His Girl Friday was dramatized as a radio play on the September 30, 1940 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater with Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray and Jack Carson.

Brent also played opposite Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street ( 1933 ), Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil ( 1934 ), Ginger Rogers in In Person ( 1935 ), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Ames ( 1936 ), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary ( 1936 ), Myrna Loy in Stamboul Quest ( 1934 ) and The Rains Came ( 1939 ), Merle Oberon in ' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 ), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three ( 1941 ), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan ( 1945 ), Barbara Stanwyck in The Purchase Price ( 1932 ), Baby Face ( 1933 ), The Gay Sisters ( 1942 ) and My Reputation ( 1946 ), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Is Forever ( 1946 ), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase ( 1946 ), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back ( 1946 ) and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl ( 1947 ).

Boom Town is a 1940 adventure drama Hollywood film starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, and Frank Morgan.

Among the movies Cromwell directed are Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello ; The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; Algiers ( 1938 ) starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr ; Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ) starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon ; Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake ( 1942 ) starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney ; Since You Went Away ( 1944 ) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker, and Monty Woolley, with Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Lionel Barrymore and Keenan Wynn ; Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard ; Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott ; the women's prison drama Caged ( 1950 ) and the noir crime / drama The Racket ( 1951 ) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan, which Cromwell had appeared in onstage in New York and on tour.

Up to his death he refused to comment on the incident and in other opportunities he denied explicitly that he had been opportunistic by joining the NSDAP in 1933 ( albeit he conceded joining the Nazi Foreign Ministry to dodge his 1940 draft by the Wehrmacht ).

He refused to allow her to join Olivier in Pride and Prejudice ( 1940 ), and Greer Garson played the role Leigh had wanted for herself.

The Germans arrested him in June 1940 because he refused to sign a German document that falsely blamed Senegalese French Army troops for civilian massacres.

In early 1941, the Nazi German government arranged another resettlement for all those who had refused to leave in 1939 or 1940.

This time around no compensation was offered for any property or belongings left behind and this group of resettlers were treated with intense suspicion or considered traitors because they had refused Hitler's first call to leave the Baltics in 1939 and 1940.

In July 1940, the British navy shelled French warships in the port after they refused a British ultimatum to surrender which was designed to ensure the fleet would not fall into German hands.

Despite the enormous losses of the disastrous 1940 – 1942 period, known to the Germans as the " First " and " Second Happy Time ", the Air Ministry refused to invest in trade defence.

After the French capitulation in 1940, Louis Renault refused to produce tanks for Nazi Germany, which took control of his factories.

" In late 1939 and early 1940, Hans Frank, the General Governor of occupied Poland, refused to accept the 30, 000 German and Austrian Roma which were to be deported.

His desire to have Northern Ireland treated like the rest of the United Kingdom was seen in April 1939, and again in May 1940, when he called for conscription to be introduced in the North ( which the British government, fearing a nationalist backlash, refused ).

Republican candidate Wendell Willkie challenged President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a debate in 1940, but Roosevelt refused.

In 1940, a number of imprisoned IRA members went on hunger strike, Boland, however, refused to grant their release.

Her novels and stories, which by 1940 were considered merely fashionable, flimsy stuff with no lasting significance, can now be seen as the illumination of a class of people who were made irrelevant by the First World War but who refused to accept their irrelevance.

In May 1940 he refused a position in Winston Churchill's Coalition Government in the Ministry of Food.

After the April 1940 convention of the SWP, when Shachtman and his supporters on the new Political Committee refused to a vote on a motion pledging each member to abide by the convention decisions, they were expelled from the party.

In 1940, he won his first professional publication, in the Astrophysical Journal, but Reber refused a research appointment from Yerkes.

However, Selznick was aware that Leigh and Laurence Olivier lived together as their respective spouses had refused to divorce them, and in addition to offering Leigh a contract, he engaged Olivier as the leading man in his next production Rebecca ( 1940 ).

When the Germans invaded Holland and Belgium in 1940, Alexeieff expected to have German film producers come and ask him make propaganda films which he would have refused to do.

In response, on July 22, the United States Congress unanimously passed a resolution that Russia should " issue a clear and unambiguous statement of admission and condemnation of the illegal occupation and annexation by the Soviet Union from 1940 to 1991 of the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania ", but Russia refused.

