1945 in film

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• Paramount Studios releases theatrical short cartoon
  Cartoon
  
  The word cartoon has various meanings, based on several very different forms of visual art and illustration. The term has evolved over time.The original meaning was in fine art, and there cartoon meant a preparatory drawing for a piece of art such as a painting or tapestry....
   titled The Friendly Ghost
  The Friendly Ghost
  
  The Friendly Ghost is a cartoon released by Paramount Pictures on 16 November 1945 in film under its Noveltoons series of animated shorts. It is the first cartoon to feature Casper the Friendly Ghost....
  , featuring ghost named Casper
  Casper the Friendly Ghost
  
  Casper the Friendly Ghost is the protagonist of the Famous Studios Animation of the same name. As his name indicates, he is a ghost, but is quite personable....
  .
• With Rossellini
  Roberto Rossellini
  
  Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director. Rossellini was one of the most important directors of Italian neorealism film, contributing films such as Roma citt? aperta to the movement....
  's Roma Città aperta
  Rome, open city
  
  Rome, Open City is a 1945 in film Italy war drama film, directed by Roberto Rossellini. The picture features Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani and Marcello Pagliero, and is set in Rome during the Nazism occupation in 1944....
  , Italian neorealist
  Italian neorealism
  
  Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors....
   cinema
  Film
  
  Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
   begins.
• October 5 - A strike between the set decorators' union and the studios boils over and became what is now considered Hollywood Black Friday
  Hollywood Black Friday
  
  Hollywood Black Friday is the name given, in the history of organized labor in the United States, to October 5, 1945. On that date, a six month strike by the set decorators represented by the Conference of Studio Unions boiled over into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios in Burbank, California....
  .
• December 28 - Spellbound
  Spellbound (1945 film)
  
  Spellbound is a psychological thriller Mystery Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of the new head of a mental asylum who turns out not to be what he claims....
   is released.
• Son of Lassie
  Son of Lassie
  
  Son of Lassie is a 1945 MGM feature film starring Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart and the dog actor Pal . The film is a sequel to the first MGM Lassie film Lassie Come Home and follows an adult Joe Carraclough and Lassie's son, "Laddie" in the RAF....
  , the 2nd Lassie
  Lassie
  
  Lassie is a fictional character and a stage name for several dog actors. The fictional character was created by Eric Knight in a short story expanded to novel length called Lassie Come-Home ....
   film, becomes the first movie ever to be filmed using the Technicolor Monobook
  Technicolor
  
  Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
   method, where a single magazine of film
  Photographic film
  
  Photographic film is a sheet of plastic coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive silver halide salts with variable crystal sizes that determine the sensitivity, contrast and of the film....
   was used to record all of the primary color
  Primary color
  
  Primary colors are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors. For human applications, three are often used; for additive combination of colors, as in overlapping projected lights or in cathode ray tube displays, the primary colors normally used are red, green, and blue....
  s. Prior to this method, the most popular recording method was 3-Strip Technicolor
  Technicolor
  
  Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
  , which simultaneously used 3 individual film magazines to record the primary colors.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

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....
: The Lost Weekend - 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....
: 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 Lost Weekend

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....
: Ray Milland

Ray Milland

Ray Milland was a Wales-born United States actor and Film director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best-remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend ....
 - The Lost Weekend

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....
: Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress....
 - Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce (film)

Mildred Pierce is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, and Eve Arden in a film noir tale about a sacrificing mother and her ungrateful daughter....

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....
: James Dunn

James Dunn (actor)

James Howard Dunn was an United States Academy Award-winning film actor....
 - A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (film)

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is a 1945 film, the first film film director by Greek-American director Elia Kazan, starring James Dunn , Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Peggy Ann Garner....

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....
: Anne Revere

Anne Revere

Anne Revere was an Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning United States stage and film actress....
 - 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 ....

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....
: The Lost Weekend

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....
: Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend

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....
: Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend

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

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....
 - The Bells of St. Mary's

The Bells of St. Mary's

The Bells of St. Mary's is a 1945 film which tells the story of a priest and a nun at a school who set out, despite their good-natured rivalry, to save the school from being shut down....

