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• February 7 - Walt Disney
  Walt Disney
  
  Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
  's animated film
  Film
  
  Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
   Pinocchio
  Pinocchio (1940 film)
  
  Pinocchio is the second animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It was produced by Walt Disney and was originally released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on February 7, 1940....
   is released.
• February 20 - Tom and Jerry
  Tom and Jerry (MGM)
  
  Tom and Jerry is a series of animated theatrical short subject created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that centered on a never-ending rivalry between a housecat and a mouse whose chases and battles often involved comic violence....
   make their debut in the animated cartoon
  Cartoon
  
  The word cartoon has various meanings, based on several very different forms of visual art and illustration. The term has evolved over time.The original meaning was in fine art, and there cartoon meant a preparatory drawing for a piece of art such as a painting or tapestry....
   Puss Gets the Boot
  Puss Gets the Boot
  
  Puss Gets the Boot is a one-reel animated cartoon and is the 1st Tom and Jerry short, although not billed as such in the cartoon. It was produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on February 10, 1940 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer....
  .
• May 17 - My Favorite Wife
  My Favorite Wife
  
  My Favorite Wife is a 1940 in film screwball comedy starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant that tells the story of a woman returning home to her husband and children after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for seven years....
   is released.
• May - A reproduction of "America's First Movie Studio", Thomas Edison
  Thomas Edison
  
  Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb....
  's Black Maria
  Edison's Black Maria
  
  The Black Maria was Thomas Edison's movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey. It is widely referred to as "America's First Movie Studio."...
  , is constructed.
• July 27 - Bugs Bunny
  Bugs Bunny
  
  Bugs Bunny is a fictional rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animation films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which became Warner Bros....
   makes his official debut in the animated cartoon A Wild Hare
  A Wild Hare
  
  A Wild Hare is a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short film. It was produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, directed by Tex Avery, and written by Rich Hogan....
  .
• October 15 - The Great Dictator
  The Great Dictator
  
  The Great Dictator is a comedy film Film director by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940 in film, it was Chaplin's first true talking picture, and more importantly was the only major film of its period to bitterly satirise Nazism and Adolf Hitler, culminating in an overt political plea to defy fascism....
  , a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin
  Charlie Chaplin
  
  Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
  , is released.
• November 13 - World premiere of Walt Disney's Fantasia
  Fantasia (film)
  
  Fantasia is a 1940 in film List of animated feature-length films produced by Walt Disney, and is the third film in the List of Disney theatrical animated features#official canon....
  , the first film to be released in a multichannel sound format (see Fantasound
  Fantasound
  
  Fantasound was an early stereophonic sound process developed by sound engineer William E. Garity and sound mixer John N.A. Hawkins for The Walt Disney Company in 1938-1940 for the motion picture Fantasia , making Fantasia the first commercial film with multichannel sound....
  ). The film also marked the first use of the click track while recording the soundtrack, overdubbing of orchestral parts, simultaneous multitrack recording and lead to the development of a multichannel surround system.
• December 24 - The film version of The Philadelphia Story
  The Philadelphia Story
  
  The Philadelphia Story is a romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart , and directed by George Cukor. Based on a Broadway theatre play of the same name by Philip Barry, with screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and an uncredited Waldo Salt, the film is about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicat...
  , starring Katharine Hepburn
  Katharine Hepburn
  
  Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
  , 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....
  , 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....
  , and Ruth Hussey
  Ruth Hussey
  
  Ruth Carol Hussey was an American actress best known for her Academy Awards-nominated role as photographer Liz Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story....
  , premieres at Radio City Music Hall
  Radio City Music Hall
  
  Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city....
   in New York City.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

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....
  : Rebecca
  Rebecca (film)
  
  Rebecca is a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first United States project, and his first film produced under his contract with David O....
  - 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....
  , United Artists
  United Artists
  
  United Artists Entertainment LLC is an United States film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company....
  
• 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....
  : 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....
   - The Philadelphia Story
  The Philadelphia Story
  
  The Philadelphia Story is a romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart , and directed by George Cukor. Based on a Broadway theatre play of the same name by Philip Barry, with screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and an uncredited Waldo Salt, the film is about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicat...
  
