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The year 1939 in film involved some significant events.

e historians and film buffs often look back on the year 1939 as "the greatest year in film history". Hollywood was at the height of its Golden Age, and this particular year saw the release of an unusually large number of exceptional movies, many of which have been honored as all-time classics, when multitudes of other films of the era have been largely forgotten.

August 15 - The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States musical film-fantasy film mainly directed by Victor Fleming and based on the 1900 Children's literature novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L....
 premieres in the US.

October 17 - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington premieres in Washington D.C.

December 15 - Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind (film)

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
 premieres in Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
, USA with a 3-day festival.








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The year 1939 in film involved some significant events.

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Movie historians and film buffs often look back on the year 1939 as "the greatest year in film history". Hollywood was at the height of its Golden Age, and this particular year saw the release of an unusually large number of exceptional movies, many of which have been honored as all-time classics, when multitudes of other films of the era have been largely forgotten.

August 15 - The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States musical film-fantasy film mainly directed by Victor Fleming and based on the 1900 Children's literature novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L....
 premieres in the US.

October 17 - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington premieres in Washington D.C.

December 15 - Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind (film)

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
 premieres in Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
, USA with a 3-day festival.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind (film)

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
 MGM $400,176,459
2.The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States musical film-fantasy film mainly directed by Victor Fleming and based on the 1900 Children's literature novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L....
 MGM $16,538,431
3.Ninotchka
Ninotchka

Ninotchka is a 1939 in film American film made for Metro Goldwyn Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch which stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas....
 MGM 
3. Jesse James
Jesse James (1939 film)

Jesse James is a western movie directed by Henry King and starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, and Randolph Scott. Written by Nunnally Johnson, the film is loosely based on the life of the notorious outlaw for which the film derives its name....
 20th Century Fox 
5. Mr Smith Goes to Washington Columbia 
6.The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1939 in film United States monochrome motion picture. It is considered by some reviewers to be the best of the many film versions of Victor Hugo's classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and perhaps the one that sticks closest to Hugo's plot and intention although the ending differs....
 RKO 
7. The Old Maid
The Old Maid

The Old Maid is a 1939 in film romantic drama film, produced by Warner Brothers.It was film director by Edmund Goulding, and stars Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp, Jane Bryan, James Stephenson, Jerome Cowan, William Lundigan and Louise Fazenda....
 Warners Bros. 
8. The Rains Came
The Rains Came

The Rains Came is the title of novel by Louis Bromfield, published in 1937 in literature, as well as the 1939 in film 20th Century Fox film version which followed it....
 20th Century Fox 
9. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is an United States biography musical comedy, released in 1939 in film and directed by H.C. Potter. The film stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, and Walter Brennan....
 RKO 
10. Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)

Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a Cinema of the United Kingdom based on Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton. It was directed by Sam Wood, and starred Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills and Paul Henreid....
 MGM 
11. Another Thin Man
Another Thin Man

Another Thin Man is the third film in the six volume series, the The Thin Man . The 1939 in film film again stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, which is based on the writings of Dashiell Hammett....
 MGM 


Academy Awards

  • Best Picture
    Academy Award for Best Picture

    The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
    : Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind (film)

    Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
     - David O. Selznick
    David O. Selznick

    David O. Selznick, born David Selznick , was one of the iconic Hollywood film producer of the Golden Age. He is best known for producing the epic blockbuster Gone with the Wind which earned him an Academy Awards for Best Picture....
    , MGM
  • Best Director: Victor Fleming
    Victor Fleming

    Victor Fleming was an Academy Award-winning United States film director....
     - Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind (film)

    Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
  • Best Actor
    Academy Award for Best Actor

    Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
    : Robert Donat
    Robert Donat

    Friedrich Robert Donat , was an England Academy Award-winning film and stage actor.Donat was born in Withington, Manchester, England, to Ernst Emil Donat and his wife Rose Alice nee Green who married at Withington St Paul in 1895....
     - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
    Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)

    Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a Cinema of the United Kingdom based on Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton. It was directed by Sam Wood, and starred Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills and Paul Henreid....
  • Best Actress
    Academy Award for Best Actress

    Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
    : Vivien Leigh
    Vivien Leigh

    Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier , was an English actress. She won two Academy Awards for playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire , a role she had also played on stage in London's West End Theatre....
     - Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind (film)

    Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
  • Best Supporting Actor
    Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

    Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
    : Thomas Mitchell
    Thomas Mitchell (actor)

    Thomas Mitchell was an United States actor, playwright and screenwriter. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of the father of Scarlet O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life....
     - Stagecoach
    Stagecoach (film)

    Stagecoach is a western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht, is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 in literature short story by Ernest Haycox....
  • Best Supporting Actress
    Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

    Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
    : Hattie McDaniel
    Hattie McDaniel

    Hattie McDaniel was an United States actress and the first black performer to win an Academy Awards. She won the award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ....
     - Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind (film)

    Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....


Films released in 1939

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (film)

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a film featuring the characters of the Sherlock Holmes series of books as created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
    , starring Basil Rathbone
    Basil Rathbone

    Basil Rathbone, Military Cross , was a South African Republic England actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as The Mark of Zorro , Captain Blood , and The Adventures of Robin Hood ....
     and Nigel Bruce
    Nigel Bruce

    William Nigel Ernle Bruce , was a United Kingdom character actor on stage and screen, best known as John Watson in a series of films and in the radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ....
  • Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever, starring Lewis Stone
    Lewis Stone

    Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
    , Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney

    Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
    , Cecilia Parker
    Cecilia Parker

    Cecilia Parker was a film actress.She was brought to southern California as a child by her mother, Mrs. Naudy Anna Parker. Her father was an England soldier....
    , and Fay Holden
    Fay Holden

    Fay Holden , was an United States actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1935 in film and 1958 in film, but is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Emily Hardy, Mickey Rooney's mother in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Andy Hardy movie series....
  • Another Thin Man
    Another Thin Man

