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15th Academy Awards

Index 15th Academy Awards

The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles honoring the films of 1942. [1]

331 relations: A Ship Is Born, A. Arnold Gillespie, A. Roland Fields, Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Academy Award for Best Film Editing, Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Academy Award for Best Original Score, Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Original Song, Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Production Design, Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing, Academy Award for Best Story, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, Africa, Prelude to Victory, Agnes Moorehead, Albert S. D'Agostino, Alexander Golitzen, Alfred Newman (composer), Always in My Heart (film), Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles), Andy Hardy, Arabian Nights (1942 film), Arthur Miller (cinematographer), Arthur Wimperis, Australian Information Service, Babes on Broadway, Bambi, Bernard B. Brown, Bette Davis, Beyond the Line of Duty, Blitz Wolf, Bob Hope, Boris Leven, Burton Lane, Byron Haskin, C. C. Stevens, California, Captains of the Clouds, Casey Roberts, CBS Radio, Cedric Gibbons, ..., Charles Boyer, Charles G. Clarke, Charles Previn, Claudine West, Columbia Pictures, Combat Report, Conquer by the Clock, Daniel J. Bloomberg, Daniel Mandell, Darrell Silvera, Der Fuehrer's Face, Desert Wonderland, Desperate Journey, Dimitri Tiomkin, Don Raye, Don't Talk (film), Douglas Shearer, Edmund H. Hansen, Edward Cronjager, Edward H. Plumb, Edward J. Kay, Edward Ray Robinson, Edward Ward (composer), Edwin B. Willis, Emeric Pressburger, Emile Kuri, Ernesto Lecuona, Farciot Edouart, Fay Babcock, Flying Tigers (film), Flying with Music, For Me and My Gal (film), Frank Butler (writer), Frank Churchill, Frank Morgan, Frank Skinner (composer), Fred Quimby, Fred Sersen, Friedrich Hollaender, Friendly Enemies, Gary Cooper, Gene de Paul, George Amy, George Forrest (author), George Froeschel, George Leverett, George M. Cohan, George Pal, George Sawley, George Stevens, George Washington Slept Here, Georgie Stoll, Gladys Cooper, Gordon Jennings, Greer Garson, Hal B. Wallis, Hans Dreier, Hans J. Salter, Harold F. Kress, Harry Revel, Harry Warren, Heinz Roemheld, Hellzapoppin' (film), Henry Browne, Farmer, Henry Travers, Herbert Stothart, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Holiday Inn (film), How About You?, Howard Bristol, I Married a Witch, I've Heard That Song Before, In Which We Serve, Inside Fighting China, Invisible Agent, Ira S. Webb, Irving Berlin, Irwin Shaw, It Started with Eve, It's Everybody's War, Jack Cosgrove (special effects artist), Jack D. Moore, Jack L. Warner, Jack Otterson, Jack Whitney, James Cagney, James G. Stewart, James Hilton (novelist), James L. Fields, James Wong Howe, Jan Struther, Jerome Kern, Jo Swerling, Joan of Paris, John B. Goodman (art director), John Farrow, John J. Mescall, John P. Fulton, John P. Livadary, Johnny Doughboy, Johnny Eager, Johnny Mercer, Joseph C. Wright, Joseph Ruttenberg, Jule Styne, Julia Heron, Jungle Book (1942 film), Katharine Hepburn, Kim Gannon, Kings Row, Klondike Fury, Kokoda Front Line!, Larry Morey, Lawrence W. Butler, Leigh Harline, Leon Schlesinger, Leon Shamroy, Lionel Banks, List of films with all four Academy Award acting nominations, Listen to Britain, Loren L. Ryder, Los Angeles, Lou Gehrig, Louis Mesenkop, Lydecker brothers, Mack Gordon, Marines in the Making, Mark-Lee Kirk, Max Parker, Max Steiner, May Whitty, Mervyn LeRoy, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Michael Curtiz, Michael Kanin, Michael Powell, Miklós Rózsa, Milton Krasner, Ministry of Information (United Kingdom), Monty Woolley, Moontide, Morris Stoloff, Moscow Strikes Back, Mrs. Miniver, Mrs. Miniver (character), My Gal Sal, My Man Godfrey, My Sister Eileen (1942 film), Nathan Levinson, National Film Board of Canada, Noël Coward, Now, Voyager, Nunnally Johnson, Once Upon a Honeymoon, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, Orchestra Wives, Orson Welles, Otto Meyer (film editor), Paramount Pictures, Paul Gallico, Paul Terry (cartoonist), Perry Ferguson, Pete Smith (film producer), Pigs in a Polka, Pine-Thomas Productions, Prelude to War, Private (rank), Private Smith of the U.S.A., Ralph Berger, Ralph Freed, Randall Duell, Random Harvest, Random Harvest (film), Ray Binger, Ray Heindorf, Reap the Wild Wind, Richard Day (art director), Richard Hageman, Ring Lardner Jr., RKO Pictures, Road to Morocco, Robert Buckner, Robert E. Dolan, Robert Wright (writer), Rodney Ackland, Roger Edens, Roger Heman Sr., Roland Anderson, Ronald Colman, Ronald Neame, Rosalind Russell, Roy Webb, Rudolph Maté, Rudolph Sternad, Russell A. Gausman, Sam Slyfield, Sam Wood, Sammy Cahn, Samuel Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Samuel M. Comer, Sidney Buchman, Sidney Franklin (director), Sidney Harmon, Signal Corps (United States Army), Silver Queen, Sol Polito, Speaking of Animals and Their Families, Stanley Cortez, Stephen Dunn (sound engineer), Susan Peters, Take a Letter, Darling, Ted Smith (art director), Ted Tetzlaff, Ten Gentlemen from West Point, Teresa Wright, The Battle of Midway (film), The Black Swan (film), The Corsican Brothers (1941 film), The Gold Rush, The Grain That Built a Hemisphere, The Magnificent Ambersons (film), The March of Time (radio program), The Mayor of 44th Street, The Navy Comes Through, The New Spirit, The Pied Piper (1942 film), The Price of Victory, The Pride of the Yankees, The Shanghai Gesture, The Spoilers (1942 film), The Talk of the Town (1942 film), The War Against Mrs. Hadley, This Above All (film), Thomas Little, Thomas T. Moulton, To Be or Not to Be (1942 film), To the Shores of Tripoli, Tortilla Flat (film), Tulips Shall Grow, United States Army, United States Army Air Forces, United States Department of Agriculture, United States Marine Band (film), United States Merchant Marine, United States Navy, United States Office of War Information, Van Heflin, Vernon L. Walker, Victor Milner, Victor Young, Vincent Korda, W. Howard Greene, W. R. Burnett, Wake Island (film), Walt Disney, Walter A. Thompson, Walter Huston, Walter Lantz, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Scharf, Warner Bros., Warren Newcombe, Werner R. Heymann, White Christmas (song), William Bendix, William Cagney, William H. Wilmarth, William Pereira, William V. Skall, William Wyler, Winning Your Wings, Woman of the Year, Yankee Doodle Dandy, You Were Never Lovelier, Youth on Parade, (I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo, 1942 in film, 20th Century Fox, 49th Parallel (film), 8th Academy Awards. Expand index (281 more) »

