Everything Happens to Me
Feb 7 Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey orchestra record "Everything Happens to Me"
Academy Awards
Feb 27 13th Academy Awards: "Rebecca", James Stewart & Ginger Rogers win
Captain America
Mar 1 Captain America created by cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby is first published by Timely Comics (premiere issue released on December 20, 1940)
James Stewart in the Army
Mar 22 James Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II
Glenn Miller's 1st Film
Mar 24 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie "Sun Valley Serenade", starring Sonja Henie and John Payne, for 20th Century Fox
Citizen Kane
May 1 "Citizen Kane", directed by Orson Welles and starring himself, Joseph Cotten and Dorothy Corningore, premieres at the Palace Theater in New York City
- May 2 FCC approves regular scheduled commercial TV broadcasts to begin July 1
- May 16 Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)
- Jul 1 1st commercial TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC
- Jul 1 Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial
- Jul 1 WCBW (now WCBS) TV channel 2 in NY, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Jul 1 WNBT TV (W2XBS, Now WNBC) channel 4 in NYC (NBC) begins broadcasting
Blithe Spirit
Jul 2 Noël Coward's "Blithe Spirit" premieres in London
BBC Plays Morse Code
Jul 19 BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) ("...-" in Morse code) (opening of Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th symphony)
Tom and Jerry Debut
Jul 19 Tom and Jerry first appear under their own names in cartoon "The Midnight Snack" by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Best Foot Forward
Oct 1 Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane's musical "Best Foot Forward", starring June Allyson, with choreography by Gene Kelly, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC; runs for 326 performances
The Maltese Falcon
Oct 3 "The Maltese Falcon" directed by John Huston and based on Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, premieres in New York City
Dumbo
Oct 23 Walt Disney's animated film "Dumbo" released
How Green Was My Valley
Oct 28 "How Green Was My Valley" based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn, directed by John Ford and starring Walter Pidgeon and Maureen O'Hara premieres in New York (Best Picture 1942)
- Nov 29 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Pal Joey", starring Gene Kelly and Vivienne Segal, closes at the St. James Theatre, NYC, after 374 performances
- Dec 5 "Sullivan's Travels", directed by Preston Sturges and starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake, is released
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