    Another Thin Man is the third film in the six volume series, the The Thin Man . The 1939 in film film again stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, which is based on the writings of Dashiell Hammett....
    , starring William Powell
    William Powell

    William Horatio Powell was a three-time Academy Award-nominated American actor, noted for his sophisticated, cynical roles. He was a major MGM film star and is most widely known for portraying the detective Nick and Nora Charles in six The Thin Man films....
     and Myrna Loy
    Myrna Loy

    Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, but after a few minor roles in silent films, she devoted herself fully to an acting career, and from 1925 gradually established herself as a film actress....
  • The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
    The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

    The Arsenal Stadium Mystery is a 1939 in film United Kingdom mystery film, and is one of the first feature films where football is a central element in the plot....
  • Ask a Policeman
    Ask A Policeman

    Ask a Policeman is a 1939 in film United Kingdom comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt....
    , Starring Will Hay
    Will Hay

    William Thomson Hay was an England comedian, actor and amateur astronomy....
    , Graham Moffatt
    Graham Moffatt

    Graham Moffatt was a United Kingdom character actor and comedian.Born in Hammersmith, London , he is best know for a number of films where he appeared with Will Hay and Moore Marriott as 'Albert': an insolent, overweight, overgrown-schoolboy type character, loosely reminiscent of Billy Bunter....
     and Moore Marriott
    Moore Marriott

    Moore Marriott was a United Kingdom character actor. Rather like Clive Dunn and Wilfrid Brambell later, he became typecast as playing old men when he was still relatively young....
  • At the Circus
    At the Circus

    At the Circus is a 1939 in film Marx Brothers comedy film in which they save a Circus from bankruptcy. It is notable for Groucho Marx's classic rendition of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady." and co-stars include Margaret Dumont, Eve Arden, and Kenny Baker ....
  • Babes in Arms
    Babes in Arms (film)

    Babes in Arms is the 1939 in film film version of the 1937 Broadway musical Babes in Arms. The film version stars Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser, Grace Hayes and Betty Jaynes....
  • Bachelor Mother
    Bachelor Mother

    Bachelor Mother is an United States comedy film directed by Garson Kanin, and starring Ginger Rogers , David Niven, and Charles Coburn. The screenplay was written by Norman Krasna based on a story by Felix Jackson ....
  • Barricade
  • Beau Geste
    Beau Geste (1939 film)

    Beau Geste is a 1939 in film film made by Paramount Pictures based on the Beau Geste by P. C. Wren. It was directed and produced by William A....
    , starring Gary Cooper
    Gary Cooper

    Frank James ?Gary? Cooper was an Cinema of the United States film actor and iconic star. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Western movie he made....
     and Ray Milland
    Ray Milland

    Ray Milland was a Wales-born United States actor and Film director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best-remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend ....
  • Boys' Reformatory
  • Dark Victory
    Dark Victory

    Dark Victory is a 1939 in film United States drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by Casey Robinson was based on the unsuccessful 1934 play of the same title by George Brewer and Bertram Bloch....
    , starring Bette Davis
    Bette Davis

    Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
     (favorite role)
  • Daughter of The Tong
  • Destry Rides Again
    Destry Rides Again

    Destry Rides Again is a 1939 in film Western directed by George Marshall, starring Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart , Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger, Brian Donlevy, Allen Jenkins, Irene Hervey, Billy Gilbert, Bill Cody, Jr....
    , starring James Stewart
    James Stewart (actor)

    James Maitland Stewart , popularly known as Jimmy Stewart, was an United States film and stage actor best known for his self-effacing persona....
  • Dodge City
    Dodge City (1939 film)

    Dodge City is a western movie starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Directed by Hungarian-turned-Hollywood filmmaker Michael Curtiz and based on a story by Robert Buckner, it was filmed in early Technicolor....
    , starring Errol Flynn
    Errol Flynn

    Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle....
     and Olivia de Havilland
    Olivia de Havilland

    Olivia Mary de Havilland is a two-time Academy Awards-winning actor. She is the older sister of actress Joan Fontaine, also an Academy Award winner....
  • Drums Along the Mohawk
    Drums Along the Mohawk

    Drums Along the Mohawk is a 1939 in film historical Technicolor film based upon a 1936 in literature Drums Along the Mohawk by American author, Walter D....
    , directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda
    Henry Fonda

    Henry Jaynes Fonda was an United States Academy Awards-winning film and Stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, Naturalism acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....
     and Claudette Colbert
    Claudette Colbert

    Claudette Colbert was a French-born American stage and film actress.Born in Saint-Mand?, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway theater productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures....
  • Each Dawn I Die
    Each Dawn I Die

    Each Dawn I Die is a 1939 in film Crime film featuring James Cagney and George Raft in their only movie together as leads, although Raft had made an unbilled appearance in a 1932 Cagney vehicle called Taxi! in which he won a dance contest against Cagney....
  • Everything Happens At Night
  • The Four Feathers
    The Four Feathers (1939 film)

    The Four Feathers is a 1939 in film adventure film directed by Zoltan Korda, starring John Clements, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, C. Aubrey Smith....
     starring John Clements
    John Clements

    Sir John Selby Clements, Order of the British Empire was an English actor and Theatrical producer who worked in theatre, television and film....
     and Ralph Richardson
    Ralph Richardson

    Sir Ralph David Richardson was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, also appeared in several classic films....
  • Five Came Back starring Lucille Ball
    Lucille Ball

    Lucille Ball was an United States comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model , film industry, and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy....
  • Frontier Marshal
    Frontier Marshal (1939 film)

    Frontier Marshal is a 1939 in film Western starring Randolph Scott as legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. It is the second film produced by Sol M....
  • Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind (film)

    Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
    , starring Clark Gable
    Clark Gable

    Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
     and Vivien Leigh
    Vivien Leigh

    Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier , was an English actress. She won two Academy Awards for playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire , a role she had also played on stage in London's West End Theatre....
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
    Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)

    Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a Cinema of the United Kingdom based on Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton. It was directed by Sam Wood, and starred Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills and Paul Henreid....
    , starring Robert Donat
    Robert Donat

    Friedrich Robert Donat , was an England Academy Award-winning film and stage actor.Donat was born in Withington, Manchester, England, to Ernst Emil Donat and his wife Rose Alice nee Green who married at Withington St Paul in 1895....
     and Greer Garson
    Greer Garson

    'Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson', Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom-born actor who was very popular during the years of World War II. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress award for Mrs....
  • The Gorilla (1939)
  • Gulliver's Travels
    Gulliver's Travels (1939 film)

    Gulliver's Travels is a 1939 in film Academy Award nominated traditional animation Technicolor feature film, directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Max Fleischer for Fleischer Studios....
  • The Hardys Ride High, starring Lewis Stone
    Lewis Stone

    Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
    , Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney

    Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
    , Cecilia Parker
    Cecilia Parker

    Cecilia Parker was a film actress.She was brought to southern California as a child by her mother, Mrs. Naudy Anna Parker. Her father was an England soldier....
    , and Fay Holden
    Fay Holden

    Fay Holden , was an United States actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1935 in film and 1958 in film, but is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Emily Hardy, Mickey Rooney's mother in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Andy Hardy movie series....
  • Hollywood Cavalcade, starring Alice Faye
    Alice Faye

    Alice Faye was an United States actor and singer. She is remembered first for her stardom at 20th Century Fox and, later, as the radio comedy partner of her second husband, bandleader-comedian Phil Harris....
    , Don Ameche
    Don Ameche

    Don Ameche was an Academy Award winning United Statesn actor....
    , J. Edward Bromberg
    J. Edward Bromberg

    Joseph Edward Bromberg was a Hungary-born character actor in motion picture and stage productions dating mostly from the 1930s and 1940s.Born Josef Bromberger in Temeschburg, Austria-Hungary , he was five years old when his family immigrated to the United States, settling in New York City....
    , Alan Curtis
    Alan Curtis (American actor)

    Alan Curtis was an United States film actor appearing in over 50 films.Harry Ueberroth was born in Chicago, Illinois. He began as a model before becoming an actor, appearing in local newspaper ads....
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
    The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film)

    The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 in film mystery film based on the The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is directed by Sidney Lanfield and produced by 20th Century Fox....
    , starring Basil Rathbone
    Basil Rathbone

    Basil Rathbone, Military Cross , was a South African Republic England actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as The Mark of Zorro , Captain Blood , and The Adventures of Robin Hood ....
     and Nigel Bruce
    Nigel Bruce

    William Nigel Ernle Bruce , was a United Kingdom character actor on stage and screen, best known as John Watson in a series of films and in the radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ....
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film)

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1939 in film United States monochrome motion picture. It is considered by some reviewers to be the best of the many film versions of Victor Hugo's classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and perhaps the one that sticks closest to Hugo's plot and intention although the ending differs....
    , starring Charles Laughton
    Charles Laughton

    Charles Laughton was an England Academy Award-winning Theatre and film actor, screenwriter, Film producer and one-time Film director.While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor....
     and Maureen O'Hara
    Maureen O'Hara

    Maureen O'Hara is an Irish people film actor and singer.Born to Charles Stewart Parnell FitzSimons and Marguerita Lilburn in Ranelagh, County Dublin, Ireland not long before partition, the famously red hair O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude....
  • The Marines Fly High, starring Lucille Ball
    Lucille Ball

    Lucille Ball was an United States comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model , film industry, and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy....
  • In Name Only
    In Name Only

    In Name Only is a 1939 in film romantic film starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard and Kay Francis. It was based on the novel Memory of Love by Bessie Breuer....
    , starring Cary Grant
    Cary Grant

    Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
    , Carole Lombard
    Carole Lombard

    Carole Lombard , born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was an Oscar-nominated United States Actor. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in several classic films of the 1930s, most notably in the 1936 film My Man Godfrey....
     and Kay Francis
    Kay Francis

    Kay Francis was an Cinema of the United States stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway theatre in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star at the Warner Bros....
  • Intermezzo
    Intermezzo (1939 film)

    Intermezzo is a romantic film made in the United States of America by Selznick International Pictures. It was directed by Gregory Ratoff and produced by David O....
    , starring Ingrid Bergman
    Ingrid Bergman

    was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
     and Leslie Howard
    Leslie Howard (actor)

    Leslie Howard was an English people Academy Award-nominated Stage and film actor, director, and Theatrical producer. He is best known by international audiences as Ashley Wilkes in the film Gone with the Wind ....
  • Jamaica Inn
    Jamaica Inn (film)

    Jamaica Inn is a 1939 in film film made by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn , the first of three of du Maurier's works that Hitchcock adapted ....
    , by Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock

    Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
  • Jesse James
    Jesse James (1939 film)

    Jesse James is a western movie directed by Henry King and starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, and Randolph Scott. Written by Nunnally Johnson, the film is loosely based on the life of the notorious outlaw for which the film derives its name....
    , starring Tyrone Power
    Tyrone Power

    'Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr.' , usually credited simply as 'Tyrone Power' and known sometimes as "'Ty Power'", was an United States film and Theatre actor who appeared in dozens of films from the 1930s to the 1950s, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads such as The Mark of Zorro , The Black Swan , Prince of Foxes , T...
    , Henry Fonda
    Henry Fonda

    Henry Jaynes Fonda was an United States Academy Awards-winning film and Stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, Naturalism acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....
    , Nancy Kelly
    Nancy Kelly

