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The year 1946 in film involved some significant events.




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Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Song of the South
Song of the South

Song of the South is a feature film produced by Walt Disney, released on November 12, 1946, by RKO Pictures and based on the Uncle Remus cycle of stories by Joel Chandler Harris....
*
Disney/RKO $29,229,000
2.The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives is an Cinema of the United States drama film about three servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II....

Duel in the Sun
RKO
Selznick
$11,300,000
3. The Jolson Story
The Jolson Story

The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biography which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson. It stars Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes as "Julie Benson" , William Demarest as his manager, Ludwig Donath and Tamara Shayne as his parents, and Scotty Beckett as the young Jolson....
Columbia $7,600,000
4. Blue Skies
Blue Skies (film)

Blue Skies is a 1946 in film Hollywood musical film comedy film, released by Paramount Pictures and starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Joan Caulfield, Olga San Juan and Billy De Wolfe, with music, lyrics and story by Irving Berlin; most of the songs were recycled from earlier works....
Paramount $5,700,000
5.The Yearling MGM $5,568,000
6. The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge (1946 film)

The Razor's Edge is the first film version of W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge. It was released in 1946 and stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne , Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, supporting cast Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore and Elsa Lanchester....
20th Century Fox $5,000,000
7. Notorious RKO $4,800,000
8. Till the Clouds Roll By
Till the Clouds Roll By

Till The Clouds Roll By is an United States musical film-biography film made by MGM in 1946 in film.The film is a fictionalized biography of composer Jerome Kern, who was originally involved with the production of the film, but died before it was completed....
MGM $4,762,000
9. Road to Utopia
Road to Utopia

Road to Utopia, filmed in 1943 but not released until 1946 in film, is the fourth film of the road series....
Paramount $4,500,000


(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)







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The year 1946 in film involved some significant events.

Events

  • November 21 - William Wyler
    William Wyler

    William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
    's The Best Years of Our Lives
    The Best Years of Our Lives

    The Best Years of Our Lives is an Cinema of the United States drama film about three servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II....
     premieres in New York featuring an ensemble cast including Fredric March, Myrna Loy
    Myrna Loy

    Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, but after a few minor roles in silent films, she devoted herself fully to an acting career, and from 1925 gradually established herself as a film actress....
    , Dana Andrews
    Dana Andrews

    Dana Andrews was an United States film actor....
    , Teresa Wright
    Teresa Wright

    Teresa Wright was an Academy Awards-winning United States actor....
    , and Harold Russell
    Harold Russell

    Harold John Russell was a Canadian-American World War II veteran who became one of only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Awards for acting ....
    .


  • December 20 - Frank Capra
    Frank Capra

    'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
    's It's a Wonderful Life
    It's a Wonderful Life

    It's a Wonderful Life is an United States film produced and directed by Frank Capra and loosely based on the short story "The Greatest Gift " written by Philip Van Doren Stern....
    , featuring James Stewart
    James Stewart

    James Stewart may refer to:...
    , Donna Reed
    Donna Reed

    Donna Reed was an Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning American film and television actress....
    , Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore

    Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
    , Henry Travers
    Henry Travers

    Henry Travers was an England actor....
    , and Thomas Mitchell
    Thomas Mitchell

    Major Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , Surveyor and European exploration of Australia of south-eastern Australia, was born at Grangemouth in Stirlingshire, Scotland....
     opens in New York.


Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Song of the South
Song of the South

Song of the South is a feature film produced by Walt Disney, released on November 12, 1946, by RKO Pictures and based on the Uncle Remus cycle of stories by Joel Chandler Harris....
*
Disney/RKO $29,229,000
2.The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives is an Cinema of the United States drama film about three servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II....

