Repeated horrifying personal tragedy finds Andy Hardy

THE HUMAN COMEDY

1943

Directed by Clarence Brown

Written by Howard Estabrook, Herman J. Mankiewicz, and William Saroyan

Spoilers: moderate

Have you considered a centrifuge?

MADAME CURIE

1943

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy

Written by Paul Osborn, Paul Rameau, Walter Reisch, and Aldous Huxley (based on the book by Éve Curie)

Spoiler alert: inapplicable

Walt Disney, part VIII: The bomber sometimes gets through

VICTORY THROUGH AIR POWER

A cartoon about strategic bombing?  Walt, did you make this for me?

1943

Directed by James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, H.C. Potter, and Perce Pearce
Based on the book by Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky

Spoiler alert: the USAF exists

Walt Disney, part VII: Won't you be our neighbor?

SALUDOS AMIGOS

A reasonably pleasant diversion for a film made at the behest of the U.S. State Department, Saludos Amigos has some pretty low lows, but its usual tack is genial, colorful, and funny, and if you showed it in a classroom today it's at least possible you might not get mobbed on Twitter, which for a Disney film made in 1942 about people other than Europeans is, frankly, a sterling achievement.

1942 (Brazil)/1943 (USA)

Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Norm Ferguson

Spoiler alert: mild