A Ship Is Born

A Ship Is Born is a 1942 short propaganda film produced by Warner Bros. about the U.S. Merchant Marine.

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A. Arnold Gillespie

Albert Arnold "Buddy" Gillespie (October 14, 1899 – May 3, 1978) was an American cinema special effects artist.

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A. Roland Fields

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Academy Award for Best Actor

The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States.

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Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the Academy Awards annually since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931–32, to the present.

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Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work on one particular motion picture.

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Academy Award for Best Director

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award for Best Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is an award for documentary films.

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Academy Award for Best Film Editing

The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974.

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material.

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Academy Award for Best Original Song

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Production Design

The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film.

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Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing

The Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing or recording and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film.

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Academy Award for Best Story

The Academy Award for Best Story was an Academy Award given from the beginning of the Academy Awards until 1956.

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (often referred to as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is an Academy Award given for the best achievement in visual effects.

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Africa, Prelude to Victory

Africa, Prelude to Victory was a short dramatic propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information (OWI) in the 1942 Frank Capra's film Prelude to War.

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Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900April 30, 1974) was an American actress whose six-decade career included work in radio, stage, film, and television.

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Albert S. D'Agostino

Albert S. D'Agostino (December 27, 1892 – March 14, 1970) was an American art director.

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Alexander Golitzen

Prince Alexander Golitzen (Golitsyn), (Moscow, February 28, 1908San Diego, July 26, 2005) was Russian born production designer who oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.

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Alfred Newman (composer)

Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music.

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Always in My Heart (film)

Always in My Heart is a 1942 drama film directed by Jo Graham, starring Kay Francis and Walter Huston.

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Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles)

The Ambassador Hotel was a hotel in Los Angeles, California, and location of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub until it was demolished in 2005.

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Andy Hardy

Andrew "Andy" Hardy is a fictional character played by Mickey Rooney in a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film series from 1937 to 1946, with a film released in 1958 in an unsuccessful attempt to revive the series.

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Arabian Nights (1942 film)

Arabian Nights is a 1942 adventure film starring Sabu, Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Leif Erickson and directed by John Rawlins.

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Arthur Miller (cinematographer)

Arthur Charles Miller, A.S.C. (July 8, 1895 – July 13, 1970) was an American cinematographer.

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Arthur Wimperis

Arthur Harold Wimperis (3 December 1874 – 14 October 1953) was an English playwright, lyricist and screenwriter, who contributed lyrics and libretti to popular Edwardian musical comedies written for the stage.

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Australian Information Service

The Australian Information Service was one of a series of federal government organisations created to promote the image of Australia.

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Babes on Broadway

Babes on Broadway is a 1941 American musical film starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland and directed by Busby Berkeley, with Vincente Minnelli directing Garland's big solo numbers.

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Bambi

Bambi is a 1942 American animated film directed by David Hand (supervising a team of sequence directors), produced by Walt Disney and based on the book Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten.

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Bernard B. Brown

Bernard B. Brown (July 24, 1898 – February 20, 1981) was an American sound engineer and composer, who wrote the scores for many early animated cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions for distribution by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater.

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Beyond the Line of Duty

Beyond the Line of Duty is a 1942 American short propaganda film, directed by Lewis Seiler.

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Blitz Wolf

Blitz Wolf is an early anti-German World War II Hitler-parodying cartoon produced in 1942 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and distributed by Loew's.

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Bob Hope

Sir Leslie Townes Hope, KBE, KC*SG, KSS (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) known professionally as Bob Hope, was an English-American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author.

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Boris Leven

Boris Leven (in early movies – Boris Levin; August 13, 1908 – October 11, 1986) was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years.

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Burton Lane

Burton Levy (born Morris Hyman Kushner; February 2, 1912 – January 5, 1997) was an American composer and lyricist better known as Burton Lane.

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Byron Haskin

Byron Conrad Haskin (April 22, 1899 – April 16, 1984) was an American film and television director.

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C. C. Stevens

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Captains of the Clouds

Captains of the Clouds (Shadows of Their Wings) is a 1942 Warner Bros. war film in Technicolor, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney.

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Casey Roberts

Casey Roberts (May 9, 1901 – May 29, 1949) was an American set decorator.

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CBS Radio

CBS Radio was a radio broadcasting company and radio network operator owned by CBS Corporation, and consolidated radio station groups owned by CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting/Group W since the 1920s and Infinity Broadcasting since the 1970s.

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Cedric Gibbons

Austin Cedric Gibbons (March 23, 1890 – July 26, 1960) was an Irish-American art director and production designer for the film industry.

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Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer (28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976.