    'Nancy Kelly' was an United States actress, born in Lowell, Massachusetts. Kelly was a major movie leading lady in the 1930s, making 36 movies between 1926 and 1977, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic Jesse James , which also featured Henry Fonda, and playing opposite Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingsto...
    , and Randolph Scott
    Randolph Scott

    Randolph Scott was an United States film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962....
  • Judge Hardy and Son Starring Lewis Stone
    Lewis Stone

    Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
    , Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney

    Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
    , Cecilia Parker
    Cecilia Parker

    Cecilia Parker was a film actress.She was brought to southern California as a child by her mother, Mrs. Naudy Anna Parker. Her father was an England soldier....
    , and Fay Holden
    Fay Holden

    Fay Holden , was an United States actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1935 in film and 1958 in film, but is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Emily Hardy, Mickey Rooney's mother in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Andy Hardy movie series....
  • King Of The Underworld
  • Le Jour se lčve
    Le Jour se lčve

    Le Jour se l?ve is a 1939 in film France film directed by Marcel Carn? and written by Jacques Pr?vert, based on a story by Jacques Viot. It is considered one of the principal examples of the French film movement known as poetic realism....
     (Daybreak)
  • Let Us Live starring Maureen O'Sullivan
    Maureen O'Sullivan

    Maureen Paula O?Sullivan was an Ireland actor who was considered Ireland's first film star....
     and Henry Fonda
    Henry Fonda

    Henry Jaynes Fonda was an United States Academy Awards-winning film and Stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, Naturalism acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....
  • The Light that Failed, starring Ronald Colman
    Ronald Colman

    Ronald Colman was an England Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor....
  • Love Affair
  • Mexicali Rose, starring Gene Autry
    Gene Autry

    Orvon Gene Autry was an United States performing arts who gained fame as "Singing cowboy" on the Radio in the United States, in Cinema of the United States and on Television in the United States for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s....
  • Midnight
    Midnight (1939 film)

    Midnight is a 1939 romantic comedy directed by Mitchell Leisen and written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz....
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an Cinema of the United States comedy film/drama film starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, about one man's effect on Politics of the United States....
    , starring James Stewart
    James Stewart (actor)

    James Maitland Stewart , popularly known as Jimmy Stewart, was an United States film and stage actor best known for his self-effacing persona....
    , Jean Arthur
    Jean Arthur

    Jean Arthur was an Cinema of the United States actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains arguably the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress....
    , and Claude Rains
    Claude Rains

    William Claude Rains was an England award-winning actor and film star whose career spanned 47 years. He later held Cinema of the United States citizenship and was best known for his many roles in Hollywood films....
  • Of Mice and Men
    Of Mice and Men (1939 film)

    Of Mice and Men is a 1939 in film film based on the Of Mice and Men of the same title by American author John Steinbeck. It stars Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele and Noah Beery, Jr....
    , starring Burgess Meredith
    Burgess Meredith

    Oliver Burgess Meredith , known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was a versatile two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actor. He was known for portraying Rocky Balboa's trainer Mickey Goldmill in the Rocky films and Penguin in the television series Batman , amongst many other roles....
    , Betty Field
    Betty Field

    Betty Field was an United States film and stage actor.Field began her acting career on the West End theatre in Howard Lindsay's farce, She Loves Me Not....
    , Lon Chaney Jr.
  • On Dress Parade
    On Dress Parade

    On Dress Parade is a 1939 in film Warner Bros. film that marked the first time Dead End Kids headlined a film without any other well-known actors....
    , starring The Dead End Kids
    Dead End Kids

    The Dead End Kids were a group of young actors from New York, New York who appeared in Sidney Kingsley's Broadway theatre play Dead End in 1935....
  • Only Angels Have Wings
    Only Angels Have Wings

    Only Angels Have Wings is a movie directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur. It is generally regarded as being among Hawks' finest films, particularly in its portrayal of the professionalism of the pilots, its atmosphere, and the flying sequences....
    , with Cary Grant
    Cary Grant

    Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
     and Jean Arthur
    Jean Arthur

    Jean Arthur was an Cinema of the United States actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains arguably the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress....
  • On Your Toes
    On Your Toes

    On Your Toes is a musical theatre with a book by Richard Rodgers, George Abbott, and Lorenz Hart, music by Rodgers, and lyrics by Hart.While teaching music at Knickerbocker University, Phil "Junior" Donal III tries to persuade Sergei Alexandrovich, the director of the Russian Ballet, to stage the jazz ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"...
    , screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley
    Lawrence Riley

    Lawrence Riley was a successful United States playwright and screenwriter. He gained fame in 1934 in literature as the author of the Broadway theatre hit Personal Appearance, which was turned by Mae West into the classic film Go West, Young Man , starring herself....
     et al. (film mentioned in article)
  • Ninotchka
    Ninotchka

    Ninotchka is a 1939 in film American film made for Metro Goldwyn Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch which stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas....
    , starring Greta Garbo
    Greta Garbo

    Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actor during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age of Hollywood.Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1954 Academy Honorary Award "for her unforgettable screen performances...
  • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is a Romantic film drama film based on the relationship between Elizabeth I of England, portrayed by Bette Davis, and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, played by Errol Flynn....
     Bette Davis
    Bette Davis

    Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
     and Errol Flynn
    Errol Flynn

    Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle....
  • Q Planes
    Q Planes

    Q Planes is a 1939 in film spy film directed by Tim Whelan, starring Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Valerie Hobson. It was produced by Irving Asher with Alexander Korda as executive producer....
    , starring Ralph Richardson
    Ralph Richardson

    Sir Ralph David Richardson was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, also appeared in several classic films....
     and Sir Laurence Olivier
  • Range War
    Range war

    A range war is a type of conflict that occurs in agrarian or stockrearing societies. Typically fought over water rights or grazing rights to unfenced/unowned land, it could pit competing farmers or ranchers against each other....
    , a Hopalong Cassidy
    Hopalong Cassidy

