1939 in film

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1 Events
2 Top grossing films
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4 Other films released
5 Short film series
6 Animated short film series
7 Births
8 Deaths

Events

Movie historians and film buffs often look back on the year 1939 as "the greatest year in film history." Hollywood was at the height of its Golden Age, and this particular year saw the release of an unusually large number of exceptional movies, many of which have been honored as memorable classics when multitudes of other films of the era have been largely forgotten.

August 25 - The Wizard of Oz premieres in the US.

December 15 - Gone with the Wind premieres in the US.

Top grossing films

Best Picture: Gone with the Wind - David O. Selznick, MGM
Best Actor: Robert Donat - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Best Actress: Vivien Leigh - Gone with the Wind

Other films released

Films released in 1939 include:

Another Thin Man
Ask a Policeman
At The Circus
Babes In Arms
Bachelor Mother
Barricade
Beau Geste
Dark Victory
Daughter of The Tong
Destry Rides Again
Dodge City
Drums Along the Mohawk, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert
Everything Happens At Night
Fools For Scandal
The Four Feathers
Frontier Marshall
Gunga Din, starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Sam Jaffe
Gulliver's Travels
Hollywood Cavalcade
Jesse James
King Of The Underworld
Mexicali Rose
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Charles Laughton
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington starring James Stewart
Of Mice and Men
Range War, a Hopalong Cassidy western starring William Boyd
The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu), by Jean Renoir
The Spy in Black
Stagecoach, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Berton Churchill
Stanley And Livingstone
The Stars Look Down, starring Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood
The Women, starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell
Wuthering Heights, starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven and Flora Robson

Short film series

Animated short film series

Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
Silly Symphonies (1929-1939)
Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
Terrytoons (1930-1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
Scrappy (1931-1941)
Betty Boop (1932-1939)
Popeye (1933-1957)
Color Rhapsodies (1934-1949)
Donald Duck (1937-1956)
Walter Lantz Cartunes (also known as New Universal Cartoons or Cartune Comedies) (1938-1942)
The Captain and the Kids (1938-1939)
Goofy (1939-1955)
Andy Panda (1939-1949)
Nertsery Rhyme Cartoons (1939)
Crackpot Cruise Cartoons (1939)
Lil' Eightball (1939)
Count Screwloose and J.R. (1939)

Births

January 10 - Sal Mineo, actor (+ 1976)
February 3 - Michael Cimino, director
February 9 - Janet Suzman, actress
February 23 - Peter Fonda, actor
March 5 - Samanth Eggar, actress
March 26 - James Caan, actor
April 7 - Francis Ford Coppola, director, producer, writer
April 12 - Alan Ayckbourn, writer
April 13 - Paul Sorvino, actor
May 13 - Harvey Keitel, actor
May 19 - Nancy Kwan, actress
May 25 - Ian McKellen, actor
May 30 - Michael J. Pollard, actor
July 22 - Terence Stamp, actor
July 30 - Peter Bogdanovich, director
July 31 - France Nuyen, actress
August 2 - Wes Craven, director, producer, writer
August 12 - George Hamilton, actor
August 25 - John Badham, director
August 29 - Joel Schumacher, director
August 30 - Elizabeth Ashley, actress
September 1 - Lily Tomlin, actress
September 18 - Frankie Avalon, actor, singer
October 8 - Paul Hogan, actor
October 22 - Tony Roberts, actor
October 24 - F. Murray Abraham, actor
October 27 - John Cleese, actor
October 28 - Jane Alexander, actress
November 22 - Allen Garfield, actor

Deaths

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