Filmdoms Famous Fives Named by Critics Poll 1942
The Western Newspaper Union reports 1942 critics poll results. Gary Cooper tops male list for The Pride of the Yankees and Greer Garson leads among women for Mrs. Miniver. Walter Pidgeon, Frederic March, Monty Woolley also rank high. Joan Fontaine second for Suspicion and Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn among others. Anne Shirley to star in The Gibson Girl with Ginger Rogers in Technicolor. Rogers praised for natural look in The Major and the Minor.
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ILM
Gary Cooper
Yankees
Greer Garson
Mrs. Miniver
Walter Pidgeon
Frederic March
Monty Wooley
Joan Fontaine
Bette Davis
Voyager
Katharine Hepburn
Teresa Wright
Hollywood Radio and Film Notes Jump to New Roles and Wartime Shorts
Stage to screen stars juggle multiple projects including No Time for Love and Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour. Sally Eilers Leila Hyams and Eileen Percy teach first aid in In Which We Serve. Victor Mature tops Lady in the Dark cast with Ginger Rogers leading. March of Time covers The Navy and the Nation. Wally Brown debuts Adventures of a Rookie, John Garfield leads The Fallen Sparrow, Veronica Lake as army nurse, Bing Crosby pipes in commands, Anna Lee wears Wren uniform prior to Ruth Winnorth duty in England.
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Sally Eilers
Leila Hyams
Eileen Percy
Metro
Red Cross
Hollywood
Victor Mature
Jon Hall
Ginger Rogers
John Garfield
Maureen Hara
Veronica Lake
Bing Crosby
Anna Lee
Ruth Winniorth
Eng
Cherry the Indian Girl Captures Judge Marshbanks
Judge Marshbanks meets Cherry after a school pageant at a crowded hall. He admires her beauty and wit as she recounts writing the pageant and song, and she opens up about her life and her lost parentage as he notes her warm, hopeful resilience.
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Cherry
Seraphine
Judson Marshbanks
Judge Marshbanks
San Francisco
Madeleine
Claude
Miriam Foster
Cher ry learns of launch from Saint Dorothea's and new life
A judge informs Cherry that Emma, a long vanished nurse, left funds for her education and a path to a new life in San Francisco. Cherry, aged twenty, confronts doubts about her father and mother while considering a secretarial and eventual academic future.
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Cherry
Seraphine
Mister Seraphine
Saint’ Dorothea’s
San Francisco
Belgium
Madrid
Emma
Tunney argues against football in military training drills
Former heavyweight champion and Navy official George Tunney criticizes compulsory football for naval cadets, stressing military training and warrior psychology over competitive athletics. He praises sports for civilians but says football should not drive military programs, noting varied conditioning and the role of other activities.
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GE Tunney
United States Navy
America
New York
Tunney
Navy
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Great Lakes
Keats
Iowa
Seahawk
Glamorous transformation of an old couch in sunny living room
The article describes reupholstering a couch with a tan cotton twill cover, seamed edges, zipper attachment, and tucked back cushions built from newsprint cores bound in muslin. It notes related rug and spool table instructions in referenced books and lists Mrs Spears’ booklets as a reader service.
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Virginia Vale
Western Newspaper Union
Anne Shirley
Dawn O’day
Ginger
Charles Dana Gibson
Anne
Paramount
Henry Aldrich
U. S. Navy
Wally Brown
RKO
Marshbanks
Kathleen Norris
Giorris
W.N.U
Gene Tunney
Ruth Wiveth Spears
Coe
Ruth Wyeth
Spears
Bedford Hills
Montana Cereal CO
Billings, Montana
U. S
Jame
Tom
Janie
Fleischmann
Fleischmann’s
Leischmanns
Fleischmanns
Standard Brands, Inc
Washington Street
New York, N.Y
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