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.

About 1939, he started to collect autographed cards of film stars.

* A GAME OF BOWLS ( 1939 ) ( archive film of a bowling match at the Whitevale and Kingswood Bowling Clubs, Glasgow-from the National Library of Scotland: SCOTTISH SCREEN ARCHIVE )

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 ).

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.

* Christian ( film ), a 1939 Czech film

* Conspiracy ( 1939 film ), RKO Radio Pictures film directed by Lew Landers

* NARA film: A Nation-Wide System of Parks 1939

* 1939 – Fred Schepisi, Australian film director

Dartmouth's Winter Carnival tradition was the subject of the 1939 film Winter Carnival starring Ann Sheridan and written by Budd Schulberg ' 36 and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

" 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 ".

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

) She also performed some acrobatics while trying to steal a wallet from Groucho Marx in the Marx Brothers film At the Circus ( 1939 ).

* 1939 – Jean Beaudin, Canadian film director and screenwriter

Although It's a Wonderful Life is his most well-known film, Friedman notes that it was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ) which most represented the " Capra myth.

The book is the source of the 1939 film of the same name.

The novel is the basis of the Academy Award – winning 1939 film starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.

* Hitler, Beast of Berlin, a 1939 film

A hagiographic account of Koch's career can be found in the 1939 Nazi propaganda film Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes ( The fighter against death ), directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings as Koch.

* 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 )

* 1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures ' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.

For Intervista, produced by Ibrahim Moussa and RAI Television, Fellini intercut memories of the first time he visited Cinecittà in 1939 with present-day footage of himself at work on a screen adaptation of Franz Kafka ’ s Amerika.

Leone was also an avid fan of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind and the 1939 film adaptation.

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

A 1939 radio adaptation of the story, starring Laurence Olivier and Edna Best, was presented by Cecil B. DeMille on Lux Radio Theatre, Hollywood.

Tevye is also the name of a 1939 film adaptation of Sholem Aleichem's story.

In 1939, Koch and Renoir began an adaptation of Tosca at Mussolini's invitation.

* She Stoops to Conquer, a 1939 adaptation for television starring Morris Harvey, Renee De Vaux and James Hayter

Bolger's M-G-M contract stipulated that he would play any part the studio chose ; however, he was unhappy when he was originally cast as the Tin Woodman in the studio's 1939 feature film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz.

Wynn was offered the title role in MGM's 1939 screen adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, but turned it down, as did his Ziegfeld contemporary W. C. Fields.

In the 1939 film adaptation, Rhett was played by Clark Gable.

Early in his career, Meredith attracted favorable attention, especially for playing George in a 1939 adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and as war correspondent Ernie Pyle in The Story of G. I.

She also is the main character in various adaptations, notably the classic 1939 movie adaptation of the book, The Wizard of Oz.

This adaptation is a midquel / parallel of the classic 1939 film featuring Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse with Droopy.

As Raymond Chandler's protagonist Philip Marlowe — immortalized by actor Humphrey Bogart in the movie adaptation ( 1946 ) of the novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 )— admits to his client, General Sternwood, he finds it rather tiresome, as an individualist, to fit into the extensive set of rules and regulations for police detectives:

Lahr's most iconic role was that of the Cowardly Lion in M-G-M's 1939 adaptation of The Wizard of Oz.

The role of Quasimodo has been played by many actors in film and stage adaptations, including Lon Chaney, Sr. ( 1923 ) and Charles Laughton ( 1939 ), as well as the 1996 Disney animated adaptation.

** Raffles ( 1939 film ), another adaptation, starring David Niven

This adaptation is a midquel / parallel of the classic 1939 film featuring Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse with Droopy.

A film adaptation of the work followed in 1939 with Grace Moore in the title role.

A friend of fellow Canadian-born director Allan Dwan, Dumbrille played Athos in Dwan ’ s 1939 adaptation of The Three Musketeers.

The 1939 film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce was based on the stage play by William Gillette and was not a direct adaptation of the book.

The land of Oz is depicted as real in the books, unlike the 1939 movie adaptation, which presented it as a dream of Dorothy's.

* Homer Simpson, in the 1939 novel The Day of the Locust and its 1975 film adaptation

* 1939 Black Narcissus, a story about the disorientation of European nuns in India ; the first of her books to be adapted for the screen, as the film of the same name in 1947 ; a radio adaptation was also broadcast in 2008.