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Show By INEZ GERHARD T! HE ANNUAL POLL of Woman's Home Companion readers has given movie producers something to think about Clark Gable was voted the most popular male star. Last year he was fourth, he never i has been higher than third. Bing Crosby, first for the last five years, came in second. Why the Gable popularity all of a sudden? It's not surprising that Bette Davis, June Allyson and Irene Dunne were rated 1 I Mi CLARK GABLE ! in that order; they've all been seen in good pictures since a year ago, Bette and Irene in especially good roles. James Stewart came In third, 1 Spencer Tracy fourth; John Wayne, the box offices' darling, was fifth in the poll. I Lucille Wall, who receives so many nominations for her "Woman of the Week" spot on "Portia Faces Life", got one from a youngster j suggesting her mother "the best Mommie in the whole world". Lu-cillle's Lu-cillle's accepted the suggestion. j 'Sally Forrest has been bor- rowed from Metro by Unlversal- International to co-star in "The Door" with Charles Laughton ! and Boris Karloff. There's a ! success story for you! Metro had dropped little Sally before Ida Lupino gave her her chance s in "Not Wanted" and started her un the ladder again. Realis- Ing what a good actress she is, Metro signed her again. Virginia Kaye, heard dally in the title role of "Rosemary", never has trouble about getting tickets to Broadway hits. Her husband is Ker-mit Ker-mit Bloomgarden, the prodticer- director, who's important in New : York theatrical circles. Mary Jane Hisbee, who recently celebrated her 12th anniversary as the star of "When a Girl Marries", made her stage debut at the age of ; three months. Since then she has : appeared in nearly every entertain ment medium, including television, i Ed Gardner of "Duffy's Tavern" Tav-ern" recently arrived in New York from Paris to complete arrangements for United Artists i release of the first film ever to be made in Puerto Rico, "The Man with My Face", which he produced. A mystery romance, j It Was made with a Hollywood cast, supplemented by some of i the best known players on the Island. E. J. .Montaigne dl-; dl-; rected. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have been added to the star-studded i roster of comedians signed for tele vision by NBC for 1951-52. They will do four "live" full-hour programs ; and 22 additional half-hour shows, j made on film. j At rehearsals for Dick Powell's I ABC "Richard Diamond", actresses Virginia Gregg and Bea Bendaret compared notes. Both had recently seeded new lawns, both immediately lost to swarms of birds. Virginia suffered the crowning blow. She erected a fence to keep neighborhood neighbor-hood children off the newly seeded lawn, went out in the dark, forgot the fence and fell over it. "The Hollywood Story" was launched In New York with a special showing attended by everybody from the mayor to numerous stars of the silent screen. Based on an unsolved murder that startled the film colony years ago, the picture Is filled with Hollywood atmosphere. atmos-phere. Francis X. Bushman, Betty Blythe, William Farnum and Helen Gibson make a very brief appearance. Ron and Ruth Rawson read a new recipe daily when doing the commercials com-mercials for "The Road of Life", and as a result have become such food experts that they are writing a cook book and are also Judging pastry at county fairs. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Gene Tier-ney Tier-ney and her husband, Oleg Cassini. will take their two-year-old daughter, daugh-ter, Tina, along when they tour Europe Eu-rope this summer by automobile . . . Like other couples the country over, Walter Brennan and his wife plan to sell their large house and build a small beach house, now that their three children are grown . . . Ruth Roman and Mortimer Hall move into their new home this month it was once owned by Olivia de Havilland . . . Norma Shearei wants to stage a come-back |