Best Film for Promoting International Good Will: The House I Live In

The House I Live In

The House I Live In is a ten-minute short film written by Albert Maltz and made by producer Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy, and actor Frank Sinatra to oppose anti-Semitism and racism at the end of World War II....
 (short film)

Films released in 1945

• Abbott and Costello in Hollywood
  Abbott and Costello in Hollywood
  
  Abbott and Costello in Hollywood is a 1945 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. This film's full onscreen title is Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood....
  , 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....
  
• Along Came Jones
  Along Came Jones (film)
  
  Along Came Jones is a 1945 in film western film comedy film starring Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, and Dan Duryea, in which Cooper mercilessly spoofs his own slow-talking cowboy persona....
  , 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 Loretta Young
  Loretta Young
  
  Loretta Young was an Academy Award, three time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe-winning American actress....
  
• Anchors Aweigh
  Anchors Aweigh (film)
  
  Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 musical comedy film, directed by George Sidney in which two sailors go on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood, accompanied by music and song, meet an aspiring young singer and try to help her get an audition at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
  
• Back to Bataan
  Back to Bataan
  
  Back to Bataan is a World War II war film produced by Robert Fellows, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring John Wayne and Anthony Quinn....
  , directed by Edward Dmytryk
  Edward Dmytryk
  
  Edward Dmytryk was an United States film director who was amongst the Hollywood blacklist#The Hollywood Ten and other 1947 blacklistees, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy era Second Red Scare....
  , with 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....
  
• The Bells of St. Mary's
  The Bells of St. Mary's
  
  The Bells of St. Mary's is a 1945 film which tells the story of a priest and a nun at a school who set out, despite their good-natured rivalry, to save the school from being shut down....
  
• Blithe Spirit
  Blithe Spirit (film)
  
  Blithe Spirit is a 1945 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom comedy film directed by David Lean. The screenplay by Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame, and No?l Coward is based on Coward's 1941 Blithe Spirit ....
  , directed by David Lean
  David Lean
  
  Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....
   and based on the play by Noel Coward
  Noël Coward
  
  Sir No?l Peirce Coward was an English people playwright, composer, Theatre director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise"....
  
• Blood on the Sun
  Blood on the Sun
  
  Blood on the Sun is a film starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on the history behind the Tanaka Memorial document....
  
• Brief Encounter
  Brief Encounter
  
  Brief Encounter is a 1945 in film British film directed by David Lean about the mores of British suburban life, centring on a housewife for whom real love was an unexpectedly "violent" thing....
  , starring Celia Johnson
  Celia Johnson
  
  Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom actor famous for her role in the 1945 film Brief Encounter, opposite Trevor Howard, for which she received her only Oscar nomination....
   and Trevor Howard
  Trevor Howard
  
  Trevor Howard, Order of the British Empire , born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith, was an England film, Theatre and television actor....
  , and directed by David Lean
  David Lean
  
  Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....
  
• Caesar and Cleopatra
  Caesar and Cleopatra (1945 film)
  
  Caesar and Cleopatra is a 1945 in film film starring Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh, produced and directed by Gabriel Pascal from the Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw....
  
• Captain Kidd
  Captain Kidd (1945 film)
  
  Captain Kidd is a film starring Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, and John Carradine, directed by Rowland V. Lee, produced by Benedict Bogeaus and James Nasser, music conduced by Werner Janssen, and released by United Artists....
  
• Children of Paradise
  Children of Paradise
  
  Les Enfants du Paradis is a 1945 film by French director Marcel Carn?, made during the German occupation of France during World War II. The film is nominally set around the Parisian theatre in the 1830s and tells the story of a beautiful courtesan, Garance, and the four men who love her in their own ways: a mime artist, an actor, a Crim...
  (Les Enfants du Paradis), by Marcel Carné
  Marcel Carné
  
  Marcel Carn? was a French film director.Born in Paris, France, he began his career in silent film as a trainee with director Jacques Feyder. By age 25, Carn? had already directed his first film, one that marked the beginning of a successful collaboration with surrealist poet and screenwriter Jacques Pr?vert....
   and Jacques Prévert
  Jacques Prévert
  
  Jacques Pr?vert was a French poet and screenwriter. ...
  , released following the liberation of France
  France
  
  France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  
• The Clock
  The Clock (film)
  
  The Clock is a 1945 in film film starring Judy Garland and Robert Hudson Walker and directed by Judy Garland's then-future husband, Vincente Minnelli....
  
