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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. FILM DAILY recently made public the results of its second sec-ond annual poll of newspaper, magazine and radio motion picture critics, to determine "Filmdom's Famous Fives for 1942. First place went to Gary Cooper for his work in "The Pride of the Yankees" and to Greer Garson on the strength of her performance in "Mrs. Miniver Mini-ver " Walter Pidgeon got second and third in the masculine line-up, Frederic March fourth and Monty Wooley fifth place. Joan Fontaine came in second among the girls for "Suspicion," Bette Davis followed her with "Now, Voyager," Katharine Hepburn- and Teresa Wright finish the list. Back in 1934, when Anne Shirley was known as Dawn O'Day, she appeared ap-peared with Ginger Rogers in a picture pic-ture called "Finishing School." Now she'll work with Ginger again, m r.A, I I' , ' J ANNE SHIRLEY "The Gibson Girl," based on the romance ro-mance of Charles Dana Gibson and his wife. Anne's come along far enough in the meantime to rate a top role in this picture, which will be produced in Technicolor. Incidentally, Ginger Rogers deserves de-serves a few laurels for following in Bette Davis' footsteps and letting herself be photographed as a gawky, unglamorous .youngster in "The Major Ma-jor and the Minor." Proved that, though her face may not always be pretty, it can't help being interesting. interest-ing. Which is more than can be said for some of our screen stars, who'd be lost without makeup. . Bill Goodwin's been hot-footing it from stage to stage on the Paramount Para-mount lot lately; he's playing in his second and third pictures simultaneously. simultane-ously. They're "No Time for Love" and "Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour"; not bad for a newcomer! Three former screen stars Sally Eilers, Leila Hyams and Eileen Percy demonstrate approved first aid methods in Metro's new short, "In Which We Serve." They're all qualified Red Cross teachers. In "A Night to Remember" the cops come into their own. Director Richard Wallace didn't have them wear derby hats or big shoes, or be so dumb that the picture's stars outsmarted out-smarted them; in fact, Wallace claims that he and the writer had to work hard to keep the officers from solving the crime before Brian Aherne and Loretta Young did. High time the sleuths were made human! The role in the stage version of "Lady in the Dark" that made Holly- wood producers clamor for Victor Mature goes to Jon Hall in the movie version of the play he won't have to do much but stand around and hear the girls talk about how handsome he is. The leading role is Ginger Rogers' (she seems to bob up all through this column!) and she'll have a chance to sing, dance and act. This month's March of Time is entitled en-titled "The Navy and the Nation." It tells the story of the U. S. Navy and the job it is doing to deliver the fighting goods to the fighting men, and tells, as well, the story of American Amer-ican men and women in war industry, indus-try, doing their part of the navy's job for victory. Actual battle scenes, taken from a convoy, show an attack on a U-boat. Wally Brown's first screen assignment assign-ment for RKO, on his long-term contract, con-tract, will be "Adventures of a Rookie"; it's the first of a new series of feature-length films dealing with American troops in various battle zones of the present war. ODDS AND ENDS-John Garfield mn, he m.delead pptuitt uj OHara m The Fallen Sparrow" screen vejon oj a ew novil of romance ro-mance and espwnage . . . Veronica Lakes had to pin up that Ion, hat r o W We iZl" urmy " "So I'roud. L J ..W fi,n Cr"ly smokes s x pipes ,n "Dixie"u,,d had the neZ trnnr '7 " "" Alter T'0'1 ",e P'e - nn gor ThTcBS LeTCemen in E"gla X spare time. p d their Alter a recent broadcast r t , Benny's from New York !f Jak an was handed rscTo?wuehCredi-natures. rscTo?wuehCredi-natures. They belonged A t, S'g" in uniform who were the nn '6 me" ""owed to attend rhtLr |