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.

Christie wrote a concluding novel to her Marple series, Sleeping Murder, in 1940.

The Scottish poet William Soutar also wrote over one hundred American Cinquains ( he labelled them Epigrams ) between 1933 and 1940.

From 1935 to 1940 he lectured at the University of Rochester and wrote The Clinical Treatment of the Problem Child ( 1939 ), based on his experience in working with troubled children.

In 1940 Rogers became professor of clinical psychology at Ohio State University, where he wrote his second book, Counseling and Psychotherapy ( 1942 ).

Moore met Henry Kuttner, also a science fiction writer, in 1936 when he wrote her a fan letter ( mistakenly thinking that " C. L. Moore " was a man ), and they married in 1940.

Ernest Lawrence Thayer ( August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940 ) was an American writer and poet who wrote " Casey at the Bat ".

In an autobiographical piece that Orwell sent to the editors of Twentieth Century Authors in 1940, he wrote: " The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence.

He wrote in the conclusion to his 1940 essay on Charles Dickens,

In December 1940 he wrote in Tribune ( the Labour left's weekly ): " We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

In 1940, he wrote the book, Complete Guide to Soilless Gardening.

His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also responsible for other well-known comic book series such as Quick & Flupke ( 1930 – 1940 ) and Jo, Zette and Jocko ( 1936 – 1957 ).

He was captured by German troops in 1940 in Padoux, and he spent nine months as a prisoner of war — in Nancy and finally in Stalag 12D, Trier, where he wrote his first theatrical piece, Barionà, fils du tonnerre, a drama concerning Christmas.

After the Italo-German summit at the Brenner Pass on 18 March 1940, which was attended by Hitler and Mussolini, Count Ciano wrote in his diary: " Everyone in Rome dislikes Ribbentrop ".

On June 14, 1940, the day Paris was declared an open city by the French and occupied by German troops, Riefenstahl wrote to Hitler in a telegram, “ With indescribable joy, deeply moved and filled with burning gratitude, we share with you, my Führer, your and Germany's greatest victory, the entry of German troops into Paris.

In a letter to his friend Peter Baynes, dated 12 August 1940, Jung wrote a passage: "...

In 1940, the year after selling ' Life-Line ' to Campbell, he wrote three short novels, four novelettes, and seven short stories.

Eleanor Roosevelt's biographer and very close personal friend Joseph Lash wrote " The anti-Roosevelt underground campaign in 1940 was venomous, and ( Democratic National Chairman ) Flynn accused the Republicans of conducting the ' most vicious, most shameful campaign since the time of Lincoln.

Williams wrote his diaries from the age of 14 in 1940 until his death 48 years later, although the earliest to survive to publication was for 1942 when he reached 16.

The New Republic critic Otis Ferguson wrote two short articles for the magazine, " Young Man with a Horn " ( July 29, 1936 ) and " Young Man with a Horn Again " ( November 18, 1940 ), that worked to revive interest not only in Beiderbecke's music but also in his biography.

With Ben Oakland and Milton Drake, Berle wrote the title song for the RKO Radio Pictures release Li ' l Abner ( 1940 ), an adaptation of Al Capp's comic strip, featuring Buster Keaton as Lonesome Polecat.

He wrote to the Duke of Bedford in September 1940 advocating a negotiated peace with Germany after the Battle of Britain.

* F. Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896 – 1940 ) and his wife Zelda first visited the Riviera in 1924, stopping at Hyères, Cannes and Monte Carlo, eventually staying at St. Raphaël, where he wrote much of The Great Gatsby and began Tender is the Night.

The Greek historian Aristotle Kallis wrote that the best evidence suggests that in late 1940 Hitler was serious about carrying out Raeder's " Mediterranean plan ", but only within certain strict limits and conditions, and that he saw the " Mediterranean plan " as part of the preparations for Barbarossa by defeating Britain first.

In 1940, he joined Will Eisner's studio, where he wrote and drew for the Quality Comics line.

One of the first acknowledgments of Henry Miller as a major modern writer was by George Orwell in his 1940 essay " Inside the Whale ", where he wrote: