Dark Victory is a 1939 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Ronald Reagan.

* Michael O ' Leary, a character played by Humphrey Bogart in the 1939 film Dark Victory

As Raymond Chandler's protagonist Philip Marlowe — immortalized by actor Humphrey Bogart in the movie adaptation ( 1946 ) of the novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 )— admits to his client, General Sternwood, he finds it rather tiresome, as an individualist, to fit into the extensive set of rules and regulations for police detectives:

She received substantial roles and positive reaction from critics and moviegoers in such films as Angels with Dirty Faces ( 1938 ), opposite James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, Dodge City ( 1939 ) with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Torrid Zone with Cagney and They Drive by Night with George Raft and Bogart ( both 1940 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942 ) with Bette Davis, and Kings Row ( 1942 ), in which she received top billing playing opposite Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings, and Betty Field.

An undistinguished period followed with Paramount Pictures from 1935 to 1939, but Walsh's career rose to new heights soon after moving to Warner Brothers, with The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 ) featuring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart ; Dark Command ( 1940 ) with John Wayne and Roy Rogers ; They Drive By Night ( 1940 ) with George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Bogart ; High Sierra ( 1941 ) with Lupino and Bogart again ; They Died with Their Boots On ( 1941 ) with Errol Flynn as Custer ; The Strawberry Blonde ( 1941 ) with James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland ; Manpower ( 1941 ) with Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft ; and White Heat ( 1949 ) with Cagney.

Francis did have a lead role in the Bogart gangster film King of the Underworld, released in 1939.

Some of his other movies include If I Had A Million ( 1932 ; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check ), Bolero ( 1934 ; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster ), Limehouse Blues ( 1934 ; with Anna May Wong ), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key ( 1935 ; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ), Souls at Sea ( 1937 ; with Gary Cooper ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ), two with Humphrey Bogart: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 ) and They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), with Bogart in supporting roles, Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison ), and Manpower ( 1941 ; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ).

After that he had roles that included playing a sergeant in the Western Stagecoach ( 1939 ) starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne ; an intern in The Return of Dr. X, starring Humphrey Bogart ; a New York reporter in Knute Rockne, All American ( 1940 ) starring Pat O ' Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Crisp ; a reporter in the post-Hollywood Production Code version of The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor ; and a reporter in Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ) starring James Cagney and Walter Huston.

Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Jeffrey Lynn in The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 )

Instead, Lynn acted in The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 ), a gangster film that reunited him with Four Daughters star Priscilla Lane, as well as James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart.

* The Return of Doctor X ( 1939 )-In an atypical role, Humphrey Bogart plays a scientist executed for starving an infant to death, who is re-animated with a need to consume blood.

His first film as a director was the 1939 horror film The Return of Doctor X, which starred Humphrey Bogart.

The Roaring Twenties is a 1939 crime thriller starring James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart and Gladys George.

Dark Victory ( 1939 ) was one of the last films in which he played a supporting role

On the night of 14 – 15 March 1939, Ribbentrop played a key role in the German annexation of the Czech part of Czecho-Slovakia by bullying the Czechoslovak President Hácha into transforming his country into a German protectorate at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin.

Ribbentrop played a key role in the conclusion of a Soviet-German non-aggression pact, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, in 1939, and in the diplomatic action surrounding the attack on Poland.

In 1937, the Eagles moved to Shibe Park and played their home games at the stadium through 1947, except for the 1941 season, which was played at Municipal Stadium, where they had played from 1936 to 1939.

Richard's career is also the subject of the 1939 film Tower of London, in which he is played by Basil Rathbone.

He played his entire 22-year Major League Baseball career as the left fielder for the Boston Red Sox ( 1939 – 1942 and 1946 – 1960 ).

This was followed by Gold Diggers of Broadway which was so popular it played in theatres until 1939.

Oscar frequently played ethnic parts, including the Sudanese doctor in The Four Feathers ( 1939 ).

This was followed by the title role in Young Mr. Lincoln ( 1939 ), his first collaboration with director John Ford, and that year he played Frank James in Jesse James ( 1939 ).

* Tower of London ( 1939 ): Elizabeth was played by Barbara O ' Neil.

The first academic treatment of the Dozens was made in 1939 by Yale-based psychologist and social theorist John Dollard, who described the importance of the game among African-American males, and how it is generally played.