• 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....
  : Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  
  Ginger Rogers was an Academy Awards-winning United States film and stage actor, dancer and singer. In a film career spanning 50 years, she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre....
   - Kitty Foyle
  Kitty Foyle (film)
  
  Kitty Foyle, subtitled The Natural History of a Woman, is a film starring Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig , Ernest Cossart and Gladys Cooper....
  

Films released in 1940

• Abe Lincoln in Illinois
  Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film)
  
  Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 in film biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States....
  
• All This and Heaven Too
  All This and Heaven Too
  
  All This, and Heaven Too is a 1940 in film drama film made by Warner Bros.-First National Pictures, produced and directed by Anatole Litvak with Hal B....
  
• Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
  Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
  
  Andy Hardy Meets Debutante is a 1940 in film American family film comedy film directed by George B. Seitz. The film stars Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden and Judy Garland....
   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....
  
• Arise, My Love
  Arise, My Love
  
  Arise, My Love is a 1940 in film film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and Jacques Th?ry, and starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland....
  
• Arizona
  Arizona (1940 film)
  
  Arizona is a 1940 in film western film starring Jean Arthur, William Holden and Warren William. It was directed by Wesley Ruggles.Victor Young was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score, while Lionel Banks and Robert Peterson were considered for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White....
  
• The Bank Dick
  The Bank Dick
  
  The Bank Dick is a 1940 comedy film. W. C. Fields plays a character named Egbert Sous? who trips a bank robber and ends up a security guard as a result....
  , written by and starring W.C. Fields
• The Biscuit Eater
• Black Friday
  Black Friday (1940 film)
  
  Black Friday is a 1940 in film science fiction film starring Boris Karloff. Bela Lugosi, although second-billed, has only a small part in the film and does not appear with Karloff....
  
• Boom Town
  Boom Town (film)
  
  Boom Town is a 1940 in film adventure drama Hollywood film starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, and Frank Morgan....
  
• Boys of the City
  Boys of the City
  
  Boys of the City is a 1940 in film black-and-white comedy/thriller film directed by Joseph H. Lewis. It is the second East Side Kids film and the first to star Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, and Ernest Morrison....
  
• Broadway Melody of 1940
  Broadway Melody of 1940
  
  Broadway Melody of 1940 is a 1940 in film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film starring Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell and George Murphy. It was directed by Norman Taurog and features music by Cole Porter, including "Begin the Beguine"....
   starring Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire
  
  Fred Astaire was an United States Academy Award-winning film and Broadway theatre dance, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films....
   and Eleanor Powell
  Eleanor Powell
  
  Eleanor Torrey Powell was an United States film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing....
   - final film of series
• Dark Command
  Dark Command
  
  Dark Command is a 1940 in film western film loosely based on Quantrill's Raiders in the American American Civil War. Directed by Raoul Walsh from the novel by W.R....
  
• Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet starring Edward G. Robinson
  Edward G. Robinson
  
  Edward Goldenberg Robinson, Sr. was an honorary Academy Award-winning United States actor born in Romania. Although he has played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his star-making film Little Caesar....
  , Ruth Gordon
  Ruth Gordon
  
  Ruth Gordon Jones , better known as Ruth Gordon, was an United States actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her films roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby and the eccentric life-loving Maude in Harold and Maude....
  , Otto Kruger
  Otto Kruger
  
  Otto Kruger was an United States movie actor who began his career in 1915. His career was most prolific during the 1930s and 1940s.The grand-nephew of South African pioneer and president Paul Kruger, Otto Kruger was musically trained, but switched careers and went into acting....
  , and Donald Crisp
  Donald Crisp
  
  Donald George Crisp was an Academy Award winning England film actor. He was also an early motion picture scriptwriter, film producer and film director....
  .
• East Side Kids
  East Side Kids (film)
  
  East Side Kids is a 1940 in film film and the first in the East Side Kids film series. It is, however, the only one not to star any of the original six Dead End Kids....
  