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Charles G. Clarke

Charles G. Clarke ASC (19 March 1899 – 1 July 1983) an American cinematographer who worked in Hollywood for over 40 years and was treasurer and president (twice - 1948-50 and 1951–53) of the American Society of Cinematographers.

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Charles Previn

Charles Previn (January 11, 1888 - September 21, 1973) was an American film composer who was highly active at Universal in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s.

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Claudine West

Claudine West (1890–1943) was a British novelist and screenwriter.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Combat Report

Combat Report was a short dramatic propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1942, and shows the anti-submarine efforts of a bombing crew.

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Conquer by the Clock

Conquer by the Clock was a short dramatic propaganda film produced by the RKO Radio Pictures in 1942 to encourage wartime industrial production.

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Daniel J. Bloomberg

Daniel J. Bloomberg (July 4, 1905 – August 14, 1984) was an Academy Award-winning audio engineer.

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Daniel Mandell

Daniel Mandell (August 13, 1895 – June 8, 1987) was an American film editor with more than 70 film credits.

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Darrell Silvera

Darrell Silvera (December 18, 1900 – July 22, 1983) was an American set decorator.

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Der Fuehrer's Face

Der Fuehrer's Face (originally titled Donald Duck in Nutzi Land) is a 1943 American animated anti-Nazi propaganda short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released in 1943 by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Desert Wonderland

Desert Wonderland is a 1942 American short documentary film directed by Russ Shields and Jack Kuhne exploring the Grand Canyon.

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Desperate Journey

Desperate Journey is a 1942 American World War II action and aviation film starring Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan, directed by Raoul Walsh.

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Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894November 11, 1979) was a Russian-born American film composer and conductor.

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Don Raye

Don Raye (March 16, 1909 – January 29, 1985), born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., in Washington, D.C., was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just for a Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." The latter was co-written with Hughie Prince.

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Don't Talk (film)

Don't Talk is a 1942 American short propaganda film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about the dangers of homefront espionage in wartime.

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Douglas Shearer

Douglas G. Shearer (November 17, 1899 – January 5, 1971) was a Canadian American pioneering sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.

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Edmund H. Hansen

Edmund H. Hansen (November 13, 1894 – October 10, 1962) was an American sound engineer.

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Edward Cronjager

Edward Cronjager (March 21, 1904 – June 15, 1960) was an American cinematographer, whose career spanned from the silent era through the 1950s.

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Edward H. Plumb

Edward Holcomb Plumb (June 6, 1907, Streator, Illinois – April 18, 1958, Los Angeles, California) (also credited as Edward Plumb and Ed Plumb) was a film composer best known for his work at Walt Disney Studios.

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Edward J. Kay

Edward J. Kay (sometimes credited as Edward Kay or Eddie Kay; November 27, 1898 - December 22, 1973) was an American film composer and musical director, who worked on over 340 films from the 1930s into the 1960s, and was nominated on multiple occasions for an Academy Award for Best Original Score, although he never won.

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Edward Ray Robinson

Edward Ray Robinson (July 24, 1893 – April 27, 1979) was an American set decorator.

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Edward Ward (composer)

Edward Ward (April 3, 1900 – September 26, 1971) was a film composer and music director who was nominated for seven Academy Awards.

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Edwin B. Willis

Edwin Booth Willis (January 28, 1893 – November 26, 1963) was an American motion picture set designer and decorator.

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Emeric Pressburger

Emeric Pressburger (5 December 19025 February 1988) was a Hungarian British screenwriter, film director, and producer.

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Emile Kuri

Emile Kuri (June 11, 1907 – October 10, 2000) was a Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese parentage.

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Ernesto Lecuona

Ernesto Lecuona y Casado (August 6, 1895 – November 29, 1963) was a Cuban composer and pianist of worldwide fame.

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Farciot Edouart

Farciot Edouart, ASC (born Alexander Edouart Farciot; November 5, 1894 – March 17, 1980) was a motion picture special effects artist and innovator, a recognized specialist and innovator in the area of "process photography", also known as rear projection.

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Fay Babcock

Fay Babcock (June 15, 1895 – November 12, 1970) was a Hollywood set decorator, and one of the first women to have much success in the profession.

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Flying Tigers (film)

Flying Tigers (a.k.a. Yank Over Singapore and Yanks Over the Burma Road) is a 1942 black-and-white war film from Republic Pictures, produced by Edmund Grainger, directed by David Miller, that stars John Wayne, John Carroll, and Anna Lee.

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Flying with Music

Flying with Music is a 1942 American musical film directed by George Archainbaud and written by Louis S. Kaye and M. Coates Webster.

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For Me and My Gal (film)

For Me and My Gal is a 1942 American jukebox musical film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly – in his screen debut – and George Murphy, and featuring Martha Eggerth and Ben Blue.

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Frank Butler (writer)

Frank Butler (December 28, 1890 — June 10, 1967) was an American film and theatre actor and later an award-winning screenwriter, born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.

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Frank Churchill

Frank Churchill (October 20, 1901 – May 14, 1942) was an American film composer.

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Frank Morgan

Francis Phillip Wupperman (born; June 1, 1890 – September 18, 1949), known professionally as Frank Morgan, was an American character actor who worked extensively in radio, stage and film.

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Frank Skinner (composer)

Frank Skinner (December 31, 1897 – October 9, 1968) was an American film composer and arranger.

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Fred Quimby

Frederick Clinton "Fred" Quimby (July 31, 1886 – September 16, 1965) was an American cartoon producer, best known as producing Tom and Jerry cartoons, for which he won seven Academy Awards.

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Fred Sersen

Fred Sersen (February 24, 1890 – December 11, 1962) was a Czechoslovak-American painter and cinema special effects artist working mainly at 20th Century Fox Studios from the 1930s to the 1950s with credits in over 200 movies.

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Friedrich Hollaender

Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 189618 January 1976) was a German film composer and author.

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Friendly Enemies

Friendly Enemies is a 1942 American drama film starring Charles Winninger, Charles Ruggles, James Craig, and Nancy Kelly.

