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AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work."
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. Other significant production and distribution companies included Republic, Monogram and PRC.
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 ...
The film won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Picture. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Paul Lukas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (the first time the award was presented), and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor.
Ray Romano, actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and voice actor, best known for his role on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond; Chris Rush; Judy Tenuta, entertainer, actress, comedian, author, producer, and accordionist; half Italian; Jackie Vernon (1924–1987), born Ralph Verrone, stand-up comic and the cartoon voice of Frosty the Snowman
The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney films Pinocchio and Fantasia. Top-grossing films (U.S.) [ edit ]
Cast Country Notes 1940: The Bank Dick: Edward F. Cline: W. C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel: United States: Crime comedy [1] The Fatal Hour: William Nigh: Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds: United States [2] The House Across the Bay: Archie Mayo: George Raft, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Nolan: United States [3] 1941: High Sierra ...
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940) – biographical drama film about Paul Reuter, the man who built the famous news service that bears his name [1] [2]; Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) – biographical historical drama film depicting the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States [3]