• Conflict
• The Corn Is Green
  The Corn Is Green (1945 film)
  
  The Corn Is Green is a 1945 in film drama film starring Bette Davis as a schoolteacher determined to bring education to a Welsh coal mining town, despite great opposition....
  
• Dead of Night
  Dead of Night
  
  Dead of Night is a cult British portmanteau film horror film, its various episodes directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer....
  , Ealing Studios
  Ealing Studios
  
  Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London and is officially the oldest film studio in Great Britain and was purpose built for the use of sound in early British films....
   chiller compendium
• Detour
  Detour (1945 film)
  
  Detour is a film noir cult classic that stars Tom Neal, Ann Savage , Claudia Drake, and Edmund MacDonald. The movie was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney from Goldsmith's Detour , and was directed by Edgar G....
  
• Dillinger
  Dillinger (1945 film)
  
  Dillinger is a 1945 in film gangster film telling the story of John Dillinger. The film was directed by Max Nosseck. Dillinger was the first major film to star Lawrence Tierney....
  
• The Dolly Sisters
  The Dolly Sisters
  
  The Dolly Sisters is a 1945 in film biographical film about the Dolly Sisters, identical twins who became famous as entertainers on Broadway theatre and in Europe in the early years of the twentieth century....
  
• The Enchanted Cottage
  The Enchanted Cottage (1945 film)
  
  The Enchanted Cottage is a 1945 in film romantic film starring Robert Young , Dorothy McGuire, and Mildred Natwick. It was based on a play by Arthur Wing Pinero....
  
• Fallen Angel
• Flame of Barbary Coast
  Flame of Barbary Coast
  
  Flame of Barbary Coast is a 1945 in film western film starring John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley, and Virginia Grey....
  
• Guest Wife
  Guest Wife
  
  Guest Wife is a 1945 in film film directed by Sam Wood, written by Bruce Manning and John Klorer, and starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and Dick Foran....
  
• Here Come The Co-Eds
  Here Come the Co-Eds
  
  Here Come The Co-Eds is a 1945 in 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....
  
• The House I Live In
  The House I Live In
  
  The House I Live In is a ten-minute short film written by Albert Maltz and made by producer Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy, and actor Frank Sinatra to oppose anti-Semitism and racism at the end of World War II....
   (short film)
• House of Dracula
  House of Dracula
  
  House of Dracula was an United States horror film released by Universal Pictures Company in 1945. It was a direct sequel to House of Frankenstein and continued the theme of combining Universal's three most popular monsters: Frankenstein's monster, Count Dracula and The Wolf Man ....
  
• The House on 92nd Street
  The House on 92nd Street
  
  The House on 92nd Street is a 1945 black-and-white film in the film noir genre. The movie was shot mainly in New York City. The film was directed by Henry Hathaway and won screenwriter Charles G....
  , produced by Louis de Rochemont
  Louis de Rochemont
  
  Louis de Rochemont was a film maker known for creating, along with Roy E. Larsen from Time Warner, the monthly theatrically-shown newsreels The March of Time....
  
• Incendiary Blonde
  Incendiary Blonde
  
  Incendiary Blonde is a 1945 Musical film Biographical film of 1920s nightclub star Texas Guinan. Filmed in Technicolor by director George Marshall , it starred actress Betty Hutton in the title role....
  
• Lady on a Train
  Lady on a Train
  
  Lady on a Train is a 1945 black-and-white comedy shot in film noir style. The film, starring Deanna Durbin, was directed by Durbin's future third husband Charles David....
  
• Leave Her to Heaven
  Leave Her to Heaven
  
  Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 in film 20th Century Fox color film noir film starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, with Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, and Chill Wills....
  
