In 1940, an RKO movie adaptation starred Granville Owen ( later known as Jeff York ) as Li ' l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat, and featuring a title song with lyrics by Milton Berle.

In the movie " The Great Dictator " ( 1940 ), Charlie Chaplin satirized not only Adolf Hitler but the institution of dictatorship itself.

* to Athole Shearer ( 1928 – 1940 ), sister of movie actress Norma Shearer, mother of his daughter Barbara Hawks and son David Hawks ;

Bogart disliked the roles chosen for him, but he worked steadily: between 1936 and 1940, Bogart averaged a movie every two months, sometimes even working on two simultaneously, as movies were not generally shot sequentially.

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.

Later, other movie technologies were adapted for use in animation, such as multiplane cameras with The Old Mill ( 1937 ), stereophonic sound in Fantasia ( 1940 ), widescreen processes with Lady and the Tramp ( 1955 ), and even 3D.

Mary Martin reprised her famous fur coat striptease of " My Heart Belongs to Daddy " in the 1940 movie Love Thy Neighbor and the 1946 Cole Porter biopic Night and Day.

There is also a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Wood, Chaplin ’ s 1940 New York Times defense of his movie, a reprint from critic Jean Narboni on the film ’ s final speech, and Al Hirschfeld ’ s original press book illustrations.

In 1940, Lorre co-starred with fellow horror actors Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in the Kay Kyser movie You'll Find Out.

It is considered a classic of children's literature and has spawned many derivative works of art, such as Disney's 1940 animated movie of the same name, and commonplace ideas such as a liar's long nose.

The author also alludes to the deaths of Bruce Wayne's parents as being on the night of a movie theater showing of Tyrone Power in The Mark of Zorro, a movie with a release date of November 8th, 1940, a time when Bruce was a youth.

The December 2, 1940 issue of Life magazine included a photo essay by Bernard Hoffman entitled, " A Small Town's Saturday Night ," depicting farmer Glen Dunn and family on a typical Saturday night in Franklin: Dad getting a hair cut, and the kids seeing a movie at the Artcraft, people at the drugstore, as well as photos of other social spots, such as Nick's Candy Kitchen and the town's " lovers ' lane.

One surprisingly risqué joke, especially for 1940, appears in the W. C. Fields movie, The Bank Dick.

A 15-chapter movie serial produced by Columbia Pictures and starring Victor Jory premiered in theaters in 1940.

* The Front Page ( 1928 ), with Ben Hecht, made into the 1931, 1945, and 1974 motion pictures of the same name, the 1940 film His Girl Friday, and the 1988 movie Switching Channels

The JEM Theatre, a recently renovated movie theater originally built in 1940, is the only one operating in Fillmore County.

In 1940, producers made a movie based on the book.

When the Chickamauga Dam was completed on the Tennessee River by the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1940, much of the city was flooded, as portrayed in the 1960 movie Wild River.

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.

* Toscanini was invited in the year 1940 to visit a movie set at the Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios.

Some of the titles included Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ), Pinocchio ( 1940 ), and what was then a recent release, the movie version of 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea that was presented in 1954.

Andrews signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn and nine years after arriving in Los Angeles was offered his first movie role in William Wyler's The Westerner ( 1940 ), starring Gary Cooper.

Roy Disney's pet project was the film Fantasia 2000, a sequel to the 1940 animated movie Fantasia produced by his uncle Walt Disney.

The Mortal Storm ( 1940 ) was the last movie Sullavan and Stewart ever did together.

Some examples of the screwball comedy are: It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), and more recently What's Up, Doc?

He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) and My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

Despite this reputation, during his career, he oversaw more performances honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor than any other director: James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Ronald Colman in A Double Life ( 1947 ), and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

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.

* The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 )

* The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), d. George Cukor

Bell Labs gave demonstrations of the New York – Philadelphia television link in 1940 – 1941.

AT & T used the coaxial link to transmit the Republican national convention in June 1940 from Philadelphia to New York City, where it was televised to a few hundred receivers over the NBC station.

NBC had earlier demonstrated an inter-city television broadcast on February 1, 1940, from its station in New York City to another in Schenectady, New York by General Electric relay antennas, and began transmitting some programs on an irregular basis to Philadelphia and Schenectady in 1941.

In the months leading up to the opening of the 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the GOP was deeply divided between the party's isolationists, who wanted to stay out of the war at all costs, and the party's interventionists, who felt that the United Kingdom and her allies needed to be given all aid short of war to prevent the Germans from conquering all of Europe.

That same year, MGM released Kelly's last film, the musical comedy High Society ( based on the studio's 1940 comedy Philadelphia Story ).

She had wanted him for her comeback vehicle, The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ).

Other examples include The Philadelphia Story and His Girl Friday, both released in 1940 and both starring Grant, and the Noël Coward play and film Private Lives.

Bringing Up Baby was the second of four films starring Grant and Hepburn, the others being Sylvia Scarlett ( 1935 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), and The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), the last three of which belong to a sub-genre of screwball comedy called the comedy of remarriage described by the philosopher Stanley Cavell as Hollywood's crowning achievement.

Atanasoff first met Mauchly at the December 1940 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia, where Mauchly was demonstrating his " harmonic analyzer ", an analog calculator for analysis of weather data.

The 1921 and 1931 National Order of the Arrow Lodge Meetings were held at Philadelphia, the 1922 and 1927 National Lodge Meetings were held at Reading, Pennsylvania, and the 1940 National Lodge Meeting was held at Ligonier, Pennsylvania.

( High Society ( 1956 ) and The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 )) This magnificent wooden sailboat is now available for charter on the Seneca Lake.

Around 1940, New Philadelphia purchased the Herschell-Spillman carousel secondhand.

The Guild's production of One Mad Night in 1940 was the first three-act play performed on television, when it was broadcast on WPTZ, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Over the following decade he had successive tours at the Mare Island and Philadelphia Navy Yards and at the Bureau of Construction and Repair ( redesignated the Bureau of Ships in 1940 ).

During his time in the Navy department, he advocated construction of the large Iowa-class battleships, and that one of them be built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, which secured votes for Roosevelt in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the 1940 presidential election ; in return, Roosevelt had BB-62 named the USS New Jersey.

The NFL All-Star Game was played again in Los Angeles in 1940 and then in New York and Philadelphia in 1941 and 1942 respectively.

When New Philadelphia head coach John Brickels left to accept another position, Hayes was elevated to the head coaching position, where he put together a 17 – 2 – 1 record in his first two seasons before enduring a 1 – 9 record in 1940.

The concerto was premiered on December 6, 1940, by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski with Louis Krasner as the soloist ( Krasner had previously given the premiere of the Violin Concerto by Schoenberg's pupil, Alban Berg ).