1942 in film

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• January 16 - Actress Carole Lombard
  Carole Lombard
  
  Carole Lombard , born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was an Oscar-nominated United States Actor. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in several classic films of the 1930s, most notably in the 1936 film My Man Godfrey....
   is killed in a plane crash west of Las Vegas
  Las Vegas, Nevada
  
  Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
   while returning home to Los Angeles
  Los Ángeles
  
  Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
   from a War Bond tour.
• June 4 - Mrs. Miniver
  Mrs. Miniver (film)
  
  Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 in film drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson in the title role. It was produced as a propaganda film aimed at ending American isolation from World War II, and was based on the fictional English homemaker created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns, Mrs....
  , starring Greer Garson
  Greer Garson
  
  'Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson', Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom-born actor who was very popular during the years of World War II. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress award for Mrs....
   and Walter Pidgeon
  Walter Pidgeon
  
  Walter Davis Pidgeon was an American actor of Canada birth, who lived most of his life in the United States, and eventually became a U.S. citizen....
  , opens at Radio City Music Hall
  Radio City Music Hall
  
  Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city....
   in New York
  New York
  
  The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
  , in what will become a record-breaking 10-week run.
• August 13 - Walt Disney's
  Walt Disney
  
  Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
   animated film Bambi
  Bambi
  
  Bambi is a 1942 animated feature produced by Walt Disney and originally released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13 1942. The fifth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film is based on the 1923 book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten....
   opens at Radio City Music Hall
  Radio City Music Hall
  
  Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city....
   in New York
  New York City
  
  The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
  .
• November 11 - Road to Morocco
  Road to Morocco
  
  Road to Morocco is a 1942 Academy Award nominated comedy film which tells the story of two fast-talking guys who find themselves tossed up on a desert shore and sold into slavery to a beautiful princess....
  , starring Bob Hope
  Bob Hope
  
  Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
  , Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
  , and Dorothy Lamour
  Dorothy Lamour
  
  Dorothy Lamour was an United States film actor. She is probably best-remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies co-starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby....
  , premieres.
• November 26 - The film Casablanca
  Casablanca (film)
  
  Casablanca is an Cinema of the United States romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre....
   premieres at the Hollywood Theater in New York City
  New York City
  
  The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
  .

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Academy Awards

• Best Picture
  Academy Award for Best Picture
  
  The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
  : Mrs. Miniver
  Mrs. Miniver (film)
  
  Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 in film drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson in the title role. It was produced as a propaganda film aimed at ending American isolation from World War II, and was based on the fictional English homemaker created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns, Mrs....
  - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Best Director: William Wyler
  William Wyler
  
  William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
   - Mrs. Miniver
  Mrs. Miniver (film)
  
  Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 in film drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson in the title role. It was produced as a propaganda film aimed at ending American isolation from World War II, and was based on the fictional English homemaker created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns, Mrs....
  
• Best Actor
  Academy Award for Best Actor
  
  Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  : James Cagney
  James Cagney
  
  James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American film star. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guy"s....
   - Yankee Doodle Dandy
  Yankee Doodle Dandy
  
  Yankee Doodle Dandy is a biopic about George M. Cohan, the actor-singer-dancer-playwright-songwriter-producer-theatre owner-director-choreographer known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway", starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston and Richard Whorf, and featuring Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney....
  
• Best Actress
  Academy Award for Best Actress
  
  Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  : Greer Garson
  Greer Garson
  
  'Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson', Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom-born actor who was very popular during the years of World War II. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress award for Mrs....
   - Mrs. Miniver
  Mrs. Miniver (film)
  
  Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 in film drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson in the title role. It was produced as a propaganda film aimed at ending American isolation from World War II, and was based on the fictional English homemaker created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns, Mrs....
  
• Best Supporting Actor
  Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
  
  Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  : Van Heflin
  Van Heflin
  
  Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin, Jr. was an Academy Award-winning United States film and theater actor. By his own acknowledgment not a classically handsome actor, he played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man....
   - Johnny Eager
  Johnny Eager
  
  Johnny Eager is a 1942 film noir starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner. Van Heflin won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.The film is featured in the comedy spoof Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid ....
  
• Best Supporting Actress
  Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
  
  Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  : Teresa Wright
  Teresa Wright
  
  Teresa Wright was an Academy Awards-winning United States actor....
   - Mrs. Miniver
  Mrs. Miniver (film)
  
  Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 in film drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson in the title role. It was produced as a propaganda film aimed at ending American isolation from World War II, and was based on the fictional English homemaker created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns, Mrs....
  
