The 1939 film Beau Geste is the only movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford ) prior to any of the actors receiving the Best Actor Award.

: This article is about the 1939 movie remake Destry Rides Again.

From 1933-1947 Hollywood produced three talking films: Fighting with Kit Carson, a serial ( 1933 ), revised as a single movie: The Return of Kit Carson ( 1947 ); Overland with Kit Carson ( 1939 ); and Kit Carson ( 1940 ), starring Jon Hall in the title role.

In the 1939 movie The Women, Joan Crawford could only allude to the word: " And by the way, there's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society-outside of a kennel.

Miranda signed a movie contract with Hollywood and arrived in the United States in 4 May 1939 with her band, the Bando da Lua.

Karp concluded that the centennial edition, because it is considerably dismal, more resembles the beginning of the 1939 MGM movie than Baum's first edition.

Guests included Morticia's older sister Ophelia ( also played by Carolyn Jones in the original television series ), Morticia's cousin Melancholia, and Morticia's mother Hester Frump ( played in the 1960s series by Margaret Hamilton, wearing her Miss Almira Gulch dress from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz ).

The movie was a big success at the box office and kicked off a cycle of Imperial adventure tales, including The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), Another Dawn ( 1937 ), Gunga Din ( 1939 ), The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) and The Real Glory ( 1939 ).

Released in 1939 in the United States, the movie was released during World War II in Europe, where it became a great success.

Running in theaters in 1939, it disappeared for many years at a time until the 1980s and 1990s, when it slowly appeared in revival theater houses, video and cable and earned a following of fans ( both audience members and film critics ) who praised the movie for its brilliant interpretation of the Steinbeck novella.

At the time, the Chicago Tribunes movie critic, Michael Wilmington, called Hell's Hinges " Hart's acknowledged masterpiece ," " perhaps the finest movie Western made before John Ford's 1939 Stagecoach ," and " as emotionally powerful as any American film of the teens, except for the masterpieces of D. W. Griffith and Erich Von Stroheim.

Aside from the title, the film bears no resemblance to a Bob Hope movie of the same name released in 1939.

The concept would be that, in 1939, Horace had gotten tired of playing bit parts and, after learning Mickey was starring in Fantasia, was going to demand Walt to give him a starring role in that movie as well.

TNT, as a cable service, was launched with a showing of the 1939 classic movie Gone with the Wind ( to which Ted Turner had acquired the rights ), on October 3, 1988.

* In the 2011 movie Captain America: The First Avenger an anachronistic Unisphere is shown in the fictional " Modern Marvels of Tomorrow " Exposition of 1941 ( not the 1939 New York World's Fair ).

This movie led Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to cast George and Gracie in its Eleanor Powell musical, Honolulu ( 1939 ).

Its architectural style was reminiscent of the character Tin Man in the movie The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 film ).

Life with Father is the title of a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 1935 by Clarence Day, Jr., which was adapted in 1939 into a long-running Broadway play by Lindsay and Crouse, which was, in turn, made into a 1947 movie and a television series.

In the Marx Brothers ' movie At the Circus ( 1939 ), however, Harpo " speaks " in a movie with the brothers in the scene in which he visits the room of Little Professor Atom ( Jerry Maren ) and sneezes, clearly saying " At-choo !".

He established Posa Films in 1939, producing short films that allowed him to develop the Cantinflas character, but it was in 1940 that he finally became a movie star, after shooting Ahí está el detalle (" There's the rub ", literally " There lies the detail "), with Sofía Álvarez, Joaquín Pardavé, Sara García, and Dolores Camarillo.

In 1939, MCA's headquarters moved from Chicago to Beverly Hills, California, creating a movie division and beginning to acquire talent agencies and represent established actors such as James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Bette Davis, and Ronald Reagan, whom Wasserman became very close with personally.

* 1939 – The Wizard of Oz premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.

Another example is the place of The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) in American and British gay culture, although a widely viewed and historically important film in greater American culture.

" Yip " Harburg ( performed by Judy Garland in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz ), " White Christmas " written by Irving Berlin ( best-known performance by Bing Crosby ), " This Land Is Your Land " written and performed by Woody Guthrie, " Respect " written by Otis Redding ( best-known performance by Aretha Franklin ), and " American Pie ".

1939, a major year for American cinema, brought such films as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with The Wind.

He filmed the cave scene for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( 1938 ) and, following the firing of its original director Richard Thorpe, Cukor spent a week on the set of The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).

* Hickory, portrayed by Jack Haley, the farm worker who became the Tin Woodsman in Dorothy's dream in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz

Garland as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 film ) | The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 )

Frank Baum's grave in one of the films, whose younger brother Harold Rosson photographed The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).

While " The Wizard of Oz " nickname was an allusion to the 1939 motion picture of the same name, Smith also came to be known as simply " The Wizard " during his playing career, as Smith's Baseball Hall of Fame plaque would later attest.

The term " cyclone " is used as a synonym for " tornado " in the often-aired 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz.

Her most famous role was as Glinda the Good Witch in the film The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).

In films such as The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Manchurian Candidate ( 1962 ) and Inception ( 2010 ), the protagonists must extract vital clues from surreal dreams.

* The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 film ), its best-known adaptation

* Oz: The Great and Powerful, intended as a prequel to the 1939 Wizard of Oz film

The Wizard of Oz has been adapted to other media numerous times, most famously in the MGM's 1939 film starring Judy Garland.

Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's " The Wonderful Wizard of Oz " on Stage and Screen to 1939 ( 2000 ).

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A notable flop at the box office, the film cast doubt on whether or not a live-action fantasy peopled by strange-looking characters could be successfully presented on the screen, until MGM's The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) erased such doubts, at least in the minds of some critics.

The first was Victor Fleming for his 1939 films Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.