Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.

' The Outpost ', Private Snafu cartoon directed by Chuck Jones in 1944

Also, during World War II, Jones directed such shorts as The Weakly Reporter, a 1944 short that related to shortages and rationing on the home front.

* 1944: " Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne " directed by Robert Bresson

Italian and French communist leaders were prevented by party rules from pointing out that it was actually Stalin who had directed them not to take opposition stances in 1944.

Following the critical success of Phantom Lady, Siodmak directed Christmas Holiday ( 1944 ) with Deanna Durbin.

The Operation Pinguin V-2 offensive began on 8 September 1944, when Lehr-und Versuchsbatterie No. 444 () launched a single rocket guided by a radio beam directed at Paris.

* Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra ( 1946 ), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder ( 1944 ), Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli ( 1944 ), Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles ( 1941 )," The Great Dictator directed by Charlie Chaplin ( 1940 ).

The first, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier in 1944, is a colourful and highly stylised version which begins in the Globe Theatre and then gradually shifts to a realistic evocation of the Battle of Agincourt.

** Henry V ( 1944 film ), a film adaptation of Shakespeare's play, directed by Laurence Olivier

The audience participation show Let Yourself Go ( 1944 – 1945 ) could best be described as slapstick radio with studio audience members acting out long suppressed urges ( often directed at host Berle ).

During an American bombing raid on August 24, 1944 that was directed at a nearby armament factory, several bombs, including incendiaries, also fell on the camp, resulting in heavy casualties amongst the prisoners ( 2, 000 prisoners wounded & 388 killed by the raid ).

Kelly also frequently appeared on television shows during the 1960s, but his one effort at television series, as Father Chuck O ' Malley in Going My Way ( 1962 – 63 ), based on the Best Picture of 1944 starring Bing Crosby, was dropped after thirty episodes, although it enjoyed great popularity in Roman Catholic countries outside of the United States.

* 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 ).

* 1944 Going My Way-Leo McCarey

* Going My Way ( 1944 ), also producer

* 1944 Going My Way Best Motion Picture, Best Director and Best Original Motion Picture Story Won

Fitzgerald achieved a feat unmatched in the history of the Academy Awards: he was nominated for both the Best Actor Oscar and the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the same performance, as " Father Fitzgibbon " in Going My Way ( 1944 ).

* Going My Way ( 1944 )

The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double Indemnity, Gaslight and Laura.

" According to Mort Walker's Private Scrapbook, Walker based the chaplain on Irish actor Barry Fitzgerald's priest character, from Going My Way ( 1944 ).

* Going My Way ( 1944 )

* Going My Way ( 1944 )

* 1944: Going My Way

* " Swinging on a Star " ( 1944 ) ( lyrics by Johnny Burke ) for Going My Way

" Swinging on a Star ", from the Bing Crosby film Going My Way, won an Academy Award for Best Song in 1944, one of seven Academy Awards won by the film.

* 1944: Clifford K. Berryman, Evening Star ( Washington D. C .), " for ' Where Is the Boat Going?

* 1944: Clifford K. Berryman, for Editorial Cartooning, " Where Is the Boat Going?

* Powell & Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ), I Know Where I'm Going!

* Going My Way ( 1944 )

* Going My Way ( 1944 )

" Lost Battalions: Going for Broke in the Vosges, Autumn 1944.

* Going My Way ( 1944 )

Several movies had their preview screening at The Alex, inviting celebrities such as Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Elizabeth Taylor for National Velvet and Bing Crosby for Going My Way ( both 1944 ).

Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

The iconic noir counterpart to the femme fatale, the private eye, came to the fore in films such as The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, and Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ), with Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe.

Eleanor Roosevelt, in her My Day column for October 12, 1944, eulogized Willkie as a " man of courage ... outspoken opinions on race relations were among his great contributions to the thinking of the world ... Americans tend to forget the names of the men who lost their bid for the presidency.

A number of animated cartoons were produced, including the Bugs Bunny cartoon Southern Fried Rabbit ( 1953 ), in which Bugs disguises himself as Uncle Tom and sings My Old Kentucky Home in order to cross the Mason-Dixon line ; Uncle Tom's Bungalow ( 1937 ), a Warner Brothers cartoon supervised by Tex Avery ; Eliza on Ice ( 1944 ), one of the earliest Mighty Mouse cartoons produced by Paul Terry ; and Uncle Tom's Cabaña ( 1947 ), an eight-minute cartoon directed by Tex Avery.

* " Skip to My Lou ", Traditional, with section sung to the tunes of " Yankee Doodle " arranged by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, 1944

* My Man Godfrey on Theater of Romance: July 11, 1944

## Robert Graves ( 1944 / 1945 ), The Golden Fleece / Hercules, My Shipmate, New York: Grosset & Dunlap

Wilbur H. " Will " Jennings ( born June 27, 1944, Kilgore, Texas, United States ) is an American songwriter, who is popularly known for writing the lyrics for " My Heart Will Go On ", the theme for the film Titanic.

Despite the artistic drawbacks imposed by Terry's inflexible business policies, Terrytoons was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film: All Out for V in 1942, My Boy, Johnny in 1944, Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life in 1945, and Sidney's Family Tree in 1958.

He also worked on several films as writer and occasionally director, including The Way Ahead ( 1944 ), School for Secrets ( 1946 ), Hot Millions ( 1968 ) and Memed, My Hawk ( 1984 ).

* My people of Kikuyu and the life of Chief Wangombe ( 1944 )

Santayana's autobiography, incorporating Persons and Places, 1944 ; The Middle Span, 1945 ; and My Host the World, 1953.

Lady Barnett-whose autobiography, My Life Line, was published in 1956, had one son, Alastair ( born 1944 ), with her husband.