• Edison, the Man
  Edison, the Man
  
  Edison, the Man was a 1940 in film biographical film depicting the life of inventor Thomas Edison, who was played by Spencer Tracy. Much of the film's script fictionalizes or exaggerates the real events of Edison's life....
   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....
  
• Fantasia
  Fantasia (film)
  
  Fantasia is a 1940 in film List of animated feature-length films produced by Walt Disney, and is the third film in the List of Disney theatrical animated features#official canon....
  
• Foreign Correspondent
  Foreign Correspondent (film)
  
  Foreign Correspondent is a Cinema of the United States Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock which tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in United Kingdom, a series of events involving a continent-wide conspiracy that eventually leads to the events of a fictionalized Second World War....
  
• Go West
  Go West (film)
  
  Go West was the 10th Marx Brothers comedy film, in which the three brothers, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, and Harpo Marx, head to the American West and attempt to unite a couple by ensuring that an evil railroad baron is thwarted....
  , starring the Marx Brothers
• Give Us Wings
• Gaslight
  Gaslight (1940 film)
  
  Gaslight is a 1940 in film film based on Patrick Hamilton 's play Gas Light . It was released in the United States under the title Angel Street so that audiences would not confuse it with MGM's Gaslight starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman, though both had essentially the same plot....
  , the original British version
• The Grapes of Wrath
  The Grapes of Wrath (film)
  
  The Grapes of Wrath is a United States drama film directed by Academy Award Winner Best Director, John Ford. It was based on the Pulitzer Prize winning The Grapes of Wrath , written by John Steinbeck....
  
• The Great Dictator
  The Great Dictator
  
  The Great Dictator is a comedy film Film director by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940 in film, it was Chaplin's first true talking picture, and more importantly was the only major film of its period to bitterly satirise Nazism and Adolf Hitler, culminating in an overt political plea to defy fascism....
  , starring Charlie Chaplin
  Charlie Chaplin
  
  Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
  
• The Great McGinty
  The Great McGinty
  
  The Great McGinty is a political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and featuring William Demarest and Muriel Angelus....
  
• Green Hell
  Green Hell
  
  Green Hell is a 1940 in film adventure film directed by James Whale with photography by Karl Freund. The cast includes Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Bennett, John Howard , George Sanders , Alan Hale, Sr., Vincent Price and Ray Mala....
  
• His Girl Friday
  His Girl Friday
  
  His Girl Friday is a screwball comedy, a remake of the 1931 in film film The Front Page , which is an adaptation by Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of their The Front Page....
  , 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....
   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....
  
• The House of the Seven Gables
• The Howards of Virginia
  The Howards of Virginia
  
  The Howards of Virginia is a film released by Columbia Pictures and based on the book The Tree of Liberty written by Elizabeth Page. The Howards of Virginia live through the American Revolutionary War, with Cary Grant starring as Matt Howard, Martha Scott starring as his wife Jane Peyton Howard, and Alan Marshal and Sir Cedric Hardw...
  , 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....
   and Martha Scott
  Martha Scott
  
  Martha Scott was an United States actress....
  
• The Invisible Man Returns
  The Invisible Man Returns
  
  The Invisible Man Returns was a 1940 in film horror film science fiction film from Universal. It was written as a sequel to the 1933 in film film The Invisible Man , which was based on the novel The Invisible Man by H....
  
• The Invisible Woman
  The Invisible Woman
  
  The Invisible Woman is a science fiction film, comedy film that was released near the end of 1940 in film by Universal. It is the third film in the The Invisible Man series following the successful The Invisible Man Returns film that had been released earlier in the year, but this movie was instead written as a farce that would expl...
  
• Kitty Foyle
  Kitty Foyle (film)
  
  Kitty Foyle, subtitled The Natural History of a Woman, is a film starring Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig , Ernest Cossart and Gladys Cooper....
  
• The Letter
  The Letter (1940 film)
  
  The Letter is a 1940 United States film noir directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Howard Koch is based on the The Letter by W. Somerset Maugham, The Letter ....
  
• The Long Voyage Home
  The Long Voyage Home
  
  The Long Voyage Home is an United States drama film and directed by John Ford. It features John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell , Ian Hunter , Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson , John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, Ward Bond, among others....
  
