Gable divorced Langham on March 7, 1939 and proposed to Lombard at the Brown Derby.

On March 29, 1939, during a break in production on Gone with the Wind, Gable and Lombard drove out to Kingman, Arizona and were married in a ceremony with only Gable's press agent, Otto Winkler, in attendance.

In 1939, when All Hallows Lombard Street was demolished in the City of London, its distinctive stone tower designed by Christopher Wren, with its peal of ten bells and connecting stone cloister, and the interior furnishings, including a Renatus Harris organ and a pulpit used by John Wesley, were brought to Twickenham to be incorporated in the new All Hallows Church on Chertsey Road ( A316 ) near Twickenham Stadium.

The 1939 film In Name Only, starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard and Kay Francis, is partially set in Ridgefield, and the opening shot is of the wooden sign at the corner of Main St. and Branchville Road opposite what is now Jesse Lee Memorial United Methodist Church.

Carole Lombard, one of the most popular stars of the late 1930s and early 1940s ( and who had previously been a supporting player in Francis ' 1931 film, Ladies ' Man ) tried to bolster Francis ' career by insisting Francis be cast in In Name Only ( 1939 ).

Fairbanks died in 1939, and was deposed as the " King of Hollywood " title by Clark Gable, who was by that time, along with Carole Lombard, the " it " couple.

Gable and Lombard were titled " The King of Hollywood and the Queen of Screwball Comedy ", respectively, and eloped during a break in production on Gable's Gone with the Wind in 1939.

Built in 1902, the now-Oatman Hotel is the oldest two-story adobe structure in Mohave County, a Mohave County historical landmark and is especially famous as the honeymoon stop of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard after their wedding in Kingman on March 18, 1939.

A special " Bureau " was formed within intelligence group " Lombard ", charged with espionage inside the 3rd Reich and the Polish areas incorporated into it after 1939, to investigate the matter and to coordinate future actions.

In 1939, a heated debate took place over whether to prohibit communists from serving in ACLU leadership roles.

Sagan recalls that one of his best experiences was when he was four or five years old, his parents took him to the 1939 New York World's Fair.

" Having an interest in Rosicrucianism, a prominent magico-religious tradition within Western esotericism, Gardner decided to attend one of the plays performed by the group ; in August 1939, Gardner took his wife to a theatrical performance based on the life of Pythagoras.

One night in September 1939 they took him to a large house owned by " Old Dorothy " Clutterbuck, a wealthy local woman, where he was made to strip naked and taken through an initiation ceremony.

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

Despite some insignificant resistance, especially at Durrës, Italy invaded Albania on 7 April 1939 and took control of the country, with the Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini proclaiming Italy's figurehead King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy as King of Albania.

During all this time, Ribbentrop feuded with various other Nazi leaders ; at one point in August 1939 an armed clash took place between supporters of Ribbentrop and those of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels over the control of a radio station in Berlin that was meant to broadcast German propaganda abroad ( Goebbels claimed exclusive control of all propaganda both at home and abroad whereas Ribbentrop asserted a claim to monopolize all German propaganda abroad ).

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

His father ’ s health declined starting in 1939, and after a stroke in 1941, Alfried took over full control of the firm, continuing its role as main arms supplier to Germany at war.

The Intelligenzaktion, a plan to eliminate the Polish intelligentsia, Poland's ' leadership class ', took place soon after the German invasion of Poland, lasting from fall of 1939 till spring of 1940.

His coronation took place on 12 March 1939.

On May 27, 1939, the first U. S. synchronized swimming competition took place at Wright Junior College between Wright and the Chicago Teachers ' College.

On December 13, 1939 the Battle of the River Plate took place off the coast of Uruguay between British forces and the German " pocket battleship " Admiral Graf Spee.

A Lithuanian Army parade took place on 29 October 1939 through the city centre.

In private notes written in 1939, Heidegger took a strongly critical view of Hitler's ideology, however in public lectures he seems to have continued to make ambiguous comments which, if they expressed criticism of the regime, did so only in the context of praising its ideals.