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Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American film actor known for his natural, authentic, and understated acting style and screen performances.

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Gene de Paul

Gene Vincent de Paul (June 17, 1919 – February 27, 1988) was an American pianist, composer and songwriter.

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George Amy

George Joseph Amy (October 15, 1903 – December 18, 1986) started his career aged 17 as an American film editor, finding his niche at Warner Brothers in the 1930s.

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George Forrest (author)

George Forrest (July 31, 1915 – October 10, 1999) was a writer of music and lyrics for musical theatre best known for the show Kismet, adapted from the works of Alexander Borodin.

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George Froeschel

Georg "George" Froeschel (March 9, 1891 – November 22, 1979) was an Austrian screenwriter best known for Mrs. Miniver, Quentin Durward, and The Story of Three Loves, while working for MGM in the 1940s and 1950s.

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George Leverett

George Leverett (February 10, 1883 – March 20, 1968) was an American sound engineer.

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George M. Cohan

George Michael Cohan (July 3, 1878November 5, 1942), known professionally as George M. Cohan, was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and producer.

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George Pal

George Pal (born György Pál Marczincsak; February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980) was a Hungarian-American animator, film director and producer, principally associated with the fantasy and science-fiction genres.

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George Sawley

George Sawley (June 18, 1904 – April 26, 1967) was an American set decorator and art director.

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George Stevens

George Cooper Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.

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George Washington Slept Here

George Washington Slept Here is a 1942 comedy film starring Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, and Hattie McDaniel.

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Georgie Stoll

Georgie Stoll (7 May 1905 in Minneapolis, MN – 18 January 1985 in Monterey, CA) was a musical director, conductor, composer and jazz violinist, associated with the Golden Age of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals and performers from the 1940s to 1960s.

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Gladys Cooper

Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television.

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Gordon Jennings

Gordon Jennings, A.S.C. (1896 – January 11, 1953) was an American special effects artist.

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Greer Garson

Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, CBE (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996), was a British-American actress popular during the Second World War, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top-ten box office draws from 1942 to 1946.

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Hal B. Wallis

Harold Brent Wallis (born Aaron Blum Wolowicz; October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer.

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Hans Dreier

Hans Dreier (August 21, 1885 – October 24, 1966) was a German motion picture art director.

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Hans J. Salter

Hans J. Salter (January 14, 1896 in Vienna – July 23, 1994 in Studio City, Cal.) was an Austrian-American film composer.

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Harold F. Kress

Harold F. Kress (June 26, 1913 – September 18, 1999) was an American film editor with more than fifty feature film credits; he also directed several feature films in the early 1950s.

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Harry Revel

Harry Revel (21 December 1905 – 3 November 1958) was a British-American composer of musical theatre.

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Harry Warren

Harry Warren (born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna, December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981) was an American composer and lyricist.

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Heinz Roemheld

Heinz Roemheld (Milwaukee, May 1, 1901 – Huntington Beach, California, February 11, 1985) was an American composer.

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Hellzapoppin' (film)

Hellzapoppin is a 1941 Universal Pictures adaptation of the musical of the same name directed by H.C. Potter.

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Henry Browne, Farmer

Henry Browne, Farmer is an American short propaganda film produced in 1942 about African-American contributions to the war effort during World War II.

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Henry Travers

Travers John Heagerty (5 March 1874 – 18 October 1965), known by the stage name Henry Travers, was an English film and stage character actor.

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Herbert Stothart

Herbert P. Stothart (September 11, 1885February 1, 1949) was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer.

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Herman J. Mankiewicz

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953) was an American screenwriter, who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941).

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Holiday Inn (film)

Holiday Inn is a 1942 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire.

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How About You?

"How About You?" is a popular song composed by Burton Lane, with lyrics by Ralph Freed.

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Howard Bristol

Howard Bristol (August 14, 1902 – February 11, 1971) was an American set decorator.

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I Married a Witch

I Married a Witch is a 1942 American fantasy romantic comedy film, directed by René Clair, and starring Veronica Lake as a witch whose plan for revenge goes comically awry, with Fredric March as her foil.

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I've Heard That Song Before

"I've Heard That Song Before" is a 1942 popular song with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

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In Which We Serve

In Which We Serve is a 1942 British patriotic war film directed by Noël Coward and David Lean.

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Inside Fighting China

Inside Fighting China is a 1941 22-minute Canadian short documentary film produced by the National Film Board of Canada for distribution by United Artists, as part of the wartime The World in Action series.

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Invisible Agent

Invisible Agent is a 1942 American science fiction film from Universal.

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Ira S. Webb

Ira S. Webb (May 12, 1899 – December 9, 1971) was an American film producer, set decorator, screenwriter, art director and film director.

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Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin (Израиль Моисеевич Бейлин) Ministry of Culture, Russian Federation – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.

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Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.

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It Started with Eve

It Started with Eve is a 1941 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, and Charles Laughton.

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It's Everybody's War

It's Everybody's War was a short dramatic propaganda film produced by 20th Century Fox and distributed by the Office of War Information in 1942.

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Jack Cosgrove (special effects artist)

Jack Cosgrove (June 9, 1902 – March 10, 1965) was an American special effects artist.

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Jack D. Moore

Jack D. Moore (April 15, 1906 – December 29, 1998) was an American set decorator.

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Jack L. Warner

Jack Leonard "J.

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Jack Otterson

John Edward (Jack) Otterson (August 25, 1905 – December 22, 1991) was an American art director.

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Jack Whitney

Jack Whitney (February 21, 1905 – November 2, 1992) was an American sound engineer.

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James Cagney

James Francis Cagney Jr. (July 17, 1899March 30, 1986) was an American actor and dancer, both on stage and in film, though he had his greatest impact in film.

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James G. Stewart

James Graham Stewart (May 21, 1907 in Homewood, Pennsylvania – March 22, 1997 in Los Angeles, California) was an American pioneer in the field of sound recording and re-recording.

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James Hilton (novelist)

James Hilton (9 September 190020 December 1954) was an English novelist best remembered for several best-sellers, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips.