    Hopalong Cassidy is a cowboy-hero, created in 1904 by Clarence E. Mulford and appearing in a series of popular stories and novels. In print, the character appears as a rude, rough-talking 'galoot'....
     western starring William Boyd
    William Boyd (actor)

    William Boyd was an Cinema of the United States actor....
  • The Roaring Twenties
    The Roaring Twenties

    The Roaring Twenties is a crime film starring James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart and Gladys George. The movie was directed by Raoul Walsh, and written by Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay and Robert Rossen based on the story "The World Moves On" by Mark Hellinger....
  • The Rules of the Game
    The Rules of the Game

    The Rules of the Game is a 1939 in film film directed by Jean Renoir about upper-class France society just before the start of World War II....
     (La rčgle du jeu), by Jean Renoir
    Jean Renoir

    Jean Renoir , born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France, was a film director, actor and author. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir....
  • Seven Little Australians
    Seven Little Australians

    Seven Little Australians is a classic Australian children's novel by Ethel Turner. Set mainly in Sydney in the 1880s, it relates the adventures of the seven mischievous Woolcot children, their stern army father Captain Woolcot and flighty stepmother Esther....
     directed by Arthur Greville Collins
    Arthur Greville Collins

    Arthur Greville Collins , was an United States film director. He directed 8 films between 1935 in film and 1949 in film.He was born in London, England, United Kingdom....
  • Son of Frankenstein
    Son of Frankenstein

    Son of Frankenstein is the third film in Universal Studios' Frankenstein series and the last to feature Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster as well as the first to feature Bela Lugosi as Ygor....
    , starring Boris Karloff
    Boris Karloff

    Boris Karloff was an Cinema of the United Kingdom who emigrated to Canada in the 1910s. He is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein , 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein and 1939 film Son of Frankenstein....
  • The Spy in Black
    The Spy in Black

    The Spy in Black was the first collaboration between the Cinema of the United Kingdom Powell and Pressburger. They were brought together by Alexander Korda to make this World War I spy thriller by Storer Clouston into a film....
  • They Shall have Music, starring Jascha Heifetz
    Jascha Heifetz

    Jascha Heifetz was a Jewish violin virtuoso born in Lithuania . He is hailed as the greatest violinist of the 20th century.Early life ...
    , Joel McCrea
    Joel McCrea

    Joel Albert McCrea, was an Cinema of the United States actor and film star whose career spanned 50 years and appearances in over 90 films....
    , Andrea Leeds
    Andrea Leeds

    Andrea Leeds was an Academy Awards-nominated United States film actor.Born Antoinette Lees in Butte, Montana, she began her film career in 1934 playing bit parts and using her given name....
    , and Walter Brennan
    Walter Brennan

    Walter Brennan was a three-time Academy Award winning United States actor. He is remembered as one of the premier character actors in motion picture history....
  • Stagecoach
    Stagecoach (film)

    Stagecoach is a western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht, is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 in literature short story by Ernest Haycox....
    , directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne
    John Wayne

    John Wayne was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film actor. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon....
    , Claire Trevor
    Claire Trevor

    Claire Trevor was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress. She was nicknamed the "Queen of Film Noir" because of her many appearances in Bad girl movies roles in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers....
    , Berton Churchill
    Berton Churchill

    Berton Churchill was a Canada actor.Born in Toronto, Ontario. As a young man interested in the theater, he headed to New York City where he began an acting career that soon put him on the Broadway theatre stage....
     and John Carradine
    John Carradine

    John Carradine was an United States actor, perhaps best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns....
  • Stanley and Livingstone
    Stanley and Livingstone

    Stanley and Livingstone is a 1939 in film movie about reporter Sir Henry M. Stanley's quest for Dr. David Livingstone, a missionary presumed lost in Africa....
    , starring Spencer Tracy
    Spencer Tracy

    Spencer Tracy was a two-time Academy Award winning actor of theatre and film, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 in film to 1967 in film. He is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history....
     and Sir Cedric Hardwicke
  • The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
    The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums

    , 1939 in film) is a Japanese language film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.The film is regarded as one of Mizoguchi's greatest pre-war achievements. Especially notable is Mizoguchi's now mature mis-en-scene compositions and extreme long takes....
  • The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
    The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

    The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is an United States biography musical comedy, released in 1939 in film and directed by H.C. Potter. The film stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, and Walter Brennan....
  • The Three Musketeers
    The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, p?re. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a Musketeers of the Guard....
  • Three Texas Steers
    Three Texas Steers

    Three Texas Steers is a 1939 in film "The Three Mesquiteers" Western B-movie starring John Wayne and Carole Landis....
    , starring John Wayne
    John Wayne

    John Wayne was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film actor. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon....
    , directed by George Sherman
    George Sherman

    George Sherman was a prolific film director of action movies beginning in the 1930s. The New York-born directors films include The Sleeping City and Tomahawk ....
  • Tower of London
    Tower of London

    Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London , is a historic monument in central London, England, on the north bank of the River Thames....
    , starring Basil Rathbone
    Basil Rathbone

    Basil Rathbone, Military Cross , was a South African Republic England actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as The Mark of Zorro , Captain Blood , and The Adventures of Robin Hood ....
    , Boris Karloff
    Boris Karloff

    Boris Karloff was an Cinema of the United Kingdom who emigrated to Canada in the 1910s. He is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein , 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein and 1939 film Son of Frankenstein....
     and Vincent Price
  • The Wizard of Oz
    The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

    The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States musical film-fantasy film mainly directed by Victor Fleming and based on the 1900 Children's literature novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L....
    , starring Judy Garland
    Judy Garland

    Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
     and Ray Bolger
    Ray Bolger

    Ray Bolger was an United States entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow and Kansas farmworker Hunk in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz ....
  • The Women, with Norma Shearer
    Norma Shearer

