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Years in film:	1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943
Years in television:	1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Academy Awards 4 Films released in 1940 5 Short film series 6 Animated short film series 7 Births 8 Deaths

[edit] Events

• February 7 - Walt Disney's animated film Pinocchio is released.
• February 20 - Tom and Jerry make their debut in the animated cartoon Puss Gets the Boot.
• May 17 - My Favorite Wife is released.
• 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 - The Great Dictator, a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released.
• November 13 - World premiere of Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first film to be released in a multichannel sound format (see Fantasound). The film also marked the first use of the click track while recording the soundtrack, overdubbing of orchestral parts, simultaneous multitrack recording and lead to the development of a multichannel surround system.

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

1. Pinocchio (Disney/RKO)

[edit] Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Rebecca - David O. Selznick, United Artists
• Best Actor: James Stewart - The Philadelphia Story
• Best Actress: Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle

[edit] Films released in 1940

• Abe Lincoln in Illinois
• All This and Heaven Too
• The Biscuit Eater
• Boys of the City
• Broadway Melody of 1940 starring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell - final film of series
• East Side Kids
• Edison, the Man starring Spencer Tracy
• Fantasia
• Go West, starring the Marx Brothers
• Give Us Wings
• Gaslight, the original British version
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Great Dictator, starring Charlie Chaplin
• The Howards of Virginia, starring Cary Grant, and Martha Scott
• Junior G-Men
• Kitty Foyle
• Masked Mischief -(no such film in imdb or amg)
• My Favorite Wife
• Night Train to Munich
• Northwest Passage, starring Spencer Tracy
• One Million B.C.
• One Night in the Tropics, film debut of Abbott and Costello
• The Philadelphia Story
• Pinocchio
• Pride of the Bowery
• Pride and Prejudice, starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier
• Rebecca - David O. Selznick, United Artists
• Strike Up the Band
• That Gang of Mine
• The Thief of Bagdad
• You're Not So Tough
• Vigil in the Night, starring Carole Lombard

[edit] Short film series

• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1926-1940)

[edit] Animated short film series

• Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
• Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Terrytoons (1930-1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Scrappy (1931-1941)
• Popeye (1933-1957)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934-1949)
• Donald Duck (1937-1956)
• Walter Lantz Cartunes (also known as New Universal Cartoons or Cartune Comedies) (1938-1942)
• Goofy (1939-1955)
• Andy Panda (1939-1949)
• Tom and Jerry (MGM) (1940-1958)

[edit] Births

• July 7 - Ringo Starr, English drummer (The Beatles)
• July 13 - Patrick Stewart, English actor
• August 3 - Martin Sheen, American actor
• November 27 - Bruce Lee
• October 9 - John Lennon, English musician, songwriter and singer (The Beatles)
• November 5 - Elke Sommer, actress
• December 21 - Frank Zappa, English musician, songwriter and singer

[edit] Deaths

• May 25 - Joe De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood film director
• July 1 - Ben Turpin, comic actor
• October 10 - Berton Churchill, pioneer Hollywood actor
• December 5 - Wilfred Lucas, actor, screenwriter, directorde:Filmjahr 1940

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