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James L. Fields

James L. Fields was an American sound engineer.

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James Wong Howe

Wong Tung Jim, A.S.C. (August 28, 1899 – July 12, 1976), known professionally as James Wong Howe, was a Chinese American cinematographer who worked on over 130 films.

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Jan Struther

Jan Struther was the pen name of Joyce Anstruther, later Joyce Maxtone Graham and finally Joyce Placzek (June 6, 1901 – July 20, 1953), an English writer remembered for her character Mrs. Miniver and a number of hymns, such as "Lord of All Hopefulness".

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Jerome Kern

Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.

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Jo Swerling

Jo Swerling (April 8, 1897 – October 23, 1964) was an American theatre writer, lyricist and screenwriter.

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Joan of Paris

Joan of Paris is a 1942 war film about five Royal Air Force pilots shot down over Nazi-occupied France during World War II and their attempt to escape to England.

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John B. Goodman (art director)

John B. Goodman (August 15, 1901 – June 30, 1991) was an American art director.

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John Farrow

John Villiers Farrow, KGCHS (10 February 190427 January 1963) was an Australian-born American film director, producer and screenwriter.

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John J. Mescall

John J. Mescall, A.S.C. (January 10, 1899 – February 10, 1962) was an American cinematographer.

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John P. Fulton

John P. Fulton, A.S.C. (November 1902, Beatrice, Nebraska — July 1966, London, England) was an American special effects supervisor and cinematographer.

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John P. Livadary

John Paul Livadary (born 20 May 1896, Istanbul, Turkey, died 7 April 1987, Newport Beach, California, USA) was a sound designer.

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Johnny Doughboy

Johnny Doughboy is a 1942 film directed by John H. Auer for Republic Pictures and starring Jane Withers, and featuring cameos by numerous former child stars.

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Johnny Eager

Johnny Eager is a 1941 film noir directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Robert Taylor, Lana Turner and Van Heflin.

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Johnny Mercer

John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer.

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Joseph C. Wright

Joseph C. Wright (August 19, 1892 – February 24, 1985) was an American art director.

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Joseph Ruttenberg

Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. (July 4, 1889 - May 1, 1983) was a Russian-born American photojournalist and cinematographer.

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Jule Styne

Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British-American song writer and composer known for a series of Broadway musicals, which include several famous and frequently revived shows.

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Julia Heron

Julia Heron (November 21, 1897 – April 9, 1977) was an American set decorator.

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Jungle Book (1942 film)

Jungle Book is a 1942 British/American independent Technicolor action-adventure film by the Hungarian Korda brothers, based on a screenplay adaptation by Laurence Stallings of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, about a wild boy who is kidnapped by villagers who are cruel to animals as they attempt to steal dead king's cursed treasure.

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Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress.

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Kim Gannon

James Kimball "Kim" Gannon (November 18, 1900 – April 29, 1974) was an American songwriter, more commonly a lyricist than a composer.

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Kings Row

Kings Row is a 1942 film starring Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, and Ronald Reagan that tells a story of young people growing up in a small American town at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Klondike Fury

Klondike Fury is a 1942 film produced by the King Brothers and released through Monogram.

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Kokoda Front Line!

Kokoda Front Line! was a full-length edition of the Australian newsreel, Cinesound Review, produced by the Australian News & Information Bureau and Cinesound Productions Limited in 1942.

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Larry Morey

Lawrence L. "Larry" Morey (March 26, 1905 – May 8, 1971) was an American lyricist and screenwriter.

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Lawrence W. Butler

Lawrence W. Butler (July 30, 1908 – October 19, 1988) was an American special effects artist, best known as the inventor of the bluescreening process.

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Leigh Harline

Leigh Adrian Harline (March 26, 1907 – December 10, 1969) was an American film composer and songwriter.

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Leon Schlesinger

Leon Schlesinger (May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949) was an American film producer, remembered for founding Leon Schlesinger Productions, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, during the Golden Age of American animation.

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Leon Shamroy

Leon Shamroy, A.S.C. (July 16, 1901 – July 7, 1974) was an American film cinematographer.

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Lionel Banks

With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks (born June 22, 1901, Salt Lake City, Utah - died March 20, 1950, Los Angeles, California) was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949.

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List of films with all four Academy Award acting nominations

This is a list of films with performances that have been nominated in all of the Academy Award acting categories.

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Listen to Britain

Listen to Britain is a 1942 British propaganda short film by Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister.

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Loren L. Ryder

Loren L. Ryder (March 9, 1900 – May 28, 1985) was an American sound engineer.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Lou Gehrig

Henry Louis Gehrig, born Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig (June 19, 1903June 2, 1941), nicknamed "the Iron Horse", was an American baseball first baseman who played his entire professional career (17 seasons) in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1923 until 1939.

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Louis Mesenkop

Louis Mesenkop (February 6, 1903 – February 19, 1974) was an American sound engineer.

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Lydecker brothers

Howard and Theodore Lydecker, always known—and billed—as such, were Howard "Babe" Lydecker (June 8, 1911-September 26, 1969) and Theodore Lydecker (November 7, 1908-May 25, 1990), a special effects team primarily working as contract staff members of Republic Pictures.

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Mack Gordon

Mack Gordon (born Morris Gittler, June 21, 1904 – February 28, 1959) was a Jewish-American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film.

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Marines in the Making

Marines in the Making is a 1942 short propaganda film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about the United States Marine Corps.

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Mark-Lee Kirk

Charles Mark-Lee Kirk (May 16, 1895 – December 10, 1969) was an American art director.

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Max Parker

Max Parker (July 12, 1882 – July 8, 1964) was an American art director.

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Max Steiner

Maximilian Raoul Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born American music composer for theatre and films.

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May Whitty

Dame Mary Louise Webster, (19 June 1865 – 29 May 1948), known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress.

