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Pride and Prejudice starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier.. A list of American films released in 1940.American film production was concentrated in Hollywood and was dominated by the eight Major film studios MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, RKO, Columbia, Universal and United Artists.
May – A reproduction of "America's First Movie Studio", Thomas Edison's Black Maria, is constructed. July 27 – Bugs Bunny makes his official debut in the animated cartoon A Wild Hare. October 15 – Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, a satirical comedy starring him, premieres in New York City. It is a critical and commercial success and ...
The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 American romantic comedy film [2] [3] starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and Ruth Hussey.Directed by George Cukor, the film is based on the 1939 Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry [4] about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a tabloid magazine journalist.
Box office. $76.4–$83.3 million (United States and Canada) [4][5] Fantasia is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and production supervision by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen. It consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical ...
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in New York City, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of films and documentaries set in New York, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to the city. The list is sorted by the year the film was released.
Years in film. Thousands of full-length films were produced during the decade of the 1940s. The great actor Humphrey Bogart made his most memorable films in this decade. Frank Capra 's masterpiece It's a Wonderful Life and Orson Welles 's masterpiece Citizen Kane were released. Citizen Kane made use of matte paintings, miniatures and optical ...
North West Mounted Police is a 1940 American epic north-western film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll.Written by Alan Le May, Jesse Lasky Jr., and C. Gardner Sullivan, and based on the 1938 novel The Royal Canadian Mounted Police by R. C. Fetherstonhaugh, the film is about a Texas Ranger who joins forces with the North-West Mounted Police ...
Remember the Night is a 1940 American Christmas romantic comedy trial film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray and directed by Mitchell Leisen.The film was written by Preston Sturges and was the last of his scripts shot by another director, as Sturges began his own directorial career the same year with The Great McGinty.