• The Lost Weekend
• Love Letters
  Love Letters (1945 film)
  
  Love Letters is a 1945 film adapted by Ayn Rand from the novel Pity My Simplicity by Christopher Massie. It was directed by William Dieterle and stars Jennifer Jones , Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards , Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper and Anita Louise....
  
• A Medal for Benny
  A Medal for Benny
  
  A Medal for Benny is a 1945 United States film directed by Irving Pichel. The story was conceived by writer Jack Wagner , who enlisted his longtime friend John Steinbeck to help him put it into script form....
  
• Mildred Pierce
  Mildred Pierce (film)
  
  Mildred Pierce is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, and Eve Arden in a film noir tale about a sacrificing mother and her ungrateful daughter....
  
• Mom and Dad
  Mom and Dad
  
  Mom and Dad is a feature-length 1945 in film directed by William Beaudine, and largely produced by the exploitation filmmaker and presenter Kroger Babb....
  
• The Naughty Nineties
  The Naughty Nineties
  
  The Naughty Nineties is a 1945 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. It is significant for containing perhaps the best-known recorded rendition of the team's classic "Who's on First?" routine, as it is this version of the routine that is shown at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown....
  , 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....
  
• Objective, Burma!
  Objective, Burma!
  
  Objective, Burma! is a 1945 in film movie which depicts American commandos fighting extensively in the China Burma India Theater of World War II....
  
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
  The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film)
  
  The Picture of Dorian Gray is an United States horror film-drama film film based on the 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, his only novel....
  
• Pride of the Marines
  Pride of the Marines
  
  Pride of the Marines is a 1945 in film biographical film war film. starring John Garfield and Eleanor Parker. It tells the story of United States Marine Corps Al Schmid in World War II, his heroic stand against a Japanese attack during the Battle of Guadalcanal, in which he was blinded by a grenade, and his subsequent rehabilitation....
  
• Rhapsody in Blue
  Rhapsody in Blue (film)
  
  Rhapsody in Blue is a 1945 biopic of George Gershwin. Starring Robert Alda as Gershwin, the film features a few of Gershwin's acquaintances ....
  
• Rome, Open City
  Rome, open city
  
  Rome, Open City is a 1945 in film Italy war drama film, directed by Roberto Rossellini. The picture features Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani and Marcello Pagliero, and is set in Rome during the Nazism occupation in 1944....
   (Roma Città aperta) by Rossellini
  Roberto Rossellini
  
  Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director. Rossellini was one of the most important directors of Italian neorealism film, contributing films such as Roma citt? aperta to the movement....
  
• San Antonio
  San Antonio (film)
  
  San Antonio is a 1945 western film starring Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith. The movie was written by W. R. Burnett and Alan Le May, and directed by David Butler as well as uncredited Robert Florey and Raoul Walsh....
  
• Saratoga Trunk
  Saratoga Trunk
  
  Saratoga Trunk is a 1945 film written by Edna Ferber and Casey Robinson, based on Ferber's best-selling novel of the same name. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Florence Bates, and Flora Robson, who was nominated for a Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance....
  
• Scarlett Street
• Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear
  Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear
  
  Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear is a 1945 crime film film directed by Roy William Neill. It is based on The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle, and features the characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr....
  
• Sherlock Holmes and the Woman in Green
  The Woman in Green
  
  The Woman in Green is a Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, with Henry Daniell as Professor Moriarty, and Hillary Brooke in support....
  
• Son of Lassie
  Son of Lassie
  
  Son of Lassie is a 1945 MGM feature film starring Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart and the dog actor Pal . The film is a sequel to the first MGM Lassie film Lassie Come Home and follows an adult Joe Carraclough and Lassie's son, "Laddie" in the RAF....
  
• A Song to Remember
  A Song to Remember
  
  A Song to Remember is a 1945 in film Columbia Pictures biographical film which tells a ficitonalised life story of Polish pianist and composer Fryderyk Chopin....
  
• The Southerner
  The Southerner (1945 film)
  
  The Southerner is a film directed by Jean Renoir, based on the novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Original Music Score and Sound....
  
