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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 ...
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 .
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.
Alfred Hitchcock made his American debut with the film Rebecca, and made many classics throughout the 1940s. The most successful film of the decade was Samuel Goldwyn 's The Best Years of Our Lives; the film was directed by William Wyler, and starred Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, and Harold Russell.
The Fighting 69th (1940) – action-adventure war film based upon the actual exploits of New York City's 69th Infantry Regiment during World War I [14] Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940) – Australian war film telling the story of the Australian Light Horse which operated in the desert at the Sinai and Palestine campaign during World War I [15]
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 ...
Release date Title Notes January 4, 1940: Music in My Heart: January 5, 1940: The Shadow: Serial film: January 11, 1940: Cafe Hostess: January 18, 1940: His Girl Friday