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| Great Film Tagline: | Film Title: |
| "The World's Greatest Dancers in the World's Greatest Musical Show!" | Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) |
| "Walt Disney's Technicolor FEATURE triumph" |  Fantasia (1940) |
| "She learned about men from him!" | His Girl Friday (1940) |
| "Broadway's howling year-run comedy hit of the snooty society beauty who slipped and fell - IN LOVE!" | The Philadelphia Story (1940) |
| "For anyone who has ever wished upon a star." | Pinocchio (1940) |
| "The shadow of this woman darkened their love." | Rebecca (1940) |
| "EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT IT! It's Terrific!" | Citizen Kane (1941) |
| "A picture different from anything ever screened before!" | Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) |
| "Millions Have Read This Great Novel... Millions more will see an even greater picture!" | How Green Was My Valley (1941) |
| "When you deal a fast shuffle...Love is in the cards." | The Lady Eve (1941) |
| "A story as EXPLOSIVE as his BLAZING automatics!" | The Maltese Falcon (1941) |
| "Veronica Lake's on the take." | Sullivan's Travels (1941) |
| "They had a date with fate in Casablanca." | Casablanca (1942) |
| "She Was Marked With The Curse Of Those Who Slink And Court And Kill By Night!" | Cat People (1942) |
| "Real life screened
more daringly than it's ever been before!" |
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) |
| "The Yankee Doodle Dandiest Entertainment of 'Em All!" | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) |
| "From the Moment they met it was Murder!" | Double Indemnity (1944) |
| "The story of a love
that became the most fearful thing that ever happened to a woman!" |
Laura (1944) |
| "M·G·M's glorious love story with music" | Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) |
| "An Original Philip Marlowe Mystery" | Murder, My Sweet (1944) |
| "Humphrey Bogart...with his kind of woman in a powerful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's most daring man-woman story!" | To Have and Have Not (1944) |
| "Gable's Back and Garson's Got Him" | Adventure (1945) |
| "The Screen Dares
To Open The Strange And Savage Pages Of A Shocking Best-Seller!" |
The Lost Weekend (1945) |
| "A mother's love leads to murder." | Mildred Pierce (1945) |
| "Three wonderful loves in the best picture of the year!" | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) |
| "The picture they were born for!" | The Big Sleep (1946) |
| "There NEVER was a woman like Gilda!" | Gilda (1946) |
| "They're making memories tonight!" | It's A Wonderful Life (1946) |
| "TENSE! TAUT! TERRIFIC! told the untamed Hemingway way!" | The Killers (1946) |
| "She was everything the West was - young, fiery, exciting!" | My Darling Clementine (1946) |
| "Notorious woman of affairs... Adventurous man of the world!" | Notorious (1946) |
| "Their Love was a Flame that Destroyed!" | The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) |
| "The guy with the dynamite heart meets the girl with the firecracker eyes!" | Magic Town (1947) |
| "A MAN - Trying to run away from his past... A WOMAN - Trying to escape her future!" | Out Of The Past (1947) |
| "More howls than you can shake a shiver at!!!" | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) |
| ""I told you... you know nothing about wickedness" | The Lady From Shanghai (1948) |
| "Dance she did, and dance she must - between her two loves" | The Red Shoes (1948) |
| "The nearer they get to their treasure, the farther they get from the law." | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) |
| "It's The Hilarious Answer To Who Wears The Pants!" | Adam's Rib (1949) |
| "I Want a Man...Not a Human Punching Bag!" | The Set-Up (1949) |
| "Hunted by men...Sought by WOMEN!" | The Third Man (1949) |
| "Pick up the pieces folks, Jimmy's in action again!" | White Heat (1949) |