• Special Academy Award: In Which We Serve
  In Which We Serve
  
  In Which We Serve is a 1942 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom war film directed by David Lean and No?l Coward. The screenplay by Coward was inspired by the exploits of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who was in command of the destroyer HMS Kelly when it was sunk during the Battle of Crete....
  

Films released in 1942

• Across the Pacific
  Across the Pacific
  
  Across the Pacific is a 1942 in film spy film set on the eve of the entry of the United States into World War II. The film was directed first by John Huston, then by Vincent Sherman after Huston joined the United States Army Signal Corps....
  
• Ala-Arriba!
  Ala-Arriba! (film)
  
  Ala-Arriba! is a 1942 in film Portugal romantic film docufiction set in P?voa de Varzim, a traditional Portuguese fishing town.Dealing with ethnographic matters, it may be considered as an ethnofiction....
  
• Alias Boston Blackie, Starring Chester Morris
  Chester Morris
  
  John Chester Brooks Morris was an United States actor.Chester Morris is most famous for his role in the Boston Blackie detective series of the 1940s....
  , Adele Mara
  Adele Mara
  
  Adele Mara , also known as Adelaide Delgado, is an American actress, who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s.One of her early roles was as a receptionist in the Three Stooges film I Can Hardly Wait ....
  , and Richard Lane
• Andy Hardy's Double Life, starring Lewis Stone
  Lewis Stone
  
  Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
  , Mickey Rooney
  Mickey Rooney
  
  Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  , Cecilia Parker
  Cecilia Parker
  
  Cecilia Parker was a film actress.She was brought to southern California as a child by her mother, Mrs. Naudy Anna Parker. Her father was an England soldier....
  , and Fay Holden
  Fay Holden
  
  Fay Holden , was an United States actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1935 in film and 1958 in film, but is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Emily Hardy, Mickey Rooney's mother in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Andy Hardy movie series....
  
• Arabian Nights
  Arabian Nights (1942 film)
  
  Arabian Nights is a 1942 adventure film starring Sabu Dastagir, Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Leif Erickson and directed by John Rawlins . The film is derived from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights but owes more to the imagination of Universal Pictures than the original Arabian stories....
  
• Bambi
  Bambi
  
  Bambi is a 1942 animated feature produced by Walt Disney and originally released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13 1942. The fifth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film is based on the 1923 book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten....
  
• The Black Swan
  The Black Swan (film)
  
  The Black Swan is a 1942 in film swashbuckler Technicolor film by Henry King , based on a novel by Rafael Sabatini, and starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara....
  
• Bullet Scars
• Captains of the Clouds
  Captains of the Clouds
  
  Captains of the Clouds is a Warner Bros. war film, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney. It was produced by William Cagney , with Hal B....
  
• Casablanca
  Casablanca (film)
  
  Casablanca is an Cinema of the United States romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre....
  
• Cat People
• Commandos Strike at Dawn
  Commandos Strike at Dawn
  
  Commandos Strike at Dawn is a war film directed by John Farrow and written by Irwin Shaw from a story by C.S. Forester, starring Paul Muni,Anna Lee, Lillian Gish and Cedric Hardwicke....
  
• The Courtship of Andy Hardy,starring Lewis Stone
  Lewis Stone
  
  Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
  , Mickey Rooney
  Mickey Rooney
  
  Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  , Cecilia Parker
  Cecilia Parker
  
  Cecilia Parker was a film actress.She was brought to southern California as a child by her mother, Mrs. Naudy Anna Parker. Her father was an England soldier....
  , and Fay Holden
  Fay Holden
  
  Fay Holden , was an United States actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1935 in film and 1958 in film, but is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Emily Hardy, Mickey Rooney's mother in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Andy Hardy movie series....
  
• Flying Tigers
  Flying Tigers (film)
  
  Flying Tigers is a 1942 in film black-and-white war film, starring John Wayne and John Carroll as mercenary fighter pilots fighting the Japanese in China prior to the U.S....
  
• Gentleman Jim
  Gentleman Jim (1942 film)
  
  Gentleman Jim is a 1942 in film film starring Errol Flynn as heavyweight boxing champion James J. Corbett. The supporting cast includes Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, Sr., William Frawley, and Ward Bond....
  
• The Ghost of Frankenstein
  The Ghost of Frankenstein
  
  The Ghost of Frankenstein, was an United States monster film horror film released in 1942. The movie was the fourth of in a series of films produced by Universal Studios based upon characters in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein and features Lon Chaney, Jr....
  starring Lon Chaney Jr.
• The Great Man's Lady
  The Great Man's Lady
  
  The Great Man's Lady is a 1942 in film western film depicting a pioneer woman over the course of her long life and the two men who love her....
  , directed by William A. Wellman
  William A. Wellman
  
  William Augustus Wellman was an United States movie director, noted for directing the film which received the first Academy Award for Best Picture, Wings ....
  , and starring Barbara Stanwyck
  Barbara Stanwyck
  
  Barbara Stanwyck was an United States actor, a star of film and television, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as Cecil B....
  
