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The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.

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Rank Title Studio Gross
1. This is the Army
This Is the Army

This Is the Army is a 1943 in film United States motion picture produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, and directed by Michael Curtiz, and a wartime musical designed to boost morale in the U.S....
 Warner Bros. 
2.For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 in film film in Technicolor based on the For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou....
 Paramount 
3.The Song of Bernadette
The Song of Bernadette (film)

The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary....
 20th Century Fox 
4. Stage Door Canteen
Stage Door Canteen

Stage Door Canteen is a musical film produced by Sol Lesser Productions and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Frank Borzage and features many cameo appearances by celebrities, and the majority of the film is essentially a filmed concert although there is also a storyline to the film....
 United Artists 
5. Star Spangled Rhythm
Star Spangled Rhythm

Star Spangled Rhythm is a 1942 in film all-star cast musical film made by Paramount Pictures during World War II as a morale booster. Many of the Hollywood studios produced such films during the war, generally musicals, frequently with flimsy storylines, and with the specific intent of entertaining the troops overseas and civilians back...
 Paramount 
6. 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....
 Warner Bros. 
7. Journey into Fear RKO 
8. Hit the Ice
Hit the Ice (film)

Hit the Ice is a 1943 in film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello and directed by Charles Lamont, who took over after the original director, Erle C....
 Universal 
9. The Ape Man
The Ape Man

The Ape Man is a 1943 in film Horror film Science fiction film starring Bela Lugosi and directed by William Beaudine. The film follows the tale of a part human part ape....
 Monogram 
10. Lassie Come Home
Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home is a 1943 in film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Roddy McDowall and Pal in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie....
 MGM 









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The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.

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Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. This is the Army
This Is the Army

This Is the Army is a 1943 in film United States motion picture produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, and directed by Michael Curtiz, and a wartime musical designed to boost morale in the U.S....
 Warner Bros. 
2.For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 in film film in Technicolor based on the For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou....
 Paramount 
3.The Song of Bernadette
The Song of Bernadette (film)

The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary....
 20th Century Fox 
4. Stage Door Canteen
Stage Door Canteen

Stage Door Canteen is a musical film produced by Sol Lesser Productions and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Frank Borzage and features many cameo appearances by celebrities, and the majority of the film is essentially a filmed concert although there is also a storyline to the film....
 United Artists 
5. Star Spangled Rhythm
Star Spangled Rhythm

Star Spangled Rhythm is a 1942 in film all-star cast musical film made by Paramount Pictures during World War II as a morale booster. Many of the Hollywood studios produced such films during the war, generally musicals, frequently with flimsy storylines, and with the specific intent of entertaining the troops overseas and civilians back...
 Paramount 
6. 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....
 Warner Bros. 
7. Journey into Fear RKO 
8. Hit the Ice
Hit the Ice (film)

Hit the Ice is a 1943 in film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello and directed by Charles Lamont, who took over after the original director, Erle C....
 Universal 
9. The Ape Man
The Ape Man

The Ape Man is a 1943 in film Horror film Science fiction film starring Bela Lugosi and directed by William Beaudine. The film follows the tale of a part human part ape....
 Monogram 
10. Lassie Come Home
Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home is a 1943 in film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Roddy McDowall and Pal in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie....
 MGM 


Awards


16th Academy Awards
16th Academy Awards

The 16th Academy Awards, in 1944, was the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue, Grauman?s Chinese Theater. Free passes were given out to men and women in uniform....

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....
: 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....
 - Warner Bros.
Best Director: Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz was an Academy Award-winning Hungarian-American film director. He directed at least 50 films in Europe and a further hundred in the United States, among the best-known being The Adventures of Robin Hood , Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca , Yankee Doodle Dandy, and White Christmas ....
 - Casablanca
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....
: Paul Lukas
Paul Lukas

Paul Lukas was a Hungary Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor.Born P?l Luk?cs in Budapest, he arrived in Hollywood in 1927 after a successful stage and film career in Hungary, Germany and Austria where he worked with Max Reinhardt ....
 - Watch on the Rhine
Watch on the Rhine

Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 in film drama film that was adapted by Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman from Hellman's play. The film stars Bette Davis, Paul Lukas and Geraldine Fitzgerald and was directed by Herman Shumlin and Hal Mohr ....
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....
: Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette
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....
: Charles Coburn
Charles Coburn

Charles Douville Coburn was an Academy Award-winning United States film and theater actor....
 - The More the Merrier
The More the Merrier

The More the Merrier is a 1943 in film comedy film made by Columbia Pictures which makes fun of the housing shortage during World War II, especially in Washington, D.C.....
,
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....
: Katina Paxinou
Katina Paxinou

Katina Paxinou was an Academy Awards- and Golden Globe-winning Greece film and theatre actor....
 - For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 in film film in Technicolor based on the For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou....


1st Golden Globe Awards
1st Golden Globe Awards

The 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 in film, were held late in January 1944 at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles, California....

Best Picture: The Song of Bernadette
The Song of Bernadette (film)

The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary....
Best Director: Henry King
Henry King (director)

Henry King was an United States film director.Before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theatres, and first started to take small film roles in 1912....
 - The Song of Bernadette
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Paul Lukas
Paul Lukas

Paul Lukas was a Hungary Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor.Born P?l Luk?cs in Budapest, he arrived in Hollywood in 1927 after a successful stage and film career in Hungary, Germany and Austria where he worked with Max Reinhardt ....
 - Watch on the Rhine
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette


Films released in 1943

  • A Guy Named Joe
    A Guy Named Joe

    A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 in film film made by MGM, directed by Victor Fleming, produced by Everett Riskin, from a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, adapted by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan from a story by Chandler Sprague and David Boehm....
  • Action in the North Atlantic
    Action in the North Atlantic

    Action in the North Atlantic is a 1943 in film war film, featuring Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey as sailors in the Allied merchant marine in World War II and directed by Lloyd Bacon....
  • Air Force
  • The Ape Man
    The Ape Man

    The Ape Man is a 1943 in film Horror film Science fiction film starring Bela Lugosi and directed by William Beaudine. The film follows the tale of a part human part ape....
  • Background to Danger
    Background to Danger

    Background to Danger is a 1943 in film starring George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre. Based on the novel of the same title by Eric Ambler and set in Turkey , the screenplay was credited to W.R....
    , by Raoul Walsh
    Raoul Walsh

    Raoul Walsh was an United States film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh....
     with Peter Lorre
    Peter Lorre

    Peter Lorre , born L?szl? L?wenstein, was a Hungarian people - Austrian - United States actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner....
  • Bataan
  • Bombardier, starring Pat O'Brien
    Pat O'Brien (actor)

    Pat O'Brien was an American movie actor with over 100 screen credits....
    , Randolph Scott
    Randolph Scott

    Randolph Scott was an United States film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962....
    , and Anne Shirley
  • Cabin in the Sky
    Cabin in the Sky

    Cabin in the Sky is an United States Broadway theatre Musical theatre which opened in 1940. A motion picture based on the musical was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released in 1943....
  • Calling Dr. Death
    Calling Dr. Death

    Calling Dr. Death was the first of the Universal Pictures Inner Sanctum mystery films. The movie stars Lon Chaney, Jr. and Patricia Morison, and was directed by Reginald Le Borg....
     the first of the Inner Sanctum Mysteries
    Inner Sanctum Mysteries

    Inner Sanctum Mysteries was a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941 to October 5, 1952. Created by Himan Brown, the anthology series featured stories of mystery, terror and suspense....
    , starring Lon Chaney, Jr.
    Lon Chaney, Jr.

    Lon Chaney, Jr. was an United States character actor, known mainly for his roles in movies and as the son of silent film actor Lon Chaney, Sr.....
  • Crazy House
  • Coney Island
    Coney Island (1943 film)

    Coney Island is a 1943 Technicolor film released by Twentieth Century Fox and starring Betty Grable in one of her biggest hits. A "Gay Nineties" musical it also featured George Montgomery, Cesar Romero, and Phil Silvers, and was directed by Walter Lang....
  • The Constant Nymph
    The Constant Nymph

    The Constant Nymph is a novel by Margaret Kennedy which tells the story of a teenage girl who falls in love with a family friend who eventually marries her cousin....
  • Corvette K-225
    Corvette K-225

    Corvette K -225 is a 1943 in film film starring Randolph Scott and Ella Raines. It was released in the United Kingdom as The Nelson Touch....
  • Crash Dive
    Crash dive

    A crash dive is a maneuver performed by a submarine to submerge as quickly as possible to avoid attack. Crash diving from the surface to avoid attack has been largely rendered obsolete with the advent of nuclear power submarines as they operate constantly submerged and are unlikely to be found on the surface....
  • The Dancing Masters
    The Dancing Masters

    The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor....
  • The Demi-Paradise
    The Demi-Paradise

    The Demi-Paradise is a 1943 in film comedy film made by Two Cities Films and distributed in the U.S. by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Anthony Asquith and produced by Anatole de Grunwald and Filippo Del Giudice from a screenplay by de Grunwald....
  • Der Fuehrer's Face
    Der Fuehrer's Face

    Der Fuehrer's Face is a 1943 in film animated cartoon by the The Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment, starring Donald Duck. It was directed by Jack Kinney and released on January 1, 1943 as an anti-Nazism propaganda piece for the United States war effort....
    , Donald Duck's Academy Award-winning short
  • Destination Tokyo
    Destination Tokyo

    Destination Tokyo is a propaganda film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. in 1943 in film. It was directed by Delmer Daves and starred Cary Grant and John Garfield....
  • Five Graves to Cairo
    Five Graves to Cairo

    Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 World War II film by Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter....
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)

    For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 in film film in Technicolor based on the For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou....
  • Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
    Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

    Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, released in 1943, is an United States monster film horror film produced by Universal Studios starring Lon Chaney, Jr....
     starring Lon Chaney, Jr.
    Lon Chaney, Jr.

    Lon Chaney, Jr. was an United States character actor, known mainly for his roles in movies and as the son of silent film actor Lon Chaney, Sr.....
     and Béla Lugosi
    Béla Lugosi

    B?la Lugosi was a Hungarians-born United States actor of theatre and film, well known for playing Count Dracula in the Dracula and subsequent Dracula ....
  • The Gang's All Here
  • Hangmen Also Die!
  • Heaven Can Wait
    Heaven Can Wait (1943 film)

    Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 in film comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay was by Samson Raphaelson based on the play Birthday by Leslie Bush-Fekete....
  • Hello, Frisco, Hello
    Hello, Frisco, Hello

    Hello, Frisco, Hello is a film starring Alice Faye, John Payne , Lynn Bari, and Jack Oakie. The film was made in Technicolor and released by Twentieth Century-Fox....
  • Hit the Ice
    Hit the Ice (film)

    Hit the Ice is a 1943 in film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello and directed by Charles Lamont, who took over after the original director, Erle C....
    , 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....
  • Hitler's Children
    Hitler's Children (film)

    Hitler's Children is a propaganda film starring Bonita Granville and Kent Smith. In the film, Ms. Granville plays a German-American teacher working in Germany, whose rights as an American are denied by the Nazis because, owing to her dual nationality, she is subject to German law....
  • Holy Matrimony
    Holy Matrimony (film)

    Holy Matrimony is a 1943 in film comedy film directed by John M. Stahl and released by 20th Century Fox. The screenplay was based on the novel Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett....
  • The Human Comedy
    The Human Comedy (film)

    The Human Comedy is a 1943 in film drama film directed by Clarence Brown and adapted by Howard Estabrook. It is often thought to be based on the novel of the The Human Comedy , but actually Saroyan wrote the screenplay first, was fired from the movie project, and quickly wrote the novel and published it just before the movie was released...
  • It Ain't Hay
    It Ain't Hay

    It Ain't Hay is a 1943 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello....
    , 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....
  • Journey into Fear
  • Lassie Come Home
    Lassie Come Home

    Lassie Come Home is a 1943 in film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Roddy McDowall and Pal in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie....
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a film by the Cinema of the United Kingdom film making team of Powell and Pressburger under the banner of The Archers....
  • The Mad Ghoul
    The Mad Ghoul

    The Mad Ghoul is a Science fiction film horror film featuring George Zucco as Dr. Alfred Morris. It was also known as Mystery of the Ghoul....
  • Madame Curie
    Madame Curie (film)

    Madame Curie is a 1943 in film biographical film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin from a screenplay by Paul Osborn, Paul H....
  • The Man in Grey
    The Man in Grey

    The Man in Grey is a 1943 in film English film melodrama made by Gainsborough Pictures, and is widely considered as the first of its "Gainsborough melodramas" ....
    , the first of the Gainsborough
    Gainsborough Pictures

    Gainsborough Pictures was a United Kingdom film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the London Borough of Hackney....
     melodramas
  • Millions Like Us
    Millions Like Us

    Millions Like Us is a 1943 in film British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, and Anne Crawford, was written by Sidney Gilliat, and directed by Gilliat and Frank Launder....
  • Mission to Moscow
    Mission to Moscow

    Mission to Moscow is a 1943 in film drama directed by Michael Curtiz, and book of the same name by Ambassador Joseph E. Davies.The movie, starring Walter Huston, was made in response to a request by Franklin D....
  • The More the Merrier
    The More the Merrier

    The More the Merrier is a 1943 in film comedy film made by Columbia Pictures which makes fun of the housing shortage during World War II, especially in Washington, D.C.....
  • Mr. Lucky
    Mr. Lucky (film)

    Mr. Lucky is a 1943 film directed by H.C. Potter, starring Cary Grant and Laraine Day. It tells the story of a Romance film between a shady gambler and a wealthy socialite in the early days of World War II....
  • Münchhausen
  • No Time for Love
    No Time for Love (film)

    No Time for Love is a 1943 film directed by Mitchell Leisen, and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White ....
  • The North Star
    The North Star (1943 film)

    The North Star is a 1943 war film produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and written by Lillian Hellman....
  • Old Acquaintance
    Old Acquaintance

    Old Acquaintance is a 1943 in film drama film made by Warner Bros. It was directed by Vincent Sherman and produced by Henry Blanke with Jack L....
  • The Ox-Bow Incident
    The Ox-Bow Incident

    The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 Western movie directed by William A. Wellman and starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Harry Morgan and Jane Darwell in an ensemble cast....
  • Phantom of the Opera
    Phantom of the Opera (1943 film)

    Phantom of the Opera is a Universal horror starring Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Claude Rains, directed by Arthur Lubin, and filmed in Technicolor....
    , starring 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....
  • Princess O'Rourke
    Princess O'Rourke

    Princess O'Rourke is a 1943 in film romantic comedy film directed and written by Norman Krasna and starring Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn....
  • Riding High
  • Sahara
  • Shadow of a Doubt
    Shadow of a Doubt

    Shadow of a Doubt is a Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson and Alma Reville. It stars Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers and Hume Cronyn....
    , directed by Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock

    Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
  • Sherlock Holmes in Washington
    Sherlock Holmes in Washington

    Sherlock Holmes in Washington is the fifth film in the Rathbone-Bruce Sherlock Holmes Films series of Sherlock Holmes movies....
  • The Song of Bernadette
    The Song of Bernadette (film)

    The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary....
  • So Proudly We Hail!
    So Proudly We Hail!

    So Proudly We Hail! is a 1943 in film film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Mark Sandrich, and starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard , George Reeves and Veronica Lake....
  • Son of Dracula
    Son of Dracula (1943 film)

    Son of Dracula is an United States horror film released in 1943 in film. It was directed by Robert Siodmak - his first film for Universal studios - with a screenplay based on an original story by his brother Curt Siodmak....
  • Spitfire
    The First of the Few

    The First of the Few, , is a 1942 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom, starring and directed by Leslie Howard , and co-starring David Niven....
     (originally released as The First of the Few in the U.K.)
  • Star Spangled Rhythm
    Star Spangled Rhythm

    Star Spangled Rhythm is a 1942 in film all-star cast musical film made by Paramount Pictures during World War II as a morale booster. Many of the Hollywood studios produced such films during the war, generally musicals, frequently with flimsy storylines, and with the specific intent of entertaining the troops overseas and civilians back...
  • Stormy Weather
  • A Stranger in Town
    A Stranger in Town

    A Stranger in Town is a 1943 comedy-drama political film made by Loews Cineplex Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Roy Rowland and produced by Robert Sisk from an original screenplay by Isobel Lennart and William Kozlenko....
  • Tender Comrade
  • This is the Army
    This Is the Army

    This Is the Army is a 1943 in film United States motion picture produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, and directed by Michael Curtiz, and a wartime musical designed to boost morale in the U.S....
  • Thousands Cheer
    Thousands Cheer

    Thousands Cheer was an United States musical film-comedy released by MGM in 1943.Produced at the height of the Second World War, the film was intended as a morale booster for American troops and their families....
  • Titanic
    Titanic (1943 film)

    Titanic was a 1943 Nazism propaganda film made during World War II in Berlin by Tobis Productions for Universum Film AG....
  • Victory Through Air Power
    Victory Through Air Power

    Victory Through Air Power is a 1942 book by Alexander P. de Seversky, and a 1943 Walt Disney Technicolor animated film based on the book.The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, but lost to "The Song of Bernadette"....
  • War of the Wildcats
    In Old Oklahoma

    In Old Oklahoma is a 1943 film starring John Wayne, Martha Scott, Albert Dekker, Gabby Hayes, Marjorie Rambeau, and Dale Evans. The movie was directed by Albert S....
     (a.k.a. In Old Oklahoma)
  • Watch on the Rhine
    Watch on the Rhine

    Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 in film drama film that was adapted by Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman from Hellman's play. The film stars Bette Davis, Paul Lukas and Geraldine Fitzgerald and was directed by Herman Shumlin and Hal Mohr ....
  • We Dive at Dawn
    We Dive at Dawn

    We Dive at Dawn is a 1943 in film submarine action, propaganda film directed by Anthony Asquith, starring John Mills, Eric Portman and Reginald Purdell....
  • We've Never Been Licked
    We've Never Been Licked

    We've Never Been Licked is a World War II propaganda film produced by Walter Wanger and released by United Artists. Parts of the movie were shot on location at the Texas A&M University campus....
  • You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith, screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley
    Lawrence Riley

    Lawrence Riley was a successful United States playwright and screenwriter. He gained fame in 1934 in literature as the author of the Broadway theatre hit Personal Appearance, which was turned by Mae West into the classic film Go West, Young Man , starring herself....
     et al. (film mentioned in article)


Serials

  • Adventures of the Flying Cadets
    Adventures of the Flying Cadets

    Adventures of the Flying Cadets is a Universal Pictures Serial ....
  • The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
    The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (serial)

    The Adventures of Smilin' Jack is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the comic strip The Adventures of Smilin' Jack....
  • Batman
    Batman (serial)

    Batman was a 15-chapter Serial film released in 1943 in film by Columbia Pictures. The serial starred Lewis Wilson as Batman and Douglas Croft as Robin....
    , starring Lewis Wilson
    Lewis Wilson

    Lewis Gilbert Wilson was an United States actor from New York City who was most famous for being the first actor to play the DC Comics character Batman in live action ....
  • Daredevils of the West
    Daredevils of the West

    Daredevils of the West is a Republic Pictures Movie serial.This serial was long considered to be a partially lost film; for years, copies of only chapters 2, 4, 5, and 12 circulated on 16mm among film collectors....
    , 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 John English
    John English (director)

    John English was a Film Director. He is most famous for the Movie Serials he co-directed with William Witney for Republic Pictures such as Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu....
  • Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
    Don Winslow of the Coast Guard

    Don Winslow of the Coast Guard is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the comic strip by Lt. Com. Frank V. Martinbek....
  • G-Men vs the Black Dragon
    G-Men vs the Black Dragon

    G-Men vs The Black Dragon is a Republic Pictures Movie serial. It is noteworthy among adventure serials as containing an unusually high number of fistfights, all staged by director William Witney and a team of stuntmen....
    , starring Rod Cameron
    Rod Cameron

    Rod Cameron was a movie actor whose career extended from the 1930s to the 1970s. He appeared in Horror film, war, Action film and science fiction movies, but is best remembered for his many Western s....
    , 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....
  • The Masked Marvel
    The Masked Marvel

    The Masked Marvel was a 12-chapter Serial created by Republic Pictures, who produced many of the best known of the serials. It was Republic's thirty-first serial, of the sixty-six they produced....
    , 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....
  • The Phantom
    The Phantom (1943 movie serial)

    The Phantom is a classic Columbia Pictures cliffhanger Serial starring Tom Tyler in the title role. The serial is based on Lee Falk's comic strip Phantom ....
    , starring Tom Tyler
    Tom Tyler

    Tom Tyler was an United States actor in silent and sound motion pictures.He was born Vincent Markowski, into a Polish-American family.Tyler had a long career in film, stretching from the 1920s to the 1950s, and appeared in many films, most of them westerns such as John Ford's Stagecoach and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon....
  • Secret Service in Darkest Africa
    Secret Service in Darkest Africa

    Secret Service in Darkest Africa is a Republic Pictures movie serial. It was Republic's thirtieth serial, of the sixty-six produced by the studio....
    , starring Rod Cameron
    Rod Cameron

    Rod Cameron was a movie actor whose career extended from the 1930s to the 1970s. He appeared in Horror film, war, Action film and science fiction movies, but is best remembered for his many Western s....
    , 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)
  • 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....
    )
  • Three Stooges
    Three Stooges

    The Three Stooges was an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid?20th century best known for their numerous short subject films....
     (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....
     (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...
    –1956
    1956 in film

    The year 1956 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Daffy Duck
    Daffy Duck

    Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon fictional character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Daffy was the first of the new breed of "screwball comedy film" characters that emerged in the late 1930s to supplant traditional everyman characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Popeye, who were more popular ear...
     (1937
    1937 in film

    The year 1937 in film involved some significant events....
     – 1966
    1966 in film

    The year 1966 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • 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

    'Tom and Jerry' is a series of theatrical animated cartoons featuring a cat and a mouse.'Tom and Jerry' may also refer to:* ...
     (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....
    )
  • Red Hot Riding Hood
    Red Hot Riding Hood

    Red Hot Riding Hood is an animated cartoon short subject, directed by Tex Avery and released on May 8, 1943 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1994 it was voted #7 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field....
     (1943–1949
    1949 in film

    The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Chip 'n Dale
    Chip 'n Dale

    Chip 'n Dale are two animated chipmunks created by The Walt Disney Company. Their names are a pun based on the name "Chippendale" . This was suggested by Bill "Tex" Henson, a story artist at the studio....
     (1943–1956
    1956 in film

    The year 1956 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Droopy (1943–1958
    1958 in film

    The year 1958 in film involved some significant events....
    )


Births

  • January 3 - Van Dyke Parks
    Van Dyke Parks

    Van Dyke Parks is an United States composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, and actor. His work spans six decades, and he has worked with luminaries from Grace Kelly to the Beach Boys and the Byrds, and recently, Loudon Wainwright III and Joanna Newsom....
    , musician, composer
  • January 13 - Richard Moll
    Richard Moll

    Richard Moll is an United States actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Bull Shannon, the tall shaven-headed bailiff on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1984 to 1992....
    , actor
  • February 20 - Mike Leigh
    Mike Leigh

    Mike Leigh, Order of the British Empire is an England writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company ....
    , director
  • March 15 - David Cronenberg
    David Cronenberg

    David Paul Cronenberg, Order of Canada, Royal Society of Canada is a Canada film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre....
    , director
  • March 31 - Christopher Walken
    Christopher Walken

    'Christopher Walken' is an Academy Award winning United States actor of theater and film, on which he has spent more than 50 years. A prolific actor, he has appeared in over 100 movie and television roles, notably including A View to a Kill, At Close Range, The Deer Hunter, King of New York, Batman Returns and Pulp Fictio...
    , actor
  • May 24 - Gary Burghoff
    Gary Burghoff

    Gary Richard Burghoff is an American actor, best known for playing the character Corporal Radar O'Reilly in the M*A*S*H series and Charlie Brown in the 1967 off-Broadway Musical theater You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown....
    , American actor
  • May 31 - Sharon Gless
    Sharon Gless

    Sharon Marguerite Gless is an Emmy Award-winning United States actress, who is best known for her role as Sgt. Christine Cagney in the 1980s police procedural drama series Cagney & Lacey ....
    , actress
  • June 13 - Malcolm McDowell
    Malcolm McDowell

    Malcolm McDowell is a UK actor. McDowell's career has spanned five decades and includes notable roles in if...., A Clockwork Orange , O Lucky Man!, Caligula , Star Trek Generations, Heroes , Metalocalypse, and the 2007 horror remake of Halloween ....
    , actor
  • August 15 - Barbara Bouchet
    Barbara Bouchet

    Barbara Bouchet, , is an actress and entrepreneur who is fluent in English language, German language, and Italian language. She is a Multicultural movie star....
    , actress
  • August 17 - Robert De Niro
    Robert De Niro

    Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States actor, director and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time....
    , actor
  • October 4 - John Bindon
    John Bindon

    John Arthur "Biffo" Bindon was a flamboyant United Kingdom actor and bodyguard, noted for his film roles as a London underworld figure and tough police detective, and his involvement with the underworld in real life....
    , actor and bodyguard
  • October 22 - Catherine Deneuve
    Catherine Deneuve

    Catherine Deneuve is a two-time C?sar Award-winning, BAFTA Award-nominated and Academy Award-nominated French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of beautiful ice maidens for various directors, including Luis Bu?uel and Roman Polanski....
    , actress
  • December 21 - Jack Nance
    Jack Nance

    Marvin John Nance , known professionally as Jack Nance and occasionally credited as John Nance, was an United States actor of stage and screen, primarily starring in offbeat or avant-garde productions....
    , actor


Deaths

  • February 14 - Dora Gerson
    Dora Gerson

    Dora Gerson was a Jewish people German people cabaret singer and motion picture actress of the silent film era who was killed with her family at Auschwitz concentration camp....
    , German actress (b. 1899)
  • June 1 - Leslie Howard
    Leslie Howard (actor)

    Leslie Howard was an English people Academy Award-nominated Stage and film actor, director, and Theatrical producer. He is best known by international audiences as Ashley Wilkes in the film Gone with the Wind ....
    , Academy Award-nominated British actor (b. 1893)