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Mervyn LeRoy

Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 – September 13, 1987) was an American film director, film producer, author, and occasional actor.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz (born Manó Kaminer; December 24, 1886 April 11, 1962) was a Hungarian-born American film director, recognized as one of the most prolific directors in history.

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Michael Kanin

Michael Kanin (February 1, 1910 – March 12, 1993) was an American director, producer, playwright and screenwriter who shared an Academy Award with Ring Lardner Jr. in 1942 for writing the Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy film comedy Woman of the Year.

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Michael Powell

Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger.

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Miklós Rózsa

Miklós Rózsa (18 April 1907 – 27 July 1995) was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931), and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953.

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Milton Krasner

Milton R. Krasner, A.S.C. (February 17, 1904 – July 17, 1988) was a cinematographer who won an Academy Award for Three Coins in the Fountain (1954).

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Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Information (MOI), headed by the Minister of Information, was a United Kingdom government department created briefly at the end of the First World War and again during the Second World War.

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Monty Woolley

Edgar Montilion Woolley (August 17, 1888May 6, 1963) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor.

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Moontide

Moontide is a 1942 American film directed by Archie Mayo, who took over production after initial director Fritz Lang left the project early in the shooting schedule.

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Morris Stoloff

Morris Stoloff (1 August 1898 – 16 April 1980) was a musical composer.

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Moscow Strikes Back

Moscow Strikes Back (Разгром немецких войск под Москвой, Razgrom Nemetskikh Voysk Pod Moskvoy, "Rout of the German troops near Moscow") is a Soviet war documentary about the Battle of Moscow made during the battle in October 1941 – January 1942, directed by Leonid Varlamov and Ilya Kopalin.

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Mrs. Miniver

Mrs.

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Mrs. Miniver (character)

Mrs.

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My Gal Sal

My Gal Sal is a 1942 20th Century Fox musical starring Rita Hayworth and Victor Mature.

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My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava.

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My Sister Eileen (1942 film)

My Sister Eileen is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne and Janet Blair.

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Nathan Levinson

Nathan Levinson (July 15, 1888 – October 18, 1952) was an American sound engineer.

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National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada (or simply National Film Board or NFB) (French: Office national du film du Canada, or ONF) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Now, Voyager

Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains, and directed by Irving Rapper.

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Nunnally Johnson

Nunnally Hunter Johnson (December 5, 1897 – March 25, 1977) was an American filmmaker who wrote, produced, and directed motion pictures.

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Once Upon a Honeymoon

Once Upon a Honeymoon is a 1942 romantic comedy/drama starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, and Walter Slezak, directed by Leo McCarey, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

One of Our Aircraft is Missing is a 1942 British war film, mainly set in the German-occupied Netherlands.

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Orchestra Wives

Orchestra Wives is a 1942 American musical film by 20th Century Fox starring Ann Rutherford, George Montgomery, and Glenn Miller.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.

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Otto Meyer (film editor)

Otto Meyer (1901–1980) was an American film editor.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Paul Gallico

Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist, short story and sports writer.

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Paul Terry (cartoonist)

Paul Houlton Terry (February 19, 1887 – October 25, 1971) was an American cartoonist, screenwriter, film director and producer.

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Perry Ferguson

Perry Ferguson (November 13, 1901 – December 27, 1963) was an American art director.

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Pete Smith (film producer)

Peter Schmidt (September 4, 1892 – January 12, 1979), known as Pete Smith, was an American publicist, short subject producer and narrator.

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Pigs in a Polka

Pigs in a Polka is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Merrie Melodies series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on February 2, 1943 by Warner Bros..

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Pine-Thomas Productions

Pine-Thomas Productions was a prolific B-picture unit of Paramount Pictures from 1940–1957, producing 81 films.

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Prelude to War

Prelude to War is the first film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Office of War Information (OWI) and George C. Marshall.

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Private (rank)

A private is a soldier of the lowest military rank (equivalent to NATO Rank Grades OR-1 to OR-3 depending on the force served in).

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Private Smith of the U.S.A.

Private Smith of the U.S.A. is a 1942 American short documentary film directed by Slavko Vorkapić.

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Ralph Berger

Ralph Berger (August 20, 1904 – December 12, 1960) was an American art director.

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Ralph Freed

Ralph Freed (1 May 1907, Vancouver - February 13, 1973) was an American lyricist and television producer.

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Randall Duell

Randall Duell (July 14, 1903 – November 28, 1992) was an American architect and motion picture art director.

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Random Harvest

Random Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton, first published in 1941.

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Random Harvest (film)

Random Harvest is a 1942 film based on the 1941 James Hilton novel of the same name, directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

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Ray Binger

Ray Binger (16 November 1888 – 29 September 1970) was an American cinematographer.

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Ray Heindorf

Ray Heindorf (August 25, 1908 – February 3, 1980) was an American songwriter, composer, conductor, and arranger.

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Reap the Wild Wind

Reap the Wild Wind is a 1942 adventure film starring Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, and Susan Hayward, and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, his second picture to be filmed in color.

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Richard Day (art director)

Richard Day (9 May 1896 – 23 May 1972) was a Canadian art director.

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Richard Hageman

Richard Hageman (9 July 1881 – 6 March 1966) was a Dutch-born American conductor, pianist, composer, and actor.

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Ring Lardner Jr.

Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner Jr. (August 19, 1915 – October 31, 2000) was an American journalist and screenwriter blacklisted by the Hollywood film studios during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s.

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RKO Pictures

RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company.

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Road to Morocco

Road to Morocco is a 1942 American comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, and featuring Anthony Quinn and Dona Drake.

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Robert Buckner

Robert Buckner (May 28, 1906 – August, 1989) was an American film screenwriter, producer and short story writer.

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Robert E. Dolan

Robert Emmett "Bobby" Dolan (August 3, 1908 – September 26, 1972) was a Broadway conductor, composer and arranger beginning in the 1920s.