• Holiday Inn
  Holiday Inn (film)
  
  Holiday Inn is a 1942 film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, which featured the music of Irving Berlin. The film features twelve new songs, one brief use of "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," written in 1917 for the World War I musical "Yip Yip Yaphank" which was reprised on Broadway in 1942 under the title "This Is the Army"...
  
• I Married a Witch
  I Married a Witch
  
  I Married a Witch is a fantasy film romantic comedy film, directed by Ren? Clair, and starring Veronica Lake as a witch whose plan for revenge goes comically awry, with Frederic March as her foil....
  
• In Old California
  In Old California (1942 film)
  
  In Old California is a 1942 film starring John Wayne as a Boston pharmacist who relocates to Sacramento during the Gold Rush. The movie was directed by William C....
  , starring John Wayne
  John Wayne
  
  John Wayne was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film actor. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon....
  
• In Which We Serve
  In Which We Serve
  
  In Which We Serve is a 1942 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom war film directed by David Lean and No?l Coward. The screenplay by Coward was inspired by the exploits of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who was in command of the destroyer HMS Kelly when it was sunk during the Battle of Crete....
  
• Invisible Agent
  Invisible Agent
  
  Invisible Agent was a 1942 science fiction film from Universal. This movie was a war-time propaganda production that was part of a Hollywood effort to boost morale at the home front....
  
• Johnny Eager
  Johnny Eager
  
  Johnny Eager is a 1942 film noir starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner. Van Heflin won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.The film is featured in the comedy spoof Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid ....
  
• Jungle Book
  Jungle Book (1942 film)
  
  Jungle Book is an United States color 1942 in film action/adventure film based on the Rudyard Kipling novel, The Jungle Book. The film was directed by Zolt?n Korda based on a screeplay adaptation by Laurence Stallings....
  
• Kings Row
  Kings Row
  
  Kings Row is a 1942 film which tells the story of a group of youths who grow up leading supposedly idyllic lives in a small town with disturbing secrets....
  , starring Ronald Reagan
  Ronald Reagan
  
  Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
   and Claude Rains
  Claude Rains
  
  William Claude Rains was an England award-winning actor and film star whose career spanned 47 years. He later held Cinema of the United States citizenship and was best known for his many roles in Hollywood films....
  
• Listen to Britain
  Listen to Britain
  
  Listen to Britain is a 1942 Cinema of the United Kingdom Propaganda film Short subject by Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister. The film was produced during World War II by the Crown Film Unit, an organisation within the British Government's Ministry of Information to support the Allied war effort....
  , British propaganda film
  Propaganda film
  
  A propaganda film is a film, either a documentary film-style production or a fictional screenplay, that is produced to convince the viewer of a certain political point or influence the opinions or behavior of people, often by providing deliberately misleading, propaganda content....
   directed by Humphrey Jennings
  Humphrey Jennings
  
  Humphrey Jennings , was an England filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization. Jennings was described by film maker Lindsay Anderson as: "the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced."...
  
• The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
• The Magnificent Ambersons
  The Magnificent Ambersons (film)
  
  The Magnificent Ambersons is a Cinema of the United States drama film written and directed by Orson Welles. His second feature film, it is based on the The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington and stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins....
  
• The Major and the Minor
  The Major and the Minor
  
  The Major and the Minor is a 1942 in film film. It is a romantic comedy that represented Billy Wilder's feature debut as film director in Hollywood....
  , directed by Billy Wilder
  Billy Wilder
  
  Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
  
• The Man Who Came to Dinner
  The Man Who Came to Dinner (film)
  
  The Man Who Came to Dinner is a 1942 in film black-and-white comedy film based on the The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman....
  
• Mrs. Miniver
  Mrs. Miniver (film)
  
  Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 in film drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson in the title role. It was produced as a propaganda film aimed at ending American isolation from World War II, and was based on the fictional English homemaker created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns, Mrs....
  
• The Mummy's Tomb
  The Mummy's Tomb
  
  The Mummy's Tomb is the 1942 in film to The Mummy's Hand ....
  
• My Sister Eileen
  My Sister Eileen
  
  My Sister Eileen originated as a series of short stories by Ruth McKenney that eventually evolved into a book, a Play , a musical theatre, two films, and a CBS television series in the 1960-1961 season....
  
