Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

1946 saw RKO Radio releasing It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra.

The term film noir, French for " black film ," first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era.

Being the idol of the " bobby soxers ", he released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra in 1946.

* 1880 – Frank Burke, American baseball player ( d. 1946 )

* 1946 – Aynsley Dunbar, English musician ( Frank Zappa )

* Frank Malina, 1944 – 1946

* 1946 – Frank Hsieh, Taiwanese politician, Premier of Taiwan

* 1900 – Hans Frank, German lawyer and nazi official ( d. 1946 )

* 1877 – Frank Castleman, American sportsman ( d. 1946 )

More members joined by mid-May 1946, including Harold Gray ( Little Orphan Annie ) and the Society ’ s first animator, Paul Terry, followed in the summer by letterer Frank Engli, Bela Zaboly ( Popeye ), Al Capp ( Li ’ l Abner ) and Ray Bailey ( Bruce Gentry ).

* 1946 – Frank Castleman, American sportsman ( b. 1877 )

On Mark Hellinger's production Swell Guy ( 1946 ), for instance, Siodmak was brought in to replace Frank Tuttle only six days after completing work on The Killers.

* 1946 – Frank Marshall, American director and producer

* 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 ).

* May 23 – Hans Frank, German Nazi official ( d. 1946 )

* February 16 – Frank Burke, American baseball player ( d. 1946 )

Dr. Frank Stanton, second only to Paley in his impact on CBS, president 1946 – 1971

He visited the United States in December 1946 and spent a year and a half in fellowship with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West in Arizona, and at Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

" Reclaiming the Real: It's a Wonderful Life ( Frank Capra, 1946 )".

* Frank Hawthorne ( born 1946 ), Canadian mineralogist and crystallographer

The AAFC took its share: its 1946 rosters included 40 of the 66 College All-Stars, two recent Heisman Trophy winners ( Frank Sinkwich and Angelo Bertelli ), and more than 100 players with NFL experience.

The book's issues are detectable from a slightly different perspective in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and Scrooge is likely an influence upon Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

He spent 1944 to 1946 in the Army at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, and then attended Harvard University from 1946 to 1950, graduating in the class of 1950, where he studied French and roomed with poet Frank O ' Hara.

The movie began filming on April 15, 1946 at a variety of locations, including the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, Ontario International Airport, Ontario, California, Raleigh Studios, Hollywood and the Samuel Goldwyn / Warner Hollywood Studios.

* The Harvey Girls, a 1946 musical film adapted from the Samuel Hopkins Adams novel

After leaving Universal he began a long collaboration with Samuel Goldwyn for whom he directed such classics as Dodsworth ( 1936 ), These Three ( 1936 ), Dead End ( 1937 ), Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ), The Westerner ( 1940 ), The Little Foxes ( 1941 ) and The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ).

In Philadelphia in 1946, David Alfred Eaton returns home from the war to find his mother Martha a wretched alcoholic, the victim of years of neglect and abuse from her husband Samuel, the owner of a prestigious iron and steel company.

The chimes were rung regularly by the university organist, Samuel H. Smith, until 1946 when this duty was assumed by a student, Elliot H. Kone ' 49.

Other notable Union alumni include: Dr. Baruch Samuel Blumberg ( 1946 ), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ; Henry Wager Halleck ( 1837 ), chief of staff for the Union Armies during the Civil War ; William F. Fox ( 1869 ) Superintendent of Forests at the Adirondack Park in New York State ; Howard Simons ( 1951 ), managing editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate era ; Nikki Stone ( 1995 ), winner of a gold medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics for aerial skiing ; and Armand V. Feigenbaum ( 1942 ), American businessman and developer of the concept of Total Quality Management ( TQM ).

* David Mourns for Absalom ( 1946 ); text from II Samuel 18: 33

John Samuel Waters, Jr. ( born April 22, 1946 ) is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films.

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Samuel E. Wright ( born November 20, 1946 ) is an American film and theater actor and singer who is best known as the voice of Sebastian in Disney's The Little Mermaid, for which he provided the main vocals to " Under the Sea ", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

* Samuel Cunningham ( 1862 – 1946 ), businessman and Senator of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, 1921 – 1945

Muench accompanied Archbishop Samuel Stritch to Rome when he was created cardinal by Pope Pius XII in 1946, and purchased the red hat Stritch received in the ceremony.

Charles Samuel Myers FRS ( 13 March 1873 – 12 October 1946 ) was an English medical doctor who worked as a psychologist.

The film was released in June 1946 to critical and popular acclaim but also a strong critique of the film from director Samuel Fuller, which he sent in the form of a letter to Milestone.

* Parchment, Samuel Richard ( 1881 – 1946 ), Freemasonry at the Rosicrucian Fellowship, ISBN 978-1-4253-2214-4, 48 pages

In 1946 Bernhard hired Samuel Eisenstadt, a brilliant and modest young man fresh out of the Army, as a proofreader.

A movie musical entitled The Harvey Girls, starring Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, and Angela Lansbury, and based on a near-pulp novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams was made in 1946.

The Harvey Girls is a 1946 MGM musical film based on the 1942 novel of the same name by Samuel Hopkins Adams about Fred Harvey's famous traveling waitresses.

** John Samuel Waters, Jr. ( born 1946 ), American filmmaker

* First Love ( short story ), a 1946 short story by Samuel Beckett

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

Samuel Courtauld took charge of the firm from 1908 as general manager and as chairman from 1921 to 1946.

It was founded in 1946 and renamed in 1984 after Samuel Curtis Johnson, founder of S. C. Johnson & Son, following his family's $ 20 million endowment gift to the school in his honor — at the time, the largest gift to any business school in the world.