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January 16 – Actress Carole Lombard is killed in a plane crash west of Las Vegas while returning home to Los Angeles from a War Bond tour.; June 4 – British-set wartime romantic drama Mrs. Miniver, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, opens at Radio City Music Hall in New York, in what will become a record-breaking 10-week run.
A list of American films released in 1942. Bob Hope hosted the 15th Academy Awards ceremony at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The winner of the Outstanding Motion Picture (later: Best Picture) category was MGM 's Mrs. Miniver .
The Price of Victory is a 1942 short propaganda film produced by Paramount Pictures and the U.S. Office of War Information. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1943. [1]
The year 1942 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1942. ... 1942 War Backgrounds: December 22, 1941
Hemp for Victory is a black-and-white United States government film made during World War II and released in 1942, explaining the uses of hemp, encouraging farmers to grow as much as possible. During World War II, the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 was lifted briefly to allow for hemp fiber production to create ropes for the U.S. Navy but after the ...
April 27, 1942, was anything but ordinary in Pryor, hit hard with tornadic winds, leaving the northeastern Oklahoma town looking like a war zone. A day in Oklahoma history: 82 years ago, a ...
Wake Island is a 1942 American action drama war film directed by John Farrow, written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and starring Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Barbara Britton, and William Bendix.
2022: The Year in Pictures. Times Photography Staff. December 19, 2022 at 6:00 AM. 2022 was no stranger to big news stories.