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Show By INEZ GERHARD CLAUDETTE COLBERT won a popularity poll that really means a lot the one conducted by the Woman's Home Companion; her latest picture is "Three Came Home." June Ally son was second; her "The Stratton Story" was voted last year's best picture. In third place, Loretta Young; fourth, Olivia Oli-via de Havilland. Bing Crosby headed the men's list for the fifth time in succession; then came Spencer Tracy; his "Adam's Rib" was the second best picture. Third, Cary Grant; fourth, Clark Gable. Jeanne Crain got a special award for her "Pinky" performance. Last year Ingrid Bergman, Irene Dunne and Bette Davis were the three leaders lead-ers among the women. M-G-M is going to resurrect "The Merry Widow" again, this time in Technicolor, starring Lana Turner and Richardo Montalban. ' They made it first in 1925, with John Gilbert and May Murray; then in 1935, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. . Louis Calhern must be very happy. hap-py. Ever since he starred so successfully suc-cessfully on the stage in "The Magnificent Yankee," as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, he has wanted to do it in pictures. Now it's all arranged, at Metro. Wally Butterworth thought he had an easy name to remember, remem-ber, but some of the bushels of letters coming in to his "Voices that Live" treasure hunt have made him wonder. Mail has come addressed to "Walla Walla," "Valley Water Works," "Wally Boderwald" and "Walter Warwurst," among others, And he's acquired such first names as "Roily," "Art," "Ferry" and "Olive." Why, oh why doesn't some record company persuade Pia Tassinari and Ferrucio Tagliavini to record "Lontano, lontano"? It has brought the greatest listener response in the history of the Telephone Hour whenever they sing it, Ed "Duffy's Tavern" Gardner's first film production will be "The Man with My Face." The stnrv's locale was a western frontier town but Ed changed it to Puerto Kico, where he now lives. The police of Miami, Fla., were bewildered; instead of getting' official offi-cial orders on their radio-phone system they got instruction like "Rush lunches to "The Breaking Point' unit at Newport Harbor, Calif. John Garfield and Patricia Neal are getting mighty hungry." They appealed to the Federal Communications Com-munications Commission and Warner War-ner Bros, had their frequency changed. Stanley Kramer wisely chose Mala Powers to play "Roxanne" in "Cyrano de Bergerac." Discovered Discov-ered by Ida Lupino, her first picture pic-ture was "Outrage"; Howard Hughes subsequ-.itly took over her contract. Jose Ferrer predicts that "In another ten years she will have so many Oscars in her pocket she'll be able to use them for book ends." He took part in her tests. |