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The year 1944 in film involved some significant events.


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Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Going My Way
Going My Way

For the 1962-1963 American Broadcasting Company television series of the same name, starring Gene Kelly, Leo G. Carroll, and Dick York, see Going My Way ....
 Paramount 
2.Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 in film Romance film musical film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which tells the story of four sisters living in St....
 MGM 
3.Since You Went Away
Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder....
 United Artists 
4. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 in film MGM war film. It is based on the true story of America's first retaliatory air strike against Japan four months after the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor....
 MGM 
5. Hollywood Canteen
Hollywood Canteen (1944 film)

Hollywood Canteen is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, and Dane Clark. The film was written and directed by Delmer Daves, and is notable for featuring many stars in cameo appearance....
 Warner Bros. 
6. 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....
 MGM 
7. The White Cliffs of Dover
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944 film)

The White Cliffs of Dover is a 1944 in film film made by Loew's and MGM. It was directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Clarence Brown and Sidney Franklin ....
 MGM 
8. Laura
Laura (1944 film)

Laura is an United States film noir directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney as Laura, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, and Judith Anderson....
 20th Century Fox 









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The year 1944 in film involved some significant events.

Events

  • July 20 - Since You Went Away
    Since You Went Away

    Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder....
     is released.
  • September 6 - Double Indemnity is released.


Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Going My Way
Going My Way

For the 1962-1963 American Broadcasting Company television series of the same name, starring Gene Kelly, Leo G. Carroll, and Dick York, see Going My Way ....
 Paramount 
2.Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 in film Romance film musical film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which tells the story of four sisters living in St....
 MGM 
3.Since You Went Away
Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder....
 United Artists 
4. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 in film MGM war film. It is based on the true story of America's first retaliatory air strike against Japan four months after the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor....
 MGM 
5. Hollywood Canteen
Hollywood Canteen (1944 film)

Hollywood Canteen is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, and Dane Clark. The film was written and directed by Delmer Daves, and is notable for featuring many stars in cameo appearance....
 Warner Bros. 
6. 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....
 MGM 
7. The White Cliffs of Dover
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944 film)

The White Cliffs of Dover is a 1944 in film film made by Loew's and MGM. It was directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Clarence Brown and Sidney Franklin ....
 MGM 
8. Laura
Laura (1944 film)

Laura is an United States film noir directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney as Laura, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, and Judith Anderson....
 20th Century Fox 


Awards


Academy Awards
17th Academy Awards

The 17th Academy Awards marked the first time this awards ceremony was broadcast nationally on the ABC Radio network.Through the 1940?s, the ceremony and academy rules continued to evolve into the form by which we know them today....
:

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....
: Going My Way
Going My Way

For the 1962-1963 American Broadcasting Company television series of the same name, starring Gene Kelly, Leo G. Carroll, and Dick York, see Going My Way ....
 - Paramount
Best Director
Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing is one of the Academy Award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Film directors working in the film industry....
: Leo McCarey
Leo McCarey

Thomas Leo McCarey was an Academy Awards-winning United States film director, screenwriter and film producer . During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his fine elegance and his great sense of humour....
 - Going My Way
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....
: 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....
 - Going My Way
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....
: Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman

was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
 - Gaslight
Gaslight (1944 film)

Gaslight is a 1944 in film Mystery film-Thriller adapted from Patrick Hamilton 's play Angel Street. It was the second version to be filmed; the Gaslight , released in United Kingdom, had been made a mere four years earlier....
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....
: Barry Fitzgerald
Barry Fitzgerald

Barry Fitzgerald was an Academy Award winning Ireland stage, film and television actor....
 - Going My Way
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....
: Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore was an Academy Awards-winning United States actress and a member of the Celebrity Barrymore family....
 - None but the Lonely Heart


Golden Globe Awards
2nd Golden Globe Awards

The 2nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1944 in film, were held late January, 1945 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, California....
:

Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: Going My Way
Best Director
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: Leo McCarey, Going My Way
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....
: Alexander Knox
Alexander Knox

Alexander Knox was an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning Canada actor.Born in Strathroy, Ontario, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts to perform on the stage....
 - Wilson
Wilson (film)