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Robert Wright (writer)

Robert (Bob) Craig Wright (September 25, 1914 – July 27, 2005) was an American composer-lyricist for Hollywood and the musical theatre best known for the Broadway musical and musical film Kismet, for which he and his professional partner George Forrest adapted themes by Alexander Borodin and added lyrics.

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Rodney Ackland

Rodney Ackland (18 May 1908 in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex – 6 December 1991 in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey) was an English playwright, actor, theatre director and screenwriter.

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Roger Edens

Roger Edens (November 9, 1905 – July 13, 1970) was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood".

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Roger Heman Sr.

Roger Heman Sr. (February 27, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was an American sound engineer.

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Roland Anderson

Roland Anderson (November 18, 1903 – October 29, 1989) was an American movie art director.

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Ronald Colman

Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English-born actor, starting his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, before emigrating to the USA, and having a successful Hollywood film career, he was most popular during the 1920s, 1930's, and 1940's.

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Ronald Neame

Ronald Elwin Neame CBE BSC (23 April 1911 – 16 June 2010) was an English film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director.

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Rosalind Russell

Catherine Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress, comedian, screenwriter and singer,Obituary Variety, December 1, 1976, page 79.

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Roy Webb

Roy Webb (né Royden Denslow Webb; October 3, 1888 – December 10, 1982) was an American film music composer.

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Rudolph Maté

Rudolph Maté, born Rudolf Mayer (21 January 1898 – 27 October 1964), was a Polish-Hungarian-American cinematographer, film director and film producer who worked as cameraman and cinematographer in Hungary, Austria, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, before moving to Hollywood in the mid 1930s.

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Rudolph Sternad

Rudolph Sternad (October 6, 1906 – April 23, 1963) was an American art director and production designer.

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Russell A. Gausman

Russell A. Gausman (July 4, 1892 – May 20, 1963) was an American set decorator.

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Sam Slyfield

Sam Slyfield (May 11, 1898 – January 15, 1974) was an American sound engineer.

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Sam Wood

Samuel Grosvenor Wood (July 10, 1883 – September 22, 1949) was an American film director and producer, who was best known for directing such Hollywood hits as A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and The Pride of the Yankees.

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Sammy Cahn

Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician.

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Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmuel Gelbfisz; שמואל געלבפֿיש; c. August 27, 1879 – January 31, 1974), also known as Samuel Goldfish, was a Polish American film producer of Jewish descent.

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Samuel Goldwyn Productions

Samuel Goldwyn Productions was an American film production company founded by Samuel Goldwyn in 1923, and active through 1959.

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Samuel M. Comer

Samuel M. Comer (July 13, 1893 – December 27, 1974) was a set decorator who worked on over 300 films during a career spanning four decades.

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Sidney Buchman

Sidney Robert Buchman (March 27, 1902 – August 23, 1975) was an American screenwriter and producer who worked on about 40 films from the late 1920s to the early 1970s.

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Sidney Franklin (director)

Sidney Arnold Franklin (March 21, 1893 – May 18, 1972) was an American film director and producer.

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Sidney Harmon

Sidney Harmon (April 30, 1907 – February 29, 1988) was a film producer and screenwriter.

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Signal Corps (United States Army)

The United States Army Signal Corps (USASC) develops, tests, provides, and manages communications and information systems support for the command and control of combined arms forces.

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Silver Queen

Silver Queen is a 1942 American Western film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring George Brent and Priscilla Lane.

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Sol Polito

Sol Polito, A.S.C. (born Salvatore Polito, November 12, 1892 — May 23, 1960) was an American cinematographer.

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Speaking of Animals and Their Families

Speaking of Animals and Their Families is a 1942 American short comedy film directed by Robert Carlisle and Jerry Fairbanks.

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Stanley Cortez

Stanley Cortez, A.S.C. (November 4, 1908 – December 23, 1997) was an American cinematographer.

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Stephen Dunn (sound engineer)

Stephen Dunn (26 December 1894 – 3 February 1980) was an American sound engineer.

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Susan Peters

Susan Peters (born Suzanne Carnahan; July 3, 1921October 23, 1952) was an American film, stage, and television actress who appeared in over twenty films over the course of her decade-long career.

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Take a Letter, Darling

Take a Letter, Darling is a 1942 American romantic comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen.

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Ted Smith (art director)

Ted Smith (June 14, 1886 – June 19, 1949) was an American art director.

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Ted Tetzlaff

Dale H. "Ted" Tetzlaff (3 June 1903, Los Angeles, California – 7 January 1995, Sausalito, California) was a noted Academy Award-nominated Hollywood cinematographer active in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Ten Gentlemen from West Point

Ten Gentlemen from West Point is a 1942 film directed by Henry Hathaway.

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Teresa Wright

Muriel Teresa Wright (October 27, 1918 – March 6, 2005) was an American actress.

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The Battle of Midway (film)

The Battle of Midway is a 1942 American documentary film short directed by John Ford.

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The Black Swan (film)

The Black Swan is a 1942 American swashbuckler Technicolor film by Henry King, based on a novel by Rafael Sabatini, and starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara.

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The Corsican Brothers (1941 film)

The Corsican Brothers is a 1941 swashbuckler film starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in a dual role as the title Siamese twins, separated at birth and raised in completely different circumstances.

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The Gold Rush

The Gold Rush is a 1925 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin.

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The Grain That Built a Hemisphere

The Grain That Built a Hemisphere is a 1943 short animated propaganda film about corn produced by Walt Disney for the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.

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The Magnificent Ambersons (film)

The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 American period drama, the second feature film produced and directed by Orson Welles.

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The March of Time (radio program)

The March of Time is an American radio news documentary and dramatization series sponsored by Time Inc. and broadcast from 1931 to 1945.

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The Mayor of 44th Street

The Mayor of 44th Street is a 1942 film directed by Alfred E. Green.

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The Navy Comes Through

The Navy Comes Through is a 1942 American World War II film directed by A. Edward Sutherland.

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The New Spirit

The New Spirit is a 1942 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and released by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry.