• The Mark of Zorro
  The Mark of Zorro (1940 film)
  
  'The Mark of Zorro' is a 1940 in film feature film film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and produced by 20th Century Fox. It starred Tyrone Power as Don Diego Vega , Linda Darnell as his love interest, Lolita Quintero, Montagu Love as Don Alejandro Vega, Gale Sondergaard as the naughty Inez Quintero, Eugene Pallette as Father...
  
• The Mummy's Hand
  The Mummy's Hand
  
  The Mummy's Hand is a black-and-white horror film, produced by Ben Pivar for Universal Studios. Although it is sometimes claimed by fans as a sequel or follow-up to the 1932 film The Mummy , it does not continue the 1932 film's storyline, or feature any of the same characters, and its plot suggests rather an unacknowledged remake of...
  
• My Favorite Wife
  My Favorite Wife
  
  My Favorite Wife is a 1940 in film screwball comedy starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant that tells the story of a woman returning home to her husband and children after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for seven years....
  
• Night Train to Munich
  Night Train to Munich
  
  Night Train to Munich is a 1940 in film British thriller film. It was directed by Carol Reed, with writing credits by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder....
  
• North West Mounted Police
• Northwest Passage
  Northwest Passage (1940 film)
  
  Northwest Passage is a 1940 in film film in Technicolor, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Young , Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, and others. It is based on a novel by Kenneth Roberts titled Northwest Passage ....
  , 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....
  
• One Million B.C.
  One Million B.C.
  
  One Million B.C. is a 1940 in film United States fantasy motion picture produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak....
  
• One Night in the Tropics
  One Night in the Tropics
  
  'One Night in the Tropics' is a 1940 in film comedy film noteworthy for being the film debut of Abbott and Costello. The team play minor roles but steal the picture with five classic routines, including an abbreviated version of "Who's On First?" Their work earned them a two-picture deal with Universal Pictures, and their next film, Buck...
  , film debut of Abbott and Costello
  Abbott and Costello
  
  Bud Abbott and Lou Costello performed together as Abbott and Costello, an United States double act whose work in radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team during the 1940s....
  
• Our Town
• The Philadelphia Story
  The Philadelphia Story
  
  The Philadelphia Story is a romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart , and directed by George Cukor. Based on a Broadway theatre play of the same name by Philip Barry, with screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and an uncredited Waldo Salt, the film is about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicat...
  
• Pinocchio
  Pinocchio (1940 film)
  
  Pinocchio is the second animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It was produced by Walt Disney and was originally released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on February 7, 1940....
  
• Pride and Prejudice
  Pride and Prejudice (1940 film)
  
  Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice has been the List of artistic depictions of and related to Pride and Prejudice. This Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood Hollywood version was released in 1940 in film....
  , starring 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....
   and Laurence Olivier
  Laurence Olivier
  
  Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, Order of Merit was an English people Stage actor, Theatre director, and Theatrical producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson....
  
• Rebecca
  Rebecca (film)
  
  Rebecca is a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first United States project, and his first film produced under his contract with David O....
   - starring Sir Laurence Olivier
• The Sea Hawk
  The Sea Hawk (1940 film)
  
  The Sea Hawk is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Errol Flynn in a story about an English privateer defending his nation's interests on the eve of the Spanish Armada....
  
• The Shop Around the Corner
  The Shop Around the Corner
  
  The Shop Around the Corner is a romantic comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. The screenplay was written by Samson Raphaelson based on a 1937 Hungary play Parfumerie, written by Mikl?s L?szl?....
  
• The Son of Monte Cristo
  The Son of Monte Cristo
  
  The Son of Monte Cristo is a 1940 in film Black-and-white film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders ....
  
• The Stars Look Down
  The Stars Look Down (film)
  
  The Stars Look Down is a 1939 in film film based on A. J. Cronin's The Stars Look Down of the same title, initially published in 1935 in literature, which chronicles various injustices in a mining community in North East England....
  , starring Michael Redgrave
  Michael Redgrave
  
  Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave Order of the British Empire was a well-known English people stage and film actor, director, manager and author....
   and Margaret Lockwood
  Margaret Lockwood
  
  Margaret Lockwood, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom actress, notable for her performance in the 1945 Gainsborough Pictures movie The Wicked Lady....
  
