Steiner received his next Oscar nomination for the 1940 film The Letter, his first of several collaborations with legendary director William Wyler.

* The Letter ( 1940 ) featuring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort and Gale Sondergaard.

Other popular Wyler films include Funny Girl ( 1968 ), How to Steal a Million ( 1966 ), The Big Country ( 1958 ), Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), The Heiress ( 1949 ), The Letter ( 1940 ), The Westerner ( 1940 ), Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ), Jezebel ( 1938 ), Dodsworth ( 1936 ), and Hell's Heroes ( 1930 ).

** The Letter ( 1940 film ), directed by William Wyler starring Bette Davis, also adapted from the Somerset Maugham play

All This and Heaven Too ( 1940 ) was the most financially successful film of Davis's career to that point, while The Letter ( 1940 ) was considered " one of the best pictures of the year " by The Hollywood Reporter, and Davis won admiration for her portrayal of an adulterous killer, a role originated by famed actress Katharine Cornell.

The Letter ( 1940 film ) | The Letter ( 1940 )

Individual performances continued to receive praise ; in 1987, Bill Collins analyzed The Letter ( 1940 ), and described her performance as " a brilliant, subtle achievement ", and wrote, " Bette Davis makes Leslie Crosbie one of the most extraordinary females in movies.

* 1940: Nominated for The Letter

* The Letter ( 1940 )

The Letter is a 1940 American film noir directed by William Wyler.

Gale Sondergaard in the trailer for The Letter ( 1940 )

sh: The Letter ( 1940 film )

It coincidentally utilized some of the sets from The Letter, the 1940 film starring Davis.

Larry Lujack ( born June 6, 1940 ), a Top 40 Music radio disc jockey, was known for his world-weary sarcastic style, " Klunk Letter of the Day " and darkly humorous " Animal Stories " along with " sidekick Little Tommy ", and " Cheap Trashy Show Biz Report.

* The Letter ( 1940 )

* The Night Letter by Paul Spike: In 1940, Nazi agents nearly succeed in blackmailing U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt into not running for a third term.

In February 1940 it was announced that the party would not be holding an annual conference that year, and had suspended publication of " News Letter ".

She played supporting roles in various films during the late 1930s and early 1940s, including The Cat and the Canary ( 1939 ), The Mark of Zorro ( 1940 ) and The Letter ( 1940 ).

* 1940 – Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter ( d. 1999 )

** Fabrizio de André, Italian singer and songwriter ( b. 1940 )

The French High Commissioner in Germany André François-Poncet replied that the admiral seemed ill-informed about history and the law, stating that North Korea had attacked South Korea, and that UN forces in Korea were fighting in response to South Korean appeals for help and under the authority of the UN Security Council, which did not correspond at all to the situation with Norway in 1940.

André de Staercke was one of the most important witnesses to the Belgian government's internal crisis of 1940.

After 1938, however, much of Anouilh's later work was directed by the prominent Paris scenic designer André Barsacq, who had taken over as director of the Théâtre de l ' Atelier after Charles Dullin's retirement in 1940.

* André Gerschel ( 1939 – 1940 )

He was the son of Count André de Laborde de Monpezat ( Mont-de-Marsan, 6 May 1907 – Le Cayrou, 23 February 1998 ) and his wife, Renée Doursenot ( Périgueux, 26 October 1908 – Le Cayrou 11 February 2001 ), ( married religiously Cahors, 6 January 1934 and civilly Cahors 22 January 1948 ), who was previously married firstly civilly in Paris on 29 September 1928 and divorced at the Tribunal Civil Français de Saigon on 21 September 1940 Louis Leuret ( Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, 18 March 1881 – Saigon, South Vietnam, 29 December 1962 ).

He served in the Royal Artillery from March 1940 to June 1942 but quickly returned to acting after discharge, appearing with Noël Coward in This Happy Breed and Present Laughter and later as Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit, which he later named in Who's Who in the Theatre as one of his two favourite parts along with the title role in André Obey's Noah.

The more strict analogy expressed by the ' global field ' idea, in which a Riemann surface's aspect as algebraic curve is mapped to curves defined over a finite field, was built up during the 1930s, culminating in the Riemann hypothesis for local zeta-functions settled by André Weil in 1940.

