The White Falcon - 23.12.1944, Blaðsíða 3

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HAYWORTH-
IN WHITE FALCON POLL
Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper, shown above in a
scene from SARATOGA TRUNK, won top honors in the
White Falcon poll for the best female and best male per-
formances, respectively, of 1944.
Rita Hayworth, above, apparently has a very large fol-
lowing among GIs here—who voted her performance in
COVER GIRL as the year’s outstanding performance by
a glamour girl. She received more ballots than were cast
for any other star, male or female, in any of the 5 divisions.
GIs Here Choose
‘Bernadette’ As
Best Film Of 1944
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New All-Star
Musical Is Xmas
Eve Fieldh'se Show
With the odors of the pro-
cessing laboratory still in its
container, Hollywood Can-
teen — Warner Brothers
newest all-star musical —
opens its run in Iceland at
ihe Andrews Fieldhouse to-
morrow night at 2000 hours.
Described by advance pu-
blicity as being “well paced
and spaced,” Hollywood
Canteen features just about
every star who is under con-
tract to Warner Brothers.
The Andrews Sisters, Jack
Benny, Bette Davis, Joan
Leslie, Ida Lupino, Irene
Manning, Dennis Morgan,
Alexis Smith and Barbara
Stanwyck are just a few to
be seen. Musical sequences
are handled by Jimmy
Dorsey and his band and
Carmen Cavallaro and his
orchestra.
Promising to be another
film on the order of 1943’s
highly-successful Stage Door
Canteen, this new movie also
tells the story of the “impact
of show business doing its
job.”
The plot, what there is of
it, tells the story of a young
GI fresh from the Pacific,
Purple Heart, et al, who is
the millionth visitor to the
Hollywood Canteen. As the
honor gQest, he gets his wish
to have a date with a movie
actress. Joan Leslie, current-
ly seen in the IBC in Rhap-
sody In Blue, is his “date.”
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‘GOING MY WAY’ TAKES SECOND PLACE,
INGRID BERGMAN, GARY COOPER, EDDIE
BRACKEN, RITA HAYWORTH NAMED FOR
YEAR’S BEST PERFORMANCES, 7-YEAR-OLD ;
MARGARET O’BRIEN WINS MANY VOTES
In a flood of eleventh-hour ballots which undermined
the early lead of GOING MY WAY, Iceland’s GI theater-
goers have voted Twentieth-Century-Fox’s lavish produc-
tion, SONG OF BERNADETTE, as their choice for the
most outstanding motion picture of 1944. This film story
of the French peasant girl who is credited by the Roman
Catholic Church with having beheld a vision of the
Blessed Virgin topped all other pictures cited in the
White Falcon poll with a total of 25% of the entire vote.
Final Jesuits show Going My Way in second place
with 12% of the vote; Saratoga Trunk third with 10%;
Dragon Seed fourth with 9%; and Lost Angel fifth with
5%. Other films mentioned in the poll, in order of pop-
ularity, were: Double Indemnity, Conflict, Story of Dr.
Wassell, Bathing Beauty, Cover Girl, Gaslight, Destin-
ation Tokyo, Adventures of Mark Twain, White Cliffs
of Dover, The Uninvited. Among British troops were
some ballots marked for an English film, The Happy
Breed.
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For his role in Saratoga Trunk and Story of Dr. Was-
sell, Gary Cooper was selected as having given the year’s
best performance by a mala star. With 18% of the vote,
he was given a slight nod over his closest contender,
Bing Crosby, 12%, for Bing’s role in Going My Way.
Spencer Tracy, for his role in A Guy Named Joe, was
third in this category with 13%; Humphrey Bogart fourth
with 9% for his role in Conflict; and Fred MacMurray
fifth with 8% for his role in Double Indemnity. Other
male performers receiving prominent mention were:
Barry Fitzgerald (Going My way), Cary Grant (Destina-
tion Tokyo), Charles Boyer (Gaslight), Eddie Bracken
(Hail The Conquering Hero), Walter Huston (Dragon
Seed), Charles Laughton (Canterville Ghost), William
Bendix (The Hairy Ape) and Claude Rains (Mr. Skef-
fington).
An easy victory for the year’s best performance by
a female star was won by Ingrid Bergman who polled
31% of the total vote in this class for her role in Sara-
toga Trunk. Jennifer Jones, for her role in Song of Ber-
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‘Merry American Xmas’
Theme As Radio, Dances,
Trees Bring Yule Spirit
“A Merry American Christ-
mas” is the theme of the
week in Iceland as radio pro-
grams, dances, movies, V-
discs,parties, Christmas trees
and packages from home
all combine with big turkey
dinners to make this day as
homelike as possible.
Heading the list of activi-
ties is the fine schedule of
radio programs planned by
the local Armed Forces Ra-
dio Station. Topping these
“super” shows is a two-hour-
and-fifteen minute COM-
MAND PERFORMANCE,
USA program which features
entertainers whose names
read like a “Who’s Who” of
the stage, screen and radio.
Special greetings to American
servicemen and women will
be presented by Secretary of
War Henry L. Stimson, Sec-
retary of the Navy James
Forrestal, General George C.
Marshall and Admiral Ern-
est J. King.
Described as the “greatest
collection of talent ever as-
sembled on any one pro-
gram,” COMMAND PER-
FORMANCE features such
stellar entertainers as Bob
Hope, Dinah Shore, Frances
Langford, Ginny Simms,
Jimmy Durante, Jack Ben-
ny, Fred Allen, W. C. Fields,
Spencer Tracy, Ken Carpent-
er, the Ken Darby Chorus
and the AFRS orchestra con-
ducted by Major Meredith
Willson. Name bands which
will be featured include
those of Xavier Cugat, Spike
Jones and his City Slickers
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