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Tyrone Power and Jeanette MacDonald the Movie WinnersInternational Poll Places Clark Gable and Sonja Henie In Second Place—Kansas City Voters Agree on Queen, but Choose Nelson Eddy King.TYRONE power, handsome and illustrious son of a famed acting father, is the King of the Movies for 1939.Jeanette MacDonald, musical comedy star, whose photoplay popularity even has exceeded the favor she won on the stage, is the Queen.Those results were received after an international contest conducted last week by The Star and sixty-one other newspapers in the United States and Canada.Twenty-two million readers were \_lt; OF 1939.members of photoplay royalty as liar and sixty-one newspapers ingiven an opportunity to vote in the event, which is-watched closely by the film industry.The 1939 poll was the second annual King and Queen of the Movies test that has been held. The 1938 event found Clark Gable wearing the crown among the4 men, and Myrna Loy among the women.Easy for Power.,The “Big Five” among the 1939men, and their total number ofvotes:Tyrone Power ..............89,647Clark Gable................54,558Spencer Tracy ..............43.843Nelson Eddy................36,998Richard Greene ........29,121The women's scores:Jeanette MacDonald ........59,608Sonja Henie .......... 52,098Myrna Loy ................50,108Bette Davis ................38,174Loretta Young .............35,487It can be seen, therefore, that Power, abetted by his recent striking appearances in “Su^s” and Jesse James,” romped to comparatively easy honors in the masculine divi-sion.Miss MacDonald had a closer race of it, but ahvays held a lead, although never a too commanding one, over Miss Henie.Kansas Citians and residents of this territory, in their votes sent to The Star, agreed on Miss MacDonald as Movie Queen, but gave Nelson Eddy the .men's decision^The first five in The Star’s poll:Eddy............... 832Power............... 913Tracy.........................668Gable........................633Greene.......................467Among the women:Miss MacDonald . .........1094Miss Young............762Miss Loy.......... '660Miss Henie!.................507Alice Faye................ 423Son of an Actor.Tyrone Power, in his early twenties. is the son of Patio Riayome and Tyrone Power, sr., a matinee idol*' in his prime. He came from a family whose name was famous in tile theater for more than a century. Educated at Purcell high school, in Cin- . cinnati, he played in stock for a while, appeared at the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago,, was on radio programs with Don Ameche, had various roles in stage productions, and then entered pietures,. some of his most successful productions being “In Old Chicago,” Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” Marie Antoinette,” Suez and “Jesse James.” He is unmarried.Jeanette MacDonald was bom in Philadelphia June 18, 1907. Through the aid of her sister, then playing in New York musical attractions, she obtained a position in the chorus of a Ned Wayburn show at the Capitol theater. There followed parte in Irene” and “Tangerine,” a lead in The Magic Ring,” the ingenue prima donna roles in Tip Toes” and other attractions, and her entrance into the movies, in which she has starred successfully in various films with Nelson Eddy, the most notable of which were “Naughty Marietta” and Sweethearts.” She is the wife of Gene Raymond, movie actor. L. L.
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Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sun, Jan 22, 1939
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