    Edith Norma Shearer was an Academy Awards Canadian-American actor....
    , Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford

    Joan Crawford After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress....
     and Rosalind Russell
    Rosalind Russell

    Rosalind Russell was an American actress of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway theatre and in film....
  • Wuthering Heights
    Wuthering Heights (1939 film)

    Wuthering Heights is a film, directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It is based on the celebrated novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront?, although the film only depicts sixteen of the novel's thirty-four chapters....
    , starring Merle Oberon
    Merle Oberon

    Merle Oberon , born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson, was an Academy Award-nominated British film actor....
    , Sir Laurence Olivier, David Niven
    David Niven

    James David Graham Niven was an English people Academy Award for Best Actor-winning actor probably best known for his roles as the punctuality-obsessed adventurer Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and the suave cat burglar Sir Charles Litton in The Pink Panther ....
     and Flora Robson
    Flora Robson

    Dame Flora McKenzie Robson Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-nominated English people actor, renowned as one of the great character players and one of Britain's theatrical grandes dames....
  • Wyoming Outlaw
    Wyoming Outlaw

    Wyoming Outlaw is a 1939 in film The Three Mesquiteers film starring John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, and Raymond Hatton....
    , starring John Wayne
    John Wayne

    John Wayne was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film actor. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon....
    , directed by George Sherman
    George Sherman

    George Sherman was a prolific film director of action movies beginning in the 1930s. The New York-born directors films include The Sleeping City and Tomahawk ....
  • Young Mr. Lincoln
    Young Mr. Lincoln

    Young Mr. Lincoln is a 1939 in film fictionalized biography/drama film about the early life of President Abraham Lincoln, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda....
    , directed by John Ford
    John Ford

    John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
    , starring Henry Fonda
    Henry Fonda

    Henry Jaynes Fonda was an United States Academy Awards-winning film and Stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, Naturalism acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....


Serials

  • Buck Rogers
    Buck Rogers (serial)

    Buck Rogers is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the Buck Rogers comic strip. It starred Buster Crabbe as the heroic Buck Rogers, Constance Moore as relatively seldom-seen romantic interest Wilma Deering, Jackie Moran as sidekick George "Buddy" Wade, and Anthony Warde as "super-racket " Killer Kane....
    , starrng Buster Crabbe
    Buster Crabbe

    Buster Crabbe was an American athlete and actor, who starred in a number of popular Serial in the 1930s and 1940s....
  • Dick Tracy's G-Men
    Dick Tracy's G-Men

    Dick Tracy's G-Men is a 15-Chapter Republic Pictures Serial based on the Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould. It was directed by William Witney and John English ....
    , starring Ralph Byrd
    Ralph Byrd

    Ralph Byrd was an United States actor. He was most famous for playing the comic strip character Dick Tracy on screen, in Serial s, Film and Television program....
  • Daredevils of the Red Circle
    Daredevils of the Red Circle

    Daredevils of the Red Circle is a 12-Chapter Republic Pictures Serial starring Charles Quigley, Dave Sharpe, Bruce Bennett and Charles B....
    , starring Herman Brix and Charles B. Middleton
    Charles B. Middleton

    Charles B. Middleton was an United States stage and film actor. During a film career that began at age 46 and lasted almost 30 years, Charles Middleton appeared in nearly two hundred films as well as numerous plays, including the 1946 Broadway theatre production, "January Thaw."...
  • Flying G-Men
    Flying G-Men

    Flying G-Men is a Columbia Pictures Serial . It was the sixth of the fifty seven serials released by Columbia....
  • The Lone Ranger Rides Again
    The Lone Ranger Rides Again

    The Lone Ranger Rides Again is a Republic Pictures Serial . It was a sequel to Republic's earlier 1937 in film serial The Lone Ranger , which had been highly successful, and the thirteenth of the sixty-six serials produced by Republic....
  • Mandrake the Magician
    Mandrake the Magician (serial)

    Mandrake the Magician was the seventh serial released by Columbia Pictures....
    , starring Warren Hull
    Warren Hull

    John Warren Hull was an actor and TV personality, active from the 1930s through the 1960s. He was one of the most popular cliffhanger actors in the action-adventure field....
  • The Oregon Trail
    The Oregon Trail (1939 serial)

    The Oregon Trail is a Universal Pictures Serial ....
  • Overland with Kit Carson
    Overland with Kit Carson

    Overland with Kit Carson was the eighth serial released by Columbia Pictures....
  • The Phantom Creeps
    The Phantom Creeps

    The Phantom Creeps is a 1939 in film Serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions. In a dramatic fashion, foreign agents and G-Man try to seize the inventions for themselves....
    , starring Bela Lugosi
    Béla Lugosi

    B?la Lugosi was a Hungarians-born United States actor of theatre and film, well known for playing Count Dracula in the Dracula and subsequent Dracula ....
  • Scouts to the Rescue
    Scouts to the Rescue

    Scouts to the Rescue is a Universal Pictures Serial film....
  • Zorro's Fighting Legion
    Zorro's Fighting Legion

    Zorro's Fighting Legion was a 1939 in film Republic Pictures Serial film consisting of 12 chapters. It featured Reed Hadley as Zorro and his alter-ego Don Diego's fight against the evil Don Del Oro....
    , starring Reed Hadley
    Reed Hadley

    Reed Hadley was an United States movie, television and radio actor.Reed Hadley was born Reed Herring in Petrolia, Texas to Bert Herring, an oil well driller, and his wife Minnie; Reed had one sister, Bess Brenner, and grew up in Buffalo, New York....