Duel in the Sun
RKO
Selznick
$11,300,000
3. The Jolson Story
The Jolson Story

The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biography which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson. It stars Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes as "Julie Benson" , William Demarest as his manager, Ludwig Donath and Tamara Shayne as his parents, and Scotty Beckett as the young Jolson....
Columbia $7,600,000
4. Blue Skies
Blue Skies (film)

Blue Skies is a 1946 in film Hollywood musical film comedy film, released by Paramount Pictures and starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Joan Caulfield, Olga San Juan and Billy De Wolfe, with music, lyrics and story by Irving Berlin; most of the songs were recycled from earlier works....
Paramount $5,700,000
5.The Yearling MGM $5,568,000
6. The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge (1946 film)

The Razor's Edge is the first film version of W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge. It was released in 1946 and stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne , Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, supporting cast Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore and Elsa Lanchester....
20th Century Fox $5,000,000
7. Notorious RKO $4,800,000
8. Till the Clouds Roll By
Till the Clouds Roll By

Till The Clouds Roll By is an United States musical film-biography film made by MGM in 1946 in film.The film is a fictionalized biography of composer Jerome Kern, who was originally involved with the production of the film, but died before it was completed....
MGM $4,762,000
9. Road to Utopia
Road to Utopia

Road to Utopia, filmed in 1943 but not released until 1946 in film, is the fourth film of the road series....
Paramount $4,500,000


(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1946.shtml

Awards


Academy Awards
19th Academy Awards

The 19th Academy Awards continued a trend through the late-1940s of the Oscar voters honoring films about contemporary social issues. The Best Years of Our Lives concerns the lives of three returning veterans from three branches of military service as they adjust to life on the home front after World War II....
:


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 Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives is an Cinema of the United States drama film about three servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II....
- Goldwyn, RKO Radio
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....
: William Wyler
William Wyler

William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning film film director....
 - The Best Years of Our Lives
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....
: Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives
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....
: Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland

Olivia Mary de Havilland is a two-time Academy Awards-winning actor. She is the older sister of actress Joan Fontaine, also an Academy Award winner....
 - To Each His Own
To Each His Own (film)

To Each His Own is a 1946 film directed by Mitchell Leisen, which tells the story of Jody Norris , who falls in love with a pilot . He goes off to fight in World War I, leaving Jody to give birth to their son....
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....
: Harold Russell
Harold Russell

Harold John Russell was a Canadian-American World War II veteran who became one of only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Awards for acting ....
 - The Best Years of Our Lives
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 Baxter
Anne Baxter

Anne Baxter was an Academy Award-winning United States actress....
 - The Razor's Edge (1946 film)
The Razor's Edge (1946 film)

The Razor's Edge is the first film version of W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge. It was released in 1946 and stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne , Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, supporting cast Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore and Elsa Lanchester....


Golden Globe Awards
4th Golden Globe Awards

The 4th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1946 in film, were held on 26 February, 1947 at the Hollywood Roosevelt 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....
: The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives is an Cinema of the United States drama film about three servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II....
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....
: Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
 - It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life is an United States film produced and directed by Frank Capra and loosely based on the short story "The Greatest Gift " written by Philip Van Doren Stern....
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....
: 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....
 - The Yearling
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....
: Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell was an American actress of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway theatre and in film....
 - Sister Kenny
Sister Kenny

Sister Kenny is a 1946 biographical film about Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian bush nurse, who fought to help people who suffered from polio, despite opposition from the medical establishment....


Best Film Promoting International Understanding: The Last Chance
The Last Chance

The Last Chance is a 1945 in film cinema of Switzerland war film directed by Leopold Lindtberg. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prize of the Festival ....
 (Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
)


GRAND PRIX
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 (Cannes Film Festival):
Portrait of Maria (María Candelaria
Maria Candelaria

Maria Candelaria is a 1943 in film Mexican film directed by Emilio Fern?ndez and starring Dolores del R?o and Pedro Armend?riz. It was the first Mexican film to be screened at the Cannes International Film Festival where it won the Palme d'Or....
), directed by Emilio Fernández
Emilio Fernández

"El Indio" Fern?ndez was a Mexican actor, screenwriter and director of the Cinema of Mexico....
, Mexico
The Turning Point (??????? ???????, Velikiy perelom), directed by Fridrikh Markovitch Ermler, Soviet Union
La Symphonie pastorale
La Symphonie pastorale

