When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??

Brian Russell De Palma ( born September 11, 1940 ) is an American film director and writer.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

Examples of this style of film include It's a Wonderful World ( 1939 ), The Shop Around the Corner ( 1940 ), Sabrina ( 1954 ), Annie Hall ( 1977 ), When Harry Met Sally ... ( 1989 ), Pretty Woman ( 1990 ), and Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ).

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 ).

Movies of his such as 20, 000 Years in Sing Sing ( 1932 ) and Private Detective 62 ( 1933 ) are among the early Hollywood sound films arguably classifiable as noir — scholar Marc Vernet offers the latter as evidence that dating the initiation of film noir to 1940 or any other year is " arbitrary ".

The film now most commonly cited as the first " true " film noir is Stranger on the Third Floor ( 1940 ), directed by Latvian-born, Soviet-trained Boris Ingster.

* 1940 – The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.

In 1940, his high speed stroboscopic short film, Quicker ' n a Wink won an Oscar.

* 1940 – Walter Hill, American film director

For Pare Lorentz's U. S. Film Service, in the year 1940, he made a poetic documentary film on rural electrification called Power and the Land.

John Fink ( born February 11, 1940 ) is an American film and television actor.

* In 1940, actor Pat O ' Brien portrayed Rockne in the Warner Brothers film Knute Rockne, All American in which Rockne used the phrase " win one for the Gipper " in reference to the death bed request of George Gipp, played by Ronald Reagan.

A 1940 film of Busman's Honeymoon or The Haunted Honeymoon ( US title ), starring Robert Montgomery and Constance Cummings as Lord and Lady Peter was released but the characters and events bore little resemblance to Sayers ' writing.

Steiner received his next Oscar nomination for the 1940 film The Letter, his first of several collaborations with legendary director William Wyler.

* 1940 – Martin Campbell, New Zealand film director

* 1940 – Baby Jane Holzer, American art collector, film producer and Andy Warhol " superstar "

Between 1940 and 1947, he was a contributor to Rob Wagner's film magazine, Script.

The 1940 animated film Fantasia, which is eight different animation sequences set to music, can be considered a silent film, with only one short scene involving dialogue.

In a 1940 promotional film, Autolite, an automotive parts supplier, featured stop motion animation of its products marching past Autolite factories to the tune of Franz Schubert's Military March.

The play is similar to the film The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), which also featured an absurd parody of Hitler by Charlie Chaplin.

Terrence Vance " Terry " Gilliam (; born 22 November 1940 ) is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.

* A Plumbing We Will Go ( 1940 )

* 1940: Too Many Girls ( performer: " Spic ' n ' Spanish ", " You're Nearer ", " Conga ") ("' Cause We Got Cake ")

In December 1940 he wrote in Tribune ( the Labour left's weekly ): " We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

On 5 January 1990, addressing Conservatives in Liverpool, Powell claimed that if the Conservatives played the " British card " at the next general election, they could win ; the new mood in Britain for " self-determination " had given the newly independent nations of Eastern Europe a " beacon ", adding that Britain should stand alone, if necessary, for European freedom, adding: " We are taunted –- by the French, by the Italians, by the Spaniards -– for refusing to worship at the shrine of a common government superimposed upon them all ... where were the European unity merchants in 1940?

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She also completed a stage adaptation of We the Living that ran briefly in early 1940.

His screen performances include Sailors Three ( 1940 ), In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), Undercover ( 1943 ), Piccadilly Incident ( 1946 ), Spring in Park Lane ( 1948 ), Stage Fright ( 1950 ), Torch Song ( 1953 ) and The World of Suzie Wong ( 1960 ).

* We Who Are Young ( 1940 )

*' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 )

From this point on, Santillán lived rather more obscurely, founding several more journals, and continuing his scholarly work, including extensive collaboration on the Gran Enciclopedia Argentina, and critical analyses of the labour movement and Peronism: Why We Lost the War: A Contribution to the History of the Spanish Tragedy ( 1940 ) – later made into a film by his son, Francisco Galindo – The Crisis of Capitalism and the Mission of the Proletariat ( 1946 ), the section on Argentina in The Labour Movement: Anarchism and Socialism Vol.

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 ).

*( 1940 ) Dance We Must

*' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 ) ( uncredited ), man

We Shall Fight on the Beaches is a common title given to a speech delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 4 June 1940.

At the 1940 Democratic National Convention, where Walsh supported James Farley for president rather than FDR, he and his fellow isolationist Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana proposed a plank for the party platform that read: " We will not participate in foreign wars and we will not or army or navy or air force to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas.

After a few more British talkies he moved on to lead roles in Hollywood, where he made over thirty films, including I Live My Life ( 1935 ), the multi-Oscar nominated brilliant ditzy comedy Merrily We Live ( 1938 ), Oscar-nominated for his role as Emperor Maxmilian in Juarez ( 1939 ), Vigil in the Night ( 1940 ), his best film, the 1948 psychological film noir, The Locket, Titanic ( 1953 ), and The Best of Everything ( 1959 ).

Her many successes include A Successful Calamity ( 1917 ), A Little Journey ( 1918 ), Spring Cleaning ( 1923 ), The Distaff Side ( 1934 ), The Importance of Being Earnest ( which she also directed, 1939 ), When We Are Married ( 1939 ), Ladies in Retirement ( 1940 ), The Pirate ( 1942 ), Ten Little Indians ( 1944 ), Lady Windermere's Fan ( 1947 ), and The Madwoman of Chaillot ( 1948 ).

As a performer, Martin appeared on Broadway in Hooray for What !, Where Do We Go From Here ( 1938 ), and Louisiana Purchase ( 1940 – 41 ).

*' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 )

He is best remembered for his role as the grumpy father in the multi-Academy Awards nominated hit comedy film Merrily We Live ( 1938 ), the corrupt mayor in the comedy His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), and as Mr. Honeywell in the television sitcom My Little Margie ( 1952 ).

*' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 )

( a ) We recommend that the Land Transfers Regulations of 1940 be rescinded and replaced by regulations based on a policy of freedom in the sale, lease or use of land, irrespective of race, community or creed, and providing adequate protection for the interests of small owners and tenant cultivators ; ( b ) We further recommend that steps be taken to render nugatory and to prohibit provisions in conveyances, leases and agreements relating to land which stipulate that only members of one races community or creed may be employed on or about or in connection therewith ; ( c ) We recommend that the Government should exercise such close supervision over the Holy Places and localities such as the Sea of Galilee and its vicinity as will protect them from desecration and from uses which offend the conscience of religious people, and that such laws as are required for this purpose be enacted forthwith.