--- description: Pinocchio (Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Geppetto, Figaro, J. Worthington Foulfellow, Giddy, Monstro; TIME, Feb. 26). Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Albert Basserman,... title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 4, 1940 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 4, 1940 by [TIME](/author/time/) Mar 4, 1940 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Mar 4, 1940 5:00 AM CUT Pinocchio (Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Geppetto, Figaro, J. Worthington Foulfellow, Giddy, Monstro; TIME, Feb. 26). Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Albert Basserman, Sig Rumann, Maria Ouspenskaya; TIME, Feb. 19). The Grapes of Wrath (Jane Darwell, Russell Simpson, Henry Fonda, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, John Qualen, Dorris Bowdon; TIME, Feb. 12). Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 4, 1940 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6762960/cinema-current-choice-mar-4-1940/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6762960/cinema-current-choice-mar-4-1940/"},"headline":"Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 4, 1940","datePublished":"1940-03-04T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-28T17:58:54.186Z","description":"Pinocchio (Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Geppetto, Figaro, J. Worthington Foulfellow, Giddy, Monstro; TIME, Feb. 26). Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Albert Basserman,...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6762960/cinema-current-choice-mar-4-1940/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6762960/cinema-current-choice-mar-4-1940/","name":"Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 4, 1940"}}]}] ```