Hawks, William Faulkner and Jules Furthman collaborated on the script about a French fishing boat captain and various situations of espionage during the Fall of France in 1940.

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

* His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), d. Howard Hawks

", The Big Sleep directed by Howard Hawks ( 1946 ), The Lady Eve directed by Preston Sturges ( 1941 ), The Shop Around the Corner directed by Ernst Lubitsch ( 1940 ), White Heat directed by Raoul Walsh ( 1949 ), Yankee Doodle Dandy directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), and Notorious directed by Alfred Hitchcock, ( 1946 ).

* His Girl Friday ( 1940 ) directed by Howard Hawks considered the best of the adaptations, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.

His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, an adaptation by Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of the play The Front Page by Hecht and MacArthur.

Eric Hilliard Nelson ( May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985 ), better known as Ricky Nelson or Rick Nelson, was an American singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and actor, starring alongside his family in the long-running television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ( 1952-1966 ), as well as co-starring alongside John Wayne and Dean Martin in Howard Hawks ' Western feature film Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

The dialogue is a homage to Howard Hawks ' His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), while Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance as fast-talking reporter Amy Archer is reminiscent of Rosalind Russell and Katharine Hepburn, in both the physical and vocal mannerisms.

Russell continued to display her talent for comedy in the classic screwball comedy His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), directed by Howard Hawks.

They divorced twelve years later in 1940 at a turbulent time for Hawks who had been fired by studio owner Howard Hughes as the director of the film The Outlaw.

Weil returned to France via Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was detained at Le Havre in January 1940.

Arnaz and Ball's marriage ( 1940 ) was turbulent, and convinced that Arnaz was being unfaithful to her, and also because Desi came home drunk several times, Ball filed for divorce in September 1944, but returned to him before the interlocutory decree became final.

In August 1940, Ribbentrop oversaw the Second Vienna Award, which saw about 40 % of Transylvania region of Romania returned to Hungary.

The result was the constitution of 1940, which returned to the executive the power that the Liberals had stripped away.

In February 1940, during the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union, Nurmi returned to the United States with his protégé Taisto Mäki, who had become the first man to run the 10, 000 m under 30 minutes, to raise funds and rally support to the Finnish cause.

In 1940, they returned to Chongqing and established the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, which opened job opportunities for people through weaving, sewing and other crafts.

Watson soon began second-guessing himself for accepting the medal, and eventually returned the medal to the German government in June 1940.

Funk returned to the USA In 1940 he became the president of the Funk Foundation for Medical Research and ended his career in pursuit of orally active spleenic extracts.

From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island Immigration Station on what is now Angel Island State Park in San Francisco Bay served as the processing center for most of the 56, 113 Chinese immigrants who are recorded as immigrating or returning from China ; upwards of 30 % more who showed up were returned to China.

In 1940, Miller returned to the United States, settling at Anderson Canyon in Big Sur, California.

In August 1940 he returned to Harvard to teach accounting in the business school and became the highest paid and youngest assistant professor at that time.

Known mainly by the pseudonym, Colonel Rémy, he returned to France in August 1940, not long after the surrender of France.

In 1940 he returned East to marry Dorothy, taking her back to California.

Lenoir Dining Hall was completed in 1939 and opened for service to students when they returned from Christmas holidays in January 1940.

As war approached, however, he returned to France and then, after Germany invaded France in May 1940, he fled to the United States with Dido.

The School was, on Government's advice, evacuated to Cambridge and returned to London to resume work in July 1940.

When it became apparent that a return to London was possible, the School returned to the city and was temporarily housed for some months in 1940 – 41 in eleven rooms at Broadway Court, 8 Broadway, London SW1.

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.

Iwerks returned to Disney in 1940, where he worked as the head of the " special effects development " division until his retirement in the late 1960s.

Touvier returned in 1940 to Chambéry, which was then occupied by the Kingdom of Italy.

He returned to active duty July 1, 1940, as a major and assistant district supervisor of the Central Air Corps Procurement District at Indianapolis, Indiana, and Detroit, Michigan, where he worked with large auto manufacturers on the conversion of their plants for production of planes.

In 1940, he was expelled from his position at Lafayette and he returned to Michigan.

In September 1940, Wainwright was promoted to Major General ( temporary ) and returned to the Philippines, in December, as commander of the Philippine Department.

Casey returned to Washington, D. C. in October 1940 to become chief of the Design and Engineering Section in the Construction Division of the Office of the Quartermaster General, under Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell.

Some examples of the screwball comedy are: It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), and more recently What's Up, Doc?

His most notable project during this period was the ill-fated Something's Got to Give, an updated remake of the 1940 screwball comedy My Favorite Wife.

( 1972 ), starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O ' Neal, a screwball comedy indebted to Hawks's Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) and His Girl Friday ( 1940 ).

Bringing Up Baby was the second of four films starring Grant and Hepburn, the others being Sylvia Scarlett ( 1935 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), and The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), the last three of which belong to a sub-genre of screwball comedy called the comedy of remarriage described by the philosopher Stanley Cavell as Hollywood's crowning achievement.

Woody was created in 1940 by Lantz and storyboard artist Ben " Bugs " Hardaway, who had previously laid the groundwork for two other screwball characters, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio in the late 1930s.

* In the 1940 screwball comedy film My Favorite Wife, the character Ellen Wagstaff Arden ( Irene Dunne ) is a comic inversion of Enoch Arden.

A remake of My Favorite Wife ( 1940 ), a screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, it was Monroe's last work ; from the beginning its production was disrupted by her personal troubles, and after her death on August 5, 1962 the film was abandoned.

This is essentially identical to the corresponding scene in the 1940 screwball comedy My Favorite Wife, starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, and its 1963 remake Move Over, Darling, starring Doris Day and James Garner.