• Strange Cargo
  Strange Cargo (1940 film)
  
  Strange Cargo is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in a story about a group of fugitive prisoners from a French penal colony....
  , starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford
• Strike Up the Band
  Strike Up the Band (film)
  
  Strike Up the Band is a 1940 musical film starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland.External links...
  
• That Gang of Mine
  That Gang of Mine
  
  That Gang of Mine is a 1940 film and the third film in the East Side Kids series.Cast and characters* Muggs Maloney - Leo Gorcey...
  
• The Thief of Bagdad
  The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film)
  
  The Thief of Bagdad is a British 1940 in film fantasy film directed by Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Tim Whelan, with uncredited contributions by Alexander Korda, his brother Zoltan Korda and William Cameron Menzies....
  
• Too Many Husbands
  Too Many Husbands
  
  Too Many Husbands is a 1940 in film comedy film about a woman who loses her husband in a boating accident and remarries, only to have her first spouse reappear....
  
• Vigil in the Night
  Vigil in the Night
  
  Vigil in the Night is a 1940 in film film based on the 1939 serial short story by A. J. Cronin. The film was produced and directed by George Stevens and stars Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne and Anne Shirley ....
  , starring 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....
  
• Waterloo Bridge
  Waterloo Bridge (1940 film)
  
  Waterloo Bridge is a 1940 in film remake of the 1931 Waterloo Bridge .The film was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin and Mervyn LeRoy....
  
• The Well-Digger's Daughter
• The Westerner
• They Knew What They Wanted
• You're Not So Tough

Serials

• Adventures of Red Ryder
  Adventures of Red Ryder
  
  The Adventures of Red Ryder is a 12-Chapter Republic Pictures Serial starring Don "Red" Barry and Noah Beery, Sr. based on the Western comic strip "Red Ryder"....
  , directed by William Witney
  William Witney
  
  William Nuelsen Witney was an United States film director. He is most famous for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
   and John English
  John English (director)
  
  John English was a Film Director. He is most famous for the Movie Serials he co-directed with William Witney for Republic Pictures such as Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
  
• Deadwood Dick
  Deadwood Dick (serial)
  
  Deadwood Dick was the 11th Serial released by Columbia Pictures ....
  , directed by James W. Horne
  James W. Horne
  
  James W. Horne was an early United States actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later....
  
• Drums of Fu Manchu
  Drums of Fu Manchu
  
  Drums of Fu Manchu is a 15-chapter Republic Pictures Serial based on the Fu Manchu stories by Sax Rohmer, starring Henry Brandon , William Royle and Robert Kellard....
  , starring Henry Brandon and Robert Kellard
  Robert Kellard
  
  Robert Kellard was an United States actor who appeared in over 60 films between 1937 in film and 1951 in film.Kellard entered in Hollywood in 1937 in the film Annapolis Salute, directed by Christy Cabanne....
  , directed by William Witney
  William Witney
  
  William Nuelsen Witney was an United States film director. He is most famous for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
   and John English
  John English (director)
  
  John English was a Film Director. He is most famous for the Movie Serials he co-directed with William Witney for Republic Pictures such as Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
  
• Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
  Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
  
  Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe is a 1940 in film twelve episode Serial about Flash Gordon. It was the last of three Flash Gordon serials made from 1936 to 1940....
  , starring 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....
  
• The Green Archer
  The Green Archer (1940 serial)
  
  The Green Archer was the 12th Serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was based on Edgar Wallace's 1923 in literature novel The Green Archer, which had previously been adapted into the silent serial with the The Green Archer in 1925 in film by Path?....
  , starring Victor Jory
  Victor Jory
  
  Victor Jory was a Canada actor.He was born in Dawson City, Yukon, Yukon, Canada. He was the boxing and wrestling champion of the Coast Guard during his military service, and he kept his burly physique....
  , directed by James W. Horne
  James W. Horne
  
  James W. Horne was an early United States actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later....
  
• The Green Hornet Strikes Again!, 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....
  