Wilson is a 1944 biographical film in Technicolor about President Woodrow Wilson. It stars Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell , Ruth Nelson , Eddie Foy Jr., Cedric Hardwicke, Matthew Moore and Vincent Price....
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....
: Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight


Films released in 1944


  • The Adventures of Mark Twain
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
    Arsenic and Old Lace (film)

    Arsenic and Old Lace is a film film director by Frank Capra based on a Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring. The script was adaptation by Julius J....
  • Between Two Worlds
    Between Two Worlds

    Between Two Worlds is a 1944 film set during World War II, featuring John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, and Eleanor Parker. It is a remake of the 1930 film, Outward Bound , itself based on the 1924 play of the same name....
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944 film)

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 1944 in film drama film made by Benedict Bogeaus Productions and released by United Artists. It was produced and directed by Rowland V....
  • Buffalo Bill
    Buffalo Bill (film)

    Buffalo Bill is a Biographical film western film about the life of the legendary Buffalo Bill, starring Joel McCrea and Maureen O'Hara with Linda Darnell and Anthony Quinn in supporting roles....
  • A Canterbury Tale
    A Canterbury Tale

    A Canterbury Tale is a Cinema of the United Kingdom film by the film-making team of Powell and Pressburger. It stars Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price and John Sweet; Esmond Knight provided narration and played several small roles....
    , written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
    Powell and Pressburger

    The Cinema of the United Kingdom film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, also known as The Archers, made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s, and in were recognized for their contributions to Cinema of the United Kingdom with the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the most prestigious award...
  • Casanova Brown
    Casanova Brown

    Casanova Brown is a 1944 in film film starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Frank Morgan. The film was written by Thomas Mitchell , Floyd Dell, and Nunnally Johnson, and directed by Sam Wood....
    , 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....
  • Christmas Holiday
    Christmas Holiday

    Christmas Holiday is a 1944 in film drama directed by Robert Siodmak. The black-and-white film noir is based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham....
    , starring Gene Kelly
  • The Climax
  • Cover Girl
    Cover Girl (1944 film)

    Cover Girl is a 1944 in film United States musical film starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly. The film tells the story of a chorus girl given a chance at stardom when she's offered an opportunity to be a highly-paid cover girl....
  • Cry of the Werewolf
    Cry of the Werewolf

    Cry of the Werewolf, also known as Daughter of the Werewolf, is a 1944 in film film starring Nina Foch, based on a story by Griffin Jay and directed by Henry Levin....
  • Double Indemnity, starring Fred MacMurray
    Fred MacMurray

    Frederick Martin MacMurray was an United States actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a highly successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, starting in 1930 and extending into the 1970s....
    , 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....
     and Edward G. Robinson
    Edward G. Robinson

    Edward Goldenberg Robinson, Sr. was an honorary Academy Award-winning United States actor born in Romania. Although he has played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his star-making film Little Caesar....
  • Dragon Seed
  • The Fighting Seabees
    The Fighting Seabees

    The Fighting Seabees is a war film starring John Wayne, Dennis O'Keefe and Susan Hayward. It portrays a heavily fictionalized account of the dilemma that led to the creation of the U.S....
  • Frenchman's Creek
    Frenchman's Creek

    Frenchman's Creek is a 1942 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier. Set in Cornwall during the reign of Charles II of England, it tells the story of a love affair between an impulsive English lady and a French pirate....
  • Gaslight
    Gaslight (1944 film)

    Gaslight is a 1944 in film Mystery film-Thriller adapted from Patrick Hamilton 's play Angel Street. It was the second version to be filmed; the Gaslight , released in United Kingdom, had been made a mere four years earlier....
    , the Hollywood remake, with Ingrid Bergman
    Ingrid Bergman

    was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
     and Charles Boyer
    Charles Boyer

    Charles Boyer was a four-time Academy Award-nominated France-born actor. Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in European and Hollywood movies during the 1930s, and continued to act in films, television and theatre over the next several decades....
  • Going My Way
    Going My Way

