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The 175-minute broadcast is the first showing of a full-length musical by television. April Television demonstrations are held at the 1939 New York World's Fair on Long Island and the Golden Gate International Exhibition in San Francisco. RCA, General Electric, Dumont and others begin selling television sets to the public in the New York City area.
That day, the opening ceremony and Roosevelt's speech were seen on black and white television sets with 5 to 12-inch tubes. [1] The exhibits of the 1939 New York World's Fair included early television sets. [2] May 1 - Four models of RCA television sets went on sale to the general public in various department stores around New York City. The ...
1939 television series endings (1 C) Television channels and stations established in 1939 (1 P) F. 1939 television films (2 P) P. 1939 television plays (1 P) S.
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 ...
Title Director Cast Genre Notes $1,000 a Touchdown: James P. Hogan: Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye, Eric Blore, Susan Hayward: Comedy: Paramount: 20,000 Men a Year: Alfred ...
After a string of other films failed to attract audiences, Sothern left RKO Radio Pictures and signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, making her first film for MGM in 1939.She was cast in Maisie as Mary Anastasia O'Connor, a brassy but kindhearted Brooklyn burlesque dancer who went by the stage name of Maisie Ravier.
In Name Only is a 1939 romantic film starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, and Kay Francis, directed by John Cromwell. It was based on the 1935 novel Memory of Love by Bessie Breuer . The fictional town where it is set, Bridgefield, Connecticut, is based on the town of Ridgefield, Connecticut .
Produced and directed by George Abbott, What a Life ran for 538 performances (April 13, 1938 to July 8, 1939). The Broadway cast included Eddie Bracken, Betty Field and Butterfly McQueen. The actor who brought Henry to life on stage was 20-year-old Ezra Stone, who was billed near the bottom as the 20th actor in the cast. Stone was also employed ...