• Junior G-Men
  Junior G-Men (serial)
  
  Junior G-Men is a Universal Pictures Serial . It was Universal's 116th serial of their total of output of 137. It is one of the three serials starring Dead End Kids who were under contract to Universal at the time....
  , 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....
  
• King of the Royal Mounted
  King of the Royal Mounted (serial)
  
  King of the Royal Mounted is a Republic Pictures Northern Serial based on the King of the Royal Mounted Comic strip directed by William Witney and John English ....
   starring Allan Lane
  Allan Lane
  
  'Allan "Rocky" Lane' was a film studio leading man and star of dozens of cowboy B movie in the 1940s and 1950s, and eventually did the voice of the talking horse on the television series Mr....
  , directed by William Witney
  William Witney
  
  William Nuelsen Witney was an United States film director. He is most famous for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
   and John English
  John English (director)
  
  John English was a Film Director. He is most famous for the Movie Serials he co-directed with William Witney for Republic Pictures such as Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
  
• Mysterious Doctor Satan
  Mysterious Doctor Satan
  
  Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 in film film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is The Copperhead, a masked mystery man secretly Bob Wayne....
  , starring Eduardo Ciannelli
  Eduardo Ciannelli
  
  Eduardo Ciannelli, sometimes credited as Edward Ciannelli, , was an Italy baritone and character actor with a long career in USA films, mostly playing gangsters and criminals....
  , directed by William Witney
  William Witney
  
  William Nuelsen Witney was an United States film director. He is most famous for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
   and John English
  John English (director)
  
  John English was a Film Director. He is most famous for the Movie Serials he co-directed with William Witney for Republic Pictures such as Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
  
• The Shadow
  The Shadow (serial)
  
  The Shadow was the ninth serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was based upon the classic radio series and pulp magazine character with the The Shadow....
  , starring Victor Jory
  Victor Jory
  
  Victor Jory was a Canada actor.He was born in Dawson City, Yukon, Yukon, Canada. He was the boxing and wrestling champion of the Coast Guard during his military service, and he kept his burly physique....
  , directed by James W. Horne
  James W. Horne
  
  James W. Horne was an early United States actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later....
  
• Terry and the Pirates
  Terry and the Pirates (serial)
  
  Terry and the Pirates was the 10th Serial film released by Columbia Pictures. It was based on the comic strip Terry and the Pirates created by Milton Caniff....
  , starring William Tracy
  William Tracy
  
  William Tracy was an US character actor. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Tracy is perhaps best known for the role of Pepi Katona, the delivery boy, in The Shop Around the Corner. He also starred in the John Ford film Tobacco Road ....
  , directed by James W. Horne
  James W. Horne
  
  James W. Horne was an early United States actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later....
  
• Winners of the West
  Winners of the West (1940 serial)
  
  Winners of the West is a Universal Pictures Serial . It stars Dick Foran and Anne Nagel in a plot about the construction of a railroad and a local ganglord who opposes it....
  , starring Dick Foran
  Dick Foran
  
  John Nicholas 'Dick' Foran was a leading man best known in Western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures.Foran was born in Flemington, New Jersey, the first of five sons to Arthur F....
   and Anne Nagel
  Anne Nagel
  
  Anne Nagel was an United States actress. She played in adventures, mysteries, and comedies for twenty-five years. She also appeared in television series in the 1950s....
  

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
  1921 in film
  
  Events* February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.*September 5 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle holds a party in a San Francisco hotel to celebrate his new $3,000,000 three-year contract with Paramount Pictures....
  -1943
  1943 in film
  
  The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
  )
• 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....
  )
• 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....
  )
• The Three Stooges (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...
  -1959
  1959 in film
  
  The year 1959 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)
• 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....
  )
• 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....
  )
• 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....
  )
• Pluto
  Pluto (Disney)
  
  Pluto is an animated cartoon character made famous in a series of The Walt Disney Company short animation. He has most frequently appeared as Mickey Mouse's pet dog....
   (1937
  1937 in film
  
  The year 1937 in film involved some significant events....
  -1951
  1951 in film
  
  The year 1951 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 .....
  )
• 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
  1939 in film
  