La symphonie pastorale is a 1946 in film French language motion picture drama directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Mich?le Morgan and Pierre Blanchar....
, directed by Jean Delannoy
Jean Delannoy

Jean Delannoy was a France actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family is from Haute-Normandie in the north of France....
, France
The Last Chance
The Last Chance

The Last Chance is a 1945 in film cinema of Switzerland war film directed by Leopold Lindtberg. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prize of the Festival ....
(Die Letzte Chance), directed by Leopold Lintberg, Switzerland
Men Without Wings
Men Without Wings

Blood and Fire is a 1946 in film cinema of the Czech Republic drama film directed by Franti?ek C?p. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival....
(Muži bez krídel), directed by František Cáp
František Cáp

Franti?ek C?p was a Czech film director and screenwriter. He directed 32 films between 1939 in film and 1970 in film....
, Czechoslovakia
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), directed by Roberto 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....
, Italy


Films released in 1946

  • Anna and the King of Siam
  • Beauty and the Beast
    Beauty and the Beast (1946 film)

    Beauty and the Beast is a 1946 Cinema of France romance film fantasy film adaptation of Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont's fairy tale. Directed by French poet/filmmaker Jean Cocteau, the film stars Josette Day as Belle and Jean Marais as both Avenant and The Beast....
     (La Belle et la Bête), directed by Jean Cocteau
    Jean Cocteau

    Jean Maurice Eug?ne Cl?ment Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en sc?ne language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde....
    , starring Jean Marais
    Jean Marais

    Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais , was a France actor and director....
     and Josette Day
    Josette Day

    Josette Day was a France film actress.Born in Paris on July 31, 1914, she began her career as an actress in 1919 at the age of five. Day was married in 1941 to studio head Marcel Pagnol, who she met in January 1939....
  • The Beast with Five Fingers
    The Beast with Five Fingers

    The Beast with Five Fingers is a horror film directed by Robert Florey and with a screenplay by Curt Siodmak, based on a short story by W. F....
    , starring Robert Alda
    Robert Alda

    Robert Alda born Alfonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo, was an United States actor. He was the father of actor Alan Alda....
     and 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....
  • The Best Years of Our Lives
    The Best Years of Our Lives

    The Best Years of Our Lives is an Cinema of the United States drama film about three servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II....
  • Beware, directed by Bud Pollard, starring Louis Jordan
    Louis Jordan

    Louis Jordan was a pioneering United States jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s....
  • The Big Sleep
    The Big Sleep (1946 film)

    The Big Sleep is a film noir directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep. It stars Humphrey Bogart as detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as the femme fatale....
    , starring Humphrey Bogart
    Humphrey Bogart

    Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an United_States_of_America actor and cultural icon. In 1997, Entertainment Weekly magazine named him the number one movie legend of all time....
     and Lauren Bacall
    Lauren Bacall

    Lauren Bacall is an American film and theater actress and Model . Known for her husky voice and sultry looks, she has continued acting to the present day....
  • The Blue Dahlia
    The Blue Dahlia

    The Blue Dahlia is an United states film noir directed by George Marshall and written by Raymond Chandler. The film marks the third pairing of stars Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake....
  • Blue Skies
    Blue Skies (film)

    Blue Skies is a 1946 in film Hollywood musical film comedy film, released by Paramount Pictures and starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Joan Caulfield, Olga San Juan and Billy De Wolfe, with music, lyrics and story by Irving Berlin; most of the songs were recycled from earlier works....
  • Boom in the Moon
    Boom in the Moon

    Boom in the Moon is a 1946 in film Mexican cinema science fiction film comedy film directed by Jaime Salvador and starring Buster Keaton. The film is notable both as Keaton?s only Mexican production and as the last time Keaton had star billing in a feature film....
     starring Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton

    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
  • 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....
  • Caesar and Cleopatra (U.S. release)
  • The Captive Heart
    The Captive Heart

