Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

* Boris in Walt Disney's 1955 film Lady and the Tramp

These films include such financially fruitless and critically scorned films, such as Showgirls, The Lonely Lady, Mommie Dearest, Cool as Ice, Boxing Helena, Manos: The Hands of Fate, North, The Wicker Man, Fatal Deviation, Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2, and Troll 2, which have become inadvertent comedies to film buffs.

He went on to play Guilford Dudley in the British film Lady Jane, co-starring Helena Bonham Carter.

* Lady for a Day ( 1933 )— Adapted by Robert Riskin, who suggested the name change from Runyon's title " Madame La Gimp ," the film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director ( Frank Capra ), Best Actress ( May Robson ), and Best Adaptation for the Screen ( Riskin ).

Toshiya Fujita made the revenge film Lady Snowblood in 1973.

Orson Welles had notorious problems with financing, but his three film noirs were well budgeted: The Lady from Shanghai ( 1947 ) received top-level, " prestige " backing, while both The Stranger, his most conventional film, and Touch of Evil, an unmistakably personal work, were funded at levels lower but still commensurate with headlining releases.

Capra's final theatrical film was with Glenn Ford and Bette Davis, named Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ), a remake of his 1933 film Lady for a Day.

In 1938, Warner Bros. put Bogart in a " hillbilly musical " called Swing Your Lady as a wrestling promoter ; he later apparently considered this his worst film performance.

Lemmon's film debut was a bit part as a plasterer / painter in the 1949 film The Lady Takes a Sailor, but he was not noticed until his official debut, opposite Judy Holliday, in the 1954 comedy It Should Happen to You.

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.

Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song — in 1941 for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for " It Might as Well Be Spring " in State Fair.

Until 2009, the video rights to My Fair Lady were with original theatrical distributor Warner Bros., under license from CBS ( the video license to that film has now reverted to CBS DVD under Paramount ).

In another film noir, Lady in the Lake, directed by and starring Robert Montgomery as Raymond Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe, the entire film is shot from a subjective viewpoint, and Montgomery's face is seen only when he looks in a mirror.

Reportedly, Tarantino is also interested in including Lady Gaga in the film to some degree.

In the same year he also appeared in Lady Godiva Rides Again and The Galloping Major ; in 1956 he had a non-comic supporting role as a journalist in the science-fiction film Quatermass 2.

Oliver Parker, an English director who had previously adapted other plays by Wilde, made a film in 2002 ; it stars Colin Firth ( Jack ), Rupert Everett ( Algy ), Dame Judi Dench ( Lady Bracknell ), Reese Witherspoon ( Cecily ), Frances O ' Connor ( Gwendolen ), Anna Massey ( Miss Prism ), and Tom Wilkinson ( Dr. Chasuble ).

Warner paid an unprecedented $ 5. 5 million for the film rights to the Broadway musical My Fair Lady in February 1962.

It will go on to become Disney's biggest moneymaker, and winner of 5 Academy Awards, including a Best Actress award for Julie Andrews, who accepted the part after she was passed over by Jack L. Warner for the leading role of Eliza Dolittle in the film version of My Fair Lady.

* October 21 – The film version of the hit Broadway stage musical My Fair Lady premieres in New York City.

* June 16 – Lady and the Tramp, the Walt Disney company's 15th animated film, premieres in Chicago, Illinois.

In 1940, Universal signed Abbott and Costello to their first film, One Night in the Tropics.

They only had supporting roles in their first picture, One Night in the Tropics ( 1940 ), but stole the film with their classic routines, including a much-shortened version of " Who's On First?

In 1940 they were signed by Universal Studios for the film One Night in the Tropics.

An abridged version was featured in the team's 1940 film debut, One Night in the Tropics.

* One Night in the Tropics ( 1940 ) ( film debut of Abbott and Costello )

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.