Remembering the years
By Times Staff
Published August 28, 2005
Academy Awards
Best Picture winners from the war years
1942: Mrs. Miniver; The Minivers, an English "middle-class" family, experience life in the first months of World War II; starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon.
1943: Casablanca; Set in occupied Africa during the early days of World War II, an American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications; starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart.
1944: Going My Way; A new priest shows up at the parish of a crusty old priest named Father Fitzgibbon; starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald.
1945: The Lost Weekend; The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout; starring Jane Wyman and Ray Milland.
Source: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Awards Database; imdb.com
Popular Songs1942: Don't Get Around Much Anymore by Duke Ellington, lyrics by Bob Russell
Serenade in Blue by Harry Warren, lyrics by Mack Gordon
Jingle Jangle Jingle by Joseph J. Lelley, lyrics by Frank Loesser
I've Heard That Song Before by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn (for the film Youth on Parade)
1943: Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me by Duke Ellington, lyrics by Bob Russell
Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer by Jimmy McHugh, lyrics by Harold Adamson
How Many Hearts Have You Broken? by Al Kaufman, lyrics by Marty Symes
Besame Mucho by Mexican songwriter Consuelo Velazquez
1944: Moonlight in Vermont by Karl Senssdorf, lyrics by John Blackburn
Sentimental Journey by Ben Homer, Bud Green, and Les Brown
Rum and Coca-Cola by Jeri Sullivan and Paul Baron, lyrics by comedian Morey Amsterdam
You Always Hurt the One You Love by Robert Allan and Doris Fisher
I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts by English songwriter Fred Heatherton
1945: It's Been a Long, Long Time by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn
I'm Beginning to See the Light by Don George, Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington, and Harry James
Laura by David Raksin, lyrics by Johnny Mercer (title song from the 1944 movie)
Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Source: The People's Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to the Present edited by James Trager
Fiction1942
To Be a Pilgrim by Joyce Cary
The Stranger by Albert Camus
1943
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
1944
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
1945
The Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Source: The People's Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to the Present edited by James Trager