• Now, Voyager
  Now, Voyager
  
  Now, Voyager is a 1942 in film United States drama film directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty, who borrowed her title from a line in the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold Want," which reads in its entirety, "The untold want by life and land ne'er granted...
  
• The Palm Beach Story
  The Palm Beach Story
  
  The Palm Beach Story is a romantic comedy film screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor and Rudy Vall?e....
  
• Pardon My Sarong
  Pardon My Sarong
  
  Pardon My Sarong is a 1942 in film comedy film starring Abbott and Costello. Produced during the duo's prime years, Pardon My Sarong is widely regarded as one of Abbott and Costello's best films....
  , starring Bud Abbott
  Bud Abbott
  
  William Alexander ?Bud? Abbott was an United States actor, Film producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the Double act of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello....
   and Lou Costello
  Lou Costello
  
  Lou Costello , was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades....
  
• The Pied Piper
  The Pied Piper (1942 film)
  
  The Pied Piper is a 1942 film in which an Englishman on vacation in France is caught up in the Battle of France, and finds himself taking an ever-growing group of children to safety....
  
• Pittsburgh
  Pittsburgh (1942 film)
  
  Pittsburgh is a 1942 in film feature film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, and John Wayne. Shemp Howard of Three Stooges fame co-stars in a rare dramatic role....
  , starring John Wayne
  John Wayne
  
  John Wayne was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film actor. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon....
  , Marlene Dietrich
  Marlene Dietrich
  
  Marlene Dietrich ; was a German-born American actress, singer and entertainer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself....
  , and Shemp Howard
• Pride of the Yankees starring Gary Cooper
  Gary Cooper
  
  Frank James ?Gary? Cooper was an Cinema of the United States film actor and iconic star. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Western movie he made....
   and Babe Ruth
  Babe Ruth
  
  George Herman Ruth, Jr. , also popularly known as "Babe", "The Bambino", and "The Sultan of Swat", was an United States Major League Baseball baseball player from –....
  
• Random Harvest, starring Ronald Colman
  Ronald Colman
  
  Ronald Colman was an England Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor....
  
• Reap the Wild Wind
  Reap the Wild Wind
  
  Reap the Wild Wind is a serialized story written by Thelma Strabel in 1940 for The Saturday Evening Post. It was the basis for the 1942 in film directed by Cecil B....
  
• Reunion in France
  Reunion in France
  
  Reunion in France is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford, Phillip Dorn, and John Wayne in a story about a woman who, suspecting her well-heeled lover has Nazi connections, aids a downed American flyer....
  
• Ride 'Em Cowboy
  Ride 'Em Cowboy
  
  Ride 'Em Cowboy is a 1942 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello....
  
• Rings on Her Fingers
  Rings on Her Fingers
  
  Rings on Her Fingers is a 1942 in film screwball comedy film starring Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney. A poor man gets mistaken for a millionaire and is swindled out of his life savings....
  
• Rio Rita
  Rio Rita (1942 film)
  
  Rio Rita is a 1942 in film comedy film starring Abbott and Costello. It was based upon the 1927 Flo Ziegfeld Broadway musical, which was previously made into a Rio Rita that starred the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey....
  , starring Bud Abbott
  Bud Abbott
  
  William Alexander ?Bud? Abbott was an United States actor, Film producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the Double act of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello....
   and Lou Costello
  Lou Costello
  
  Lou Costello , was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades....
  
• Road to Morocco
  Road to Morocco
  
  Road to Morocco is a 1942 Academy Award nominated comedy film which tells the story of two fast-talking guys who find themselves tossed up on a desert shore and sold into slavery to a beautiful princess....
  
• Roxie Hart
  Roxie Hart (film)
  
  Roxie Hart is a 1942 in film film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Nigel Bruce, Phil Silvers, William Frawley, and Spring Byington....
  , starring Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  
  Ginger Rogers was an Academy Awards-winning United States film and stage actor, dancer and singer. In a film career spanning 50 years, she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre....
  
• Saboteur
  Saboteur (film)
  
  Saboteur is a 1942 Universal Studios film directed by Alfred Hitchcock with a screenplay written by Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, and Dorothy Parker....
  
• Saludos Amigos
  Saludos Amigos
  
  Saludos Amigos is a 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the 6th animated feature in the List_of_Disney_theatrical_animated_features....
  
• Somewhere I'll Find You
  Somewhere I'll Find You
  
  Somewhere I'll Find You is a film released by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer in 1942 in film. The film stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner. The film took almost two years to complete....
  , starring Clark Gable
  Clark Gable
  
  Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
  
• Song of the Islands, a Darryl F. Zanuck
  Darryl F. Zanuck
  
  Darryl Francis Zanuck was an Academy Award-winning Film producer, writer, actor, Film director, and studio executive who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors ....
   production
• Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
  Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
  
  Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake is a 1942 in film adventure film directed by John Cromwell , starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney....
  
• Sons of the Pioneers, starring Roy Rogers
  Roy Rogers
  
  Roy Rogers , was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the founder of the famous Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger , and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show....
   and George 'Gabby' Hayes
  George 'Gabby' Hayes
  
  George Francis 'Gabby' Hayes was an United States actor. He was best known for his numerous appearances in western movies as the colorful sidekick to the leading man....
  
• The Spoilers
  The Spoilers (1942 film)
  
  The Spoilers is a 1942 film directed by Ray Enright. The movie is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with Marlene Dietrich as Cherry Malotte, Randolph Scott as Alexander McNamara, and John Wayne as Roy Glennister, and culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between McNamara and Glennister....
  
• Tales of Manhattan
  Tales of Manhattan
  
  Tales of Manhattan is a 1942 in film black-and-white anthology film directed by Julien Duvivier.Thirteen writers, including Ben Hecht, Alan Campbell, Ferenc Moln?r, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Donald Ogden Stewart worked on the six stories in this film, three of which were released....
  , all-star cast
• The Talk of the Town
• Tennessee Johnson
  Tennessee Johnson
  
  Tennessee Johnson was a 1942 in film United States film about Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States. It was directed by William Dieterle and written by Milton Ginzburg, Alvin Meyes, John Balderston, and Wells Root....
  
• To Be or Not to Be
  To Be or Not to Be (1942 film)
  
  To Be or Not to Be is a 1942 in film comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, about a troupe of actors in Nazism-occupied Warsaw who use their abilities at disguise and acting to fool the occupying troops....
  , the last film starring Carole Lombard
  Carole Lombard
  
  Carole Lombard , born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was an Oscar-nominated United States Actor. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in several classic films of the 1930s, most notably in the 1936 film My Man Godfrey....
  
• Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die
  Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die
  
  Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die is a Western film released in 1942, starring Richard Dix and Kent Taylor, and directed by William McGann....
  
• Tortilla Flat
  Tortilla Flat (film)
  
  Tortilla Flat is a 1942 film with Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Akim Tamiroff, and Sheldon Leonard based Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck....
  
• Trinity House
  Trinity House
  
  The Corporation of Trinity House is the official General Lighthouse Authority for England, Wales and other British territorial waters . It is responsible for the provision and maintenance of navigational aids such as lighthouses, lightvessels, buoys and maritime radio/satellite communication systems....
  
• The Undying Monster
  The Undying Monster
  
  The Undying Monster is a 1942 in film werewolf film that is also known as The Hammond Mystery. It is based on the 1922 novel by Jessie Douglas Kerruish, reprinted in 2006 by Ash-Tree Press....
  
• Wake Island
  Wake Island (1942 film)
  
  Wake Island is a 1942 film which tells the story of the United States military garrison on Wake Island and the Battle of Wake Island following the attack on Pearl Harbor....
  
• Went the Day Well?
  Went the Day Well?
  
  Went the Day Well? is a United Kingdom war film produced by Ealing Studios in 1942 in film as propaganda. It tells of how an English village is taken over by Fallschirmj?ger....
  
• Who Done It?, starring Bud Abbott
  Bud Abbott
  
  William Alexander ?Bud? Abbott was an United States actor, Film producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the Double act of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello....
   and Lou Costello
  Lou Costello
  
  Lou Costello , was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades....
  
• Woman of the Year
  Woman of the Year
  
  Woman of the Year is a romantic comedy film in which a feminist, chosen "Woman of the Year", tries to keep the spark in her personal relationship....
  
• Yankee Doodle Dandy
  Yankee Doodle Dandy
  
  Yankee Doodle Dandy is a biopic about George M. Cohan, the actor-singer-dancer-playwright-songwriter-producer-theatre owner-director-choreographer known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway", starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston and Richard Whorf, and featuring Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney....
  

Serials

• Captain Midnight
  Captain Midnight (serial)
  
  Captain Midnight was the 17th Serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was based upon the radio adventure serial of the Captain Midnight broadcast from 1938 to 1949....
  , starring Dave O'Brien
  Dave O'Brien (actor)
  
  Dave O'Brien , was an United States film actor, film director and screenwriter. Born David Poole Fronabarger in Big Spring, Texas, O'Brien started his film career in bit parts before gradually winning larger roles, mostly in B pictures....
  , directed by James W. Horne
  James W. Horne
  
  James W. Horne was an early United States actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later....
  
• Don Winslow of the Navy
  Don Winslow of the Navy
  
  Don Winslow of the Navy is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the comic strip of the Don Winslow of the Navy by Commander Frank V. Martinek....
  
• Gang Busters
  Gang Busters (serial)
  
  Gang Busters is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the radio series Gang Busters....
  
• Junior G-Men of the Air
  Junior G-Men of the Air
  
  Junior G-Men of the Air is a Universal Pictures Serial starring the Dead End Kids and the Little Tough Guys....
  , starring the Dead End Kids
  Dead End Kids
  
  The Dead End Kids were a group of young actors from New York, New York who appeared in Sidney Kingsley's Broadway theatre play Dead End in 1935....
  
• King of the Mounties
  King of the Mounties
  
  King of the Mounties is a Republic Pictures Serial ....
  , starring Allan Lane
  Allan Lane
  
  'Allan "Rocky" Lane' was a film studio leading man and star of dozens of cowboy B movie in the 1940s and 1950s, and eventually did the voice of the talking horse on the television series Mr....
  , directed by William Witney
  William Witney
  
  William Nuelsen Witney was an United States film director. He is most famous for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
  
• Overland Mail
  Overland Mail
  
  Overland Mail is a Universal Pictures Serial .It was edited into a film version called The Indian Raiders in 1956 in film.Cast...
  
• Perils of Nyoka
  Perils of Nyoka
  
  Perils of Nyoka is a 1942 in film Republic Pictures Movie serial directed by William Witney. It starred Kay Aldridge as Nyoka the Jungle Girl, a character who first appeared in the Edgar Rice Burroughs-inspired serial "Jungle Girl."...
  , starring Kay Aldridge
  Kay Aldridge
  
  Kay Aldridge was an United States Model and Actor. She is best known for playing feisty and Damsel in distress in black and white Serial during the 1940s....
   & Clayton Moore
  Clayton Moore
  
  Clayton Moore was an United States actor best known for playing the fictional western character The Lone Ranger....
  , directed by William Witney
  William Witney
  
  William Nuelsen Witney was an United States film director. He is most famous for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
  
• Perils of the Royal Mounted
  Perils of the Royal Mounted
  
  Perils of the Royal Mounted was the 18th Serial released by Columbia Pictures....
  , directed by James W. Horne
  James W. Horne
  
  James W. Horne was an early United States actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later....
  
• The Secret Code
  The Secret Code (serial)
  
  The Secret Code was the 19th Serial released by Columbia Pictures. It features the masked hero "The Black Commando" facing Nazi saboteurs, inspired by Republic Pictures' successful Spy Smasher serial of the same year....
  , directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
  Spencer Gordon Bennet
  
  Spencer Gordon Bennet was an United States Film producer and Film director. Known as the "King of Serial Directers" he directed more film serials than any other director....
  
• Spy Smasher
  Spy Smasher (serial)
  
  Spy Smasher is a Republic Pictures movie serial based on the Fawcett Comics character Spy Smasher, which is now the property of DC Comics. It was the 25th of the 66 serials produced by Republic....
  , starring Kane Richmond
  Kane Richmond
  
  Kane Richmond was an American film actor of the 1930s and 1940s, mostly appearing in cliffhangers and serials. He is best known today for his portrayal of the character Lamont Cranston in The Shadow films in addition to his leading role in the successful serials Spy Smasher and Brick Bradford ....
  , directed by William Witney
  William Witney
  
  William Nuelsen Witney was an United States film director. He is most famous for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
  
• The Valley of Vanishing Men
  The Valley of Vanishing Men
  
  The Valley of Vanishing Men was the 20th Serial film released by Columbia Pictures....
  , directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
  Spencer Gordon Bennet
  
  Spencer Gordon Bennet was an United States Film producer and Film director. Known as the "King of Serial Directers" he directed more film serials than any other director....
  

Short film series

• Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy
  
  Laurel and Hardy were a popular comedy team of thin, British-born Stan Laurel and heavy, American-born Oliver Hardy . They became famous during the early half of the 20th century for their work in motion pictures and also appeared on stage throughout America and Europe....
   (1921
  1921 in film
  
  Events* February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.*September 5 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle holds a party in a San Francisco hotel to celebrate his new $3,000,000 three-year contract with Paramount Pictures....
  -1943
  1943 in film
  
  The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
  )
• Our Gang
  Our Gang
  
  Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together....
   (1922
  1922 in film
  
  Events* November 26 - The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor ....
  -1944
  1944 in film
  
  The year 1944 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• The Three Stooges (1934
  1934 in film
  
  Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
  -1959
  1959 in film
  
  The year 1959 in film involved some significant events....
  )

Animated short film series

• Mickey Mouse
  Mickey Mouse
  
  Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney....
   (1928
  1928 in film
  
  EventsAlthough some movies released in 1928 had Sound film, most were still silent film.* July 31 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mascot Leo the Lion roars for the very first time, creating one of the most popular American film logos....
  -1953
  1953 in film
  
  The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Looney Tunes
  Looney Tunes
  
  Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and is Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series....
   (1930
  1930 in film
  
  Events...
  -1969
  1969 in film
  
  The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Terrytoons
  Terrytoons
  
  Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry . The studio, located in suburban New Rochelle, New York, operated from 1928 to 1968....
   (1930
  1930 in film
  
  Events...
  -1964
  1964 in film
  
  The year 1964 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Merrie Melodies
  Merrie Melodies
  
  Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animation distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969. The sister series to Warner's Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies were originally one-shot musical film cartoon shorts before gradually featuring recurring characters....
   (1931
  1931 in film
  
  Events...
  -1969
  1969 in film
  
  The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Scrappy
  Scrappy
  
  Scrappy is a cartoon character created by Dick Huemer for Charles Mintz's Krazy Kat Studio. A cute little round-headed boy, Scrappy often found himself involved in off-beat neighborhood adventures....
   (1931
  1931 in film
  
  Events...
  -1941
  1941 in film
  
  The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Popeye
  Popeye
  
  File:Thimbletheat.jpgPopeye the Sailor is a fictional hero famous for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous TV shows....
   (1933
  1933 in film
  
  Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
  -1957
  1957 in film
  
  The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Color Rhapsodies
  Color Rhapsodies
  
  Color Rhapsodies was a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles B. Mintz for Columbia Pictures. They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of Walt Disney's Technicolor Silly Symphonies....
   (1934
  1934 in film
  
  Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
  -1949
  1949 in film
  
  The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Donald Duck
  Donald Duck
  
  Donald Duck is a cartoon fictional character from The Walt Disney Company. Donald is a white anthropomorphism duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet....
   (1937
  1937 in film
  
  The year 1937 in film involved some significant events....
  -1956
  1956 in film
  
  The year 1956 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Pluto
  Pluto (Disney)
  
  Pluto is an animated cartoon character made famous in a series of The Walt Disney Company short animation. He has most frequently appeared as Mickey Mouse's pet dog....
   (1937
  1937 in film
  
  The year 1937 in film involved some significant events....
  -1951
  1951 in film
  
  The year 1951 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Walter Lantz Cartunes (also known as New Universal Cartoons or Cartune Comedies) (1938
  1938 in film
  
  The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
  -1942)
• Goofy
  Goofy
  
  Goofy is an animated cartoon character from the Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse universe. He is an anthropomorphic dog and is one of Mickey Mouse's best friends....
   (1939
  1939 in film
  
  The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
  -1955
  1955 in film
  
  The year 1955 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Andy Panda
  Andy Panda
  
  Andy Panda is a cartoon character who starred in List of Andy Panda theatrical cartoons of animated cartoon short subjects produced by Walter Lantz....
   (1939
  1939 in film
  
  The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
  -1949
  1949 in film
  
  The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Tom and Jerry (MGM)
  Tom and Jerry (MGM)
  
  Tom and Jerry is a series of animated theatrical short subject created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that centered on a never-ending rivalry between a housecat and a mouse whose chases and battles often involved comic violence....
   (1940
  1940 in film
  
  The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
  -1958
  1958 in film
  
  The year 1958 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Woody Woodpecker
  Woody Woodpecker
  
  Woody Woodpecker is an animation fictional character, an anthropomorphic woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz Studio animation studio and distributed by Universal Studios....
   (1941
  1941 in film
  
  The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
  -1949
  1949 in film
  
  The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Swing Symphonies (1941
  1941 in film
  
  The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
  -1945
  1945 in film
  
  The year 1945 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• The Fox and the Crow
  The Fox and the Crow
  
  The Fox and the Crow are a pair of anthropomorphic cartoon characters created by Frank Tashlin for the Screen Gems studio. The characters, the refined but gullible Fauntleroy Fox and the streetwise Crawford Crow, appeared in a series of animated short subjects released by Screen Gems through its parent company, Columbia Pictures, and were Scr...
   (1941
  1941 in film
  
  The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
  -1950
  1950 in film
  
  The year 1950 in film involved some significant events....
  )

Births

• January 3 - John Thaw
  John Thaw
  
  John Edward Thaw Order of the British Empire was an England actor, who made his television d?but in the military police drama Redcap , and subsequently appeared in a range of television, Theatre and Film roles, his most popular being police and legal dramas such as The Sweeney, Inspector Morse and Kavanagh QC....
  , actor (+ 2002
  2002 in film
  