    The Captive Heart is a 1946 in film United Kingdom war film drama film, film director by Basil Dearden for Ealing Studios. The film was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival....
    , the first Prisoner of War film from World War II
  • Centennial Summer
    Centennial Summer

    Centennial Summer is a 1946 in film film Film director by Otto Preminger. The Musical film, that stars Jeanne Crain and Cornel Wilde, is based on a novel by Albert E....
  • 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...
     (U.S. release)
  • The Dark Mirror
  • Decoy, a film noir starring Jean Gillie
  • Dragonwyck
  • Duel in the Sun
  • Gallant Journey
    Gallant Journey

    Gallant Journey is a historical film about early U.S. aeronautical experimenter John Joseph Montgomery. It depicts his efforts to build and fly gliders, from his childhood through to his death in 1911....
    , directed by William A. Wellman
    William A. Wellman

    William Augustus Wellman was an United States movie director, noted for directing the film which received the first Academy Award for Best Picture, Wings ....
  • Great Expectations
    Great Expectations (1946 film)

    Great Expectations is a 1946 in film British film directed by David Lean and based on the Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. It stars John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt, and Alec Guinness....
    , 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 ....
  • Green for Danger
    Green for Danger (film)

    Green for Danger is a 1946 in film thriller film, based on the popular 1944 detective novel by Christianna Brand.The book Green for Danger was praised for its clever plot, interesting characters, and wartime hospital setting....
    , starring Alastair Sim
    Alastair Sim

    Alastair Sim, CBE was a Scottish people character actor actor who appeared in a string of classic United Kingdom films. He is best remembered in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 film Scrooge , and for his portrayal of Miss Fritton, the headmistress in two of the much-loved St....
  • The Green Years
    The Green Years (film)

    The Green Years is a 1946 comedy-drama film featuring Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Hume Cronyn, Gladys Cooper, Dean Stockwell, and Jessica Tandy, based on A....
  • The Harvey Girls
    The Harvey Girls

    The Harvey Girls is a MGM musical film based on a 1942 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams about Fred Harvey 's famous Harvey House restaurants. Directed by George Sidney, the film stars Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury, Virginia O'Brien, Ray Bolger, and Marjorie Main....
    , directed by George Sidney
    George Sidney

    George Sidney was a Jewish United States film director and film producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
    , starring Judy Garland
    Judy Garland

    Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
  • 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 ....
     (U.S. release)
  • Humoresque
    Humoresque (film)

    Humoresque is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield in an older woman/younger man tale about a violinist and his patroness....
    , directed by Jean Negulesco
    Jean Negulesco

    Jean Negulesco was a Romania American film director and screenwriter.Born in Craiova, he attended Carol I High School. In 1915, he moved to Vienna, and, in 1919, to Bucharest, where he worked as a painter, before becoming a stage decorator in Paris....
  • It's a Wonderful Life
    It's a Wonderful Life

    It's a Wonderful Life is an United States film produced and directed by Frank Capra and loosely based on the short story "The Greatest Gift " written by Philip Van Doren Stern....
    , directed by Frank Capra
    Frank Capra

    'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
    , starring James Stewart
    James Stewart (actor)

    James Maitland Stewart , popularly known as Jimmy Stewart, was an United States film and stage actor best known for his self-effacing persona....
  • 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....
  • The Killers
    The Killers (1946 film)

    The Killers is an United States film noir about the investigation of a mob murder. It is based in part on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway....
  • Little Giant
    Little Giant

    Little Giant is a 1946 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello released by Universal Pictures....
    , 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 Jolson Story
    The Jolson Story

    The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biography which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson. It stars Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes as "Julie Benson" , William Demarest as his manager, Ludwig Donath and Tamara Shayne as his parents, and Scotty Beckett as the young Jolson....
  • Make Mine Music
    Make Mine Music

