He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) and My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

Cukor's dismissal from Wind freed him to direct The Women ( 1939 ), notable for its all-female cast, followed by The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), starring Katharine Hepburn.

Cotten returned to Broadway in 1939, creating the role of C. K. Dexter Haven opposite Katharine Hepburn's Tracy Lord in the original production of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story.

Appleton was born in Los Angeles, California on January 4, 1939 to Jewish parents: Helen Jacobs Appleton ( born Philadelphia, 1908 ) and Charles Leonard Appleton ( born Haim Eppel Boim in Kishenov, Moldavia, 1900 ).

On January 18, 1939, Stokowski signed an eighteen-month contract with Disney to conduct the remaining pieces with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

* Frank Budd ( born 1939 ), wide receiver in the NFL for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Redskins who once held the World Record in the 100 yard dash.

Two years after his promotion to Master Gunnery Sergeant on July 10, 1939, he was assigned to the Depot of Supplies at Philadelphia to help design a new infantry pack.

* War, 1939, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1939. newly illustrated edition of the retelling by Mary Godolphin

In February 1939 James debuted his own big band in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Michael Henry Schwerner ( November 6, 1939 – June 21, 1964 ), was one of three Congress of Racial Equality ( CORE ) field workers killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by the Ku Klux Klan in response to their civil rights work, which included promoting voting registration among Mississippi African Americans.

Sonny Fortune ( born May 19, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is an American jazz alto saxophonist and flautist.

William Anthony Toomey ( born January 10, 1939, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is a former American track and field competitor and the 1968 Olympic decathlon champion.

Bolet was born in Havana, and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he himself taught from 1939 to 1942.

Octavio Victor Rojas Rivas ( born March 6, 1939 in Havana, Cuba ), better known as Cookie Rojas, is a former Major League Baseball second baseman and outfielder who played for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, and Kansas City Royals.

" World conflicts made it impossible to hold to a strict five-year plan, but BWA has held 20 Congresses: London, 1905 ; Philadelphia, 1911 ; Stockholm, 1923 ; Toronto, 1928 ; Berlin, 1934 ; Atlanta, 1939 ; Copenhagen, 1947 ; Cleveland, 1950 ; London, 1955 ; Rio de Janeiro, 1960 ; Miami Beach, 1965 ; Tokyo, 1970 ; Stockholm, 1975 ; Toronto, 1980 ; Los Angeles, 1985 ; Seoul, 1990 ; Buenos Aires, 1995 ; Melbourne, 2000 ; Birmingham, England, 2005 ; and Honolulu, 2010.

* The " Inyo ", a 4-4-0 steam locomotive built for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad ( V & T # 22 ) in 1875 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, appeared in both the Golden Spike ceremony scene in " Union Pacific " ( 1939 ) and in the 1960s TV series The Wild Wild West.

In 1933 she eloped with Stanley Ryder and moved to Philadelphia in 1939.

By 1950, there were 152 Equity companies, including the Ogunquit Playhouse and Skowhegan Playhouse in Maine ; the Woodstock Playhouse in upstate New York ; Falmouth Playhouse in Massachusetts ( burned down in 1994 ); Priscilla Beach Theatre in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope ( suburban Philadelphia ), Pennsylvania ( established in 1939 ).

The group formerly known as The Charlemagnes took on the name " The Blue Notes " in 1954, with a lineup consisting of lead singer Harold Melvin ( born June 25, 1939, in Philadelphia, died March 24, 1997 ), Bernard Williams, Roosevelt Brodie, Jesse Gillis, Jr., and Franklin Peaker.

His son, Eddie Jr., was an outfielder who briefly saw major league action ( in 1939 and 1941 – 42, all with the A's ) and later worked in the Philadelphia Phillies ' front office.

James Laverne " Skeeter " Webb ( November 4, 1909 – July 8, 1986 ) was a Major League Baseball infielder who played twelve season in the major leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1932 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1938 – 1939 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1940 – 1944 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1945 – 1947 ), and Philadelphia Athletics ( 1948 ).

* John Francis Cardinal O ' Hara, CSC, President of Notre Dame ( 1934 – 1939 ) and Archbishop of Philadelphia ( 1951 – 1960 )

The Indians had been affiliated with several Major League clubs over the years including Cincinnati ( 1939 – 41, 1961 ), Boston Braves ( 1946 – 47 ), Pittsburgh ( 1948 – 1951 ), Cleveland ( 1952 – 1956 ), Philadelphia ( 1960 ) and the Chicago White Sox ( 1962 – 67 ).

Aalto's early experiments with wood and his move away from a purist modernism would be tested in built form with the commission to design Villa Mairea ( 1939 ) in Noormarkku, the luxury home of the young industrialist couple Harry and Maire Gullichsen.

