* 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.

Edward G. Robinson portrayed Reuter in the Warner Bros. biopic A Dispatch from Reuter's ( 1940 ).

When the Chickamauga Dam was completed on the Tennessee River by the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1940, much of the city was flooded, as portrayed in the 1960 movie Wild River.

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 ).

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.

For example, the remake of a pre-code film dealing with prostitution, Anna Christie was cancelled by MGM in 1940 and 1946 because the character of Anna was not allowed to be portrayed as a prostitute.

He portrayed himself in the Fred Astaire film, Second Chorus ( 1940 ), which featured Shaw and his orchestra playing " Concerto for Clarinet.

* Santa Fe Trail ( 1940 ), portrayed by David Bruce.

He was portrayed in the movie by first-time actor Haing S. Ngor ( 1940 – 1996 ), who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.

Rockwell has also been portrayed on screen by John Carradine in the 1940 film Brigham Young, by James Coburn in the 1995 TV-movie The Avenging Angel, and by Gyll Huff in the 1995 Trent Harris film Plan 10 from Outer Space.

Dr. Haing Somnang Ngor (, March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996 ) was a Cambodian American physician, actor and author who is best known for winning the 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his debut performance in the movie The Killing Fields, in which he portrayed Cambodian journalist and refugee Dith Pran.

* In the 1940 serial, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, Dale was portrayed by Carol Hughes.

An antisemitic Nazi propaganda film titled Jud Süß was made in 1940 by Veit Harlan in which Süß was portrayed by actor Ferdinand Marian.

His success continued with such films as The Fighting 69th ( 1940 ) in which he portrayed poet-soldier Joyce Kilmer opposite Cagney, It All Came True ( 1940 ), All This and Heaven Too ( 1940 ) and Million Dollar Baby ( 1941 ).

Charley Ellsworth Grapewin ( December 20, 1869 – February 2, 1956 ) was an American vaudeville performer and a stage and film actor, who portrayed Uncle Henry in MGM's The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) and Grandpa Joad in the film The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ).

Charles Alexander and his relationship with Oppenheimer is fictionally portrayed in Veit Harlan's 1940 Nazi propaganda film titled Jud Süß.

Raymond Massey portrayed Lincoln ; he repeated his role in the 1940 film version.

Originally portrayed by white actor Marlin Hurt, Beulah Brown first appeared in 1939 when Hurt introduced and played the character on the Hometown Incorporated radio series and in 1940 on NBC radio's Show Boat series.

Henry Martyn Field was portrayed by actor Jeffrey Lynn in the 1940 film of All This and Heaven Too, based on the novel by Field's collateral descendant Rachel Field.

At the Westminster Theatre in 1940 he portrayed the title character in John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln.

It is interesting to compare the present situation with that portrayed by the 1940 street directory, which lists 21 types of business premises in Meads Street: a baker, three banks, two boot repairers, two builders, two butchers, three garages, two grocers ( one with sub-post office ), a car hire firm, a chemist, a confectioner, two dairies, a fishmonger, a fruiterer, a greengrocer, a hairdresser, an ironmonger, two pubs, a stationer, a tobacconist, a wine merchant and a wool shop.

* He is portrayed in the 1940 movie " Santa Fe Trail " by Henry O ' Neill as a promoter of commerce and development in the American West of his time.

From 1933-1947 Hollywood produced three talking films: Fighting with Kit Carson, a serial ( 1933 ), revised as a single movie: The Return of Kit Carson ( 1947 ); Overland with Kit Carson ( 1939 ); and Kit Carson ( 1940 ), starring Jon Hall in the title role.

The Kit Carson Museum in Las Animas, Colorado, is located in an adobe building that was built in 1940 to hold German prisoners of war captured in North Africa during World War II.

* Kit Carson ( 1940 )

* ( 1940 ) " Blondie Goes Latin ", " Dance, Girl, Dance ", " Kit Carson ", " South of Pago-Pago "

* ( 1940 ) " Blondie Goes Latin ", " Dance, Girl, Dance ", " Kit Carson ", " South of Pago-Pago "

* Kit Carson ( 1940 )

* Kit Carson ( 1940 )

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.

Carson and Reeves McCullers separated in 1940 and divorced in 1941.

North American beaver ( Castor canadensis ) were re-introduced to the Carson River watershed around 1940 and populations have thrived since.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.

He starred opposite Jessica Tandy in the 1940 Broadway production of Jupiter Laughs and in 1944, he was chosen by Darryl F. Zanuck to star in Wilson, the biographical film about US President Woodrow Wilson, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

* Swanee River ( 1940 ), another fictionalized biographical film on Stephen Foster.

When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??

Brian Russell De Palma ( born September 11, 1940 ) is an American film director and writer.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

Examples of this style of film include It's a Wonderful World ( 1939 ), The Shop Around the Corner ( 1940 ), Sabrina ( 1954 ), Annie Hall ( 1977 ), When Harry Met Sally ... ( 1989 ), Pretty Woman ( 1990 ), and Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ).

These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).

Movies of his such as 20, 000 Years in Sing Sing ( 1932 ) and Private Detective 62 ( 1933 ) are among the early Hollywood sound films arguably classifiable as noir — scholar Marc Vernet offers the latter as evidence that dating the initiation of film noir to 1940 or any other year is " arbitrary ".

The film now most commonly cited as the first " true " film noir is Stranger on the Third Floor ( 1940 ), directed by Latvian-born, Soviet-trained Boris Ingster.

* 1940 – The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.

In 1940, his high speed stroboscopic short film, Quicker ' n a Wink won an Oscar.

* 1940 – Walter Hill, American film director

For Pare Lorentz's U. S. Film Service, in the year 1940, he made a poetic documentary film on rural electrification called Power and the Land.

John Fink ( born February 11, 1940 ) is an American film and television actor.

A 1940 film of Busman's Honeymoon or The Haunted Honeymoon ( US title ), starring Robert Montgomery and Constance Cummings as Lord and Lady Peter was released but the characters and events bore little resemblance to Sayers ' writing.

Steiner received his next Oscar nomination for the 1940 film The Letter, his first of several collaborations with legendary director William Wyler.

* 1940 – Martin Campbell, New Zealand film director

* 1940 – Baby Jane Holzer, American art collector, film producer and Andy Warhol " superstar "

Between 1940 and 1947, he was a contributor to Rob Wagner's film magazine, Script.

The 1940 animated film Fantasia, which is eight different animation sequences set to music, can be considered a silent film, with only one short scene involving dialogue.

In a 1940 promotional film, Autolite, an automotive parts supplier, featured stop motion animation of its products marching past Autolite factories to the tune of Franz Schubert's Military March.

The play is similar to the film The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), which also featured an absurd parody of Hitler by Charlie Chaplin.

Terrence Vance " Terry " Gilliam (; born 22 November 1940 ) is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.