Tag Archives: 1940s

William Pitt the Younger, son of a famous politician father, becomes the youngest Prime Minister England has ever known Read More »

Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen Read More »

A dancer attempts to escape from the narrow conventions of society and from the fate foretold for her at her birth. Read More »

Gunfighter “Brazos” Kane lays aside his guns “forever” when he is forced to shoot his best friend Read More »

Three British sailors find they’ve accidentally strayed on board a Nazi ship during WWII. Read More »

Tyrone Power is a pilots’ pilot, but he doesn’t believe in anything beyond his own abilities. Read More »

In the early years of World War II, a German U-boat (U-37) sinks Allied shipping in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Read More »

Throughout the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the people was frequently advised that “A raid happened last night over…, One (or more) Our Aircraft Is Missing”. Read More »

Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside slips on the ice on his way into the home of a prominent Ohio family. Read More »

Working class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life. Read More »