Guests included Morticia's older sister Ophelia ( also played by Carolyn Jones in the original television series ), Morticia's cousin Melancholia, and Morticia's mother Hester Frump ( played in the 1960s series by Margaret Hamilton, wearing her Miss Almira Gulch dress from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz ).

In this, Canaris was successful, and the " Dutch War Scare " played a major role in causing Chamberlain to make the " continental commitment " ( i. e. sending a large British ground force to the defence of France ) in February 1939.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

His 146 runs scored were the most since Ted Williams had 150 in 1950, and he became the first player since Jimmie Foxx in 1939 to amass more runs scored than games played.

Auden, September 1, 1939: " Accurate scholarship can / Unearth the whole offense / From Luther until now / That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz ...." To the end of his life, Hitler considered Linz to be his " home town ", and envisioned extensive architectural schemes for it, wanting it to become the main cultural centre of the Third Reich.

First synthesized in 1874 by Othmar Zeidler, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939 by the Swiss scientist Paul Hermann Müller, who was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his efforts.

* 1939 – Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist ( d. 2000 )

* 1939 – Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist

* 1939 – Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate

* 1939 – John Hopcroft, American computer scientist

In 1939, Australian scientist Howard Florey ( later Baron Florey ) and a team of researchers ( Ernst Boris Chain, Arthur Duncan Gardner, Norman Heatley, M. Jennings, J. Orr-Ewing and G. Sanders ) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford made significant progress in showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

* August 28 – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect ( d. 1939 )

Stephen Arthur Cook ( born December 14, 1939, Buffalo, New York ) is a renowned American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made major contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity.

Professor Philip James Stradling Williams ( 11 January 1939 – 10 June 2003 ) was a Welsh politician for Plaid Cymru and scientist.

Dr. Wen Ho Lee (; born December 21, 1939 ) is a Taiwan-born American scientist who worked for the University of California at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

John Edward Hopcroft ( born October 7, 1939 ) is an American theoretical computer scientist.

Zviad Gamsakhurdia (, ( March 31, 1939 — December 31, 1993 ) was a dissident, scientist and writer, who became the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.

In September 1939, the British decided to assign a scientist to the Intelligence section of the Air Ministry.

Another British scientist working on radar technology and techniques was R. V. Jones, who had been appointed in 1939 as Britain's first Scientific Intelligence Officer and had spent the first years of the conflict researching how advanced the German radar technology was in comparison to Britain, and convincing doubters that the Germans actually had radar.

* William Wulf ( born 1939 ), American computer scientist

Lavoslav Ružička ForMemRS born as Lavoslav ( Leopold ) Ružička ( 13 September 1887 – 26 September 1976 ) was a Croatian scientist and winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry who worked most of his life in Switzerland.

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker ( born June 25, 1939 in Zürich, Switzerland ) is a German scientist and politician.

In December 1972, John Bardeen, two-time winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, established an endowment fund " to perpetuate the memory of Fritz London, distinguished scientist and member of the Duke faculty from 1939 to the time of his death in 1954, and to promote research and understanding of Physics at Duke University and in the wider scientific community ".

On April 5, 1939, Hamlin introduced a new plot device, which greatly expanded his choice of storylines: a time machine, invented by the 20th-century scientist Dr. Elbert Wonmug, who bore a rather suspicious resemblance to the Grand Wizer.

Peter Glotz ( March 6, 1939 – August 25, 2005 ) was a German social democratic politician ( Social Democratic Party ) and social scientist.

Ahmet Taner Kışlalı ( July 10, 1939 in Zile, Turkey – October 21, 1999 in Ankara ) was a Turkish intellectual, political scientist, lawyer, journalist / author, academics and politician.

These scientists inspired and educated a second generation with more notable scientist like Ervin Laszlo ( 1932 ) and Fritjof Capra ( 1939 ), who wrote about systems theory in the 1970s and 1980s.

Harold Elliot Varmus ( born December 18, 1939 ) is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist and the 14th and current Director of the National Cancer Institute, a post he was appointed to by President Barack Obama.

Leon Richard Kass ( born February 12, 1939 ) is an American physician, scientist, educator, and public intellectual, best known as proponent of liberal education via the " Great Books ," as an opponent of human cloning and euthanasia, as a critic of certain areas of technological progress and embryo research, and for his controversial tenure as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005.