    Make Mine Music is an Animation produced by Walt Disney and released to Movie theaters by RKO Pictures on August 15, 1946. It is the eighth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon....
  • A Matter of Life and Death, written and directed by Powell and 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...
  • My Darling Clementine
    My Darling Clementine

    My Darling Clementine is a western movie film, directed by John Ford, and based on the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral between the Earp brothers and the Clanton gang....
  • Night and Day
  • A Night in Casablanca
    A Night in Casablanca

    A Night in Casablanca was the twelfth Marx Brothers' film. The film stars Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, and Harpo Marx. It was directed by Archie Mayo and written by Joseph Fields and Roland Kibbee....
     with the Marx Brothers
    Marx Brothers

    The Marx Brothers were a popular team of sibling comedians who appeared in vaudeville, stage plays, film, and television....
  • Notorious, 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....
    , starring Cary Grant
    Cary Grant

    Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
     and 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 Overlanders
    The Overlanders (film)

    The Overlanders is a 1946 Australian film about Drover droving a large herd of cattle 1600 miles overland from the Northern Territory Outback of Australia to pastures north of Brisbane, Queensland during World War II....
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice
    The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film)

    The Postman Always Rings Twice is a drama film-film noir based on the 1934 in literature The Postman Always Rings Twice novel by James M....
  • The Razor's Edge
    The Razor's Edge (1946 film)

    The Razor's Edge is the first film version of W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge. It was released in 1946 and stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne , Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, supporting cast Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore and Elsa Lanchester....
    , starring Tyrone Power
    Tyrone Power

    'Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr.' , usually credited simply as 'Tyrone Power' and known sometimes as "'Ty Power'", was an United States film and Theatre actor who appeared in dozens of films from the 1930s to the 1950s, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads such as The Mark of Zorro , The Black Swan , Prince of Foxes , T...
  • Road to Utopia
    Road to Utopia

    Road to Utopia, filmed in 1943 but not released until 1946 in film, is the fourth film of the road series....
  • She-Wolf of London
    She-Wolf of London

    She-Wolf of London was a short-lived television series that aired was distributed in first-run syndication in the USA from October 1990 to April 1991....
  • Shock
    Shock (1946 film)

    Shock is a 1946 film noir directed by Alfred L. Werker....
  • The Seventh Veil
    The Seventh Veil

    The Seventh Veil is a 1945 in film United Kingdom melodrama film made by Sydney Box Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures....
    (U.S. release)
  • Sister Kenny
    Sister Kenny

    Sister Kenny is a 1946 biographical film about Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian bush nurse, who fought to help people who suffered from polio, despite opposition from the medical establishment....
  • Smithy
  • Song of the South
    Song of the South

    Song of the South is a feature film produced by Walt Disney, released on November 12, 1946, by RKO Pictures and based on the Uncle Remus cycle of stories by Joel Chandler Harris....
     by Walt Disney, combines animation and live action.
  • The Spiral Staircase
    The Spiral Staircase

    The Spiral Staircase is a 1945 United States psychological thriller film, based on Ethel Lina White's novel Some Must Watch, in which the heroine was crippled rather than mute....
  • The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a black-and-white film noir released in the United States in , starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott and Kirk Douglas in his film debut....
  • The Stranger, directed by Orson Welles 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 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....
  • A Stolen Life
    A Stolen Life

    A Stolen Life is a 1946 drama film, film director by Curtis Bernhardt. It stars Bette Davis, who also produced; her last production for Warner Bros.....
  • Theirs is the Glory
    Theirs is the Glory

    Theirs is the Glory is a 1946 in film British film about the Battle of Arnhem bridge during Operation Market Garden in World War II. It was the first film to be made about this battle....
  • The Time of Their Lives
    The Time of Their Lives

    The Time of Their Lives is a 1946 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....
  • To Each His Own
    To Each His Own (film)

    To Each His Own is a 1946 film directed by Mitchell Leisen, which tells the story of Jody Norris , who falls in love with a pilot . He goes off to fight in World War I, leaving Jody to give birth to their son....
  • Tomorrow is Forever
    Tomorrow Is Forever

