Films byTexts by 1940
FILM
John Ford, 1940, 129’

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

 

FILM
Ernst Lubitsch, 1940, 99’

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realizing that they’re falling in love through the post as each other’s anonymous pen pal.

 

FILM
George Cukor, 1940, 142’

George Kittredge: You’re like some marvelous, distant, well... queen, I guess. You’re so cool and fine and always so much your own. There’s a kind of beautiful purity about you, Tracy, like... like a statue.

Tracy Lord: George...

FILM
Preston Sturges, 1940, 82’

“WHATTA GUY! He loved a fight or a frolic... and he usually found one!”

 

Skeeters: If it wasn’t for graft, you’d get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition. Jellyfish.