Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Friday 31 December 1948, page 3


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 moneymaking 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.