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Fontaine was the only performer to win an OscarĪ Senate subcommittee launched an investigation (1941), who defeated sibling Olivia de Havilland in Holdīack the Dawn (1941). Were nominated in the Best Actress category: Joan Fontaine for Suspicion She announced that she was quitting the film business, left Hollywood, and remained out of the spotlight until her deathįor the first time in Academy history, two real-life sisters Greta Garbo retired early at age 36, after the release of her disastrousĬomedy, the box-office flop Two-Faced Woman (1941). Originally, it was to open at Radio City Musical Hall. Kane (1941), director Orson Welles' first feature film, opened for its world premiere at The Palace Theatre in New York City amidst great controversy over its 'negative' portrayal of publisher/tycoon William Randolph Hearst - the alleged source for the main character of Kane. Takes, and dramatic, contrasting or expressionistic low-key noirish lighting. Mise-en-scene, deep-focus compositions, tracking shots, whip pans, lengthy Innovative camera angles (low-angle shots revealing ceilings), montage, (i.e., overlapping dialogue and layered sound), for its numerous complexįlashbacks (and non-linear fragmented storytelling with overlapping narrativeįrom multiple perspectives), and for Gregg Toland's cinematography, including Of Hearst's newspapers, was noted for its creative experiments with sound The controversial film, banned from advertising in all It hasīeen the most highly-regarded film in cinematic history, with many ground-breakingįilm techniques. Welles was the first to ever receive simultaneous nominations inįour categories: as producer, actor, director, and writer.
Films of 1941 movie#
Kane (1941), a movie about a powerful newspaper publisher namedĬharles Foster Kane (modeled after William Randolph Hearst). "boy wonder" or wunderkind, directed and acted in Citizen Paramount's Famous Studios during 1942-43, beginning with JapoteursĢ4 year-old Orson Welles, called America's On the Midway (1942), with the remaining eight shorts produced by (and his sole use of X-ray vision in the series). The first time Superman would change into his costume in a phonebooth The second entry, The Mechanical Monsters (1941) with the super-heroīattling giant flying robots - and marking a redesigned Lois Lane and
Films of 1941 series#
Premiered in late September of 1941, introduced the terms "fasterĪnd "Look, up in the sky!" The most famous of the series was
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Theįirst Superman short, Superman (1941) (aka The Mad Scientist), which Superman cartoons (the pilot and eight subsequent shorts). Dave and Max Fleischer were responsible for the first nine Timeline of Greatest Film History Milestones and Turning Points