* 1940 – Peter Fonda, American actor

The Grapes of Wrath is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes due to its historical context and enduring legacy .< ref > A celebrated Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was made in 1940.

Fonda agreed, and was ultimately nominated for an Academy Award for his work in the 1940 film, which many consider to be his finest role.

Fonda starred in The Return of Frank James ( 1940 ) with Gene Tierney.

Her brother, Peter Fonda ( born 1940 ), and his daughter Bridget Fonda, also are actors.

Peter Henry Fonda ( born February 23, 1940 ) is an American actor.

Some of Lamour's other notable films include John Ford's The Hurricane ( 1937 ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with George Raft, Henry Fonda, and John Barrymore ), Disputed Passage ( 1939 ), Johnny Apollo ( 1940 ; with Tyrone Power ), Aloma of the South Seas ( 1941 ), Beyond the Blue Horizon ( 1942 ), Dixie ( 1943 ; with Bing Crosby ),

* Peter Fonda ( 1940 –), an American actor and son of Henry Fonda

In total, he made 11 pictures with Ford, including his first important role, as Preacher Casy in The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ), which starred Henry Fonda.

Afterwards, she was paired with Henry Fonda for the first time in the western Chad Hanna ( 1940 ), her first Technicolor film.

Though he was hardly ever cast as the villain, notable exceptions were his roles as ' Old Man Clanton ' in the 1946 film My Darling Clementine opposite Henry Fonda, the 1962 Cinerama production How the West Was Won as the murderous Colonel Jeb Hawkins, and as Judge Roy Bean in The Westerner, for which he won his third best supporting actor Academy Award, in 1940.

Other memorable roles included Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith in the Preston Sturges film The Lady Eve ( 1941 ) with Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, a small part as Charles Kimble in the second of the seven Bing Crosby-Bob Hope " Road " films, Road to Zanzibar ( 1941 ), and from 1940 to 1947 in eleven Lone Wolf films as Jamison the butler.

Some of his other movies include If I Had A Million ( 1932 ; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check ), Bolero ( 1934 ; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster ), Limehouse Blues ( 1934 ; with Anna May Wong ), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key ( 1935 ; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ), Souls at Sea ( 1937 ; with Gary Cooper ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ), two with Humphrey Bogart: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 ) and They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), with Bogart in supporting roles, Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison ), and Manpower ( 1941 ; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ).

She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as " Ma Joad " in The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ), a role she was given at the insistence of the film's star, Henry Fonda.

At the age of 15 he makes an appearance and is credited as " Mose " the bellboy in the 1940 Fritz Lang directed The Return of Frank James with Henry Fonda and fellow child star ( and Our Gang alumnus ) Jackie Cooper ( see IMDB " full cast and crew ").

A sequel, The Return of Frank James, directed by Fritz Lang and with Henry Fonda reprising his role as Frank James, was released in 1940.

* The Return of Frank James ( 1940 ), sequel starring Henry Fonda.

The Return of Frank James is a 1940 western film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney.

It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.

* In 1940, actor Pat O ' Brien portrayed Rockne in the Warner Brothers film Knute Rockne, All American in which Rockne used the phrase " win one for the Gipper " in reference to the death bed request of George Gipp, played by Ronald Reagan.

Charlie Chaplin once again joined the U. S. war effort, creating The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), in which he played the Hitler-like character of ' Adenoid Hynkel.

Troubled by Britain's failure to increase defences at Singapore, Menzies was cautious in committing troops to Europe, nevertheless in 1940 – 41, Australian forces played prominent roles in the fighting in the Mediterranean theatre.

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

They also played in, and lost, the 1936, 1940, 1943, and 1945 Championship games, as well as Super Bowls VII and XVIII.

On 5 January 1990, addressing Conservatives in Liverpool, Powell claimed that if the Conservatives played the " British card " at the next general election, they could win ; the new mood in Britain for " self-determination " had given the newly independent nations of Eastern Europe a " beacon ", adding that Britain should stand alone, if necessary, for European freedom, adding: " We are taunted –- by the French, by the Italians, by the Spaniards -– for refusing to worship at the shrine of a common government superimposed upon them all ... where were the European unity merchants in 1940?

Totally against type, she played the sinister housekeeper Mrs Danvers in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca at the Queen's Theatre in 1940.

Critics praised the suspenseful atmosphere in her next film, Escape ( 1940 ), where she played the lover of a Nazi general who helps an American free his mother from a concentration camp.

He largely moved away from historical parts when he played an Italian vineyard owner in California in They Knew What They Wanted ( 1940 ); a South Seas patriarch in The Tuttles of Tahiti ( 1942 ); and an American admiral during World War II in Stand by for Action ( 1942 ).

In the neo-realist Primrose Path ( 1940 ), directed by Gregory La Cava, she played a prostitute's daughter trying to avoid the fate of her mother.

The Greys played in Zanesville, Ohio, at Gant Municipal Stadium, a historic 4, 000-seat multipurpose stadium built in 1940.

Another legendary Richard was Maurice Evans, who first played the role at the Old Vic in 1934 and then created a sensation in his 1937 Broadway performance, revived it in New York in 1940 and then immortalised it on television for the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1954.

The 1940 film of the same name made the title character, played by Sabu, a sidekick for the handsome prince rather than the leading man.

Gento has two younger brothers called Julio ( born in 1939 ) and Antonio ( born in 1940 ) that also are former footballers and both played for Real Madrid but they were not as successful as their older brother Francisco.

The first film was called Comin ' Round the Mountain ( 1940 ) and featured the McGees ' neighbors The Old-Timer ( played by Bill Thompson ) and Gildersleeve, as the mayor of the town.

Boyer played in three classic films of love story: All This, and Heaven Too ( 1940 ), with Bette Davis ; Back Street ( 1941 ), with Margaret Sullavan ; and Hold Back the Dawn ( 1941 ), with Olivia de Havilland and Paulette Goddard.

In 1940, he played his first starring role on Broadway, the title role in Charley's Aunt, partly in drag.

They played in several leagues over the years including the Tar Heel League ( 1939 – 1940 ), North Carolina State League ( 1942, 1947 – 1952 ), Western Carolina League ( 1960 – 1962 ), and Western Carolinas League ( 1963 ).

She played similar types in Seven Sinners ( 1940 ) and The Spoilers ( 1942 ), both opposite John Wayne.

The desire to regain prestige after their defeat by the Royal Air Force over Britain in 1940 may have played a role in their thinking, especially before the advent of the much more important ( and army-controlled ) invasion of Russia.

The Masters is the first acknowledged major golf championship of the year and since 1940 has been played so that the final round is always played on the second Sunday of April with the exception of 1979 when Fuzzy Zoeller won on the third Sunday in April.

Scott followed this by co-starring with Errol Flynn in Virginia City ( 1940 ) and played the " other man " role in the Irene Dunne – Cary Grant romantic comedy My Favorite Wife ( 1940 ).