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.

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.

* Women in the Wind ( 1939 )

Cukor's dismissal from Wind freed him to direct The Women ( 1939 ), notable for its all-female cast, followed by The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), starring Katharine Hepburn.

Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong ( 1933 ), Little Women ( 1933 ), Jezebel ( 1938 ), Casablanca ( 1942 ), and the film score for which he is possibly best known, Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).

* Schmidt, Jean Miller ( 1999 ) Grace Sufficient: A History of Women in American Methodism, 1760 – 1939, Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press ISBN 0-687-15675-0

However, Crawford made a comeback with her role as home-wrecker Crystal Allen in director George Cukor's The Women in 1939.

The Women ( 1939 ) followed, with an entirely female cast of more than 130 speaking roles.

There were various spin-offs as Hersholt co-wrote a Dr. Christian novel and made a series of six family films as Christian from 1939 to 1941, for instance Dr. Christian Meets the Women in 1940.

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She continued appearing in small parts in about a dozen films, including The Women ( 1939 ) but failed to make a strong impression and her contract was not renewed when it expired in 1939, the same year she married her first husband, British actor Brian Aherne.

In 1939, she was cast as catty gossip Sylvia Fowler in the all-female comedy The Women, directed by George Cukor.

* The Women ( 1939 )

In the 1939 movie The Women, Crystal Allen wants to make dinner for the married man she is seeing to show him that she is a " home girl ".

* The Women ( 1939 ; screenplay )

Her next film, The Women ( 1939 ), was a success.

She also acted in summer stock and on television, including in the 1955 television remake of The Women, playing a different character than she played in the 1939 feature film.

* The Women ( 1939 )

With production beginning in April 1939, she featured in her first film Hotel for Women in 1939, which had newspapers immediately hail her the newest star of Hollywood.

While working on Hotel for Women, Darnell was cast alongside Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert in Drums Along the Mohawk ( 1939 ) in June 1939.

Anne is portrayed by Rose Hobart in the 1939 film Tower of London, and by Joan Camden in the 1962 remake.

The film was Hitchcock's second Hollywood production since leaving the United Kingdom in 1939 ( the first was Rebecca ) and had an unusually large number of writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Benchley, Harrison, and Hilton the only writers credited in the finished film.

The poem inspired a 1939 adventure film of the same name from RKO Radio Pictures starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Fontaine, and Sam Jaffe in the title role.

Allegedly, Joan Fontaine, de Havilland's sister, was approached by George Cukor to audition for Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).

* Ruth McGowan, half of the world-renowned husband / wife McGowan and Mack figure skating duo, which appeared with James Stewart and Joan Crawford in the motion picture The Ice Follies of 1939, was a resident of Forest Lake, and she died there in 2001 at the age of 92.

He played opposite Joan Crawford in several films, most notably A Woman's Face ( 1941 ), and with Greta Garbo in three films: As You Desire Me ( 1932 ), Ninotchka ( 1939 ) and Garbo's final film Two-Faced Woman ( 1941 ).

Price was married to the actress Joan Schofield from 1939 to 1950.

York was born Susannah Yolande Fletcher in Chelsea, London, in 1939, the younger daughter of Simon William Peel Vickers Fletcher ( 1910 – 2002 ), a merchant banker and steel magnate, and his first wife, the former Joan Nita Mary Bowring – they married in 1935 and divorced prior to 1943.

* 1939: The Man in the Iron Mask-American black-and-white film directed by James Whale, starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William and Alan Hale ( as " Porthos ")

Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham CBE ( born 23 September 1939 ) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.

The 1939 film version was directed by George Cukor and starred Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford.

Among his other well-known films were Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), They Were Expendable ( 1945 ), Joan of Arc ( 1948 ), in which he was atypically cast as Captain La Hire, Rio Bravo ( 1959 ), and Raoul Walsh's 1930 widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail, which also featured John Wayne's first leading role.

Edward G. Robinson praised Lederer's performance as a German American Bundist opposite him in Confessions of a Nazi Spy in 1939, and he earned plaudits for his portrayal of a Fascist in The Man I Married ( 1940 ) opposite Joan Bennett.

Brent also played opposite Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street ( 1933 ), Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil ( 1934 ), Ginger Rogers in In Person ( 1935 ), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Ames ( 1936 ), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary ( 1936 ), Myrna Loy in Stamboul Quest ( 1934 ) and The Rains Came ( 1939 ), Merle Oberon in ' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 ), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three ( 1941 ), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan ( 1945 ), Barbara Stanwyck in The Purchase Price ( 1932 ), Baby Face ( 1933 ), The Gay Sisters ( 1942 ) and My Reputation ( 1946 ), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Is Forever ( 1946 ), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase ( 1946 ), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back ( 1946 ) and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl ( 1947 ).

On secondment from his radio job, he produced one short play called Ending It, an adaptation of one of his own short stories starring John Robinson and Joan Marion, transmitted on 25 August 1939.

* A Book of Saints: Joan of Arc to St. Nicholas, illustrations by Gertrude Mittelman, Methuen ( London, England ), 1939.

Lord Howell married in 1967 Cary Davina Wallace, daughter of David John Wallace ( 1914-k. i. a., World War II, Greece, 1944, son of Euan Wallace by first wife Idina Sackville ) and wife ( m. 1939 ) Joan Prudence Magor ( who later remarried on 3 March 1948 Gerald Frederick Walter de Winton ), and had three children:

Between 1939 and 1945, Aherne was married to actress Joan Fontaine, which ended in divorce.

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 ).

Bastin married Joan L. Shaul at Hendon, North London, in 1939. She outlived him by just over 20 years, dying in April 2012 at the age of 96.

Christina Crawford ( born June 11, 1939 ) is an American writer and actress, best known as the author of Mommie Dearest, an exposé of alleged child abuse by her mother, actress Joan Crawford.

Adrian joined the Old Vic company in 1939, playing the Dauphin in Shaw's Saint Joan, " a beautifully malicious study in slyness, effeminacy, meanness, and a curious lost, inverted dignity.

Merezhkovsky was more tolerant: for the first time in the two decades he saw a leader who'd be able to take the whole of Antichrist Kingdom upon himself, this single fact outweighing for him other trivia — like that of his own Joan of Arc ( 1939 ) being banned in Germany on the day of its release.

Goulding is best remembered for directing cultured dramas and such as Love ( 1927 ), Grand Hotel ( 1932 ) with Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, Dark Victory ( 1939 ) with Bette Davis, and The Razor's Edge ( 1946 ) with Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power.