T Ulman Would Block Schine Rebuilding • Continued from Page ll seater in Salisbury, Md., it was a mitted here yesterday. A complaint has been filed by tl competing Ulman Theater (lorr asking for an injunction agai^f^tl Schine structure and threate^ i quarter million dollar damage su against Schine. Fact is that a Schine house w£ destroyed by fire in Salisbury, hov ever, and the Government is not ce: tain the circuit can be stopped froi replacing its burnt-out stand. To be determined are whether tl site of the new house is sufficient] separated from that of the old houf to change the competitive situatioi j whether the seating of the new hout will be sufficiently larger to chang the competitive situation, and othej details of a similar nature. The Salisbury issue is already b<| fore the Buffalo court, it was sai< J with permission to replace the burn' j out house already granted. EK Safety Film Would Solve U. K. Problem (Continued from Page 1) are successful, he said, it is antic pated that Eastman will start pre duction within a reasonable time. I While the company has the higher i hopes that the stock will prov satisfactory, Curtis pointed out, i any case, it will be two or threj years before plants can be change over completely to the slow burnin film. Project is particularly topical her as the Home Office is proposing a extensive series of new safety regu lations which, according to CEi President Dennis C. Walls, woul cost the industry 17 to 21 thousan pounds on structural alteration; wiring, new equipment, et al. CEA is still negotiating with th Home Office and hopes it may pet suade that body to defer regulation: pending the Eastman tests, for minimum of two years. ASCAP to Resume Pact Talks with Vaude-Film ASCAP's license contract negotk tions with vaude-film houses will b resumed soon with Herman Greer berg's return from the West Coas Monday. Greenberg, Society's sale head, has been negotiating wit, Broadway managers, on and off, fo several weeks. DEATHS JOE ANTHONY, 64, veteran B b manager, died of heart attack in Chicag Remains will be shipped to St. Louis U burial.