{"id":19732,"date":"2012-02-06T06:01:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=19732"},"modified":"2016-02-12T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T16:58:39","slug":"best-picture-of-the-1940s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=19732","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Best 1940s &#8220;Best Picture&#8221; Winner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5587\" title=\"Classic Movies: What's the &quot;Best Picture&quot; of the 1940s?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/button-poll12.png\" alt=\"Classic Movies: What's the &quot;Best Picture&quot; of the 1940s?\" width=\"170\" height=\"160\" \/><div id=\"polls-151\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_151\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_151_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"c38ac4ec54\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"151\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<div id=\"polls-151-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\">\r\n<ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1500\" name=\"poll_151\" value=\"1500\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1500\">Rebecca (1940)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1501\" name=\"poll_151\" value=\"1501\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1501\">How Green Was My Valley (1941)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1502\" name=\"poll_151\" value=\"1502\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1502\">Mrs. Miniver (1942)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1503\" name=\"poll_151\" value=\"1503\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1503\">Casablanca (1943)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1504\" name=\"poll_151\" value=\"1504\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1504\">Going My Way (1944)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1505\" name=\"poll_151\" value=\"1505\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1505\">The Lost Weekend (1945)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1506\" name=\"poll_151\" value=\"1506\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1506\">The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1507\" name=\"poll_151\" value=\"1507\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1507\">Gentleman's Agreement (1947)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1508\" name=\"poll_151\" value=\"1508\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1508\">Hamlet (1948)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-1509\" name=\"poll_151\" value=\"1509\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-1509\">All the King's Men (1949)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p class=\"leftmargin\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"Vote\" class=\"btn btn-primary\" onclick=\"poll_vote(151);\" onkeypress=\"poll_result(151);\" \/> <a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(151); return false;\" onkeypress=\"poll_result(151); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\" class=\"btn btn\">View Results<\/a><\/p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/category\/movie-polls\/\">To see a complete list of all movie polls, click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"1940 Academy Award Oscar List\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/oscars.asp?loc=oscars&amp;distinct=13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">View The COMPLETE Oscar\u00ae Video List!<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To see a complete list of all movie polls, click here View The COMPLETE Oscar\u00ae Video List!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1172],"tags":[1442],"coauthors":[1720],"class_list":["post-19732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-polls","tag-1940s-movies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Classic Movies: What&#039;s the &quot;Best Picture&quot; of the 1940s?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Classic movie lovers what movie from the 1940s do you think is the best? 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