In Modern Times, the last film featuring the little tramp, Charlie Chaplin sets his character in a mechanistic, impersonal world

Paul Robeson sings 'Ol' Man River' in the film of Jerome Kern's Showboat

Alexander Korda's bleakly visionary film Things to Come is based on the H.G. Wells novel of 1933

French film director Jean Renoir makes La Grande Illusion, set in World War I

Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first animated feature film

Russian film-maker Sergei Eisenstein directs Alexander Nevsky, with music by Prokofiev

Victor Fleming directs 17-year-old Judy Garland in the film of the famous musical The Wizard of Oz

Ninotchka, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, is another great success for the Swedish film star Greta Garbo

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh star in Gone with the Wind, based on Margaret Mitchell's novel

John Ford directs John Wayne in the film Stagecoach

Richard Addinsell writes the Warsaw Concerto as music for the film Dangerous Moonlight

Bob Hope and Bing Crosby star together in Road to Singapore, the first of a long series of 'Road' films

British actors Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier marry

John Ford directs Henry Fonda in the film of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

Charlie Chaplin ridicules Hitler in The Great Dictator, the first film in which he speaks coherent dialogue

Greta Garbo receives terrible reviews for Two Faced Woman, which turns out to be her last film and the beginning of a long retirement

Citizen Kane is written, directed and starred in by 26-year-old Orson Welles

John Huston, for his first film, directs Humphrey Bogart in the third screen adaptation of The Maltese Falcon

Leslie Howard directs and stars in The First of the Few, about the creator of the Spitfire, with music by William Walton

David Lean and Noel Coward create a classic wartime film, In Which We Serve about the crew of a naval destroyer

Italian director Luchino Visconti's first film, Obsession, brings neorealism to the cinema

Michael Curtiz directs Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca

James Cagney stars in the screen musical Yankee Doodle Dandy, directed by Michael Curtiz

Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star in the first of many films together, Woman of the Year

11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor co-stars with a collie in Lassie Come Home