These include the story that Orson Welles began work on a Batman movie in the 1940s, which was to feature James Cagney as The Riddler and Marlene Dietrich as Catwoman ; the persistent rumour that the rock singer Courtney Love is the granddaughter of Marlon Brando ; and the idea that in a famous 1970s poster of Farrah Fawcett, there is a subliminal sexual message concealed in the actress's hair.

Charles James, credited with being America's first couturier who influenced fashion in the 1940s and 1950s.

Tracy finished off the 1940s with Malaya ( 1949 ), an adventure film with James Stewart, and Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), a comedy with Tracy and Hepburn playing married lawyers who oppose each other in court.

The technique was developed by James Hillier and RF Baker in the mid 1940s but was not widely used over the next 50 years, only becoming more widespread in research in the 1990s due to advances in microscope instrumentation and vacuum technology.

In the 1940s, Theodore S. Mondale, the father of future Vice President of the United States Walter Mondale, was the pastor at First Methodist Church of St. James.

In the 1930s to 1940s Professors Sir James Chadwick and Sir Joseph Rotblat made major contributions to the development of the atomic bomb.

From the late 1940s he played in more prestigious pictures, including Captain from Castile starring Tyrone Power, Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart, ( 1948 ), Lust for Gold with Glenn Ford ( 1949 ), Broken Arrow ( 1950 ) with James Stewart, War Arrow ( 1953 ) with Maureen O ' Hara, Jeff Chandler and Noah Beery, Jr., Drums Across the River ( 1954 ), Walk the Proud Land ( 1956 ) with Audie Murphy and Anne Bancroft, Alias Jesse James ( 1959 ) with Bob Hope, and Indian Paint ( 1964 ) with Johnny Crawford.

Henry Haag “ Harry ” James ( March 15, 1916-July 5, 1983 ) was an actor and musician best known as a trumpeter who led a swing band during the Big Band Swing Era of the 1930s and 1940s.

Californication as a pejorative was a culmination of sentiments known in the 1940s, typified by Stewart Holbrook, author and Oregonian columnist, who campaigned through the fictitious James G. Blaine Society against development and unchecked population growth.

James Henry Govier the British painter and etcher resided at Aylesbury and produced a number of works relating to the town including the church, canal, Walton, Aylesbury Gaol, the King's Head and views of the town during the 1940s and 1950s, examples of which can be seen in the Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury.

The toy was invented and developed by naval engineer Richard James in the early 1940s and demonstrated at Gimbels department store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November 1945.

Many Saint Thomas Christian bishops like Mar James Kalaserry and Metropolitan Abraham Mar Thoma, supported the nationalistic movemenets in 1930s and 1940s.

Skinner in 1923, ethnologist Roger Duff in the 1940s, and historian and ethnographer Arthur Thomson in 1959, as did Michael King's Moriori: A People Rediscovered in 2000 and James Belich and K. R.

This phenomenon was most common among missionaries in China, the most notable being James Gareth Endicott, who became supportive of the struggle of the Communist Party of China in the 1930s and 1940s.

Carrier Arboretum is located at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, U. S .. Groundbreaking took place in April 1985 under direction of Dr. Norlyn Bodkin who is credited the first scientific botanical discovery along the Eastern Seaboard of Virginia since the 1940s, Trillium: Shenandoah Wake Robin, presently found at the arboretum.

Dr. James Kildare is a fictional character, the primary character in a series of American theatrical films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, an early 1950s radio series, a 1960s television series of the same name and a comic book based on the TV show, and a short-lived 1960s television series.

Christian communists were also found among Christian missionaries in China, the most notable being James Gareth Endicott, who became supportive of the struggle of the Communist Party of China in the 1930s and 1940s.

Popular nature study programmes on the Scottish Children's Hour were presented by Tom Gillespie ( the ' Zoo Man '), James Douglas-Home ( the ' Bird Man '), and Gilbert Fisher ( the ' Hut Man ') during the 1940s and ' 50s.

Bing Crosby and Greer Garson were frequently named the most popular film stars during the 1940s and later winners of the title included James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Alan Ladd, Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson, and Kim Novak.

McIntosh then sold his share in 1929 to James Playfair, who sold the paper in the late 1940s to Thomson Newspapers.

* Marcus Morris was vicar of St James ' Church, Lulworth Road, in the 1940s and 50s.

The development of several large-scale hydroelectric projects which took place non-stop from the late 1940s to the mid-1990s — the Bersimis, Carillon, Manic-Outardes, Churchill Falls and the two phases of the James Bay Project — allowed Quebec to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.

The notion of military rollback against the Soviet Union was proposed by James Burnham and other strategists in the late 1940s, and by the Truman Administration against North Korea in the Korean War.

Charles R. Schwab, founder of the discount stock brokerage firm bearing his name, and his family also lived in Piedmont in the early 1980s, as did Dean Witter, founder of Dean Witter Reynolds brokerage, in the 1940s.

