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July 2 – Sergeant York, the film biopic of World War I hero Alvin C. York, starring Gary Cooper in the title role, premieres in New York City. It is the highest-grossing picture of the year and earns Cooper the first of two Academy Awards for Best Actor. September – Senate Investigation into Motion Picture War Propaganda in the United States.
1941 is a 1979 American war comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. The film stars an ensemble cast including Dan Aykroyd , Ned Beatty , John Belushi , John Candy , Christopher Lee , Tim Matheson , Toshiro Mifune , Robert Stack , Nancy Allen , and Mickey Rourke in his film debut.
October 23 – Walt Disney's fourth animated film, Dumbo, is released to recoup the initial financial losses of both Pinocchio and Fantasia the year prior. October 30 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union. October 31 After 14 years, work ceases on sculpting Mount Rushmore National ...
This year marked the debut of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Judy Garland sang the unofficial national anthem of the United States at the time, " My Country 'Tis of Thee ". Bette Davis had sought to open the ceremony to the public for the benefit of the American Red Cross , but was turned down and she ended up resigning from ...
The Disney animators' strike was a 1941 American film industry work stoppage where unionized employees of Walt Disney Productions picketed and disrupted film production for just under four months. The strike reflected anger at inequities of pay and privileges at Disney, a non-unionized workplace.
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Back Street (1941 film) Bahama Passage; Bajar dengan Djiwa; Beatrice Cenci (1941 film) The Betrothed (1941 film) Billy the Kid (1941 film) The Black Diamond (1941 film) Blood Wedding (1941 film) Blossoms in the Dust; Boína blanca; Bowery Blitzkrieg; Bright Prospects; Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family; Bullets for O'Hara; By the Light of ...
The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million ...