  The year '2002 in film' involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Litt...
  )
• January 8 - Yvette Mimieux
  Yvette Mimieux
  
  Yvette Carmen Mimieux is a now-retired United States movie and television actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California to a France father and Mexico mother, Carmen Montemayor....
  , actress
• January 9 - Susannah York
  Susannah York
  
  Susannah York is an Academy Award-nominated England film and television actor....
  , actress
• January 19 - Michael Crawford
  Michael Crawford
  
  Michael Crawford Order of the British Empire is an English people actor and singer. He has won critical acclaim and numerous awards during his career, which includes radio, television and stage ....
  , singer, actor
• February 13 - Peter Tork
  Peter Tork
  
  Peter Tork is an United States musician and actor, best known as a member of The Monkees. Although born in 1942, many news articles will have him listed as born in 1944 as this was the date given on early Monkees press releases....
  , musician/actor
• March 28 - Mike Newell
  Mike Newell (director)
  
  Michael Cormac "Mike" Newell is an England film director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television....
  , British film director
• April 23 - Sandra Dee
  Sandra Dee
  
  Sandra Dee was an American film actress.Dee began her career as a model and progressed to film. Best known for her portrayal of Ingenue , Dee won a Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress in 1959 as one of the year's most promising newcomers, and over several years her films were popular....
  , actress
• July 1 – Geneviève Bujold
  Geneviève Bujold
  
  Genevi?ve Bujold is an Academy Award-nominated Canada actor....
  , French-Canadian actress
• July 13 - Harrison Ford
  Harrison Ford
  
  Harrison Ford is an United Statesn actor. Ford is best known for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy, and as the Indiana Jones in the Indiana Jones franchise#Films film series....
  , American actor/producer
• October 22 - John Broderick, producer, director, actor
• October 22 - Annette Funicello
  Annette Funicello
  
  Annette Joanne Funicello is an United States singer and actress. She was Walt Disney's most popular Mickey Mouse Club, and went on to appear in a series of beach party films....
  , American actress, singer
• October 31 - David Ogden Stiers
  David Ogden Stiers
  
  David Ogden Stiers is an United States actor, voice actor, and musician, noted for his role in the television sitcom M*A*S*H as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the science fiction drama The Dead Zone as The_Dead_Zone_#Characters....
  , American actor
• November 2 - Stefanie Powers
  Stefanie Powers
  
  Stefanie Powers is an Emmy Award-nominated United States actress and singer, who's best known for her role as Robert Wagner's wife and crime-fighting partner, Jennifer Hart, on the popular 1980s crime drama, Hart to Hart....
  , American actress
• November 21 - Al Matthews
  Al Matthews
  
  Al Matthews is a United Kingdom-based United States actor and singer, perhaps best known as Sergeant Apone in the 1986 film, Aliens .Matthews was born in Brooklyn, New York....
  , American actor
• November 17 - Martin Scorsese
  Martin Scorsese
  
  Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
  , director

Deaths

• January 16 - Carole Lombard
  Carole Lombard
  
  Carole Lombard , born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was an Oscar-nominated United States Actor. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in several classic films of the 1930s, most notably in the 1936 film My Man Godfrey....
  , actress
• January 31 - Rolf Wenkhaus
  Rolf Wenkhaus
  
  Rolf Wenkhaus was a German people child actor who is most likely recalled for his role of Emil Tischbein in the 1931 film Emil and the Detectives ....
  , actor
• May 29 - John Barrymore
  John Barrymore
  
  John Sidney Blyth Barrymore , was an American actor, frequently called the greatest of his generation. He first gained fame as a stage actor, lauded for his portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III ....
  , actor
• August 18 - Rafaela Ottiano
  Rafaela Ottiano
  
  Rafaela Ottiano was an Italians-born United States stage and film actress.Born in Venice, Italy, she emigrated with her parents to the United States....
  , actress
• October 20 - May Robson, stage & film actress
• November 5 - George M. Cohan
  George M. Cohan
  
  George Michael Cohan , known publicly as George M. Cohan, was an United States entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, Film director, and Theatrical producer....
  , actor, songwriter, entertainer
• November 9 - Edna May Oliver, stage & film actress
• November 12 - Laura Hope Crews
  Laura Hope Crews
  
  Laura Hope Crews was a character actress of movies and stage. The daughter of a stage actress and a backstage carpenter, Crews started acting at age four....
  , stage & screen actress
• December 12 - Helen Westley
  Helen Westley
  
  Helen Westley was an United States character actress....
  , stage & screen actress