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The Pied Piper (1942 film)

The Pied Piper is a 1942 film in which an Englishman on vacation in France is caught up in the German invasion of that country, and finds himself taking an ever-growing group of children to safety.

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The Price of Victory

The Price of Victory is a 1942 short propaganda film produced by Paramount Pictures and the U.S. Office of War Information.

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The Pride of the Yankees

The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 American film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, directed by Sam Wood, and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Walter Brennan.

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The Shanghai Gesture

The Shanghai Gesture is a 1941 American film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, and Ona Munson.

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The Spoilers (1942 film)

The Spoilers is a 1942 American Western film directed by Ray Enright.

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The Talk of the Town (1942 film)

The Talk of the Town is a 1942 American comedy/drama film directed by George Stevens, starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Ronald Colman, with a supporting cast featuring Edgar Buchanan and Glenda Farrell.

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The War Against Mrs. Hadley

The War Against Mrs.

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This Above All (film)

This Above All is a 1942 American romance film set in World War II adapted from the Eric Knight novel of the same name, directed by Anatole Litvak, and starring Tyrone Power and Joan Fontaine as a couple from different social classes who fall in love in wartime England.

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Thomas Little

Thomas Little (August 27, 1886 in Ogden, Utah – March 5, 1985 in Santa Monica, California) was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953.

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Thomas T. Moulton

Thomas T. Moulton (January 1, 1896 – March 29, 1967) was an American sound engineer.

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To Be or Not to Be (1942 film)

To Be or Not to Be is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, about a troupe of actors in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who use their abilities at disguise and acting to fool the occupying troops.

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To the Shores of Tripoli

To the Shores of Tripoli is a 1942 American Technicolor film starring John Payne, Maureen O'Hara and Randolph Scott.

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Tortilla Flat (film)

Tortilla Flat is a 1942 film with Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Akim Tamiroff, and Sheldon Leonard based on the novel by John Steinbeck.

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Tulips Shall Grow

Tulips Shall Grow is a 1942 American animated short film directed by George Pal and released by Paramount Pictures.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.

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United States Marine Band (film)

United States Marine Band is a 1942 American short documentary film directed by Jean Negulesco, featuring the United States Marine Band.

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United States Merchant Marine

The United States Merchant Marine refers to either United States civilian mariners, or to U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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United States Office of War Information

The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II.

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Van Heflin

Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr. (December 13, 1908 – July 23, 1971) was an American theatre, radio and film actor.

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Vernon L. Walker

Vernon L. Walker (May 2, 1894 – March 1, 1948) was an American special effects artist and cinematographer.

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Victor Milner

Victor Milner, A.S.C. (December 15, 1893 – October 29, 1972) (sometimes Victor Miller) was an American cinematographer.

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Victor Young

Victor Young (August 8, 1900 – November 10, 1956)"Victor Young, Composer, Dies of Heart Attack", Oakland Tribune, November 12, 1956.

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Vincent Korda

Vincent Korda (22 June 1897 – 4 January 1979) was a Hungarian-born art director, later settling in Britain.

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W. Howard Greene

William Howard Greene (August 16, 1895, River Point, Rhode Island - February 28, 1956, Los Angeles, California) was an American cinematographer.

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W. R. Burnett

William Riley "W.

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Wake Island (film)

Wake Island is a 1942 American action drama propaganda war film written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and directed by John Farrow.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.

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Walter A. Thompson

Walter A. Thompson (May 8, 1903 – December 17, 1975) was an American film editor with 69 film credits from 1930 to 1975.

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Walter Huston

Walter Thomas Huston (ancestry.com né Houghston; April 5, 1883 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian actor and singer.

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Walter Lantz

Walter Benjamin Lantz (April 27, 1899 – March 22, 1994) was an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, director and actor best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.

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Walter Pidgeon

Walter Davis Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian-American actor.

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Walter Scharf

Walter Scharf (August 1, 1910 – February 24, 2003) was an American film composer.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Warren Newcombe

Warren Newcombe (April 28, 1894 – August 3, 1960) was an American special effects artist.

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Werner R. Heymann

Werner Richard Heymann (14 February 1896 – 30 May 1961), also known as Werner R. Heymann was a German-Jewish composer active in Germany and in Hollywood.

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White Christmas (song)

"White Christmas" is a 1942 Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting.

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William Bendix

William Bendix (January 14, 1906 – December 14, 1964) was an American film, radio, and television actor, who typically played rough, blue-collar characters.

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William Cagney

William Jerome Cagney (March 26, 1905 – January 3, 1988) was an American film producer and actor, noted for roles in the Monogram Pictures films Lost in the Stratosphere and Flirting with Danger, both filmed in 1934.

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William H. Wilmarth

William Henry Wilmarth (August 3, 1904 – January 25, 1999) was an American sound engineer.

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William Pereira

William Leonard Pereira (April 25, 1909 – November 13, 1985) was an American architect from Chicago, Illinois, of Portuguese ancestry who was noted for his futuristic designs of landmark buildings such as the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco.

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William V. Skall

William V. Skall (October 5, 1897 in Chicago – March 22, 1976 in Los Angeles) was an American cinematographer who specialized in Technicolor.

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William Wyler

William Wyler (July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Winning Your Wings

Winning Your Wings is a 1942 Allied propaganda film of World War II produced by Warner Bros.

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Woman of the Year

Woman of the Year (1942) is an American romantic comedy-drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, written by Ring Lardner Jr., Michael Kanin and John Lee Mahin, directed by George Stevens and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

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Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan, known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway".

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You Were Never Lovelier

You Were Never Lovelier is a 1942 Hollywood musical romantic comedy film set in Buenos Aires.

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Youth on Parade

Youth on Parade is a 1942 comedy musical film directed by Albert S. Rogell.

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(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo

"(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo" is a #1 popular song recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra in 1942.

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1942 in film

The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Casablanca.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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49th Parallel (film)

49th Parallel is a 1941 British war drama film; it was the third film made by the British writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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8th Academy Awards

The 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Academy_Awards

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