    Tomorrow Is Forever is a 1946 in film black-and-white film distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by Irving Pichel, starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles and George Brent....
  • Wake Up and Dream
    Wake Up and Dream (film)

    Wake Up and Dream is a Technicolor film unrelated to the 1930s musical of the same name. It was directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Elick Moll based on the novel by Robert Nathan...
  • Without Reservations
    Without Reservations

    Without Reservations is a 1946 in film film made by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, and starring Claudette Colbert and John Wayne....
  • The Yearling, 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....
     and Jane Wyman
    Jane Wyman

    Jane Wyman was an American actor. She began her film career in the 1930s, and was a prolific performer for two decades. She received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Johnny Belinda , and later achieved success during the 1980s for her leading role in the television series Falcon Crest....


Serials

  • Daughter of Don Q
    Daughter of Don Q

    Daughter of Don Q is a Republic Pictures Movie serial. It combines elements of the B-Western genre with contemporary crime films, especially the popular "land grab" plot in which the villain attempts to steal apparently worthless land from the heroine because he secretly knows it is worth a fortune....
  • Chick Carter, Detective
    Chick Carter, Detective

    Chick Carter, Detective is a 1946 Columbia Pictures Serial . Columbia could not afford the rights to produce a Nick Carter serial so they made Chick Carter, Detective about his son instead....
  • The Crimson Ghost
    The Crimson Ghost

    The Crimson Ghost is a Republic Pictures Serial ....
  • Hop Harrigan
    Hop Harrigan (serial)

    Hop Harrigan is a Columbia Pictures Serial , based on the Hop Harrigan comic books ....
  • King of the Forest Rangers
    King of the Forest Rangers

    King of the Forest Rangers is a Republic Pictures Serial ....
    , starring Larry Thompson
    Larry Thompson

    Larry Dean Thompson was a United States Deputy Attorney General under President of the United States George W. Bush until August 2003. While Deputy U.S....
  • Lost City of the Jungle
    Lost City of the Jungle

    Lost City of the Jungle is a Universal Pictures Serial ....
  • The Mysterious Mr. M
    The Mysterious Mr. M

    The Mysterious Mr. M is a Universal Pictures Serial . It was the last serial produced by Universal....
  • The Phantom Rider
    The Phantom Rider (Republic serial)

    The Phantom Rider is a Republic Pictures Movie serial. It was later re-released under the new title Ghost Riders of the West....
    , starring Robert Kent and Peggy Stewart
    Peggy Stewart (actress)

    Peggy Stewart, real name Margaret O'Rourke, was an United States of America film actress who starred mostly in B-movies during the 1930s and 1940s....
  • The Scarlet Horseman
    The Scarlet Horseman

    The Scarlet Horseman is a Universal Pictures Serial film....
  • Son of the Guardsman
    Son of the Guardsman

    Son of the Guardsman is a Columbia Pictures Serial . It was the 31st of the 57 serials produced by that studio.Son of the Guardsman is a rare serial with a period setting, in this case 12th century England....


Short film series

  • The Three Stooges (1934-1959)
  • Popular Science
    Popular science

    Popular science, sometimes called literature of science, is interpretation of science intended for a general audience. While science journalism focuses on recent scientific developments, popular science is broad-ranging, often written by scientists as well as journalists, and is presented in many formats, which can include books, televi...
     (1935-1950)


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....
     (1928-1952)
  • 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....
     (1930-1969)
  • 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....
     (1930-1964)
  • 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....
     (1931-1969)
  • 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....
     (1934-1949)
  • 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....
     (1936
    1936 in film

    The year 1936 in film involved some significant events....
    -1956
    1956 in film

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

    Pluto , Minor planet names Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun....
     (1937-1951)
  • 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....
     (1939-1949)
  • 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....
     (1939-1953)
  • 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....
     (1940-1962)
  • Tom and Jerry
    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....
     (1940-1958
    1958 in film

    The year 1958 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...
     (1941-1950)
  • 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....
     (1941-1949)
  • Mighty Mouse
    Mighty Mouse

