When the Germans threatened to overrun Paris in 1940, where she was then living, he arranged her escape to England.

In her native Greece, she formed the Royal Theatre of Athens with Alexis Minotis, her principal director and her husband since 1940.

From September 23 until November 13, 1940 she filmed in Krün near Mittenwald.

This led to a visiting professorship in 1935, when she became the first female engineering professor at Purdue ; she was granted full professorship in 1940, dividing her time between the departments of industrial engineering, industrial psychology, home economics, and the dean's office where she consulted on careers for women.

With him she had one son, Robin Gaynor Adrian, born 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.

In 1940, Colbert refused a seven-year contract that would have paid her $ 200, 000 a year, as she had found that she could command a fee of $ 150, 000 per film as a freelance artist.

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 1940, she bought her first home in New Mexico.

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 1940, because she had expressed strong anti-Nazi sentiments since the early 1930s, she fled Lillehammer before the invading German army reached the town.

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.

Just prior to the invasion, Koen had become engaged, and on 29 August 1940, she married Jan Blankers, thereby changing her name to Blankers-Koen.

Following her parole in 1940, she moved to Parsonsburg, Maryland, where she resided until her death in 1944.

* German submarine U-123 ( 1940 ), a Type IXB submarine that served in the Second World War until she was taken out of service on 17 June 1944 ; scuttled on 19 August 1944 ; raised and became the French submarine Blaison ( Q165 ); stricken on 18 August 1959

Following the end of her marriage to the British actor Jack Hawkins, she moved to New York in 1940, where she met Canadian actor Hume Cronyn.

This stamp features a 1941 photograph of McDaniel in the dress she wore when she accepted her Academy Award in 1940.

In 1940, she married the German poet and Marxist philosopher Heinrich Blücher, by then a former member of the Communist Party.

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?

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 ).

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 ).

In 1940, an RKO movie adaptation starred Granville Owen ( later known as Jeff York ) as Li ' l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat, and featuring a title song with lyrics by Milton Berle.

* 1940 – For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.

In 1940, he was given the leading role in Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey, again choreographed by Robert Alton, and this role propelled him to stardom.

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.

They saw action in their proper role during 1940 – 1941, most notably in the capture of the Belgian army fortress at the Battle of Fort Eben-Emael and the Battle for The Hague in May 1940, and during the Battle of Crete in May 1941.

Even after June 1940, official connections between Opel and America were not broken and monetary gain continued throughout the war which was controlled by the J. P Morgan firm, the Rüsselsheim plant was never given a major role in Germany's war preparations.

Willkie asked Martin to take on the task of Republican National Committee chairman, a post that Martin held simultaneously with his House leadership role from 1940 – 1942.

She broke from formula by taking the unglamorous role of Julie in Strange Cargo ( 1940 ), her eighth and final film with Gable.

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.

While out of jail in 1940, he met Elena Petrescu, whom he married in 1946 and who would play an increasing role in his political life over the years.

All This and Heaven Too ( 1940 ) was the most financially successful film of Davis's career to that point, while The Letter ( 1940 ) was considered " one of the best pictures of the year " by The Hollywood Reporter, and Davis won admiration for her portrayal of an adulterous killer, a role originated by famed actress Katharine Cornell.

She received critical acclaim the next year for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1940 film, Pride and Prejudice.

British propaganda later exploited the successful evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, and particularly the role of the " Dunkirk little ships ", very effectively.

The film, which was Ronald Reagan's most notable role during his early acting career at Warner Brothers, was adapted by Casey Robinson from a best-selling 1940 novel of the same name by Henry Bellamann.

Although there was a great outcry when a Canadian was cast as an American president, he scored a great triumph on Broadway in Robert E. Sherwood's play Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and repeated his role in the 1940 film version ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor ).

Bracken performed in vaudeville at the age of nine and gained fame with the Broadway musical Too Many Girls in a role he reprised for the 1940 film adaptation.

He reprised this role in the 1940 film of the same name and after the war appeared in the TV version, Living It Up.