* In the 1939 song Strange Fruit, written to condemn the practice of lynching, the Magnolia flower was referenced as being associated with the Southern United States, where most lynchings took place: " Pastoral scene of the gallant south / The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth / Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh ,/ Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

He was assigned to the Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, expecting to be transferred shortly to the Bureau of Engineering in Washington D. C. After a trip overland across China, Burma, and India, by air across the Mideast to Athens and then London, and by ship to the U. S., Rickover arrived in Washington and took up his duties as assistant chief of the Electrical section of the Bureau of Engineering on 15 August 1939.

Further cooperation between German and Soviets took the form of an exchange of Polish POWs: following order by Lavrentiy Beria to the NKVD of October 3, 1939, Polish prisoners detained in soviet camps were traded against POWs released by the Germans.

* 1939: The second IJK took place in Tervuren, Belgium

Despite his belief that the attack on Poland would cause only a local war, on 15 August 1939 Raeder took the precaution of ordering two Panzerschife the Admiral Graf von Spee and the Deutschland, a number of U-boats and the Dithmarschen ships Altmark and Westerwald to the Atlantic in case Britain should go to war.

By 1939, it took no more than a month by ship to travel from Marseille to Saigon and around five days by airplane from Paris to Saigon.

That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in Randall Wallace's The Man in the Iron Mask, based on the same-titled 1939 film.

He had supporting roles in several major films: Rose-Marie ( 1936 ), Dodsworth ( 1936 ), The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ); and leading roles in The Dawn Patrol ( 1938 ), Three Blind Mice ( 1938 ), and Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ), playing opposite such stars as Errol Flynn, Loretta Young and Laurence Olivier.

The Women ( 1939 ) followed, with an entirely female cast of more than 130 speaking roles.

He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man ( 1933 ), The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), and, perhaps his most notable performance, as Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein ( 1931 ), Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 ), and Son of Frankenstein ( 1939 ).

Jones landed two small roles, first in a 1939 John Wayne western titled New Frontier, followed by a serial entitled Dick Tracy's G-Men.

Among his best-known roles was Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) and roles in Berkeley Square ( 1933 ), Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ), The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1934 ), The Petrified Forest ( 1936 ), Pygmalion ( 1938 ), Intermezzo ( 1939 ), " Pimpernel " Smith ( 1941 ) and The First of the Few ( 1942 ).

One of his most notable roles was Sir Henry Baskerville in the 1939 Sherlock Holmes film The Hound of the Baskervilles.

They stayed on the program as regulars for two years, while landing roles in a Broadway revue, " The Streets of Paris ", in 1939.

His career gradually declined in the late 1930s, with roles in B-movies such as Smashing the Rackets with Edward J. Pawley ( 1938 ) and Five Came Back ( 1939 ).

Angels With Dirty Faces was dramatized as a radio play on the May 22, 1939 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater, with James Cagney and Pat O ' Brien reprising their film roles.

Coming to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man ( perhaps best typified by his performance in the 1939 romantic comedy Ninotchka ), Douglas later transitioned into more mature and fatherly roles as in his Academy Award-winning performances in Hud ( 1963 ) and Being There ( 1979 ).

Shortly after the outbreak of war on September 3, 1939, Rennie began to receive offers for larger film roles, starting with his first ( small ) billed performance in the wartime morale booster The Big Blockade, seen in March 1940.

Arthur is best known for her feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), films that championed the everyday heroine.

His film roles were bigger after that, starting with The Bad Man of Brimstone ( 1938 ), and the lead role in Burn ' Em Up O ' Connor ( 1939 ).

Other roles which he performed at Salzburg between 1933 and 1939 were Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Huon in Oberon and Florestan in Fidelio.

There she starred in Jerome Kern's Music in the Air ( 1933 ) and then went on to her best known singing roles as the heroine of three Ivor Novello operettas, Glamorous Night ( 1935 ), The Dancing Years ( 1939 ) and Arc de Triomphe ( 1943 ).