• The Spanish Main
  The Spanish Main
  
  The Spanish Main adventure film starring Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak and Binnie Barnes, and directed by Frank Borzage. It was RKO Radio Pictures's first all-Technicolor film since Becky Sharp ten years before....
  
• Spellbound
  Spellbound (1945 film)
  
  Spellbound is a psychological thriller Mystery Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of the new head of a mental asylum who turns out not to be what he claims....
  
• State Fair
  State Fair (1945 film)
  
  State Fair is a 1945 in film directed by Walter Lang. The film is a remake of the State Fair . This version has original music by Rodgers and Hammerstein....
  
• The Story of G.I. Joe
  The Story of G.I. Joe
  
  The Story of G.I. Joe is a war film directed by William Wellman, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Mitchum's only nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor....
  
• 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....
  
• They Were Expendable
  They Were Expendable
  
  They Were Expendable is a war film released in 1945 in film. The movie was directed by John Ford and starred Robert Montgomery , John Wayne, and Donna Reed....
  
• Thrill of a Romance, directed by Richard Thorpe
  Richard Thorpe
  
  Richard Thorpe was an United States film director.Born Rollo Smolt Thorpe in Hutchinson, Kansas, he began his entertainment career performing in vaudeville and on the theatre stage....
  
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
  A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (film)
  
  A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is a 1945 film, the first film film director by Greek-American director Elia Kazan, starring James Dunn , Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Peggy Ann Garner....
  
• The Valley of Decision
  The Valley of Decision
  
  The Valley of Decision is a film set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania which tells the story of a young house maid who falls in love with the son of the local steel mill owner....
  
• A Walk in the Sun
  A Walk in the Sun
  
  A Walk in the Sun is a war film released in 1945 in film , based on the novel by Harry Brown who was a writer for Yank magazine based in England....
  
• The Way to the Stars
  The Way to the Stars
  
  The Way to the Stars, also known as Johnny in the Clouds, is a 1945 in film war film drama film made by Two Cities Films and released by United Artists....
  , starring John Mills
  John Mills
  
  Sir John Mills Order of the British Empire was an England actor, who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades....
   and Michael Redgrave
  Michael Redgrave
  
  Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave Order of the British Empire was a well-known English people stage and film actor, director, manager and author....
  , written by Terence Rattigan
  Terence Rattigan
  
  Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan was one of England's most popular 20th century dramatists. He was born in Kensington, London of Irish people extraction, educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Oxford, and his plays are generally situated within an upper middle class background....
  
• The Wicked Lady
  The Wicked Lady
  
  The Wicked Lady was a 1945 in film film starring Margaret Lockwood in the title role as a nobleman's wife who turns to robbery for enjoyment and to repay gambling debts....
  , with Margaret Lockwood
  Margaret Lockwood
  
  Margaret Lockwood, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom actress, notable for her performance in the 1945 Gainsborough Pictures movie The Wicked Lady....
   and James Mason
  James Mason
  
  James Neville Mason was a three-time Academy Award-nominated British People actor who attained stardom in both United Kingdom and United States films....
  
• Wonder Man
  Wonder Man (film)
  
  Wonder Man is a 1945 in film film starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. It is based on a short story by Arthur Sheekman, adapted for the screen by a staff of writers led by Jack Jevne and Eddie Moran, film producer by Samuel Goldwyn, and film director by H....
  , starring Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye
  
  Danny Kaye was an American award-winning actor, singer and comedian....
   and Virginia Mayo

Serials

• Brenda Starr, Reporter
  Brenda Starr, Reporter
  
  Brenda Starr, Reporter was the 25th serial film released by Columbia Pictures. It was inspired by Brenda Starr , a popular comic strip created by Dale Messick....
  , starring Joan Woodbury
  Joan Woodbury
  
  Joan Woodbury was an United States of America film actress beginning in the 1930s and continuing well into the 1960s....
  
• Federal Operator 99
  Federal Operator 99
  
  Federal Operator 99 is a Republic Pictures Serial ....
  , starring Marten Lamont
• Jungle Queen
  Jungle Queen (serial)
  
  Jungle Queen is a Universal Pictures Serial .Material from this serial was re-edited into the feature film Jungle Safari .Cast...
  , starring Edward Norris and Eddie Quillan
  Eddie Quillan
  
  Edward "Eddie" Quillan was an United States film actor whose career began as a child on the vaudeville stages and silent films and continued through the age of television in the 1980s....
  
