1940s
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- Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is released in 1946
- Michael Curtiz's Casablanca is released in 1942
- Orson Welles' Citizen Kane is released in 1941
- Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity is released in 1944
- William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver is released in 1942
- Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious is released in 1946
- Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940 film) and Fantasia are released in 1940.
- Walt Disney's Dumbo is released in 1941
- Walt Disney's Bambi is released in 1942
- The Abstract Expressionism movement in art emerges
- Bebop emerges
- Rhythm and blues emerges
- Rock and roll emerges
- George Orwell publishes Animal Farm
- The Gremlins, the first book by Roald Dahl is published in 1943
- Arthur Miller publishes Death of a Salesman
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