Jacob served as the Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet for the duration of the Second World War ( he actually asked to be returned to his regiment in 1940, but was refused ).

In 1940 Jacques Goddet succeeded Desgrange as editor and nominal organiser of the Tour de France ( although he refused German requests to run it during the war, see Tour de France during the Second World War ).

In February 1940 Szilard asked him to fund the acquisition of some radium, but Strauss refused, having already spent a large sum.

On many occasions, General Charles de Gaulle expressed his sympathy for Oubangui-Chari, which had supported de Gaulle's Free French Forces as early as August 1940, and refused to support the violent intrigues of the RPF against Boganda and his men.

His efforts have been called " a pioneering but frustrating struggle to get psychological evidence and applied psychology accepted " He was so upset by the rejection of his ideas by the military authorities that he refused to give evidence to the Southborough Committee on shell-shock because, as he wrote in 1940, " the recall of my past five years ' work proved too painful for me.

Over a seven-year span ( 1936 – 1942 ), he was nominated five times for the " Best Cinematography " Oscar, including a win in 1940 for his work on Wuthering Heights.

* ( 1940 ) in The Don Flows Home to the Sea by Mikhail Sholokhov, numerous characters contract typhus during the Russian Civil War.

Iwerks then did contract work for Screen Gems ( then Columbia Pictures ' cartoon division ) before returning to work for Disney in 1940.

Hitchcock's contract with Selznick began in March 1939, but only resulted in three films-Rebecca ( 1940 ) and The Paradine Case ( 1947 ) being the other two ( Notorious was sold to RKO in mid-production ).

Andrews signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn and nine years after arriving in Los Angeles was offered his first movie role in William Wyler's The Westerner ( 1940 ), starring Gary Cooper.

Bobbe Dean briefly played the character in 1934 – 35 during a contract dispute between the studio and Bell, and Janice Gilbert portrayed Annie from 1940 to 1942.

In 1938, Knopf signed a contract to publish the book, but when Rand was only a quarter done with manuscript by October 1940, Knopf canceled her contract.

With money from not only Rogers ' films but his own public appearances going to Republic Pictures, Rogers brought a clause into a 1940 contract with the studio where he would have the right to his likeness, voice and name for merchandising.

A new contract effective February 1, 1940, provides for contributing membership by all the above group plus station CKLW in Detroit-Windsor.

When Skelton renegotiated his 1940 long-term contract with MGM, he wanted a clause that permitted him to remain working in radio and to be able to work on television ( which was in its infancy ).

After he played in the College All-Star game in August 1940, George Halas asked him not to return to Los Angeles immediately because Halas wanted to sign him to a contract with the Chicago Bears.

In 1940 Schwarzkopf was awarded a full contract with the Deutsches Opernhaus, a condition of which was that she had to join the Nazi party.

The contract with Montgomery Ward ran until 1940 ; an estimated 900 instruments with the 1270 designation were made.

This led Miller to be given a contract with RKO in 1936 at the age of 13 ( she had also told them she was 18 ) and she remained there until 1940.

Mark Hellinger, associate producer at Warner Bros. was particularly impressed by this performance, and hired her for her next role in They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), a film that earned her a Warner ’ s Bros. contract, which she negotiated to include some free-lance rights.

Main was signed to a MGM contract in 1940, and stayed with the studio until the mid-1950s.

ICI received a formal contract later in 1940 to make 3 kg of this vital material for the future work.

ICI received a formal contract later in 1940 to make 3 kg of this vital material.

After graduating from high school in 1940, Burtschy signed a minor league contract, but he joined the Navy in September 1940 and served aboard the USS Ticonderoga.

In 1940, Temple starred in two consecutive flops at Twentieth Century-Fox, The Blue Bird and Young People Temple's parents bought up the remainder of her contract and sent her at the age of 12 to Westlake School for Girls, an exclusive country day school in Los Angeles.

Grey returned to films in the 1930s with bit parts and extra work, but she eventually signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and appeared in several films, including The Hardys Ride High ( 1939 ), Another Thin Man ( 1939 ), Hullabaloo ( 1940 ), and The Big Store ( 1941 ).

Smythies father took up a contract post of Forest Advisor to the Maharaja of Nepal and moved to Kathmandu after 1940 and stayed on till 1947.