• Jungle Raiders
  Jungle Raiders
  
  Jungle Raiders is a Columbia Pictures Serial ....
  
• Manhunt on Mystery Island, starring Richard Bailey and 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....
  
• The Master Key
  The Master Key (1945 serial)
  
  The Master Key is a Universal Pictures Serial ....
  , starring Dennis Moore
  Dennis Moore (actor)
  
  Dennis Moore was an actor who specialized in Westerns and film serials for Universal Pictures.External links...
  
• The Monster and the Ape
  The Monster and the Ape
  
  The Monster and the Ape was the 26th serial released by Columbia Pictures....
  , starring Robert Lowery
  Robert Lowery (actor)
  
  Robert Lowery , born Robert Larkin Hanks, was a motion picture, television, and stage actor who appeared in over seventy films. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up on Wayne Avenue near the long-demolished Electric Park....
  
• The Purple Monster Strikes
  The Purple Monster Strikes
  
  The Purple Monster Strikes is a Republic Pictures Movie serial. It was also released as a television film under the title D-Day on Mars ....
  , starring Dennis Moore
  Dennis Moore (actor)
  
  Dennis Moore was an actor who specialized in Westerns and film serials for Universal Pictures.External links...
   and 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....
  
• The Royal Mounted Rides Again
  The Royal Mounted Rides Again
  
  The Royal Mounted Rides Again was a Universal Pictures Serial film. Adventure serials of this type were popular in the early days of film....
  
• Secret Agent X-9
  Secret Agent X-9 (1945 serial)
  
  Secret Agent X-9 is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the comic strip Secret Agent X-9. It was the second serial with this name, the first was released by Universal in 1937 in film....
  , starring Lloyd Bridges
  Lloyd Bridges
  
  Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. was an Emmy Award-nominated United States actor. Bridges starred in popular television series, and appeared in more than 150 films....
  
• Who's Guilty?
  Who's Guilty?
  
  Who's Guilty? is a Columbia Pictures Serial film. It was the 28th of the 57 serials released by that studio. Who's Guilty? was a rare attempt at a whodunit mystery film in serial form....
  

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....
  )
• 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)
• 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
  1944 in film
  
  The year 1944 in film involved some significant events....
  -1946
  1946 in film
  
  The year 1946 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Yosemite Sam
  Yosemite Sam
  
  Yosemite Sam is an animation fictional character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation....
   (1945
  1945 in film
  
  The year 1945 in film involved some significant events....
  -1963
  1963 in film
  
  The year 1963 in film involved some significant events....
  )

Births

• May 21 - Richard Hatch
  Richard Hatch (actor)
  
  Richard Hatch is an American actor. He is best known for his role of Captain Apollo on the original Battlestar Galactica television series, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, and the recurring role of Tom Zarek in the second incarnation of Battlestar Galactica ....
  , actor
• May 31 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a Germany film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A premier representative of the New German Cinema. He maintained a frenetic pace in film-making, in a professional career that lasted less than fifteen years Fassbinder completed 35 Feature film films; two television series shot on film; three Short sub...
  , director
• August 14 - Steve Martin
  Steve Martin
  
  Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an Emmy Award-winning United States actor, comedian, writer, playwright, Film producer, musician, and composer....
  , actor and comedian
• August 14 - Wim Wenders
  Wim Wenders
  
  Ernst Wilhelm Wenders is a Germany film director, playwright, author, photographer and film producer....
  , director
• September 21 - Jerry Bruckheimer
  Jerry Bruckheimer
  
  Jerome Leon Bruckheimer , better known by his professional name Jerry Bruckheimer, is an United States film producer and television producer....
   producer

Deaths

• July 13 - Alla Nazimova
  Alla Nazimova
  
  Alla Nazimova , born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon was a Russian/United States theatre and film actress, scriptwriter, and Film producer....
  , Ukrainian-born stage and film actress