In 1939, Bogart played a mad scientist in The Return of Doctor X.

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.

Horatio Stratton " Raich " Carter ( 21 December 1913 – 9 October 1994 ) was an English sportsman who played association football for Sunderland from 1931 to 1939, for Derby County from 1945 to 1948 and for Hull City from 1948 to 1952.

After his death Housman's brother, Laurence, published further poems which appeared in More Poems ( 1936 ) and Collected Poems ( 1939 ).

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.

A 1939 radio adaptation of the story, starring Laurence Olivier and Edna Best, was presented by Cecil B. DeMille on Lux Radio Theatre, Hollywood.

She went on to appear as Cathy in her most famous film, Wuthering Heights ( opposite Laurence Olivier ; 1939 ), as George Sand in A Song to Remember ( 1945 ) and as the Empress Josephine in Désirée ( 1954 ).

She was married to Dr. Laurence Scogga Singleton, a dentist, from 1937 until their divorce in 1939.

His son Sir Laurence Collier was British Ambassador to Norway from 1939 to 1950.

The title was revived for a second time in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1939, when Sir Laurence Philipps, 1st Baronet, was made Baron Milford, of Llanstephan in the County of Radnor.

The film is set in an alternative 1939 and follows the adventures of Polly Perkins ( Gwyneth Paltrow ), a newspaper reporter, and Harry Joseph " Joe " Sullivan ( Jude Law ), alias " Sky Captain ," as they track down the mysterious Dr. Totenkopf ( Laurence Olivier ), who is seeking to build the " World of Tomorrow ".

He appeared in productions of Golden Boy ( 1937 ), Seventh Heaven ( play ) ( 1939 ), No Time for Comedy ( 1939 ), in which he replaced Laurence Olivier, The Play's the Thing ( 1942 ), A Doll's House ( 1944 ), Arms and the Man ( 1950 ), The Sleeping Prince ( 1956 ) and The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1958 ).

* The City of the Living Dead ( 1939 ) with Laurence Manning.

On this poster it is directed by William Wyler and stars Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon and David Niven ( the real director and stars of the 1939 version of Wuthering Heights ).

Other film roles included Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), Fire Over England ( 1937 ), Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ), Laurence Olivier's Henry V ( 1944 ), and David Lean's Madeleine ( 1950 ).

* 1939 Laurence Binyon — Art and freedom

* Sir Laurence Collier ( 1890 – 1976 ), Ambassador to Norway, 1939 – 1950

* 1939 Walter Laurence Hughes ( 1917-99 ; in College 1934-38 ).

In 1939 Laurence Whistler married actress Jill Furse ( died 1944 ); they had two children, Simon Whistler and Caroline ( Robin ) Whistler.

* Hamlet Volume I with Michael Fraenkel, New York: Carrefour, 1939.

But many believed that his greatest successes were in Shakespearean productions in which he both directed and starred, especially Romeo and Juliet ( 1935 ), Richard II ( 1937, 1953 ), King Lear ( 1950, 1955 ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1952, 1955, 1959 ) and his signature role of Hamlet ( 1934, 1939, 1945 ).

Wartime presentations included the London premiere of Noël Coward's Design for Living ( 1939 ) and John Gielgud's repertory season of The Circle ( Somerset Maugham ), Love for Love ( Congreve ), Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Duchess of Malfi.

His first appearance on Broadway was in Romeo and Juliet opposite Katharine Cornell in 1936, but he made his biggest impact in Shakespeare's Richard II, a production whose unexpected success was the surprise of the 1937 theatre season and allowed Evans to play Hamlet ( 1938 ) ( the first time that the play was performed uncut on the New York stage ), Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1 ( 1939 ), Macbeth ( 1941 ) and Malvolio in Twelfth Night ( 1942 ) opposite the Viola of Helen Hayes, all under the direction of Margaret Webster.

In 1939 he played Fortinbras in John Gielgud's production of Hamlet, the final play to be performed at the Lyceum Theatre before its closure.

A prolific Shakespearean actor, Laurie spent much of the time between 1922 and 1939 playing Shakespearean parts, including in Hamlet, Richard III and Macbeth at the Old Vic or Stratford-upon-Avon.

On a plane bound for Paris, Felicja ( Barbara Krafftówna ), a successful radio actress, recalls the night in 1939 when she was to debut as Ophelia, with the man she loved, Wiktor ( Zbigniew Cybulski ), playing Hamlet.

Fiske also wrote for H. L. Mencken's American Mercury 48 ( December 1939 ), pp. 403 – 7, had corresponded with George Bernard Shaw, had written an article praised by critic Colin Wilson, among others, " Bernard Shaw's Debt to William Blake ", and had translated Shakespeare's Hamlet into modern English.