1940 with the cinema

Events

July 27th: The character of animation Bugs Bunny makes his beginnings with the cinema.
September: Creation of the Continental-Films by the Germans. This company with the German capital is directed by Alfred Greven, near to Joseph Goebbels. It will employ the fine flower of the French cinema which is not expatriate such Maurice Tourneur, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Claude Autant-Lara…
October 3rd: At the request of the Marshal Pétain, the Council of Ministers prohibited the Jews from following an occupation in the cinema but also the theater, the radio, the edition and generally, in the public office.
October 6th: The censure of the Régime of Vichy prohibits the exploitation in room of “films of incentive to hatred against Germany”. Among these films: the Great Illusion of Jean Renoir, Salonique, nest of spies of Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Harmony of Marcel the Herbarium.

Principal films of the year

Palpitation comedy of Didier Decoin with Danielle Darrieux, Claude Dauphin and Jean Tissier.
Comrade X ( Comrade X ) of King Vidor with Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr and Felix Bressart.
Gold digger ( Go West ) comedy of Edward Buzzell with the Marx Brothers, John Carrol and Diana Lewis.
Doctor Cyclops : fantastic American of Ernest B. Schoedsack with Albert Dekker, Janice Logan, Thomas Collie
the Eagle of the seas : American film of adventures of Michael Curtiz with Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp.
the Lady of Friday ( His Girl Friday ) of Howard Hawks with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell
the girl of the shaft sinker dramatic comedy of Marcel Pagnol with Josette Day, Fernandel, Fernand Charpin and Raimu.
the Letter ( The Letter ) of William Wyler with White beet Davis.
the Waltz in the shade (Waterloo Bridge) of Mervyn LeRoy with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor.
the Dictator ( The Great Dictator ) comedy of Charlie Chaplin with Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard and Jack Oakie (left the October 15th in New York).
the Jew eternal , film of Fritz Heppler.
the Jew Süss , film of Veit Harlan.
the Sign of Zorro ( The Mark off Zorro ) of Rouben Mamoulian with Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell.
Grapes of anger , film of John Ford.
Mr. Smith with the Senate , film of Frank Capra.
Pinocchio cartoon of Walt Disney.
Rebecca drama of Alfred Hitchcock with George Sanders and Laurence Olivier - Oscar of best film.
Go ( The Shop Around the Corner ) comedy of Ernst Lubitsch with Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Frank Morgan.

Rewards

Oscars

Better film Rebecca of Alfred Hitchcock (the United States)
Better actress: Ginger Rogers, Kitty Foyle
Better actor: James Stewart, Indiscretions (The Philadelphia Story)
female Best supporting role: Jane Darwell, grapes of anger (The Bunches off Wrath)
male Best supporting role: Walter Brennan, the Rider of the desert (The Westerner)
Better realizer: John Ford, grapes of anger (The Bunches off Wrath)

Principal births

March 16th: Bernardo Bertolucci, scenario writer and Italian realizer
April 22nd: Marie-Jose Nat (Marie-Jose Benhalassa), French actress.
August 28th: Philippe Léotard, actor and singer French
September 10th: Roy Ayers, American singer
September 11th: Brian De Palma, American realizer
November 27th: Bruce Lee, sportsman and actor

Principal Deaths

: Execution in the prison of Loubianka with Moscow of the director Vsevolod Meyerhold.
May 25th: Joe De Grasse, realizer.
July 1st: Ben Turpin, actor.
October 10th: Berton Churchill, actor.
October 12th: Tom Mix, actor, in an air crash in Arizona.
December 5th: Wilfred Lucas, actor, scenario writer, realizer.

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