Film year 1939

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Film year 1939
In 1939, Bette Davis was awarded the Oscar for the second time for best leading role.

Events

March 29th: Clark Gable marries Carole Lombard . The couple is Hollywood's new dream couple .
April 5: The Nazi propaganda director Veit Harlan marries the protagonist of his films Kristina Söderbaum .
May 13th: Another dream couple tied the knot: Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor .
July 1st: After divorce from his Jewish wife, Heinz Rühmann marries Hertha Feiler .
August 12: World premiere of The Magic Land . The film, also known as The Wizard of Oz , subsequently became an icon of US American cultural history. In 2007, he is on the list of world cultural heritage of UNESCO added.
December 15th: Premiere of the "film of the century" Gone with the Wind . According to inflation-adjusted box-office figures, this production is still the most commercially successful work in film history.

Film awards

Academy Awards

Frank Capra

This year's Academy Awards will take place on February 23 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles . Frank Capra will moderate .

Best film: Life artist by Frank Capra
Best Actor: Spencer Tracy in The Devil's Guys
Best Actress: Bette Davis in Jezebel
Best director: Frank Capra for bon vivants
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan in The Golden Whip
Best Supporting Actress: Fay Bainter in Jezebel
Best music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold for Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds
Juvenile Award : Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney

Complete list of award winners

Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival takes place from August 8th to September 1st. This year, the jury selected only one prize for the best film.

Best film: Abuna Messias by Goffredo Alessandrini

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best film: Sturmhöhe by William Wyler
Best Director: John Ford for Ringo
Best Actor: James Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Best Actress: Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind
Best foreign film: Harvest of Géza from Bolváry

Further film prizes and awards

Directors Guild of America Award : Mabel Willebrandt
Louis Delluc Prize : Port in the Fog by Marcel Carné
National Board of Review : I was a Nazi spy by Anatole Litvak (Best Film), Hafen im Nebel by Marcel Carné (Best Foreign Language Film)
Photoplay Award : Gone with the Wind by Victor Fleming

Birthdays

January to March

Volker Schlöndorff (born March 31)

January

0January 1st: Michèle Mercier , French actress
0January 8: John LaMotta , American actor
0January 9: Susannah York , British actress († 2011)
January 10: Sal Mineo , American actor († 1976)
January 11: Peter Uray , Austrian actor
January 14th: Peter Baumgartner , Swiss cameraman
January 23: Arlene Golonka , American actress
January 24th: Joseph Vilsmaier , German director († 2020)

February

0February 3: Michael Cimino , American director († 2016)
0February 5: Paul L. Smith , American actor
0February 6: Mike Farrell , American actor
0February 7th: Hermann Lause , German actor
0February 9: Janet Suzman , South African actress
February 16: Volker Spengler , German actor († 2020)
February 18: Ray Lovejoy , British film editor († 2001)
February 21: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein , German cameraman
February 23: Peter Fonda , American actor
February 24th: Marisa Mell , Austrian actress

March

0March 3: Ariane Mnouchkine , French director
0March 3: Robert Shaye , American producer
0March 4th: Paula Prentiss , American actress
0March 5th: Samantha Eggar , British actress
March 14th: Pilar Bardem , Spanish actress
March 14: Raymond J. Barry , American actor
March 14th: Bertrand Blier , French director
March 14th: Volker Bogdan , German actor and voice actor
March 14th: Yves Boisset , French director
March 17th: Klaus Ofczarek , Austrian actor and opera singer
March 18: Corrado Farina , Italian director and screenwriter
March 18: Peter Kraus , Austrian singer and actor
March 29: Terence Hill , Italian actor
March 30: Ernst-Georg Schwill , German actor († 2020)
March 31: Volker Schlöndorff , German director

April to June

Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7)

Ian McKellen (born May 25)

Harvey Keitel (born May 13)

April

0April 1: Ali MacGraw , American actress
0April 6: Krystyna Mikołajewska , Polish actress
0April 7: Francis Ford Coppola , American director and producer
0April 9: Michael Learned , American actress
0April 9th: Gernot Roll , German cameraman
April 13: Paul Sorvino , American actor
April 16: Iwan Bortnik , Russian actor († 2019)
April 20: Joe Camp , American director, screenwriter, and film producer
April 23: Jorge Fons , Mexican director
April 23: Lee Majors , American actor
April 28: Burkhard Driest , German actor and screenwriter († 2020)

May

0May 4: Paul Gleason , American actor († 2006)
0May 7: Marco St. John , American actor
May 12: Uta Hallant , German actress and voice actress
May 13: Harvey Keitel , American actor
May 14: Veruschka von Lehndorff , German actress
May 15: Barbara Hammer , American film producer and director († 2019)
May 18: Hark Bohm , German director and actor
May 19: James Fox , British actor
May 19: Nancy Kwan , American actress
May 22: Paul Winfield , American actor († 2004)
May 23: Reinhard Hauff , German director
May 25: Ian McKellen , British actor
May 30: Michael J. Pollard , American actor
May 30th: Marisa Solinas , Italian actress and singer († 2019)

June

0June 5th: Bruno Gaburro , Italian director and screenwriter
0June 8: Bernie Casey , American actor († 2017)
June 10: Alexandra Stewart , Canadian actress
June 11: Christina Crawford , American actress and writer
June 12: Tak Fujimoto , American cameraman

July to September

Gösta Ekman (born July 28)

