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Motion Picture Herald took its annual poll of independent exhibitors, asked them to “list the ten players whose pictures drew the greatest number of patrons to your theatre from Sept. i, 1934 to Sept. i, 1935.” Winners:
1) Shirley Temple
2) Will Rogers
3) Clark Gable
4) Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
5) Joan Crawford
6) Claudette Colbert
7) Dick Powell
8) Wallace Beery
9) Joe E. Brown 10) James Cagney
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