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The sound can be heard, for example, when Spike Jones sings " Der Fuehrer's Face " ( from the 1942 Disney animated film of the same name ), repeatedly lambasting Adolf Hitler with: " We'll Heil!
In 1942, Chaplin had a brief affair with Joan Barry, whom he was considering for a starring role in a proposed film.
Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
* Conspiracy ( 2001 film ), a dramatization of the Nazi 1942 Wannsee Conference concerning the " Final Solution "
The famous 1942 film Casablanca underlined the city's colonial status at the time — depicting it as the scene of a power struggle between competing European powers.
( 1942 ), The Way Ahead ( 1944 ) and Noël Coward and David Lean's celebrated naval film In Which We Serve in 1942, which won a special Academy Award.
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 ).
Bogart would star in 36 films between 1934 and 1942 including John Huston's The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), one of the first films now considered a classic film noir.
The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).
During the classic era, his work, either as author or screenwriter, was the basis for seven films now widely regarded as film noirs, including three of the most famous: High Sierra ( 1941 ), This Gun for Hire ( 1942 ), and The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ).
* 1994 – Derek Jarman, British film director ( b. 1942 )
* 1942 – Margarethe von Trotta, German actress and film director
The film was Bogart's last major film playing a gangster ( his final gangster role was in The Big Shot in 1942 ).
* In the 1942 film Casablanca, Captain Renault, a corrupt official played by Claude Rains recites the last two lines of the poem when talking to Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, referring to his power in Casablanca.
Maureen O ' Hara, Irish Actress and famous beauty in the trailer for The Black Swan ( film ) | The Black Swan ( 1942 )
* 1942 – Stewart Raffill, American film director
* 1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
Whale shot the film, called Personnel Placement in the Army, in February 1942.
Nominated for nine Academy Awards in 1942, the film won only for Best Screenplay, for Mankiewicz and Welles.
Martin Charles Scorsese (; born November 17, 1942 ) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian.
* 1942 – Peter Guber, American film producer
University of Cambridge experiments in 2002 and 2003 attempted to use machinima to re-create a scene from the 1942 live-action film Casablanca.

1942 and won
In 1942 Beech won its first Army-Navy ‘ E ’ Award production award and became one of the elite five percent of war contracting firms in the country to win five straight awards for production efficiency, mostly for the production of the Beechcraft 18 which remains in widespread use worldwide.
Prelude to War won the 1942 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
Speer, allied with Fritz Sauckel, the General Plenipotentiary for the Employment of Labour from 1942, generally won these battles.
In February 1942, he won a by-election for Quebec East, Lapointe's old riding.
Steiner composed hundreds of film scores, including The Informer ( 1935 ), Now, Voyager ( 1942 ), and Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), which won him Academy Awards.
In 1942, Steiner won his second Oscar for Now, Voyager, and was also nominated for Casablanca, which remains one of his most famous scores.
* Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ( born 1942 ), German biologist, won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995
* 1942 – World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt.
He won two Academy Awards for his screenplays — one before his imprisonment and blacklisting ( for Woman of the Year in 1942 ), and one after ( for M * A * S * H in 1970 ).
From then on, fame rose quickly for Borge, who won Best New Radio Performer of the Year in 1942.
The Redskins won the 1937 and 1942 Championship games, as well as Super Bowls XVII, XXII, and XXVI.
The third time was during the 1942 NFL Championship Game on December 13, 1942, where the Redskins won their second championship, 14 – 6.
In 1942, Dewey ran for governor again, and won with a large plurality over Democrat John J. Bennett, Jr. Bennett was not endorsed by the American Labor Party, whose candidate drew almost 10 %.
In 1938 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Our Town, and he won the prize again in 1942 for his play The Skin of Our Teeth.
* The Skin of Our Teeth ( 1942 ) — won the Pulitzer Prize
However, the FCC won on appeal, and on January 8, 1942 NBC decided to separate its Red and Blue networks with the intention of divesting itself of the latter. Swift, Thomas P. " Red and Blue Networks of NBC To Be Split ; WJZ May Be Sold ," The New York Times, Friday, January 9, 1942.
Notable works included Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), and Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, as well as Best Picture in their respective years.

1942 and Oscar
Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.
* Oscar Lange 1942 The Economic Operation of a Socialist Society I + II Contributions to Political Economy V6 p3-12, 13-24
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director in 1942 for Sergeant York, but he received his only Oscar in 1975 as an Honorary Award from the Academy.
* Oscar winners: Rebecca ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), Casablanca ( 1943 ), Going My Way ( 1944 ), The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), Hamlet ( 1948 ), All the King's Men ( 1949 ).
He played sympathetically an impoverished composer-pianist in Tales of Manhattan ( 1942 ) and starred in an updated version of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost in 1944.
Even though she had not made a picture in five years, Arthur accepted the part at the request of George Stevens with whom she had worked in two earlier films, The Talk of the Town ( 1942 ) and The More the Merrier ( 1943 ) for which she received her only Oscar nomination.
In 1976, the world class boxer Oscar Bonavena ( 1942 – 1976 ), who was a former friend of Conforte's and probably had an affair with his wife Sally, was shot dead at the ranch by Conforte's bodyguard.
On December 27, 1942, Bong claimed his initial aerial victory, shooting down a Mitsubishi A6M " Zero " and an Nakajima Ki-43 " Oscar " over Buna ( during the Battle of Buna-Gona ).
In 1942 his great hit Always in my heart ( Siempre en mi Corazon ) was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song ; it lost out to White Christmas.
Oscar Verner Peterson ( August 27, 1899 – May 13, 1942 ) was a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor posthumously in World War II for his actions during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
* Oscar Bonavena ( 1942 – 1976 ), Argentine boxer nicknamed ' Ringo '
Over a seven-year span ( 1936 – 1942 ), he was nominated five times for the " Best Cinematography " Oscar, including a win in 1940 for his work on Wuthering Heights.
He was again nominated for an Oscar in 1942 for Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
* Oscar Bonavena ( 1942 – 1976 ), heavyweight boxer
Oscar Natalio " Ringo " Bonavena ( September 25, 1942 – May 22, 1976 ) was a heavyweight professional boxer with a career record of 58 wins, 9 losses and 1 draw.
He received Oscar nominations for his scripts for Wake Island ( 1942 ) and The Great Escape.
* LUNDE, Gulbrand Oscar Johan ( 1901 – 1942 ) Collaborator.
In the following decade, he appeared in such films as The Buccaneer ( 1938 ), The Great McGinty ( 1940 ), The Corsican Brothers ( 1941 ), Tortilla Flat ( 1942 ), Five Graves to Cairo ( 1943 ), His Butler's Sister ( 1943 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ), for which he received another Oscar nomination, and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek ( 1944 ).
Film production at Cinesound ground to a halt with the advent of World War Two, although Hall kept busy during this period producing and directing newsreels, documentaries and short subjects, including the Oscar-winning Kokoda Front Line ( 1942 )-the first time an Australian film / documentary was awarded an Oscar.
Prelude to War won the Oscar for Best Documentary of 1942.
In 1942, his great hit, Always in my heart ( Siempre en mi Corazon ) was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song ; however, it lost to White Christmas.
He would go on to receive Academy Award nominations for his writing on Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), The Talk of the Town ( 1942 ), and Jolson Sings Again ( 1949 ), winning an Oscar for Here Comes Mr. Jordan ( 1941 ).

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