Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

His films, Tractor Drivers ( 1939 ), The Swineherd and the Shepherd ( 1941 ), and his most famous, Cossacks of the Kuban ( 1949 ) all starred his wife, Marina Ladynina.

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.

In 1939, he co-starred with Ginger Rogers in the RKO comedy Bachelor Mother, and starred as the eponymous gentleman safe-cracker in Raffles.

Tallulah Bankhead starred as Regina Giddens, when the play premiered on February 15, 1939 at the National Theatre.

During this period, he also starred with Basil Rathbone in Tower of London ( 1939 ).

Goofy next starred at his first solo cartoon Goofy and Wilbur directed by Dick Huemer, first released on March 17, 1939.

Howard starred with Ingrid Bergman in Intermezzo ( 1939 ) and Norma Shearer in a film version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ).

De Havilland was good friends with Bette Davis with whom she starred in Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte ( 1964 ), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ), It's Love I'm After ( 1937 ), and In This Our Life ( 1942 ).

The film version, released in 1939, starred Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney and was directed by Busby Berkeley.

Redgrave also starred in The Stars Look Down ( 1939 ), with James Mason in the film of Robert Ardrey's play Thunder Rock ( 1942 ), and in the ventriloquist's dummy episode of the Ealing compendium film Dead of Night ( 1945 ).

He guest starred as himself on October 20 in the episode " Musicale " of ABC's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, a sitcom starring Fess Parker, based on the 1939 Frank Capra film.

Shortly after making this film, Scott portrayed Wyatt Earp in Frontier Marshal ( 1939 ) and, for Universal, starred with Kay Francis in When the Daltons Rode ( 1940 ).

But Gielgud was best known for directing productions in which he also starred, including his greatest commercial success Richard of Bordeaux ( 1933 ), his definitive production of The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1939, 1942, 1947 ), Medea with Judith Anderson's Tony Award-winning performance of the title role with Gielgud supporting her as Jason ( 1947 ), The Lady's Not for Burning ( 1949 ) that won Richard Burton his first notoriety as an actor, and Ivanov ( 1965 ).

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 ).

In 1939, Gene Krupa and his Orchestra appeared in the Paramount movie Some Like It Hot, which starred Bob Hope and Shirley Ross, performing the songs " Blue Rhythm Fantasy " and " The Lady's in Love with You ".

Their first American film was Nurse Edith Cavell ( 1939 ), a remake of Dawn, a Wilcox silent that starred Sybil Thorndike.

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 ).

At the 1939 New York World's Fair, Billy Rose's Aquacade starred Olympian Eleanor Holm in what the fair program called " a brilliant girl show of spectacular size and content ".

She starred in " Sally Rand's Nude Ranch " at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco in 1939 and 1940.

The 1939 film version was directed by George Cukor and starred Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford.

Later in the decade, he was the first actor to play " Dr. Kildare ", in the film Internes Can't Take Money ( 1937 ), and he starred in two large-scale Westerns, Wells Fargo ( 1937 ) with his wife Frances Dee, and Cecil B. DeMille's Union Pacific ( 1939 ).

From 1937 to 1939, he starred as " The Octopus " in the " Speed Gibson " adventure series.

W. E. Ford, for example, continued to supply data on the occurrence of minerals until his death in 1939.

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

In 1939, Orson Welles and the Mercury Players dramatized The Murder of Roger Ackroyd on CBS's Campbell Playhouse.

In 1939 he met with Trappist monk Alexis Presse on a recommendation.

* 1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.

The highest maximum temperature recorded in the ACT was 42. 8 ° C ( 109. 0 ° F ) at Acton on 11 January 1939.

The world's first fatal hijacking occurred on 28 October 1939.

Until 1939 iron ore was mined on the Braunenberg hill.

Alicante was the last city loyal to the Republican government to be occupied by dictator Franco's troops on 1 April 1939, and its harbour saw the last Republican government officials fleeing the country.

Nin left Paris in the late summer of 1939, when residents from overseas were urged to leave France due to the upcoming war and returned to New York City with Guiler ( who was, on his own wish, all but edited out of her diaries published in her lifetime and whose role in her life is therefore difficult to gauge ).

On 1 September 1939 this unit was one of the many that participated in the attack on Poland that started the war.

There he quashed an Arab revolt before returning in July 1939 to Britain, suffering a serious illness on the way, to command the 3rd ( Iron ) Infantry Division.

Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939.

The first wave of the Government Code and Cypher School ( GC & CS ) moved to Bletchley Park on 15 August 1939.

During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.

The city was a Republican stronghold during the Spanish Civil War, and the fall of the city on 26 January 1939 caused a mass exodus of civilians who fled to the French border.

Writing on Doctrine and Training in the German Army 1919 – 1939, O ’ Neill stated:

Initiated studies on blunt head trauma and injury thresholds beginning in 1939 in collaboration with Dr. E. S.

Between 1939 and 1943, four different stories featuring Flossy appeared on American Weekly covers.

The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.

Building on this article, Pauling's 1939 textbook: On the Nature of the Chemical Bond would become what some have called the " Bible " of modern chemistry.

Early landmarks of the secondary literature include the monographs by Buchler ( 1939 ), Feibleman ( 1946 ), and Goudge ( 1950 ), the 1941 Ph. D. thesis by Arthur W. Burks ( who went on to edit volumes 7 and 8 ), and the studies edited by Wiener and Young ( 1952 ).

The last horsed regiment of the Indian Army ( other than the Viceregal Bodyguard and some Indian States Forces regiments ) was the 19th King George's Own Lancers which had its last mounted parade at Rawalpindi on 28 October 1939.