    Mighty Mouse is an animation superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox....
     (1942-1955)
  • Droopy (1943-1958)
  • Chip and Dale (1943-1956)
  • 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....
     (1943-1946)
  • 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....
     (1945-1963)
  • George and Junior
    George and Junior

    George and Junior was a short lived animation cartoon series by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. All of the original, 1940s shorts were directed by Tex Avery, who based them on George and Lennie from John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men....
     (1946-1948)


Births

  • January 5 - Diane Keaton
    Diane Keaton

    Diane Keaton is an United Statesn Cinema of the United States actress, film director and film producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970....
    , actress
  • January 16 - Kabir Bedi
    Kabir Bedi

    Kabir Bedi is an Indian international actor who began his career in Bollywood, worked in Hollywood, and became a star in Europe....
    , actor
  • January 19 - Dolly Parton
    Dolly Parton

    Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music....
    , singer, actress
  • January 20 - David Lynch
    David Lynch

    David Keith Lynch is an United States film director, screenwriter, Film producer, Painting, cartoonist, composer, video artist and performance artist....
    , film director
  • January 26 - Gene Siskel
    Gene Siskel

    Eugene "Gene" Kal Siskel was an United States film critic. Alongside colleague Roger Ebert, he pioneered the classic review show, Siskel & Ebert at the Movies....
    , film critic, Siskel and Ebert (d. 1999)
  • April 25 - Talia Shire
    Talia Shire

    Talia Shire is a two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
    , actress
  • May 20 - Cher
    Cher

    Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
    , American singer/actress
  • September 15- Oliver Stone
    Oliver Stone

    William Oliver Stone is an United Statesn film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially....
    , American film director
  • September 18- Nicholas Clay
    Nicholas Clay

    Nicholas Anthony Phillip Clay was a United Kingdom actor.Born in Streatham London, to Bill and Rose Clay, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began his acting career in the early 1970s with small parts in film and television....
    , actor (d. 2000
    2000 in film

    The year 2000 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • October 4 - Susan Sarandon
    Susan Sarandon

    Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking ....
    , actress
  • October 17 - Vicki Hodge
    Vicki Hodge

    Vicki Hodge is an England actress and Model . She has appeared in a few films, including 'Confessions of a Sex Maniac' , as well as appearing in the TV series Hazell ....
    , actress
  • October 18 - Andrea Zsadon
    Andrea Zsadon

    Andrea Zsadon is Hungary soprano.Zsadon was born in Debrecen on 18 October, 1946, and is married to Tibor Szolnoki. Her only film appearance was in 1984 when she appeared in Az ?let muzsik?ja - K?lm?n Imre....
    , actress
  • October 25 - Edith Leyrer
    Edith Leyrer

    Edith Leyrer is an actor born in Vienna, Austria. She has appeared in films such as Wenn die kleinen Veilchen bl?hen, as well as appearing in the television programme The Mixer....
    . actress
  • October 27 - Carrie Snodgress
    Carrie Snodgress

    Caroline "Carrie" Snodgress was a Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
    , actress
  • November 6 - Sally Field
    Sally Field

    Sally Margaret Field is an United States two-time Academy Awards-winning actress. She is also a three-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Golden Globe Award winner who became a household name at the age of 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun....
    , actress
  • November 8 - Jill Banner
    Jill Banner

    Jill Banner was an United States film actress, possibly best recalled for her role as Virginia, the "spider baby" in the 1964 cult film horror-comedy film Spider Baby....
    , actress (d. 1982
    1982 in film

    for use in movie theaters.* Hugh Grant makes his film debut.*October 8th = Angelina Jolie makes her film debut as a child actress appearing with her father Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out....
    )
  • November 18 - Andrea Allan
    Andrea Allan

    Andrea Allan is an actress who appeared in many British films of the 60's and 70's.This included the Carry On films, Carry on Spying and Carry on Cowboy, as well as The Wrong Box with Dudley Moore, Spanish Fly with Leslie Phillips and Vampira with David Niven....
    , actress
  • November 21 - Emma Cohen
    Emma Cohen