    For the 1962-1963 American Broadcasting Company television series of the same name, starring Gene Kelly, Leo G. Carroll, and Dick York, see Going My Way ....
  • Hail the Conquering Hero
    Hail the Conquering Hero

    Hail the Conquering Hero is a satire comedy film/dramatic film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines and William Demarest, and featuring Raymond Walburn, Franklin Pangborn, Elizabeth Patterson and Bill Edwards ....
  • Henry V
    Henry V (1944 film)

    Henry V is a 1944 in film film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V . The on-screen title is The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France ....
    , directed by and starring Laurence Olivier
    Laurence Olivier

    Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, Order of Merit was an English people Stage actor, Theatre director, and Theatrical producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson....
  • Hollywood Canteen
    Hollywood Canteen (1944 film)

    Hollywood Canteen is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, and Dane Clark. The film was written and directed by Delmer Daves, and is notable for featuring many stars in cameo appearance....
  • Home in Indiana
    Home in Indiana

    Home in Indiana is a 1944 in film film Film director by Henry Hathaway. The movie, that stars Walter Brennan and Charlotte Greenwood, is based on the story The Phantom Filly by George Agnew Chamberlain....
  • House of Frankenstein
    House of Frankenstein (1944 film)

    House of Frankenstein is an United States monster film horror film produced in 1944 by Universal Studios as a sequel to Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man the previous year, and, as Dracula appears in the beginning, the 1931 Dracula ....
  • In Society
    In Society

    In Society is a 1944 in film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. It was the first of five Abbott and Costello films to be directed by Jean Yarbrough....
    , 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....
  • It Happened Tomorrow
    It Happened Tomorrow

    It Happened Tomorrow is a fantasy film starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell and Jack Oakie, and featuring Edgar Kennedy and Sig Ruman. It was directed by Ren? Clair....
  • Ivan the Terrible
    Ivan the Terrible (film)

    Ivan The Terrible is a two-part film about Ivan IV of Russia made by Russian director Sergei Eisenstein. Part 1 was released in 1944 but Part 2 was not released until 1958 due to political censorship....
    , by director Sergei Eisenstein
    Sergei Eisenstein

    Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a revolutionary Soviet Union Russian people film director and Film theory noted in particular for his silent films Strike , The Battleship Potemkin and October: Ten Days That Shook the World, as well as Historical movie Epic film Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible ....
  • Jane Eyre (1944 film)
    Jane Eyre (1944 film)

    Charlotte Bront?'s novel Jane Eyre has been the subject of Jane_Eyre#Adaptations.This 1944 in film Cinema_of_the_United_States#Golden_Age_of_Hollywood adaptation was made by 20th Century Fox....
    , directed by Robert Stevenson
    Robert Stevenson (director)

    Robert Stevenson was an England film writer and director. Born in Buxton, Derbyshire, educated at Cambridge University where he became the president of both the Liberal Club and the Cambridge Union Society, he moved to California in the 1940s and ended up directing 19 films for The Walt Disney Company in the 1960s and 1970s....
     and starring Orson Welles
    Orson Welles

    George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
     and Joan Fontaine
    Joan Fontaine

    Joan Fontaine is an Academy Awards-winning United Kingdom actress in American films. She became an American citizen in April 1943. She is the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, also an Academy Award winner....
  • The Keys of the Kingdom
    The Keys of the Kingdom (film)

    The Keys of the Kingdom is a 1944 in film American film based on the 1941 in literature novel, The Keys of the Kingdom, by A. J. Cronin....
    , starring Gregory Peck
    Gregory Peck

    Gregory Peck was an American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s....
    , Cedric Hardwicke
    Cedric Hardwicke

    Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke Order of the British Empire was a notable England actor....
    , Vincent Price
    Vincent Price

    Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an United States film actor, remembered for his distinctive voice, his 6-foot 4-inch stature and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films done in the latter part of his career....
    , and Roddy McDowall
    Roddy McDowall

    Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall was an English-born actor and photographer....
  • Kismet
    Kismet (1944 film)

    Kismet is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture in Technicolor starring Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Joy Page, and Florence Bates. James Craig played the young Caliph of Baghdad, and Edward Arnold was the treacherous but likeable Grand Vizier....
    , starring Ronald Colman
    Ronald Colman

    Ronald Colman was an England Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor....
     and 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....
  • Lady in the Dark
    Lady in the Dark (film)

    Lady in the Dark is a 1944 in film musical film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Ginger Rogers. It was nominated three Academy Awards; for Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Original Music Score and Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
  • Lady, Let's Dance
    Lady, Let's Dance

    Lady, Let's Dance is a 1944 black and white film directed by Frank Woodruff that was nominated for two Academy Awards. Produced by Monogram Studios, the film is unique as an ice skating Musical theatre....
    , ice skating musical starring Belita
    Belita

    Maria Belita Gladys Olivie Lynn Jepson-Turner , known professionally as Belita, was an Olympic Games Figure skating, dancer and early film actress....
     and comedy ice team Frick and Frack
    Frick and Frack

    Frick and Frack were two Switzerland skaters who came to the U.S. in 1937 and joined the original Ice Follies show as comedy ice skaters. "Frick" was Werner Groebli , born in Basel....
  • Laura
    Laura (1944 film)

    Laura is an United States film noir directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney as Laura, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, and Judith Anderson....
  • Lifeboat
    Lifeboat (film)

    Lifeboat is a 1944 World War II war film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story written by John Steinbeck. The film stars Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson , John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel , Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee, and is set entirely on a Lifeboat ....
  • Lost in a Harem
    Lost in a Harem

    Lost in a Harem is a 1944 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....
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
    Meet Me in St. Louis

    Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 in film Romance film musical film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which tells the story of four sisters living in St....
  • Meet the People
    Meet the People

    Meet the People was a 1944 MGM patriotic film made during World War II with Lucille Ball and Dick Powell about a woman who works at a factory....
  • Mr. Skeffington
    Mr. Skeffington

    Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 in film drama film which portrays a woman whose many love affairs cost her the love of her husband and her daughter....
  • Mrs. Parkington
    Mrs. Parkington

    Mrs. Parkington is a 1944 in film drama film which tells the story of a woman's life, told in flashback s, from hotel maid to society matron....
  • The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
    The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

    The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a satire screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and featuring Diana Lynn, William Demarest and Porter Hall....
  • The Mummy's Curse
    The Mummy's Curse

    The Mummy's Curse is the 1944 in film horror film follow-up to The Mummy's Ghost which was also released in 1944. This film marks Lon Chaney Jr.'s final appearance as Kharis, the Egyptian mummy....
  • The Mummy's Ghost
    The Mummy's Ghost

    The Mummy's Ghost is the 1944 in film Universal Pictures sequel to The Mummy's Tomb. Lon Chaney, Jr. again takes on the role of Kharis the mummy....
  • Murder, My Sweet
    Murder, My Sweet

    Murder, My Sweet is a film noir directed by Edward Dmytryk, and starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, and Dawn Evelyn Paris. The film was originally released in the United Kingdom under the title Farewell, My Lovely, which is the title of the Raymond Chandler Farewell, My Lovely it is based on, and also the film's origina...
  • National Velvet
    National Velvet (film)

    National Velvet is a 1944 in film film based on the National Velvet by Enid Bagnold, first published in 1935. It stars a very young Elizabeth Taylor ....
  • None but the Lonely Heart
  • None Shall Escape
    None Shall Escape

    None Shall Escape is a 1944 in film war film. Even though the film was made during World War II, the setting is a post war Nuremberg Trials style war crimes trial....
  • North East Corner
  • Passage to Marseille
    Passage to Marseille

    Passage to Marseille is a 1944 in film war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis with Jack L....
  • The Princess and the Pirate
    The Princess and the Pirate

    The Princess and the Pirate is a 1944 comedy film released by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo. This was the only appearance in a Goldwyn film by Paramount Pictures star Hope....
  • The Return of the Vampire
    The Return of the Vampire

    The Return of the Vampire is a 1944 in film film, released by Columbia Pictures starring B?la Lugosi, Nina Foch, Frieda Inescort, and Miles Mander....
  • The Seventh Cross
    The Seventh Cross (1944 film)

    The Seventh Cross is a 1944 film starring Spencer Tracy, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Cronyn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor....
  • The Spider Woman
  • Since You Went Away
    Since You Went Away

    Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder....
  • The Sullivans
    The Fighting Sullivans

    The Fighting Sullivans, originally released as The Sullivans, is a 1944 in film biographical film war film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Edward Doherty, Mary C....
  • Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
    Sunday Dinner for a Soldier

    Sunday Dinner for a Soldier is a 1944 motion picture directed by Lloyd Bacon andbased on a novelette by Martha Cheavens.The film tells the story of a poor family in Florida who wants to host a meal for a serviceman from the Army airbase nearby....
  • Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
    Thirty Seconds over Tokyo

    Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 in film MGM war film. It is based on the true story of America's first retaliatory air strike against Japan four months after the December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor....
  • The Three Caballeros
    The Three Caballeros

    The Three Caballeros is a 1944 animated feature film, produced by Walt Disney and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The seventh animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, that plots an adventure through parts of Latin America, combining live-action and traditional animation....
  • The Uninvited
    The Uninvited (1944 film)

    The Uninvited is a 1944 in film Cinema of the United States supernatural Mystery film/romantic drama film film directed by Lewis Allen . It is based on the Dorothy Macardle novel Uneasy Freehold....
  • The Way Ahead
    The Way Ahead

    The Way Ahead is a United Kingdom Second World War drama released in 1944. It stars David Niven and Stanley Holloway and follows a group of civilians who are conscripted into the British Army to fight in North Africa....
    , directed by Carol Reed
    Carol Reed

    Sir Carol Reed was an England film director, most famous for directing The Third Man and Oliver! . He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for the latter....
  • The White Cliffs of Dover
    The White Cliffs of Dover (1944 film)

    The White Cliffs of Dover is a 1944 in film film made by Loew's and MGM. It was directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Clarence Brown and Sidney Franklin ....
  • Wilson
    Wilson (film)

    Wilson is a 1944 biographical film in Technicolor about President Woodrow Wilson. It stars Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell , Ruth Nelson , Eddie Foy Jr., Cedric Hardwicke, Matthew Moore and Vincent Price....
    , biographical film about President Woodrow Wilson
    Woodrow Wilson

    Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. A devout Presbyterianism and leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913....
    , starring Charles Coburn
    Charles Coburn

    Charles Douville Coburn was an Academy Award-winning United States film and theater actor....
  • The Woman in the Window
    The Woman in the Window

    The Woman in the Window , is a film noir directed by Fritz Lang that tells the story of psychology professor Richard Wanley who meets and becomes enamored with a young femme fatale....


Serials

  • Black Arrow
    Black Arrow (serial)

    Black Arrow is a Columbia Pictures Serial . It was the twenty-fourth of the fifty-seven serials released by Columbia....
  • Captain America
    Captain America (serial)

    Captain America is a Republic Pictures Movie serial based on the comic book character Captain America. It was the last Republic serial made about a superhero....
    , starring Dick Purcell
  • The Desert Hawk
    The Desert Hawk

    The Desert Hawk is a Columbia Pictures Serial . It was the 23rd serial produced by Columbia....
    , starring Gilbert Roland
    Gilbert Roland

    Gilbert Roland was a Mexico-born naturalized United States citizen who starred in many films.He was born Luis Antonio Damaso de Alonso in Ciudad Ju?rez, Chihuahua , Mexico and originally intended to become a bullfighter like his father....
     and Charles Middleton
    Charles B. Middleton

    Charles B. Middleton was an United States stage and film actor. During a film career that began at age 46 and lasted almost 30 years, Charles Middleton appeared in nearly two hundred films as well as numerous plays, including the 1946 Broadway theatre production, "January Thaw."...
  • The Great Alaskan Mystery
    The Great Alaskan Mystery

    The Great Alaskan Mystery is a 1944 in film Universal Pictures Serial about government agents trying to stop Nazi spies from getting their hands on futuristic weapons....
  • Haunted Harbor
    Haunted Harbor

    Haunted Harbor is a Republic Pictures Movie serial, based on the novel by Ewart Adamson....
    , 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 ....
  • Mystery of the River Boat
    Mystery of the River Boat

    Mystery of the River Boat is a Universal Pictures Serial ....
  • Raiders of Ghost City
    Raiders of Ghost City

    Raiders of Ghost City is a Universal Pictures Serial ....
  • The Tiger Woman
    The Tiger Woman (1944 film)

    The Tiger Woman is a 12-chapter Republic Pictures Serial film starring Allan Lane and Linda Stirling . The serial was re-released in 1951 in film under the title Perils of the Darkest Jungle and, in 1966 in television, it was edited into the 100-minute film Jungle Gold....
    , starring Linda Stirling
    Linda Stirling

    Linda Stirling was an United States showgirl, Model and Actor. In her later years, she had a second career as a college English professor for more than two decades....
  • Zorro's Black Whip
    Zorro's Black Whip

    Zorro's Black Whip was a 1944 in film Republic Pictures film serial starring Linda Stirling. The film was made after the popular 1940 in film 20th Century-Fox remake of The Mark of Zorro and Republic was unable to use the character himself, but still wanted to capitalize on it....
    , starring Linda Stirling
    Linda Stirling

    Linda Stirling was an United States showgirl, Model and Actor. In her later years, she had a second career as a college English professor for more than two decades....


Short film series

  • 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)
  • 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....
     (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....
    )
  • 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....
    )
  • Bugs Bunny
    Bugs Bunny

    Bugs Bunny is a fictional rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animation films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which became Warner Bros....
     (1940
    1940 in film

    The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
    -1962
    1962 in film

    The year 1962 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
    1943 in film

    The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
    -1949
    1949 in film

    The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Droopy
    Droopy Dog

    Droopy is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic dog with a droopy face, hence the name Droopy. He was created by Tex Avery, for theatrical cartoon shorts produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, in 1943....
     (1943
    1943 in film

    The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
    -1958
    1958 in film

    The year 1958 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Screwball Squirrel
    Screwball Squirrel

    Screwball "Screwy" Squirrel is a cartoon character, an anthropomorphic squirrel created by Tex Avery for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, generally considered the wackiest of the screwball cartoon characters of the 1940s, who include Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Woody Woodpecker....
     (1944-1946
    1946 in film

    The year 1946 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Sylvester the Cat (1944-1966
    1966 in film

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


Births

  • January 6 - Bonnie Franklin
    Bonnie Franklin

    Bonnie Gail Franklin is an United States actress, best known for her starring role as a divorced mother in the television series One Day at a Time....
    , actress
  • January 23 - Rutger Hauer
    Rutger Hauer

    Rutger Oelsen Hauer ; born 23 January 1944) is a Golden Globe-winning Netherlands film actor. He is well known for his roles in Blade Runner, The Hitcher , Ladyhawke, The Blood of Heroes and Batman Begins....
    , actor
  • February 11 - Buddhadev Dasgupta, film director
  • May 14 - George Lucas
    George Lucas

    George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the Epic film Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones....
    , film director and producer
  • August 8 - Peter Weir
    Peter Weir

    Peter Lindsay Weir Order of Australia is an Australian film director. After exerting a strong influence on the Australian New Wave with his films Picnic at Hanging Rock , The Last Wave and Gallipoli , Weir directed a diverse group of U.S....
    , film director
  • November 23 - Joe Eszterhas
    Joe Eszterhas

    Josef Eszterhas is a Hungary-United States screenwriter, best known for his work on the pulp fiction erotica films Basic Instinct and Showgirls....
    , screenwriter
  • December 11 - Teri Garr
    Teri Garr

    Terry Ann "Teri" Garr is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian....
    , US actress


Deaths

  • July 20 - Mildred Harris
    Mildred Harris

    Mildred Harris was an United States actress of the silent film era....
    , actress
  • December 13 - Lupe Vélez
    Lupe Vélez

    Lupe V?lez was a Mexican-born United States actress....
    , actress
  • December 15 - Glenn Miller
    Glenn Miller

    Alton Glenn Miller , was an United States jazz musician, arranger, composer, and band leader in the Swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best known "Big band"....
    , musician, actor