Some multi-track recordings were made on optical sound film, which led to new advances used primarily by MGM ( as early as 1937 ) and Twentieth Century Fox ( as early as 1941 ).

Gordon was signed to an MGM film contract for a brief period in the early 1930s but did not make a movie for the company until she acted opposite Greta Garbo in Two-Faced Woman in 1941.

She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers ( 1946 ).

" She was offered a standard contract by MGM, and left school for Hollywood in 1941 with her sister Bappie accompanying her.

Tracy signed a new contract with MGM in April 1941, which paid $ 5, 000 a week and limited him to three pictures a year ( Tracy had previously expressed a need to reduce his workload ).

The popular story was first filmed in 1922 by First National Pictures, and was later remade twice by MGM, in 1932 and 1941.

With George Cukor's Two-Faced Woman ( 1941 ), MGM attempted to capitalize on Garbo's success as a comedienne by casting her in a romantic comedy which sought to portray her as an ordinary girl.

Hanna and Barbera also produced / directed for MGM cartoon studio half a dozen one-shot theatrical shorts besides Tom and Jerry series, including Gallopin ' Gals ( 1940 ), Officer Pooch ( 1941 ), War Dogs ( 1943 ) and Good Will to Men ( 1955 ).

Unlike the case of Gone with the Wind, which Selznick sold to MGM in 1944, It is assumed that The Prisoner of Zenda was bought by MGM themselves because they planned to produce a would-be 1952 remake of the film and wished to better the original film ( a similar situation occurred when MGM filmed a version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1941, having also bought the 1931 version from Paramount ).

In 1941, Harman left MGM and started a new studio with Disney veteran Mel Shaw.

Over the next two decades, he worked as a character actor for MGM, Columbia, and 20th Century Fox, in such films as Lady Be Good ( 1941 ), Coney Island ( 1943 ), Cover Girl ( 1944 ), and Summer Stock ( 1950 ).

* Most of the major pre-1948 Warner Bros ./ pre-1986 MGM / RKO Radio Pictures library, including: Gone with the Wind & The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ), and Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), among others

* Most of the major pre-1948 Warner Bros ./ pre-1986 MGM / RKO Radio Pictures library, including: Gone with the Wind & The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ), and Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), among others

She also appeared as a debutante in the MGM musical Lady Be Good ( 1941 ) starring Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young and Lionel Barrymore.

Rutherford also played Carol Lambert, comedian Red Skelton's screen girlfriend, for MGM in a series of mystery / comedies ; Whistling in the Dark ( 1941 ), Whistling in Dixie ( 1942 ), and Whistling in Brooklyn ( 1943 ).

The Tom and Jerry series went into production with The Midnight Snack in 1941, and Hanna and Barbera rarely directed anything but the cat-and-mouse cartoons for the rest of their tenure at MGM.

Williams signed her contract with MGM in 1941.

After Tourneur was dropped by MGM in 1941, he was picked up by Lewton to film several acclaimed low-budget horror films for RKO Studios including Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie.

Selena Royle, MGM stock player, had a durable film career starting 1941 until 1951 when she was branded a Communist sympathizer.

* Fascinating Rhythm-Eleanor Powell / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from ( Lady be Good ) 1941

* You Stepped Out with the Dream-Tony Martin / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from ( Ziegfeld Girl ) 1941

* Minnie from Trinidad-Judy Garland / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from ( Ziegfeld Girl ) 1941

Reports made on tambalacoque seed germination by Hill ( 1941 ) and King ( 1946 ) found the seeds germinated without abrading.

From July 1, 1941 to June 6, 1969, when the Army stopped publishing awards of the DSM in Department of the Army General Orders, over 2, 800 further awards were made.

In 1941, RKO Pictures released Citizen Kane made by Orson Welles.

" We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941 – 1953 ( A Panorama of American Film Noir ), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject.

With very strong national support, he made war on Japan and Germany after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, calling it a " date which will live in infamy ".

In 1941 Hawks made Sergeant York, starring Gary Cooper as a pacifist farmer who becomes a decorated World War I soldier.

In 1941 Vincent showed every intention of standing for a third term as president, but after almost a decade of disengagement, the United States made it known that it would oppose such an extension.

Falsifiers was published in response to the documents made public in Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which included the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and other secret German-Soviet relations documents.

Whale only made one additional successful feature film, The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1939 ), before retiring from the film industry in 1941.

After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Voroshilov was made commander of the short-lived Northwestern Direction, controlling several fronts.

In 1941 Beria was made a Commissar General of State Security, the highest quasi-military rank within the Soviet police system of that time, effectively comparable to a Marshal of the Soviet Union.

* M4 Vacamatic, a 1941 semi-automatic transmission made by Chrysler

In March 1941, the committee issued a technical standard for black-and-white television that built upon a 1936 recommendation made by the Radio Manufacturers Association ( RMA ).

Studying the events of several American policy " disasters " such as the failure to anticipate the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ( 1941 ) and the Bay of Pigs Invasion fiasco ( 1961 ), Irving Janis argued that they were due to the cohesive nature of the committees that made the relevant decisions.

By 1941, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister King made an executive agreement to build the joint hydro and navigation works, but this too failed to receive the assent of Congress.

A further change was made after 8 April 1940 to Reichskommissar für die Saarpfalz ; finally, after 11 March 1941, he was made Reichsstatthalter in der " Westmark " ( the region's new name, meaning " Western March or Border ").

Prokofiev had been considering making an opera out of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace, when news of the German invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941 made the subject seem all the more timely.

Authors connected to Stockholm include the poet and songwriter Carl Michael Bellman ( 1740 – 1795 ), novelist and dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), and novelist Hjalmar Söderberg ( 1869 – 1941 ), all of whom made Stockholm part of their works.

* Universal Pictures made two films titled The Black Cat, one in 1934, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and another in 1941, starring Lugosi and Basil Rathbone.

The first capture of a Naval Enigma machine and associated cipher keys from a U-boat were made on May 9, 1941 by HMS Bulldog of Britain's Royal Navy, commanded by Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell.

It was Etienne's death that made Violette, having already joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1941, decide to offer her services to the British Special Operations Executive ( SOE ).

After that, Harry supervised the production of several more anti-German films, including Confessions of a Nazi Spy ( 1939 ), The Sea Hawk ( 1940 ), which made King Phillip II an equivalent of Hitler, Sergeant York, and You're In The Army Now ( 1941 ).

The Stooge films made between 1935 – 1941 captured the team at the peak, according to film historians Ted Okuda and Edward Watz, authors of The Columbia Comedy Shorts.