A viewing of films featuring the work of Dean Collins in the 1940s, and rock ' n ' roll films made in the mid 1950s reveals the fact that dancers turn frequently and inevitably turn their backs to the camera.

In the early 1940s, he started singing for bandleader Sammy Watkins, who suggested that he change his name to Dean Martin.

* Lindy Hop continued into the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and is featured in many movies of the era featuring Whitey's Lindy Hoppers with Frankie Manning, Dean Collins ( whose style would lead to the creation of West Coast Swing ), and Hal Takier and the Ray Rand Dancers.

* The autobiography of WWII veteran Colin Hall " Dropped In It " includes a chapter on his struggle to provide for a new wife and son in the undeveloped Forest of Dean in the late 1940s.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Mel Patton or Pell Mell, as he was nicknamed in the late 1940s, made his mark in track and field while a student at the University of Southern California, where he was coached by the famous Dean Cromwell.

US free newspapers trace their history back to the 1940s when Walnut Creek, California publisher Dean Lesher began what is widely believed to be the first free daily, now known as the Contra Costa Times.

In the late 1940s, Moretti become acquainted with comedians Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis while they were performing at Bill Miller's Riviera nightclub in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Ignoring this, Godard then went even further back in time, and later releases showed the influence of the " rat pack " ( Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra ), and even swing bands of the 1940s, many years before these sounds became fashionable.

At WNEW, deejays Ted Brown, Al Collins and William B. Williams helped define the MOR musical character of WNEW, lending their own " professionalism and elegance " to popular standards programming that included Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Pat Boone, eventually softer songs by artists like Elvis Presley and The Beatles, Wayne Newton, Dean Martin, Johnny Mathis, and an occasional big band song from the 1930's and 1940s.

In the early 1940s, Dean Gildersleeve paid for the full scholarship of at least one African-American student from Harlem out of her own pocket.

Peake first made his reputation as a painter and illustrator during the 1930s and 1940s, when he lived in London, and he was commissioned to produce portraits of well-known people.

Remey lived for some time in Washington, D. C., in the 1930s and 1940s.

Guthrie ’ s Jewish lyrics can be traced to the unusual collaborative relationship he had with his mother-in-law, who lived across from Guthrie and his family in Brooklyn in the 1940s.

Tracy increasingly lived in hotels and by the 1940s, Curtis notes that the two were effectively living separate lives.

During the 1940s and 1950s, Brunton often lived with them, eventually designating Masson as his heir apparent.

Hrabal lived in the city from the late 1940s onward, for much of it ( 1950 – 1973 ) at 24 Na Hrázi ul.

In the early 1940s, Hiller and husband Ronald Gow moved to Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, where they brought up two children, Ann ( 1939 – 2006 ) and Anthony ( b. 1942 ), and lived together in the house called " Spindles " ( now demolished ).

Frahm lived in Chicago, and was active from the 1940s to 1960s.

B. Gunn, physicist, lived with his mother, the Freudian psychoanalyst L. F. Gunn / Grey-Clarke, at 14 Dunbar Terrace, in the 1940s

Sam's was also a long lived tiki-themed restaurant that dated back to the 1940s.

Elsewhere he has insisted: With regard to the 1930s, he has written that Gina Herrmann, in her 2010 study of Spanish communists ' memoirs, claimed that " of the many myths that Western Communists lived by, perhaps the most abiding is that of Communist anti-Fascism of the 1930s and 1940s — one that was consolidated in Spain's Civil War of 1936 – 1939.

* Stanley R. Tiner, American journalist lived with his parents in Cotton Valley in the second half of the 1940s before moving to Shreveport.

* Frank Zappa, American composer, musician, and film director, lived in the area from the late 1940s to the early 1950s

In the late 1940s Mickey Spillane and a friend of his from the Army bought a woodlot on Rock Cut Road and lived in a house they built while he was writing for comic books.

* Lou Halsell Rodenberger-Texas author ; lived in Kerrville in the 1940s when she was a journalist for the Kerrville Times.

From the 1920s through the 1940s, Julian lived in Harlem and continued receiving press as a local celebrity.

In the 1940s and 1950s, the prince openly lived with the French film star Gisèle Pascal.

Later in the 1940s Minnie lived in Indianapolis, Indiana and Detroit, Michigan, returning to Chicago in the early 1950s.

Both Cannonball and brother Nat played with Ray Charles when Charles lived in Tallahassee during the early 1940s.

In the 1940s, widely renowned astro-physicist Ian Dickson lived in Sorrento.

In the 1940s she moved to California and lived with her sister, Ethal Kraushaar.

In the 1930s and 1940s, Nearing and his eventual second wife, Helen Knothe, lived in Winhall in rural Vermont, where they had purchased a rather large forest tract for $ 2200 and a moderate sized farm for $ 2500.

The local museum was opened in 1988 and its purpose is to show how the people of Kökar lived in the 19th century and onwards to the 1940s.