Lily Tomlin (born September 1)

Richard Kiel (born September 13th)

July

0July 9: Branko Samarovski , Austrian actor
July 14: Sid Haig , American actor
July 15: Patrick Wayne , American actor
July 17th: Krzysztof Zanussi , Polish director
July 22nd: Terence Stamp , British actor
July 28: Gösta Ekman the Younger , Swedish actor, screenwriter and director († 2017)
July 30th: Elizabeth Ashley , American actress
July 30: Peter Bogdanovich , American director
July 31: France Nuyen , French actress

August

0August 2: Wes Craven , American director, screenwriter, producer and actor († 2015)
0August 2: Ursula Karusseit , German actress († 2019)
0August 4: Frank Vincent , American actor († 2017)
0August 7: Sue Lloyd , British actress († 2011)
0August 9: Bulle Ogier , French actress
August 10: Kate O'Mara , British actress († 2014)
August 11: Uta Sax , German actress
August 12: George Hamilton , American actor
August 22: Valerie Harper , American actress († 2019)
August 25: John Badham , British director
August 26: Todor Kolew , Bulgarian actor († 2013)
August 26th: Dagmar Koller , Austrian singer and actress
August 28: Vladimir Ivashov , Russian actor († 1995)
August 29: Joel Schumacher , American director († 2020)

September

0September 1: Lily Tomlin , American actress
0September 4: Bob May , American actor and stuntman († 2009)
September 12: Joachim Kemmer , German actor
September 13: Richard Kiel , American actor († 2014)
September 17: Vladimir Menshov , Russian actor and director
September 19: Joachim Ansorge , German actor and voice actor († 1980)
September 23: Janusz Gajos , Polish actor
September 27: Renate Schroeter , German actress († 2017)
September 29: Werner Pochath , Austrian actor († 1993)

October to December

Marie Laforêt (born October 5)

John Cleese (born October 27)

October

0October 5th: Marie Laforêt , French actress
0October 8: Paul Hogan , Australian actor
October 13: Melinda Dillon , American actress
October 15: Heide Keller , German actress
October 19: Wu Tianming , Chinese director and producer († 2014)
October 22: Tony Roberts , American actor
October 22: Joe Berger , Austrian actor († 1991)
October 24: F. Murray Abraham , American actor
October 27: John Cleese , British actor
October 28: Jane Alexander , American actress
October 31: Ron Rifkin , American actor

November

0November 1: Jo Morrow , American actress
0November 3: Matthias Fuchs , German actor († 2002)
0November 5th: Jan Nowicki , Polish actor
0November 9th: Marco Bellocchio , Italian director
0November 9: Ulrich Schamoni , German director († 1998)
November 11th: Denise Alexander , American actress
November 12th: Wolfgang Huebsch , Austrian actor
November 14th: Rudolf Thome , German director
November 18: Luigi Faccini , Italian director and screenwriter
November 18: Brenda Vaccaro , American actress
November 19: Nikolaus Paryla , Austrian actor
November 21: Jeannot Szwarc , French director
November 22: Allen Garfield , American actor
November 25: Shelagh Delaney , British screenwriter († 2011)
November 26: Yılmaz Köksal , Turkish actor and screenwriter († 2015)
November 26: Tina Turner , American singer and actress

December

0December 7th: Herwig Seeböck , Austrian actor († 2011)
December 14: Josef Abrhám , Czech actor
December 14: Alessandra Panaro , Italian actress († 2019)
December 20: Kathryn Joosten , American actress († 2012)
December 21: Henri Guybet , French actor
December 21: Franco Micalizzi , Italian composer
December 25: Royce D. Applegate , American actor († 2003)
December 26th: Fred Schepisi , Australian director and screenwriter
December 27: John Amos , American actor

deceased

Douglas Fairbanks senior († December 12)

January to June

January 10: Jameson Thomas , British actor (* 1888)
January 18: Ivan Ilyich Mosschuchin , Russian actor (* 1889)
January 25: Helen Ware , American actress (* 1877)
January 27: Anna von Palen , German actress (* 1875)

0March 2nd: Eugen Kürschner , Hungarian production and location manager (* 1890)
0March 5: Herbert Mundin , British actor (* 1897)
March 20: Lotte Lorring , German actress (* 1893)

April 11: SS Van Dine , American writer (* 1888)

0May 1: Herti Kirchner , German actress (* 1913)
May 11: Stacia Napierkowska , French actress and dancer (* 1896)
May 19: Louis Douglas , American dancer and actor (* 1889)

0June 6: George Fawcett , American actor (* 1860)
0June 9: Owen Moore , American actor (* 1886)

July to December

August 23: Sidney Howard , American playwright and screenwriter (* 1891)

September 10: Hugo Riesenfeld , Austrian-American composer (* 1879)
September 17th: Georges Pitoëff , French actor, director and theater director of Russian-Armenian origin (* 1884)
September 24th: Carl Laemmle , producer and founder of Universal (* 1867)

October 13: Ford Sterling , American actor and director (* 1883)
October 28: Alice Brady , American actress (* 1892)

November 13: Lois Weber , American director (* 1879)
November 30th: Max Skladanowsky , film pioneer (* 1863)

0December 7th: Emilia Unda , German actress (* 1879)
December 12: Douglas Fairbanks , American actor (* 1883)
December 27th: Hermann Häfker , German film theorist (* 1873)

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