* to Athole Shearer ( 1928 – 1940 ), sister of movie actress Norma Shearer, mother of his daughter Barbara Hawks and son David Hawks ;

Perec's father, who enlisted in the French Army during World War II, died in 1940 from unattended gunfire or shrapnel wounds, and Perec's mother perished in the Nazi Holocaust, probably in Auschwitz after 1943.

Her father died of cancer in 1940, causing her mother to take in a boarder, Renate Riemeck, to make money.

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.

In 1942, she began appearing in bit parts and was able to earn enough money to support her mother and two brothers as her father, who was a French patriot, had fled the country in 1940 to join General De Gaulle in England.

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.

In 1940, he had married Whitman's mother Margaret, who was then 17 years old.

Stating she could remember nothing of the incident, Mitford returned to England with her mother and sister in January 1940 amid a flurry of press interest and her comment, " I'm glad to be in England, even if I'm not on your side ", led to public calls for her internment as a traitor.

He married Denmark-born Anna Andersen, and was his father's literary executor after his mother died in 1940.

Harlow ’ s mother was buried there in 1958, but Powell remarried in 1940 and after his death in 1984, he was cremated and his ashes were scattered over the Palm Springs Desert area.

In 1940 his mother met and married Richard Halliday and gave birth to a daughter, Heller, the following year.

In 1940 Thyssen took refuge and moved to France, intending to emigrate to Argentina, but was caught by the German occupation of France while he was visiting his ill mother in Belgium.

It was published in 1940, early in World War II, when it was first performed in the London review New Faces by Judy Campbell ( later the mother of Jane Birkin ).

Her father, Adolfo Lutz ( 1855 – 1940 ), was a famous physician and epidemiologist of Swiss origin, and her mother, Amy Fowler, was a British nurse.

His mother was an Australian citizen and his father had lived in Australia since 1940 when he arrived as a 16 year old to get away from the dangers of wartime Britain.

Young Andrzej, together with mother Zofia ( née Zamojska ) and grandmother, was in 1940 deported by the Soviets ( see Soviet invasion of Poland, Soviet repressions of Polish citizens ( 1939 – 1946 )) to Kazakhstan, where they stayed until 1946.

His mother died in 1940 and Michael was alone in the world slowly falling into a deeply depressive state.

Maria Jeanette Tecson, Zoilo Velez ( promoted to Court of Appeals Justice ) and Victorino Fornier filed the disqualification case against Fernando Poe, Jr. She claimed Poe was born out of wedlock and that while Poe's birth certificate was dated 1939, his parents Allan Poe and American mother Bessie Kelly did not marry until 1940.

During World War II, the Princess fled the German invasion of Norway with her family in 1940, spending the wartime years in exile with her mother and siblings in Washington, D. C ..

Eleanor Lynn Helprin, Helprin ’ s mother, was a successful actress, starring in several Broadway productions in the 1930 ’ s and 1940 ’ s.

In 1940, Louis-Dreyfus moved to the United States with his mother after her divorce from Pierre.

In 1940, at age 17, he was living in Milwaukee with his father, his stepmother Dora, two half-brothers, and his father ’ s stepfather and mother.

Humbert Wolfe CB CBE ( 5 January 1885, Milan, Italy – 5 January 1940 ), was an Italian-born British poet, man of letters and civil servant, from a Jewish family background, his father, Martin Wolff of German descent and his mother, Consuela, née Terraccini, Italian.

When France was occupied by Germany, Schell and his mother returned to America, where Schell took on the running of two Delahayes at the 1940 Indianapolis 500.

It took a Federal court ruling in 1940 to establish that a recording artist had no legal right to control the use of a record after it was sold.

In 1940, the Germans invaded Norway and the Nazi party took over the government.

According to his own account, it took place in 1940 in a part of the New Forest and was designed to ward off the Nazis from invading Britain by magical means.

After the armistice of 1940, the family of Simone and Jacques-Yves Cousteau took refuge in Megève, where he became a friend of the Ichac family who also lived there.

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

The Intelligenzaktion, a plan to eliminate the Polish intelligentsia, Poland's ' leadership class ', took place soon after the German invasion of Poland, lasting from fall of 1939 till spring of 1940.

Because of the plant's deep secrecy and the difficult nature of the production process, it took from January 1940 until June 1942 for the plant to become fully operational.

In three days troops loyal to De Gaulle took control of Chad ( 26 August 1940 ), Cameroon ( 27 August ) and of Middle Congo ( the 28th of August ).

In 1940, celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of his most popular opera, Cavalleria rusticana, took place all over Italy, often with Mascagni conducting.

The premiere of the Shostakovich orchestration of 1940 of Pavel Lamm's vocal score took place on 4 November 1959 at the Kirov Theatre.

The " Axis powers " formally took the name after the Tripartite Pact was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan on 27 September 1940, in Berlin.

During the Battle of Dakar, which took place off the coast of Dakar on September 23 – 25, 1940, the British navy attempted to rally the colonial administration in Dakar to the Allied cause and detach it from Vichy.

During World War II, Thailand took the opportunity of French weaknesses to reclaim previously lost territories, resulting in the French-Thai War between October 1940 and 9 May 1941.

Thailand took this opportunity of weakness to reclaim previously lost territories, resulting in the French-Thai War between October 1940 and 9 May 1941.

Asimov attributes the Three Laws to John W. Campbell from a conversation that took place on 23 December 1940.

Abbott's nephew, John H. Sengstacke, took over the Defender in 1940.

After the outbreak of the 2nd World War the War Department took over the Stadium in 1940, where for a while POWs ( Prisoners of War ) were housed in huts placed on the pitch, for this the club received compensation of £ 4, 570 in 1945.

The town was virtually razed to the ground during World War II, when in May 1940, it was a strategic bombing target of the invading German forces who took the town during the Siege of Calais.

She took her own life in 1940.

Apart from the extension of the sidings south of Elephant & Castle no work on the extension took place before the Second World War, but the powers were renewed by the government in 1947 under the Special Enactments ( Extension of Time ) Act, 1940.

Blois was occupied during World War II by the German army, which took the city on 18 June 1940.

On 14 October 1940 Balham tube station was involved in bombing raids which took place in London during World War II.