* 1858 – Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and industrialist, developed the blow torch ( d. 1939 )

In 1937, she met wealthy French industrialist Henri Edmond Fiocca ( 1898 – 1943 ), whom she married on 30 November 1939.

In early 1939, he was sent to Brussels, posing as a Canadian industrialist, to establish a commercial cover for a spy network in France and the Low Countries.

John Knudsen " Jack " Northrop ( November 10, 1895 – February 18, 1981 ) was an American aircraft industrialist and designer, who founded the Northrop Corporation in 1939.

Haji Gokool Meah ( 1847 – 1939 ) was an industrialist and philanthropist.

Francis Hector Clergue ( August 28, 1856 – January 19, 1939 ) was an American businessman who became the leading industrialist of Sault Ste.

In 1931 Ms. Lortel married paper industrialist and philanthropist Louis Schweitzer and in deference to her husband's concerns retired from acting in 1939.

* Sir John Egan ( industrialist ) ( born 1939 ), British industrialist

Offered the role of Heathcliff in Samuel Goldwyn's production of Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ), he travelled to Hollywood, leaving Leigh in London.

The concept of a fish restaurant was introduced by Samuel Isaacs ( born 1856 in Whitechapel, London ; died 1939 in Brighton, Sussex ) who ran a thriving wholesale and retail fish business throughout London and the South of England in the latter part of the 19th century.

The " sit-in " technique was not new — as far back as 1939, African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized a sit-in at the then-segregated Alexandria, Virginia library.

Lynne Truss stated that " Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as Molloy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way ," " James Joyce preferred the colon, as more authentically classical ; P. G. Wodehouse did an effortlessly marvellous job without it ; George Orwell tried to avoid the semicolon completely in Coming up for Air, ( 1939 )," " Martin Amis included just one semicolon in Money ( 1984 )," and " Umberto Eco was congratulated by an academic reader for using no semicolons in The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ).

* Flick, Alexander C. Samuel J. Tilden ( 1939 ), the standard biography

After leaving Universal he began a long collaboration with Samuel Goldwyn for whom he directed such classics as Dodsworth ( 1936 ), These Three ( 1936 ), Dead End ( 1937 ), Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ), The Westerner ( 1940 ), The Little Foxes ( 1941 ) and The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ).

In March 1939, Chamberlain foresaw a possible disarmament conference between himself, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini and Joseph Stalin ; his home secretary, Samuel Hoare, said, " These five men, working together in Europe and blessed in their efforts by the President of the United States of America, might make themselves eternal benefactors of the human race.

* Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt ( 1939 – 1940 )

* The last movement of the Violin Concerto by Samuel Barber ( 1939 ).

Christopher Samuel " Kit " Bond ( born March 6, 1939 ) is a former United States Senator from Missouri and a member of the Republican Party.

He was the second of six children of Samuel Pollitt ( 1863 – 1933 ), a lacksmith's striker, and his wife, Mary Louisa ( 1868 – 1939 ), a cotton spinner, daughter of William Charlesworth, a joiner.

Samuel Dickstein ( May 12, 1851 – September 29, 1939 ) was a Polish mathematician of Jewish origin.

* Samuel Dickstein ( mathematician ) ( 1851 – 1939 ), Polish mathematician

Churchill argued that some form of home defence force should be raised from members of the population who were ineligible to serve in the regular forces but wished to serve their country ; in a letter he wrote to Samuel Hoare, the Lord Privy Seal on 8 October 1939, Churchill called for a Home Guard force of 500, 000 men over the age of forty to be formed.

* 1939: An Outline of the Principles of Sociology, with Samuel Smith, New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc

" In August, 1939, African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized a sit-in at the then-segregated Alexandria, Virginia library.

It was founded in 1982 by Hilton Kramer, former art critic for The New York Times, and Samuel Lipman, a pianist and music critic ; the name is a reference to The Criterion, a British literary magazine edited by T. S. Eliot from 1922 to 1939.

In 1939 Walter Krivitsky, ( born Samuel Ginsberg in Galicia, now Poland ) a GRU officer, who had defected after the murder of Leon Trotsky by Soviet agents in Mexico City was interviewed by Dick White and Guy Liddell of MI5.

# Samuel Stritch ( 1939 – 1958 )

Samuel Newsom's Japanese Garden Construction ( 1939 ) offered Japanese aesthetic as a corrective in the construction of rock gardens, which owed their quite separate origins in the West to the mid-19th century desire to grow alpines in an approximation of Alpine scree.

The Congress ' dominant figure from 1939 to 1962 was its president, Samuel Bronfman who was elected president following Jacobs ' death in 1938.

* Samuel Bronfman 1939 – 1962

His great-grandfather, Samuel Lewis García de Paredes ( 1871 – 1939 ), as well as his grandfather, Samuel Lewis Arango ( 1901 – 1972 ), and his father, Gabriel Lewis ( 1929 – 1996 ), all held the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama before him.