The Year - 1938
The Family News..:

Lucille was born to Rose (Farenga) & Sam Siciliano in Chicago on Feb. 8th.

The #1 Songs Were .....
A-Tisket, A-TasketElla Fitzgerald
Alexander's Ragtime BandBing Crosby and Connee Boswell
Bei Mir Bist Du Sch�n (Means You're Grand)The Andrews Sisters
Cathedral In the PinesShep Fields
Change PartnersFred Astaire - Jimmy Dorsey
Cry, Baby, CryLarry Clinton
Don't Be That WayBenny Goodman
Heart and SoulLarry Clinton
I Won't Tell A SoulAndy Kirk
I've Got A Pocketful Of DreamsBing Crosby - Russ Morgan
Love Walked InSammy Kaye
Music, Maestro, PleaseTommy Dorsey
My ReverieLarry Clinton
Nice Work If You Can Get ItFred Astaire
Please Be KindRed Norvo
RosalieSammy Kaye
Thanks For the MemoryShep Fields


AT THE MOVIES....
Best Picture - You Can't Take it With You.
The Adventures of Robin Hood, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Boy's Town, The Citadel, Four Daughters. Grand Illusion, Jezebel, Pygmalion, Test Pilot.

Best Actor - Spencer Tracy, Boy's Town.
Charles Boyer (Algiers), James Cagney (Angels With Dirty Faces), Robert Donat (The Citadel), Leslie Howard (Pygmalion).

Best Actress - Bette Davis, Jezebel.
Fay Bainter (White Banners), Wendy Hiller (Pygmalion), Norma Shearer (Marie Antoinette), Margaret Sullavan (Three Comrades).

Supporting Actor - Walter Brennan, Kentucky
Supporting Actress - Fay Bainter, Jezebel.
Best Director - Frank Capra, You Can't Take It With You.

In The News..:
Hitler marches into Austria; political and geographical union of Germany and Austria proclaimed.
Munich Pact - Britain, France, and Italy agree to let Germany partition Czechoslovakia.
Douglas �Wrong-Way� Corrigan flies from New York to Dublin.
Fair Labor Standards Act establishes minimum wage.
Orson Welles's radio broadcast War of the Worlds.

Last updated on Monday, May 15, 2000