* 1938: Our Town – Thornton Wilder

* Thornton Wilder won in 1938 and 1943.

In 1938, Max Reinhardt directed a Broadway production of The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder had adapted from Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy's Einen Jux will er sich machen ( 1842 ).

Wilder received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1938 for the work.

Whatever the extent of the collaboration, it seems to have worked both ways: two of Lane's most successful novels, Let the Hurricane Roar ( 1932 ) and Free Land ( 1938 ), were written at the same time as the " Little House " series and basically re-told Ingalls and Wilder family tales in an adult format.

* Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1938 to 1944

* Thornton Wilder wrote his play Our Town which won a Pulitzer in 1938.

It was adapted twice by Thornton Wilder, first as The Merchant of Yonkers ( 1938 ), then as The Matchmaker ( 1955 ), which later became the musical Hello, Dolly !.

Following the Anschluss, the German annexation of Austria in 1938, many Austrian directors emigrated to the United States, including Erich von Stroheim, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Hedy Lamarr, Mia May, Richard Oswald and Josef von Sternberg.

* The Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 novel The Yearling, written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, was about a boy's relationship with a baby deer, later adapted to a children's film that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

When director Frank Capra and writer Robert Riskin adapted it for the screen in 1938, the film won the Best Picture Oscar and Capra won for Best Director.

It was adapted into English by S. N. Behrman and enjoyed a successful run on Broadway in 1938.

My Man Godfrey was adapted for radio and broadcast on Lux Radio Theater on 9 May 1938, with David Niven playing the part of Tommy Gray.

Gorky's novel was also adapted for an opera by Valery Zhelobinsky in 1938.

" The Beatles would cover " Matchbox ", " Honey Don't " and " Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby " recorded by Perkins but adapted from a song originally recorded by Rex Griffin during 1936 with new music composed by Carl Perkins, a song with the same title also recorded by Roy Newman in 1938.

He first appeared on television in April 1938 as Seigneur de Miolans in the BBC broadcast of " The Marvellous History of St Bernard ", a production adapted by Henri Gheon from a 15th century manuscript.

In 1930 it was replaced with a Latin-based alphabet, which was in turn replaced with an adapted Cyrillic alphabet in the winter of 1938.

" Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies " was adapted to radio at least a half-dozen times and also ran as a 1938 radio series.

Hands Across the Sea was adapted for television in 1938.

* The play was adapted as a Spanish film in 1938, with Margarita Xirgu repeating her stage role.

In 1938 during the Great Depression, Phillips donated his immense home to the city of Tulsa, which adapted it into the Philbrook Museum of Art.

He is now best known for the verses Bells of Rhymney from his 1938 Gwalia Deserta ( meaning literally " Wasteland of Wales "), which were later adapted into a popular folk song.

By the start of World War II, the United States Merchant Marine had adapted both islands as a training station, which had opened in 1938.

Van Dalen adapted Bortkiewicz's book for a Dutch readership, and published it as Rondom Tschaikovsky's vierde symphonie ( De Residentiebode, 1938 ).

The story was adapted by Walt Disney as a short animated film entitled Ferdinand the Bull in 1938, in a style similar to his Silly Symphonies series ( and sometimes considered an unofficial part of that series ).

* 1938: Het kindeke Jezus in Vlaanderen ( adapted to theatre by Karl Jacobs )

In 1938, it was made into a film directed by Victor Saville ; in 1974, it was adapted by Stan Barstow for Yorkshire Television ; and in 2011, BBC One produced a three-part dramatisation by Andrew Davies.

Danner was portrayed by comedic actor Joe E. Brown in the 1938 film The Gladiator, which loosely adapted science-fiction drama as a comedy, and, among the many changes, renamed the protagonist " Hugo Kipp ".

Wills ' 1938 recording of " Ida Red " served as a model for Chuck Berry's decades later version of the same song-" Maybellene ".

A new version of the film was published in 1938, including a longer sequence to reflect Stalin's " achievements " at the end of the film and leaving out footage with " enemies " of that time, including figures like Nikolai Yezhov, Nikita Khrushchev, Georgi Dimitrov and others.

A column in The Chicago Daily Tribune in 1938 attributes a version involving socialism, communism, fascism and New Dealism to an address by Silas Strawn to the Economic Club of Chicago on November 29, 1935.

Claude Rains played John in the 1938 colour version alongside Errol Flynn, starting a trend for films to depict John as an " effeminate ... arrogant and cowardly stay-at-home ".

The film was a re-edited version of the German / Swiss film of 1938 originally titled Michelangelo: Life of a Titan, directed by Curt Oertel.

Although she appeared in nine films in her career, all between 1938 and 1943, she was generally passed over for the filmed version of the musical plays in which she starred.

But it was her 1938 version of the nursery rhyme, " A-Tisket, A-Tasket ", a song she co-wrote, that brought her wide public acclaim.

Perhaps America's most famous radio drama broadcast is Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds, a 1938 version of the H. G. Wells novel, which convinced large numbers of listeners that an actual invasion from Mars was taking place.

After the Anschluss of Austria to Nazi-governed Germany in 1938, he emigrated first to England, then to the United States, where he had already successfully directed his own play The Miracle in 1924, and a popular stage version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1927.

He played the title character in The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1934 ) and later Professor Henry Higgins in the film version of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion ( 1938 ), which earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

Several Silly Symphonies entries, including Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ), The Grasshopper and the Ants ( 1934 ), The Tortoise and the Hare ( 1934 ), The Country Cousin ( 1936 ), The Old Mill ( 1937 ), Wynken, Blynken, and Nod ( 1938 ), and The Ugly Duckling ( 1939, with an earlier black-and-white version from 1931 ), are among the most notable films produced by Walt Disney.

She made her 1938 film debut in the movie version of Winifred Holtby's novel South Riding.

* Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition ( 1938, 1948 and 1953 broadcast, studio recording 1953, all of them in the version orchestrated by Maurice Ravel.

Paramount brought Ann Gillis to the role of Annie in their 1938 film adaptation, but this version was panned as well.

He became best known for his role as a supporting character, Caldicott, in the 1938 film version of The Lady Vanishes, a role he repeated in three further films, alongside Basil Radford as his equally cricket-obsessed friend, Charters.

Tommy Dorsey's band had a hit with an updated version of " Pine Top's Boogie Woogie " in 1938, which was the swing era's second best seller, only second to Glenn Miller's " In the Mood ".

who made the first public color television broadcast using a semi-mechanical system on 4 February 1938, was already making progress on an all-electronic version.

At first glance, The Black Island ( 1937 – 1938 ) is a simple thriller with Tintin in pursuit of money forgers, with the chase to Scotland giving it a feel of Alfred Hitchcock's movie version of The Thirty-Nine Steps.

Their signature song, a 1938 version of Cole Porter's " Begin the Beguine ", was a wildly successful single and one of the era's defining recordings.

In 1938, the T-26 was upgraded to the model 1938 version which had a new conical turret with better anti-bullet resistance but the same welded hull as the T-26 mod.

* T-28 Model 1938 or T-28B — version with improved L-10 76. 2 mm gun ( from 16. 5 calibres to 26 calibres ), improved gun stabilization system and improved Model M-17L engine.

" being written ) from the given reissue season and the 1941 ending version of " Merrily We Roll Along " playing ( pre-1936 color Merrie Melodies would also have this ending ) with the 1938 card and writing.

The original recording of Joe Garland's version was made by Edgar Hayes and his Orchestra in 1938, with Garland participating.