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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 ...
1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; Pages in category "1940s educational films" ... Test Tube Babies (film) W. Westward Ho! (1940 film) Worth the Risk? Y. Your ...
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 ...
This Is Not a Test is a 1962 American low-budget science fiction film directed by Fredric Gadette. [1] Produced at the height of the Cold War , the film was one of a number of productions of the late 1950s and early 1960s based upon the premise of the outbreak of nuclear war .
The Joker Is Wild (1957) – musical drama film about Joe E. Lewis, the popular singer and comedian who was a major attraction in nightclubs from the 1920s to the early 1950s [288] Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (Italian: Kean – Genio e sregolatezza ) (1957) – Italian historical biographical film based on the life of nineteenth century actor ...
The Day the Earth Stood Still: Robert Wise: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe: United States: Drama [nb 2] Five: Arch Oboler: William Phipps, Susan Douglas, James Anderson: United States: Drama Horror Flight to Mars: Lesley Selander: Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz: United States: Drama I'll Never Forget ...
Crosby was the leading figure of the crooner sound as well as its most iconic, defining artist. By the 1940s, he was an entertainment superstar who mastered all of the major media formats of the day, movies, radio, and recorded music. The most popular music style during the 1940s was swing, which prevailed during
A list of horror films released in the 1940s. After the success of Son of Frankenstein (1939), Universal horror caught a second wind and horror films continued to be produced at a feverish pace into the mid-1940s. [1] The early 1940s saw the debut of Lon Chaney Jr. and "The Wolf Man", both of which