Movie Stars Of The 1940s. John Ridgely was a versatile character actor who made over 100 films at Warner Brothers during the 1930s and 1940s. A progressive era in Hollywood film-making in the early 1930s and a lax code of censorship allowed sin to rule the movies.
Ava Gardner stole hearts in the 1946 film The Killers which propelled her into super-stardom. Starting out in bit roles in such films as Dark Victory 1939 They Died with Their Boots On 1941 and The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942 Ridgely eventually graduated to larger. Sort by total adjusted worldwide box office from 1940 to 1949.
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Claudette Colbert Actress It Happened One Night. This list includes all of the most well-known movie actors of the 1940s that are living updated as of May 27 2020. Top Movie Stars 1940-1949 Main Table The really cool thing about this table is that it is user-sortable. The most successful film of the decade was Samuel Goldwyn s The Best Years of Our Lives.
