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The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten films nominated for Best Picture at the 12th Academy Awards (which honored the best in film for 1939)—Dark Victory, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, and Wuthering Heights—range in genre and are ...
The twenty-five popular records listed below were extracted from Joel Whitburn's Pop ... US Billboard 1939 #5, US #5 for 1 week, 12 total weeks, Grammy Hall of Fame ...
Events from the year 1939 in the United States. Incumbents Federal government ... American scholar of popular culture (d. 2007) October 28 – Jane Alexander ...
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. The two most popular books that year were The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, which held on top of the list for 24 weeks, and All This and Heaven Too by Rachel Field, which was on top of the list for 14 weeks.
The year 1939 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1939. Events. March 4 ...
1939 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1939th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 939th year of the 2nd millennium, the 39th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1930s decade.
19 September – Popular British radio comedy show It's That Man Again with Tommy Handley is first broadcast on the BBC Home service, following trial broadcasts from 12 July. [8] [9] Known as "ITMA", and also featuring Jack Train and many others, it runs until Handley's death in 1949; [10] the performers have initially been evacuated to Bristol.
The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1930 through 1939. The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s – are currently unknown.