  The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
  -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
  1939 in film
  
  The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
  -1949
  1949 in film
  
  The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Tom and Jerry (MGM)
  Tom and Jerry (MGM)
  
  Tom and Jerry is a series of animated theatrical short subject created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that centered on a never-ending rivalry between a housecat and a mouse whose chases and battles often involved comic violence....
   (1940-1958
  1958 in film
  
  The year 1958 in film involved some significant events....
  )

Births

• February 23 - Peter Fonda
  Peter Fonda
  
  Peter Henry Fonda is an American actor. He is the son of Henry Fonda, the brother of Jane Fonda, and the father of Bridget Fonda. Fonda is associated with Western culture counterculture of the 1960s, and the infomercial culture of the 2000s....
  , actor
• March 26 - James Caan
  James Caan
  
  James Caan is an American actor. He is best-known for his Academy Award nominated role of Sonny Corleone in 1972's The Godfather, Paul Sheldon in Stephen King's Misery and for his role as Ed Deline on Las Vegas ....
  , actor
• July 7 - Ringo Starr
  Ringo Starr
  
  Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
  , English drummer (The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  )
• July 13 - Patrick Stewart
  Patrick Stewart
  
  Patrick Hewes Stewart, Order of the British Empire is an English film, television and Stage actor. He is also Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield....
  , English actor
• August 3 - Martin Sheen
  Martin Sheen
  
  Martin Sheen is an American actor who earned recognition for his performances as Captain Willard in the film Apocalypse Now and President of the United States Josiah Bartlet on the NBC political drama series The West Wing....
  , American actor
• August 22 - Valerie Harper
  Valerie Harper
  
  Valerie Harper is an Emmy Award-winning United States actress, best known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on the 1970s television show The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and its spin-off, Rhoda....
  , American actress
• October 9 - John Lennon
  John Lennon
  
  John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
  , English musician, songwriter and singer (The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  )
• November 5 - Elke Sommer
  Elke Sommer
  
  Elke Sommer , born Elke Schletz, is a German-born actress, entertainer, and artist.Sommer was born in Berlin to a Lutheranism Minister and his wife....
  , German actress
• November 27 - Bruce Lee
  Bruce Lee
  
  Bruce Jun Fan Lee was a Chinese people martial artist, philosopher, instructor, martial arts actor and the founder of the Jeet Kune Do combat form....
  
• December 21 - Frank Zappa
  Frank Zappa
  
  Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
  , American musician, songwriter and singer

Deaths

• February 20 - George Periolat
  George Periolat
  
  George Periolat was an American actor.Born in Chicago, Illinois, George Periolat began his career as a Broadway theatre actor. Making his film debut with the Essanay Studios in Chicago, he moved to Hollywood in 1911 and starred in over 170 films throughout his career....
  , actor
• March 5 - Maxine Elliott
  Maxine Elliott
  
  Maxine Elliott was an American stage actress.It is said that reviewers disagreed "over whether it was her beauty or her acting ability that attracted attention" In addition to her stage skills, Elliott was also a savvy businesswoman....
  , stage & film actress
• April 9 - Mrs Patrick Campbell
  Mrs Patrick Campbell
  
  Mrs Patrick Campbell was a British people stage actor....
  , stage & film actress
• May 25 - Joe De Grasse
  Joe De Grasse
  
  Joseph Louis De Grasse was a Canada film director. Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, he was the elder brother of actor Sam De Grasse.Joe De Grasse began his career as a journalist, but soon became enamored of the theater and took work as a stage actor....
  , pioneer Hollywood film director
• July 1 - Ben Turpin
  Ben Turpin
  
  Ben Turpin was a cross-eyed comedian, best remembered for his work in silent films....
  , comic actor
• September 25 - Marguerite Clark
  Marguerite Clark
  
  Marguerite Clark was an United States theatre and silent film actress....
  , stage & silent film star
• October 10 - 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....
  , pioneer Hollywood actor
• December 5 - Wilfred Lucas
  Wilfred Lucas
  
  Wilfred Lucas was a stage and film actor, a film director, and a screenwriter....
  , actor, screenwriter, director