Short film series

  • Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton

    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
     (1917-1941)
  • Laurel and Hardy
    Laurel and Hardy

    Laurel and Hardy were a popular comedy team of thin, British-born Stan Laurel and heavy, American-born Oliver Hardy . They became famous during the early half of the 20th century for their work in motion pictures and also appeared on stage throughout America and Europe....
     (1921-1943
    1943 in film

    The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
    )
  • Charley Chase
    Charley Chase

    Charley Chase was an United States comedian, screenwriter and film director, best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies. He was the older brother of comedian/director James Parrott....
     (1924
    1924 in film

    Events* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ...
    -1940
    1940 in film

    The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Our Gang
    Our Gang

    Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together....
     (1922
    1922 in film

    Events* November 26 - The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor ....
    -1944
    1944 in film

    The year 1944 in film involved some significant events....
    )


Animated short film series

  • Krazy Kat
    Krazy Kat

    Krazy Kat is a comic strip created by George Herriman that appeared in U.S. newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It was first published in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal American, and Hearst was a major booster for the strip throughout its run....
     (1925
    1925 in film

    Events...
    -1940
    1940 in film

    The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Mickey Mouse
    Mickey Mouse

    Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney....
     (1928
    1928 in film

    EventsAlthough some movies released in 1928 had Sound film, most were still silent film.* July 31 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mascot Leo the Lion roars for the very first time, creating one of the most popular American film logos....
    -1953
    1953 in film

    The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Silly Symphonies
    Silly Symphonies

    Silly Symphonies is a series of animated short subjects, 75 in total, produced by The Walt Disney Company from 1929 to 1939, while the studio was still located at Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles....
     (1929
    1929 in film

    EventsThe days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound film was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released....
    -1939)
  • Looney Tunes
    Looney Tunes

    Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and is Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series....
     (1930
    1930 in film

    Events...
    -1969
    1969 in film

    The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Terrytoons
    Terrytoons

    Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry . The studio, located in suburban New Rochelle, New York, operated from 1928 to 1968....
     (1930
    1930 in film

    Events...
    -1964
    1964 in film

    The year 1964 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Merrie Melodies
    Merrie Melodies

    Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animation distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969. The sister series to Warner's Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies were originally one-shot musical film cartoon shorts before gradually featuring recurring characters....
     (1931
    1931 in film

    Events...
    -1969
    1969 in film

    The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Scrappy
    Scrappy

    Scrappy is a cartoon character created by Dick Huemer for Charles Mintz's Krazy Kat Studio. A cute little round-headed boy, Scrappy often found himself involved in off-beat neighborhood adventures....
     (1931
    1931 in film

    Events...
    -1941
    1941 in film

    The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Betty Boop
    Betty Boop

    Betty Boop is an animation cartoon fictional character designed by Grim Natwick, appearing in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films produced by Max Fleischer and released by Paramount Pictures....
     (1932
    1932 in film

    Events*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*The Walt Disney Company released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film....
    -1939)
  • Popeye
    Popeye

    File:Thimbletheat.jpgPopeye the Sailor is a fictional hero famous for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous TV shows....
     (1933
    1933 in film

    Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
    -1957
    1957 in film

    The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Color Rhapsodies
    Color Rhapsodies

    Color Rhapsodies was a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles B. Mintz for Columbia Pictures. They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of Walt Disney's Technicolor Silly Symphonies....
     (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    -1949
    1949 in film

    The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Donald Duck
    Donald Duck

    Donald Duck is a cartoon fictional character from The Walt Disney Company. Donald is a white anthropomorphism duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet....
     (1937
    1937 in film

    The year 1937 in film involved some significant events....
    -1956
    1956 in film

    The year 1956 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Walter Lantz Cartunes (also known as New Universal Cartoons or Cartune Comedies) (1938
    1938 in film

    The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
    -1942
    1942 in film

    The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the Films considered the greatest ever, Casablanca .....
    )
  • The Captain and the Kids (1938
    1938 in film

    The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
    -1939)
  • Goofy
    Goofy

    Goofy is an animated cartoon character from the Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse universe. He is an anthropomorphic dog and is one of Mickey Mouse's best friends....
     (1939-1955
    1955 in film

    The year 1955 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Andy Panda
    Andy Panda

    Andy Panda is a cartoon character who starred in List of Andy Panda theatrical cartoons of animated cartoon short subjects produced by Walter Lantz....
     (1939-1949
    1949 in film

    The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Nertsery Rhyme Cartoons (1939)
  • Crackpot Cruise Cartoons (1939)
  • Lil' Eightball (1939)
  • Count Screwloose and J.R. (1939)


Births

  • January 10 - Sal Mineo
    Sal Mineo

    Salvatore Mineo, Jr. , better known as Sal Mineo, was a Golden Globe-winning United States film and theatre actor, best known for his Academy Awards-nominated performance opposite James Dean in the film Rebel Without a Cause....
    , actor (+ 1976
    1976 in film

    The year 1976 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • February 3 - Michael Cimino
    Michael Cimino

    Michael Cimino is an United States, Academy Award-winning film director. He is often cited as an example of meteoric rises and falls that were seen in Hollywood in the 1970s....
    , director
  • February 6 - Mike Farrell
    Mike Farrell

    Mike Farrell is an United States actor, best known for his role as B. J. Hunnicutt on the popular television series M*A*S*H . More recently, Farrell has starred on the television series Providence and appeared as List of Desperate Housewives characters#Gabrielle's family, Victor's father, on Desperate Housewives ....
    , American actor
  • February 9 - Janet Suzman
    Janet Suzman

    Janet Suzman is a South African actress and director....
    , actress
  • March 5 - Samantha Eggar
    Samantha Eggar

    Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning England actress.She was born to an English father and a mother of Dutch people and Portuguese people descent and was educated at a convent....
    , actress
  • April 7 - Francis Ford Coppola
    Francis Ford Coppola

    Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, publisher and Hotel manager....
    , director, producer, writer
  • April 12 - Alan Ayckbourn
    Alan Ayckbourn

