Cinema in the 1940s

Wins an Oscar for, "Gone With The Wind"

Birth of Alfredo James "Al" Pacino

Directs Jud Suss, a notorious antisemitic Nazi propaganda film.

Winner of Best Supporting Actor for The Westerner

Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "The Philadelphia Story" as Macaulay Connor

Directs Our Town

Directs, "The Great Dictator"

Stars in, "The Philadelphia Story"

The Westerner is a 1940 film directed by William Wyler and starring Gary Cooper

Directs the western film Western Union.

Birth of Simon Ward

Stars in, "Sergeant York" & wins an Academy Award for Best Actor

Citizen Kane, Orson Welles first film with RKO, in which he starred in the role of Charles Foster Kane, is often considered the greatest film ever made

Marries Pamela Kellino

Stars in, "Sergeant York" & wins an Academy Award for Best Actor

Writes & directs "The Outlaw", controversial for its sexually explicit content

Marries Mickey Rooney

Death of Carole Lombard

Birth of Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr

Birth of Martin Scorsese

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Direction for Mrs. Miniver

Stars with Deborah Kerr and Robert Newton in Hatters Castle

Co-directs In Which We Serve with Noel Coward, moving from film editing into feature direction.

Appears in In Which We Serve

Directs, Mrs. Miniver

Directs, "The Magnificent Ambersons"

Taylor appears in her first motion picture at the age of nine in Theres One Born Every Minute

Directs Munchhausen, a prestige colour fantasy film made for UFA.

Birth of Christopher Walken

Death of Leslie Howard

Directs The Count of Monte Cristo

Stars in For Whom the Bell Tolls

Stars in, "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

Directs For Whom the Bell Tolls

Kurosawas Judo Saga

MGM cast Taylor in Lassie Come Home

Oron Welles marries Rita Hayworth

Oron Welles marries Rita Hayworth

Masons first commercial success came in 1943 with The Man in Grey, a swashbuckling Regency romance

Appears in We Dive at Dawn

Birth of Sondra Locke

Directs The Woman in the Window.

Directs Ministry of Fear.

National Velvet, which costarred fellow young actor Mickey Rooney and English newcomer Angela Lansbury, became a great success upon its release. First film appearance in Gaslight as a conniving maid, for which she received an Academy Award nomination

National Velvet, which costarred fellow young actor Mickey Rooney and English newcomer Angela Lansbury, became a great success upon its release

First film role in A Canterbury Tale

Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for Gaslight

Stars in Candlelight in Algeria

Marilyn Monroe meets photographer David Conover, who had been sent by the U.S. Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit (FMPU) to the factory to shoot morale-boosting pictures of female workers

Marilyn Monroe meets photographer David Conover, who had been sent by the U.S. Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit (FMPU) to the factory to shoot morale-boosting pictures of female workers

Stars in Gaslight

Stars in, "Jane Eyre"

While working in a factory as part of the war effort meets a photographer and begins a successful pin-up modeling career

Appears in National Velvet, alongside fellow young actor Mickey Rooney and Angela Lansbury

Becomes a naturalized US Citizen

Kurosawas The Most Beautiful

Appears in Waterloo Road. Appears in This Happy Breed

Directs Kolberg, one of the last major Nazi-era productions.

Birth of Helen Mirren, born Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov

Directs Brief Encounter, adapting Noel Coward's Still Life into a landmark British romantic drama.

Appears in The Picture of Dorian Gray, wins a Golden Globe for best supporting actress

Marries Artie Shaw

Signs up to the Blue Book Model Agency

Directs The Picture of Dorian Gray

Stars in The Bells of St. Marys. Stars in Spellbound

Kurosawas The Men Who Tread On the Tigers Tail. Kurosawas Judo Saga 2

Appears in The Picture of Dorian Gray, wins a Golden Globe for best supporting actress

Appears in The Way to the Stars

Stars in The Wicked Lady

Birth of Mary Louise Streep

Birth of Tommy Lee Jones

Directs Die Morder sind unter uns, one of the first post-war German films.

Death of W C Fields

Wins an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an alcoholic in Billy Wilders film The Lost Weekend

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Direction for The Best Years of Our Lives. The Best Years of Our Lives won seven Academy Awards, including those for best picture, director, actor, supporting actor, editing, screenplay, and original score

Directs, The Best Years of Our Lives

Taylor is cast in another animal film, Courage of Lassie in which Bill the dog outsmarts the Nazis

Starts in "Great Expectations"

Directs Great Expectations, bringing Charles Dickens's novel to the screen in a celebrated British adaptation.

Takes the lead in Great Expectations

Stas in Green for Danger

Stars in, "Its a Wonderful Life"

Stars in Notorious

Kurosawas One Wonderful Sunday. Kurosawas No Regrets for Our Youth

International Pictures released Welless film, The Stranger, starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, and Welles. Directs, "The Stranger"

Sam Spiegel produces The Strangers, which follows the hunt for a Nazi war criminal living under an alias in America

Directs Ehe im Schatten, an early post-war DEFA film.

Plays the ruthless gang leader Pinkie Brown in Brighton Rock, a breakthrough performance in British cinema.

First appears in a film as a waitress in the drama Dangerous Years

Directs Hue and Cry

Richardson recieves a Knighthood

Directs, "The Lady from Shanghai"

Monroes only film at Colombia is the low-budget musical Ladies of the Chorus (1948), in which she had her first starring role as a chorus girl who is courted by a wealthy man

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Key Largo

Stars in "Anna Karenina"

Stars in, "Black Magic"

Kurosawas Drunken Angel

Stars in Joan of Arc

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Key Largo

Starts in "Oliver Twist", Fagin

Hughes owns the RKO movie studio from 1948 to 1955

Appears as Captain Robert Falcon Scott in Scott of the Antarctic

Directs Affaire Blum, a DEFA film about antisemitism and justice.

Directs Rotation, examining German life under Nazism.

Taylor begins filming George Stevens A Place In The Sun. Before Conspirators 1949 release, a Time cover article called her "a jewel of great price, a true star sapphire", and the leader among Hollywoods next generation of stars

Stars in, "Broken Arrow"

Completes his English degree at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, graduating in 1949

Starts in "Kind Hearts and Coronets", The Duke, The Banker, The Parson, The General, The Admiral, Young Ascoyne, Young Henry, Lady Agatha. Starts in "A Run for Your Money"

Directs Kind Hearts and Coronets

Plays the suave murderer Louis Mazzini in the British comedy classic, Kind Hearts and Coronets

Stars in Madame Bovary. Makes his first Hollywood film, Caught

Appears in Samson and Delilah

Orson Welles stars as Harry Lime in Carol Reeds The 3rd Man, alongside Joseph Cotten, his good friend and co-star from Citizen Kane, with a script by Graham Greene and a memorable zither score by Anton Karas

Orson Welles stars as Harry Lime in Carol Reeds The 3rd Man, alongside Joseph Cotten, his good friend and co-star from Citizen Kane, with a script by Graham Greene and a memorable zither score by Anton Karas

Orson Welles stars as Harry Lime in Carol Reeds The 3rd Man, alongside Joseph Cotten, his good friend and co-star from Citizen Kane, with a script by Graham Greene and a memorable zither score by Anton Karas

Stars in "The Heiress"

Kurosawas The Quiet Duel. Kurosawas Stray Dog

Stars in Under Capricorn