* 1890 – Beatriz Michelena, Latin-American silent movie star ( d. 1942 )

He attended the University of California at Berkeley for a year ( 1934 – 1935 ), worked as a movie projectionist, and spent three years in the U. S. Army after enlisting on August 15, 1942.

During 1942, Dr. Joseph Goebbels authorized relocation of SS Cap Arcona to Gotenhafen Harbour as a stand-in for RMS Titanic during filming of the German produced movie TITANIC directed by Herbert Selpin.

This story was the basis for the 1942 romantic movie, " My Gal Sal ".

With the end of that project, he became available for the new Katharine Hepburn movie, Woman of the Year ( 1942 ).

Even though she had already worked in the movies ( she had sung briefly in the 1942 Abbott and Costello film Ride ' Em Cowboy ), she was " delighted " when Norman Granz negotiated the role for her, and, " at the time .... considered her role in the Warner Brothers movie the biggest thing ever to have happened to her.

The performance was recreated with Gene Morrison Orchestra as the Glenn Miller Band and the Nicholas Brothers ( doing a memorable dance ) in the 1942 movie Orchestra Wives.

Also, in the World War II propaganda film The New Spirit ( 1942 ), Donald Duck fills out his income tax and lists his occupation as " actor ," and the film The Three Muskateers ( 2004 ) includes a DVD bonus feature of the characters reminiscing on their experience filming the movie.

Atwood is the birthplace of the writer Rex Beach, best known for his 1906 novel The Spoilers, which was made into a movie five times, most notably in 1930 starring Gary Cooper and in 1942 starring John Wayne.

" Cow Cow Boogie " was written for, but not used in, the 1942 movie " Ride ' em Cowboy ".

Over the course of her career, Russell earned four Academy Award nominations for Best Actress: My Sister Eileen ( 1942 ); Sister Kenny ( 1946 ); Mourning Becomes Electra ( 1947 ); and the movie version of Auntie Mame ( 1958 ).

The play has since been adapted into a 1927 silent film, 1975 stage musical, and 2002 movie musical ( which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), all by that name, as well as the 1942 romantic comedy film Roxie Hart.

The play has been adapted into a 1927 silent film, 1975 stage musical, and 2002 movie musical ( which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), all with that title, and a 1942 romantic comedy film, Roxie Hart, named for the character Annan inspired.

For example, William Irish was the byline in Dime Detective Magazine ( February, 1942 ) on his 1942 story " It Had to Be Murder ", ( source of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie Rear Window ) and based on H. G. Wells ' short story " Through a Window ".

Skelton starred in a 1942 movie of the same name, but did not play " Junior " in the film.

In addition, it was quickly bought by Warner Brothers and adapted as a movie by the same name, released in 1942.

*" What the Devil ", ( 1942 ), about two motorists menaced by a truck whose driver they cannot see, may have later inspired Steven Spielberg's TV movie Duel, adapted by Richard Matheson from his own short story.

Secretly, Fischinger composed the silent movie Radio Dynamics ( 1942 ).

* The Rear Gunner ( Army Air Forces training movie ) ( 1942 )

They managed to complete just one propaganda movie, The Attack on Hong Kong ( 1942 ; aka The Day of England's Collapse ) before the British returned in 1945 ( Teo, 1997 ).

" Thus, it has also been conjectured that he was modeled after Nazi Major Strasser in the 1942 movie " Casablanca ".

In 1942 alone his salary at the Café Society went up from US $ 40 a week to US $ 450 ; he appeared on radio shows, opened in two Broadway shows ( Keep Them Laughing, Top-Notchers ), played at the Paramount Theatre, appeared in an MGM movie ( Du Barry Was a Lady ), and booked into La Martinique at US $ 4, 000 a week.

He reported to the U. S. Marines for training in late 1942, but he was sent back, at the request of 20th Century-Fox, to complete one more film, 1943's Crash Dive, a patriotic war movie.

By 1942, he was an established movie star in Argentina.

* Not a Ladies ' Man ( 1942 )

as Man and Earth ; Jerusalem: The Hebrew Press Association, 1941 – 1942.

* The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942 )

He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man ( 1933 ), The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), and, perhaps his most notable performance, as Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

Following The Invisible Man, Universal Studios tried to typecast him in horror films, but he broke free, starting with the gleefully evil role of Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ), then with his Academy Award-nominated performance as the conflicted corrupt US senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), and followed with probably his most famous role, the flexible French police Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

* The Boogie Man Will Get You ( 1942 )

Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan, known as " The Man Who Owns Broadway ".

He also wrote a number of groundbreaking books on the subject of archaeology and prehistory, most notably Man Makes Himself ( 1936 ) and What Happened in History ( 1942 ).

" It was in this state of mind that he produced what he saw as a sequel to Man Makes Himself entitled What Happened in History ( 1942 ), a synthesis of human history from the Palaeolithic through to the fall of the Roman Empire.

Other Curtiz efforts included Four Daughters ( 1938 ), Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), Life With Father ( 1947 ), Young Man with a Horn and The Breaking Point ( 1950 ).

He began appearing in motion pictures in a comedy series pairing him with silent film legend Buster Keaton and continuing with The Wet Parade ( 1932 ), Broadway to Hollywood ( 1933 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942, playing " Banjo ", a character based on Harpo Marx ), Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ), Billy Rose's Jumbo ( 1962, based on the 1935 musical ) and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

He maintained a career at Universal horror movies over the next few years, replaying the Wolf Man in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man ( 1943 ), House of Frankenstein ( 1944 ), House of Dracula ( 1945 ) and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ( 1948 ); playing Frankenstein's monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein ( 1942 ); and playing Kharis the mummy in The Mummy's Tomb ( 1942 ), The Mummy's Ghost ( 1944 ) and The Mummy's Curse ( 1944 ).

At the age of 50, he achieved a measure of stardom for his best-known role in the stage play and 1942 film The Man Who Came to Dinner.

Sometimes there is one " top-level " story, a framing device, which leads into the various " sub-stories ", as in Tales of Manhattan ( 1942 ), Creepshow, Flesh and Fantasy ( 1943 ), Dead of Night ( 1945 ), and The Illustrated Man ( 1968 ).

He produced nearly 300 buildings over the course of his career, including Red House, Isle of Man ; Majestic Hotel, Onchan, Isle of Man ; Blackwell, Bowness, Cumbria ; Woodbury Hollow, Loughton, Essex ; Winscombe House, Crowborough, Sussex ; and Oakhams in 1942.

* 1942: The Future of Industrial Man ( New York: The John Day Company )

The weapons envisaged in 1942 were the two gun-type weapons, Little Boy ( uranium ) and Thin Man ( plutonium ), and the Fat Man plutonium implosion bomb.

* Maisie Gets Her Man ( 1942 )

* The Man Who Lost His Head ( 1942 ), paperback reissue ( 1970 ) ISBN 0-440-84348-0, Claire Huchet Bishop, author ( at the top with his head in the clouds says Illustrated by the creator of Make Way for Ducklings )