    Sir Alan Ayckbourn Order of the British Empire is a popular and prolific English playwright....
    , writer
  • April 13 - Paul Sorvino
    Paul Sorvino

    Paul Anthony Sorvino is an American actor whose career has largely been the portrayal of authority figures, on both sides of the law, in television, stage, and film....
    , actor
  • May 13 - Harvey Keitel
    Harvey Keitel

    Harvey Keitel is an Academy Award-nominated American actor whose latest work is that of Detective Lieutenant Gene Hunt on ABC's crime drama "Life on Mars "....
    , actor
  • May 19 - Nancy Kwan
    Nancy Kwan

    Nancy Kwan is an United States actor, who played a pivotal role in the acceptance of actors of Asian descent in major Hollywood film roles. Widely praised for her beauty, Kwan was considered a major sex symbol in the 1960s....
    , actress
  • May 25 - Ian McKellen
    Ian McKellen

    Sir Ian Murray McKellen, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire , is an England actor of theatre and film, the recipient of the Tony Award and two Academy Awards nominations....
    , actor
  • May 30 - Michael J. Pollard
    Michael J. Pollard

    Michael J. Pollard is an American actor....
    , actor
  • July 30 - Peter Bogdanovich
    Peter Bogdanovich

    Peter Bogdanovich is an American film historian, director, writer, actor, producer, and critic. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian DePalma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola....
    , director
  • July 31 - France Nuyen
    France Nuyen

    France Nuyen is a France actor....
    , actress
  • August 2 - Wes Craven
    Wes Craven

    Wesley Earl Craven is an United States film director and screenwriter, perhaps best known as the creator of many horror films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street series featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character and as the director of the Scream ....
    , director, producer, writer
  • August 12 - George Hamilton
    George Hamilton (actor)

    George Hamilton in Memphis, Tennessee is an United States film and television actor and occasional film director....
    , actor
  • August 25 - John Badham
    John Badham

    John MacDonald Badham is an American film director....
    , director
  • August 29 - Joel Schumacher
    Joel Schumacher

    Joel Schumacher , is an United States film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is best known for directing St. Elmo's Fire , The Lost Boys, Falling Down, Flatliners, The Client , Batman Forever, A Time to Kill , The Phantom of the Opera , Phone Booth , The Number 23 and Batman & Robin ....
    , director
  • August 30 - Elizabeth Ashley
    Elizabeth Ashley

    Elizabeth Ashley is an United States actress who first came to prominence in the Broadway theatre play Take Her, She's Mine, which earned her a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Play....
    , actress
  • September 1 - Lily Tomlin
    Lily Tomlin

    Mary Jean ?Lily? Tomlin is an United States actor, comedian, writer and Theatrical producer. During her 40-year career she has also been nominated for an Academy Award, and has won multiple awards from many quarters, including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award....
    , actress
  • September 18 - Frankie Avalon
    Frankie Avalon

    Frankie Avalon is an United States actor, Singing, Sex_Symbol, and former teen idol....
    , actor, singer
  • September 29 - Larry Linville
    Larry Linville

    Lawrence Lavonne "Larry" Linville was an United States actor....
    , American actor (d. April 10, 2000)
  • October 8 - Paul Hogan, actor
  • October 22 - Tony Roberts
    Tony Roberts (actor)

    David Anthony "Tony" Roberts is an United States actor. He is frequently confused with actor Ron Perlman....
    , actor
  • October 24 - F. Murray Abraham
    F. Murray Abraham

    Fahrid Murray Abraham is an Academy Award-winning United States actor. He became known during the 1980s, after winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Amadeus , and has since appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films, television, and mainly on stage....
    , actor
  • October 27 - John Cleese
    John Cleese

    'John Marwood Cleese' is an Academy Award-nominated English actor, comedian, writer, film producer and singer, who is known as being a member of Monty Python, a group of comedians responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and for all of the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty...
    , actor
  • October 28 - Jane Alexander
    Jane Alexander

    Jane Alexander is an award-winning American actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great White Hope on both stage and screen, Alexander has played a wide array of roles in both theater and film, and has committed herself to a variety of c...
    , actress
  • November 22 - Allen Garfield
    Allen Garfield

    Allen Garfield, born and sometimes credited as Allen Goorwitz , is an American film and television actor.Garfield was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Alice and Philip Goorwitz....
    , actor


Film Debuts

  • Veronica Lake
    Veronica Lake

    Veronica Lake was an United States film actor and Pin-up girl who enjoyed both popular and critical acclaim, most notably for her femme fatale roles in film noir with Alan Ladd during the 1940s, as well as her peek-a-boo hairstyle....
  • Anne Gwynne
    Anne Gwynne

    Anne Gwynne was an American film actress of the 1940s. Known as one of the first scream queens because of her numerous appearances in horror films, the actress-model was also one of the most popular pin-ups of World War II....


Deaths

  • June 9 - Owen Moore
    Owen Moore

    Owen Moore was born in Fordstown Crossroads, County Meath, Ireland. Along with his brothers Thomas J. Moore, Matthew Moore, & Joe , he emigrated to United States and they all went on to successful careers in motion pictures in Hollywood, California....
    , actor
  • August 23 - Sidney Howard
    Sidney Howard

    Sidney Coe Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Awards in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind ....
    , writer
  • September 24 - Carl Laemmle
    Carl Laemmle

    Carl Laemmle Sr. , born in Laupheim, W?rttemberg, Germany, was a pioneer in American film making and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood movie studios - Universal Studios....
    , producer
  • October 23 - Zane Grey
    Zane Grey

    Zane Grey was an United States author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West....
    , writer
  • December 12 - Douglas Fairbanks
    Douglas Fairbanks

    Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., was an United States actor, screenwriter, film director and film producer, who was best known for his Swashbuckler films roles in Silent film films such as The Thief of Bagdad , Robin Hood , and The Mark of Zorro ....
    , actor