* Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), d. Howard Hawks

This finish made them the first champions since the 1938 – 39 Chicago Black Hawks to have failed to qualify for the playoffs both the seasons before and after their championship season.

In 1938 the Black Hawks had a record of 14 – 25, and almost missed the playoffs.

To this day, the 1938 Black Hawks possess the poorest regular-season record of any Stanley Cup champion.

Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) is an American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

Hawks was eventually paid an additional $ 40, 000 to terminate his RKO contract on March 21, 1938.

His playing career spanned from the 1938 – 39 season until the 1953 – 54 season, playing for both the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks and was a member of three winning Stanley Cups in 1943, 1950, and 1952 with the Detroit Red Wings.

In 1961, Hall backstopped the Black Hawks to their first Stanley Cup Championship since 1938 over Detroit.

At least two movies have depicted a fictional account of the first drive along the Chisholm Trail: The Texans ( 1938 ), directed by James Hogan and starring Randolph Scott and Joan Bennett, and Red River ( 1948 ), directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift.

In 1938, Hayward met Slim Hawks, then wife of film director Howard Hawks.

Monkey Business is reminiscent of Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), which also starred Cary Grant and was directed by Howard Hawks, but had a leopard instead of a chimpanzee.

Shooting began on December 19, 1938 at the Columbia Studio Ranch and Hawks shot the film in chronological sequence whenever possible.

Earl was an important member of the 1933 New York Rangers and 1938 Chicago Black Hawks Stanley Cup victories.

Hawks intended this movie to be a homage to his own 1938 screwball classic Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and unsuccessfully tried to get the original stars to reprise their roles.

Always, in the abortive attacks upon Ruth's record, one man alone -- a Jimmy Foxx ( 58 in 1932 ) or a Hank Greenberg ( 58 in 1938 ) or a Hack Wilson ( 56 in 1930 ) -- made the bid.

England made 644, their highest innings total since 1938.

Dennis R. Hoagland and Daniel I. Arnon wrote a classic 1938 agricultural bulletin, The Water Culture Method for Growing Plants Without Soil, debunking the exaggerated claims made about hydroponics.

The first arrests of German agents were made in 1938, and continued throughout World War II.

Cotten made his film debut in the Welles-directed short Too Much Johnson, a comedy that was intended to complement an aborted 1938 Mercury stage production of William Gillette's 1890 play.

The discovery of oil in Kuwait, in 1938, revolutionized the sheikdom's economy and made it a valuable asset to Britain.

Although the Iraqi government, which had first asserted a claim to rule Kuwait in 1938, recognized the borders with Kuwait in 1963 ( based on agreements made earlier in the century ), it continued to press Kuwait for control over Bubiyan and Warbah islands through the 1960s and 1970s.

Despite the participation of these aircraft ( mainly from 1938 onward ), it was the venerable Junkers Ju 52 ( which soon became the backbone of the Transportgruppen ) that made the main contribution.

He made an unsuccessful bid for a California State Assembly seat in 1938.

Added to this was the fact that Menzies had not served in that war, and that as Attorney-General and Deputy Prime Minister, Menzies had made an official visit to Germany in 1938, and like his Opposition at the time, supported Neville Chamberlain's policy of Appeasement.

Tristan da Cunha was made a dependency of St Helena in 1938.

* Suez, a film made in 1938, starred Tyrone Power as de Lesseps and Loretta Young as a love interest.

After Hitler's takeover of the German government in 1933, political enemies of the Nazis were persecuted, and their institutions closed or destroyed ; the Gestapo began actions against Polish and Jewish students ( see: Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau ), Communists, Social Democrats, and trade unionists, arrests were even made for speaking Polish in public, in 1938 the Nazi-controlled police destroyed the Polish cultural centre.

Gustloff was made a Blutzeuge of the Nazi cause and his murder later became part of the propaganda serving as pretext for the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom.

An agreement dividing the territory was made in 1938, officially ending outstanding differences and bringing an official " peace " to the conflict.

A Presidential Commission ( made up the Chief Justice, the Speaker of Dáil Éireann, and the President of the High Court ) assumes the powers of the new presidency, pending the popular election of the first President of Ireland in June 1938.

The castle was then bought back by the canton of Fribourg in 1938, made into a museum and opened to the public.

German programmes commenced on 29 March 1938 and by the end of 1942 broadcasts were being made in all major European languages.

" They covered history in the making, and sometimes made it themselves: on March 12, 1938, Hitler boldly annexed nearby Austria and Murrow and Boys quickly assembled coverage with Shirer in London, Edgar Ansel Mowrer in Paris, Pierre Huss in Berlin, Frank Gervasi in Rome and Trout in New York.

In 1938 it was made the intelligence organization for the State as well as for the Party, supporting the Gestapo and working with the General and Interior Administration.

In 1998, Wolstenholme made a special appearance in EA Sports ' videogame World Cup ' 98, as the sole commentator on the game's classic World Cup matches, recreations of historic World Cup finals that included sepia-toned renditions of the 1930 and 1938 editions.

Additional attempts were made in 1937 and 1938 using a catapult system, launching the plane to a height of 9 metres ( 30 ft ).

A very short black-and-white cartoon was made in 1938 as part of a Warner Bros. blooper reel.

Previous directives of INAO make conditional allowances according to the complex laws of 1927 and 1929, and plantings made prior to 1938.

Some examples of the screwball comedy are: It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), and more recently What's Up, Doc?

( 1972 ), starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O ' Neal, a screwball comedy indebted to Hawks's Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) and His Girl Friday ( 1940 ).

Bringing Up Baby was the second of four films starring Grant and Hepburn, the others being Sylvia Scarlett ( 1935 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), and The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), the last three of which belong to a sub-genre of screwball comedy called the comedy of remarriage described by the philosopher Stanley Cavell as Hollywood's crowning achievement.

Nichols ' crowning achievement, though, was probably his collaboration with Hagar Wilde on the screenplay for Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), considered one of the funniest of the 1930s screwball comedies.