His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award – winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 ), the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder ( 1954 ), and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story ( 1970 ).

During the filming of Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 ), Milland's character was to have curly hair.

* 1942: Reap the Wild Wind-Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and William L. Pereira

The 81st Division ( Wild Cat ) was the first unit activated at Camp Rucker on June 15, 1942.

Cecil B. DeMille cast her in three blockbusters: North West Mounted Police ( 1940 ), Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 ) ( where Goddard played a Scarlett O ' Hara-type role ), and Unconquered ( 1947 ).

* Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 )

* Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 )

* Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 )

Wald produced and wrote many films between the 1930s and 1960s including Stars Over Broadway ( 1935 ), The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 ), On Your Toes ( 1939, in collaboration with playwright Lawrence Riley ), They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), Navy Blues ( 1941 ), Across the Pacific ( 1942 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942 ), Destination Tokyo ( 1943 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), Johnny Belinda ( 1948 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), Always Leave Them Laughing ( 1949 ), The Glass Menagerie ( 1950 ), Perfect Strangers ( 1950 ), Two Tickets to Broadway ( 1951 ), The Blue Veil ( 1951 ), Peyton Place ( 1957 ), An Affair to Remember ( 1957 ), In Love and War ( 1958 ), The Sound and the Fury ( 1959 ), Sons and Lovers ( 1960 ), Return to Peyton Place ( 1961 ) and Wild in the Country ( 1961 ).

She signed with Universal Studios in 1942 and acted mostly in B-movies, including Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, Arabian Nights, The Sword of Monte Cristo, and Captive Wild Woman, in which Universal attempted to create a female monster movie franchise with Acquanetta as an ape.

By 1942, Wang was working for the Liberation Daily ( 解放日報 ) where he wrote the essay " Wild Lilies " ( 野百合花 ), criticizing Mao Zedong's taste for beautiful women, as well as what he called the unjustified privileges enjoyed by members of the Communist Party.

His work was also criticised by others, and from April to May 1942 " Wild Lilies " was attacked in the newspapers.

* 野百合花 ( Ye Baihehua ) / ( Wild Lilies ), 1942, People's Liberation Army Daily

* Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 )

Reap the Wild Wind is a serialized story written by Thelma Strabel in 1940 for The Saturday Evening Post, which was the basis for the 1942 film starring Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, and Susan Hayward, and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, his second picture to be filmed in color.

John Wayne as Jack Stuart in Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 )

He shared an Academy Award for Best Special Effects for the action / adventure movie Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 ).

His biggest successes occurred during the 1940s in films such as Cat People ( 1942 ), Hitler's Children ( 1943 ), This Land Is Mine ( 1943 ), Three Russian Girls ( 1943 ), Youth Runs Wild ( 1944 ), The Curse of the Cat People ( 1944 ), The Spiral Staircase ( 1946 ), Nora Prentiss ( 1947 ), Magic Town ( 1947 ), The Fountainhead ( 1949 ), My Foolish Heart ( 1949 ), and The Damned Don't Cry!

* Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 )

* Wild Honey ( 2 September 1942 )

* Wild Bill Hickok Rides ( 1942 )

* Mud on the Stars ( 1942 ; reprinted with new material 1996 )-( 1960 film, Wild River )

* Famous Fantastic Mysteries, September 1942 (" Wild Wullie, the Waster ")

In 1942 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek personally went on tour in Northwestern China in Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, and Qinghai, where he met both Muslim Generals Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang.

Nevertheless, Essendon went on to win the 1942 Premiership with Western Australian Wally Buttsworth in irrepressible form at centre half back.

The money was used in studies which led to the first nuclear reactor — Chicago Pile-1, a massive " atomic pile " of graphite bricks and uranium fuel which went critical on December 2, 1942.

Then, in 1942, Weissmuller went to RKO and starred in six more Tarzan movies with markedly reduced production values.

Buñuel then went back to Hollywood where he worked in the dubbing department of Warner Brothers from 1942 to 1946.

After his education there, Jagan went to the United States to study dentistry, graduating from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1942.

O ' Brien went on to do some special effects work, re-using one of the mattes from Son of Kong, on Orson Welles ' American classic Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and George Pal's Oscar-nominated animated short Tulips Shall Grow ( 1942 ), as well as developing his own project, Gwangi, about cowboys who encounter a prehistoric animal in a " lost " valley, which he failed to sell to the studio.

On October 25, 1942 the first batch of motorcycles went to the front.

Lubitsch went independent to direct That Uncertain Feeling ( 1941, a remake of his 1925 film Kiss Me Again ), and the dark anti-Nazi farce To Be or Not to Be ( 1942 ), which was Jack Benny's only major screen success and Carole Lombard's last picture.

His adjunct, Jean Leguay, committed suicide in 1989 10 years after he was indicted for crimes against humanity for his role in the Vel'd ' Hiv Roundup of July 1942, but before he went to trial.

Irving went on to call the Auschwitz death camp a " tourist attraction " whose origins Irving claimed went back to an " ingenious plan " devised by the British Psychological Warfare Executive in 1942 to spread anti-German propaganda that it was the policy of the German state to be " using ' gas chambers ' to kill millions of Jews and other undesirables ".

James Cameron went on to serve as the Indiana State Director of Civil Liberties from 1942 – 1950 and founded three local chapters of the NAACP.

Chennault retired in 1937, went to work as an aviation trainer and adviser in China, and commanded the " Flying Tigers " during World War II, both the volunteer group and the uniformed units that replaced it in 1942.

Incidental to the story of discovery of the Lady Be Good is the 2012 discovery of a British RAF P40 Kittyhawk that went down in June of 1942.

After returning to Washington and winning re-election in November 1942 Lodge, went to observe allied troops in serving in Egypt and Libya, and in that position was on hand for the British retreat from Tobruk.

The name was changed to " McLaughlin-Buick " when sales went bad, and stayed until 1942, after which the McLaughlin name was dropped, leaving the " Buick " marque still in use today.

Lear went to high school in Hartford, Connecticut and subsequently attended Emerson College in Boston, but dropped out in 1942 to join the United States Army Air Forces.

He went to the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario and played Intercollegiate Football for the Western Ontario Mustangs from 1938 to 1942 including the Intercollegiate championship in 1939.

In 1942, about seven months after the war began ; CBS went on the air with a weekly radio variety show called Stagedoor Canteen.

* August 1942 went to Hollywood with Basie's band to record for the film Reveille with Beverly

Despite an early interest in birds, his father encouraged him to study law, but later went on to earn a doctorate in biology from the University of Debrecen in 1942.

Although he made several contributions in advisory roles during the campaigns in the Western Desert in 1940 and 1941, it was not until May 1942 that he went on active service again.

The 164th Infantry Regiment of the Americal Division went into action on Guadalcanal on 13 October 1942 alongside the 1st Marine Division as the first United States Army unit to conduct an offensive operation against the enemy in either the Pacific or European Theater of Operations.

Mr. Taffae went on to serve in the U. S. Army Air Corps from 1942 – 1945.