This was improved to cover the general locally compact abelian groups by Egbert van Kampen in 1935 and André Weil in 1940.

* 1940 I Feel Sorry for Myself by André Mouezy-Eon and Jean Guitton, directed by Ion Sava

In 1940, he collaborated with André Derain and Raoul Dufy.

Andrey Nikolayevich Rimsky-Korsakov ( Russian: Андре ́ Никола ́ эвич Ри ́ мский-Ко ́ рсаков, André Nikolájevich Rímskij-Kórsakov, October 17, 1878 – May 23, 1940 ) was a Russian musicologist and son of the great Russian nationalist composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

In 1940 his work is part of a surrealist exhibition by André Breton at the gallery belonging to Inés Amor.

* André Breton, Anthology of Black Humor, 1940.

Weil returned to France via Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was detained at Le Havre in January 1940.

* Cynthia Weil ( born 1940 ), American songwriter

Erich was educated at the Volksschule in Weil im Schönbuch ( April 1928 – April 1932 ), the Gymnasium in Böblingen ( April 1932 – April 1936 ), the National Political Institutes of Education in Rottweil ( April 1936 – April 1937 ), and the Gymnasium in Korntal ( April 1937 – April 1940 ), from which he received his Abitur.

For hypersurfaces, the result had been shown first by Allendoerfer and Weil in 1940 which is cited in this paper of Chern.

Cynthia Weil ( born October 18, 1940, New York ) is a prominent American songwriter.

The framing scenes, on the other hand, both take place in the late Spring of 1940, just at the moment of the defeat of France in the second great world conflict.

The sections were mounted on cold slides smeared with Haupts' adhesive ( Johansen, 1940 ) in earlier experiments, and in later experiments with a different mixture of the same components reported by Schramm and Rottger ( 1959 ).

He was tried on 3 May 1940.

Between 1936 and 1940, Giacometti concentrated his sculpting on the human head, focusing on the sitter's gaze.

* 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

While previously held elsewhere within or near the capital city, since 1918 it has been held on the Champs-Élysées, with the evident agreement of the Allies as represented in the Versailles Peace Conference, and with the exception of the period of German occupation from 1940 to 1944.

The only direct enemy action that the site experienced was when 3 bombs, thought to have been intended for Bletchley railway station, were dropped on 20 – 21 November 1940.

* Bristol Blitz, the German bombing raids on Bristol, England in 1940 and 1941

During the Battle of France in 1940, De Gaulle's 4th Armoured Division and elements of the British Expeditionary Force's 1st Army Tank Brigade both made probing attacks on the German flank, actually pushing into the rear of the advancing armoured columns at times.

The French president of the Ministerial Council, Reynaud, attributed the collapse in a speech on 21 May 1940:

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

A Muslim community was started in June 1940 when two Yemenis purchased an artisan cottage on Mary Street.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

When squares were revived ( around 1925 to 1940, depending on the region ), contra dances were generally not included.

Attlee supported Churchill in his continuation of Britain's resistance after the French capitulation in 1940, and proved a loyal ally to Churchill throughout the conflict ; when the war cabinet had voted on whether to negotiate peace terms, Attlee ( along with fellow Labour minister Arthur Greenwood ) voted in favour of fighting, giving Churchill the majority he needed to continue the war.

The individual census data most recently released to the public was the 1940 census, released on April 2, 2012.

In 1940 he completed Tobacco Farmer, the portrait of a young black farmer in white overalls and a blue shirt with a youthful yet serious look upon his face, sitting in front of the landscape and buildings he works on and in.

He collaborated on such cartoons as Donald's Nephews ( 1938 ), Donald's Cousin Gus ( 1939 ), Mr. Duck Steps Out ( 1940 ), Timber ( 1941 ), The Vanishing Private ( 1942 ) and The Plastics Inventor ( 1944 ).

From 1935 to 1940 he lectured at the University of Rochester and wrote The Clinical Treatment of the Problem Child ( 1939 ), based on his experience in working with troubled children.