    Emma Cohen is a Spain actress whose real name is Emmanuela Beltr?n Rahola. She has had a long time relationship with actor and director Fernando Fern?n-G?mez whom she had married in 2000....
    , actress
  • November 21 - Ulla Jessen
    Ulla Jessen

    Ulla Jessen is an Denmark actress who has appeared in numerous films in her native Denmark as well as appearing in the mini TV series Charlot og Charlotte....
    , actress
  • November 22 - Baisho Mitsuko, actress
  • November 25 - Marika Lindstrom, actress
  • November 27 - Nina Maslova
    Nina Maslova

    Nina Konstantinovna Maslova is a Russian actor who has appeared in several Russian films such as Aferisty and Depressiya....
    , actress
  • December 2 - Gulsun Karamustafa
    Gulsun Karamustafa

    Gulsun Karamustafa is a Turkish contemporary artist and film director.Born in 1946, she has been a major artist in contemporary Turkey since the 1970s....
    , film director
  • December 8 - Sharmila Tagore
    Sharmila Tagore

    See Tagore for disambiguationSharmila Tagore is a Cinema of India Actor from Bengal. She has won several National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards for her performances....
    , actress
  • December 14 - Patty Duke
    Patty Duke

    Anna Marie "Patty" Duke is an Academy Awards-, three-time Emmy Award- and two-time Golden Globe Award-winning United States actress of Theatre and film....
    , actress
  • December 18 - Steven Spielberg
    Steven Spielberg

    Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
    , film director


Deaths

  • April 1 - Noah Beery, Sr.
    Noah Beery, Sr.

    Noah Beery was a popular United States actor from the 1920s to the 1940s.Beery was born Noah Nicholas Beery in Kansas City, Missouri. He and his brothers William C....
    , American actor
  • June 23 - William S. Hart
    William S. Hart

    William Surrey Hart was an American silent film actor, screenwriter, Film director and Film producer....
    , American actor
  • August 10 - Léon Gaumont
    Léon Gaumont

    L?on Gaumont was a France inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry.L?on Ernest Gaumont, born in Semblancay, Indre-et-Loire was gifted with a mechanical mind which led him to employment manufacturing precision instruments....
    , French film pioneer
  • August 13 - H.G. Wells, British science fiction writer
  • August 26 - Jeanie MacPherson
    Jeanie MacPherson

    Jeanie MacPherson was a silent film actress from 1908 to 1917 and a film screenwriter through the 1940s.Jeanie MacPherson was educated at Madame de Facq's school in Paris, the Kenwood Institute in Chicago and took dancing from Theodore Kosloff....
    , American actress and screenwriter
  • August 28 - Florence Turner
    Florence Turner

    Florence Turner was an United States actor, who became known as the "Vitagraph Girl" in early silent film.Born in New York City, she was pushed into appearing on the theater at age three by her ambitious mother....
    , American actress
  • September 21 - Olga Engl
    Olga Engl

    Olga Engl was an Austrian people stage and motion picture actress who appeared nearly 200 films during her career in the film industry.Olga Engl was privately educated in an single sex monastery and began her acting career at the Prague Conservatory....
    , Austrian actress
  • December 12 - Renée Jeanne Falconetti
    Renée Jeanne Falconetti

    Ren?e Jeanne Falconetti , sometimes credited as Maria Falconetti, Marie Falconetti, Ren?e Maria Falconetti, or, simply, Falconetti, was a France stage and film actor, notable for her role as Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent film, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc....
    , French actress


Film Debuts

  • Kirk Douglas
    Kirk Douglas

    Kirk Douglas is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor and film producer known for his cleft chin, his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as "sons of bitches"....
  • Burt Lancaster
    Burt Lancaster

    Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster was an United States film actor and star, noted for his athletic physique, distinct smile and, later, his willingness to play roles that went against his initial "tough guy" image....