1940

• On February 29, Gone with the Wind wins the Academy Award for best motion picture.
• On June 12, American artists vote to withdraw from the Venice Art Exhibit because of the war.
• On October 22, Piet Mondrian arrives in New York, in exile from the war in Europe.
• On October 31, the Hollywood film industry pledges facilities to produce army training films.
• On November 14, the American Academy of Arts and Letters gives the Howells Medal for Fiction to Ellen Glasgow for the most distinguished work of the past five years.

MOVIES:

Fantasia, Walt Disney feature-length animation; The Grapes of Wrath, starring Henry Fonda, directed by John Ford; The Great Dictator, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin; Knute Rockne, All-American, starring Ronald Reagan; The Philadelphia Story, starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant,...