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From Motion Picture Herald, January 1, 1944 p. 41:

INTERNATIONAL:
1. Greer Garson
2. Bing Crosby
3. Abbott and Costello
4. Bob Hope
5. Betty Grable
6. Mickey Rooney
7. Dorothy Lamour
8. Bette Davis
9. Tyrone Power
10. James Cagney

BRITISH:
1. George Formby
2. Leslie Howard
3. Noel Coward
4. Eric Portman
5. Robert Donat
6. Arthur Lucan
7. Margaret Lockwood
8. Anton Walbrook
9. Arthur Askey
10. John Mills

WESTERN (!!)
1. Gene Autry
2. Roy Rogers
3. William Boyd
4. Johnny Mack Brown
5. Randolph Scott
6. Charles Starrett
7. John Wayne
8. Buck Jones
9. James Craig
10. Dick Foran

I find it fascinating that Eric Portman is more popular than Robert Donat. But then, he'd made "49th Parallel" in '41 and "One of Our Aircraft is Missing" the year after, and that was only a year back from the poll, and Donat's asthma was keeping him pretty much out of touch, even though he'd won the Best Actor Oscar in '39. Portman is fun to watch in the few Tod Slaughter films he was in, too.