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Bing Crosby Still Best
Box-office Draw
From Our Staff Correspondent.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30. Both British and American film exhibitors have nominated Bing Crosby the best money making star of the year.
It is the fifth successive year Crosby has headed the box-officé tabulation of the "Motion Pic- ture Herald," published in Holly-
wood.
The journal places Betty Grable second. She has appeared in the first 10 for six years.
It lists other leading money
makers in this order: Abbott and Costello. Gary Cooper, Bob Hope, Humphrey Bogart. Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, and Ingrid Bergman.
It voted Roy Rogers as the most popular Western star.
On the international list which British exhibitors contributed. Crosby was followed by Anna Neagle. Margaret Lockwood, lohn Mills. Michael Wilding, Fredric March, Bop Hope, Danny Kaye, Myrna Loy, and Gregory
Peck.