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Four Jills in a Jeep (1944) – comedy-drama musical film based on the actual experiences of Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye and Mitzi Mayfair, members of the Feminine Theatrical Task Force who left the United States on October 16, 1942, and performed several shows per day for American and British troops in England, Ireland and North ...
The first, on June 24, 1949, was the Hopalong Cassidy show, at first edited from the 66 films made by William Boyd. A great many B-movie Westerns were aired on TV as time fillers, starring actors like: Gene Autry , Roy Rogers , Tex Ritter , John Wayne , Lash LaRue , Buster Crabbe , Bob Steele , Johnny Mack Brown , Hoot Gibson , Ken Maynard and ...
The Act went into effect in October 1940, and was upheld in the Supreme Court on 3 February 1941. 1939 (United States) Chrysler Auto Strike occurred. [40] Flint Sit-Down Strike window 1939 (United States) General Motors Tool and Die Makers' Strike occurred. [40] 27 February 1939 (United States) The Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes are ...
1960 1960 Writers Guild of America strike: 148 days [9] (Film) 156 days [9] (TV) [16] 1960 1960 Actors Strike 42 days [17] [18] 1952 1952 Actors Strike 79 days [19] 1945 Set decorators Hollywood Black Friday strike 231 days 1942-1944 1942–1944 musicians' strike: 834 days (the longest of all Hollywood strikes) 1941 Disney animators' strike ...
Between January and June 1960, the 1960 Writers Guild of America strike took place, affecting the fall schedule. The networks had numerous holes, which were mostly filled with unscripted material, some of which included political programs in anticipation of the forthcoming 1960 United States presidential election. CBS gave the unprecedented ...
Thousands of full-length films were produced during the decade of the 1940s. The actor Humphrey Bogart made his most renowned films in this decade. Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life and Orson Welles's Citizen Kane were released. Citizen Kane made use of matte paintings, miniatures and optical printing techniques. [1] The film noir genre was ...
Dispatch work agencies receive requests from businesses to have them hire and manage labor on the business' behalf. This type of labor is known as "dispatched labor". There is in fact no direct contract between dispatched laborers and the enterprise which uses the agency's services, so in this way, dispatched employment follows a triangle ...
August 17, 1940: Money and the Woman: August 24, 1940: Flowing Gold: September 7, 1940: Calling All Husbands: September 14, 1940: No Time for Comedy: September 21, 1940: City for Conquest: October 5, 1940: Knute Rockne, All American: Inducted into the National Film Registry in 1997 October 19, 1940: A Dispatch from Reuters: October 26, 1940 ...