1947 in film

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Events

• May 22 - Great Expectations is premiered in New York.
• November 24 : The United States House of Representatives
  United States House of Representatives
  
  The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as "the House", is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress; the other is the United States Senate....
   of the 80th Congress voted 346 to 17 to approve citations for contempt of Congress
  Contempt of Congress
  
  Contempt of Congress is the act of obstructing the work of the United States United States Congress or one of its United States Congressional committee....
   against the "Hollywood Ten."
• November 25 : The Waldorf Statement
  Waldorf Statement
  
  The Waldorf Statement was a two-page press release issued on December 3, 1947, by Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, following a closed-door meeting by forty-eight motion picture company executives at New York City Waldorf-Astoria Hotel....
   is released by the executives of the United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
   motion picture industry that marks the beginning of the Hollywood blacklist
  Hollywood blacklist
  
  The Hollywood blacklist?more precisely the entertainment industry blacklist, into which it expanded?was the mid-twentieth-century list of screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S....
  .

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....
: Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 in film drama film about a journalist who goes undercover as a Jew to research antisemitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut....
- 20th Century-Fox

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....
: Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan, September 7 1909 – September 28 2003, was an United States award-winning film director and Theatre direction, film producer and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947....
 - Gentleman's Agreement

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....
: Ronald Colman

Ronald Colman

Ronald Colman was an England Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor....
 - A Double Life

A Double Life

A Double Life is a 1947 in film film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays. The movie starred Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso....

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....
: Loretta Young

Loretta Young

Loretta Young was an Academy Award, three time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe-winning American actress....
 - The Farmer's 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....
: Edmund Gwenn

Edmund Gwenn

Edmund Gwenn was an Academy Award-winning England theatre and film actor....
 - Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street is a 1947 film written by Valentine Davies, directed by George Seaton, and starring Maureen O'Hara, John Payne , Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn....

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....
: Celeste Holm

Celeste Holm

Celeste Holm is an American stage, film, and television actress, with an Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement , as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve ....
 - Gentleman's Agreement

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....
: Gentleman's Agreement

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....
: Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement

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....
: Ronald Colman - A Double Life

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....
 - Mourning Becomes Electra

Mourning Becomes Electra

Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 where it ran for 150 performances before closing March 1932....

Siréna

Sirena

Sirena: Poetry, Art and Criticism is an international and multilingual academic journal of poetry and art, founded in 2004 by Dr. Jorge R. Sagastume, from Dickinson College....
, directed by Karel Stekly

Karel Steklý

Karel Stekl? was a Czech people film director of international renown. He is most famous for his film Sir?na for which he won the Golden Lion....
 (Czechoslovakia)

Films released in 1947

• An Ideal Husband
  An Ideal Husband (1947 film)
  
  An Ideal Husband, also known as Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, is a 1947 in film film adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde. It was made by London Film Productions and distributed by British Lion Films and Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation ....
  
• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
  The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
  
  The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is a 1947 screwball comedy film starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Shirley Temple. Sidney Sheldon was awarded the 1948 in film Academy Awards for Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for this film in his first and only Academy Award nomination during his career in Hollywood....
  
• The Bishop's Wife
  The Bishop's Wife
  
  The Bishop's Wife is a Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy film feature film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven in a story about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems....
  
• Black Narcissus
  Black Narcissus
  
  Black Narcissus is a film by the United Kingdom director-writer team of Powell and Pressburger, based on the novel of the same name by Rumer Godden....
  , written and directed by Powell and Pressburger
• Brighton Rock
  Brighton Rock (film)
  
  Brighton Rock is a 1947 in film British drama film based on the Brighton Rock by Graham Greene. Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader ? a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie Brown" ? the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton....
  
• Body and Soul
  Body and Soul (1947 film)
  
  Body and Soul is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of a boxing who becomes involved with crooked promoters. It stars John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere and William Conrad....
  
• Boomerang
  Boomerang (1947 film)
  
  Boomerang! is a 1947 in film film based on a true story about the early career of Attorney General Homer Cummings. The film was directed by Elia Kazan, based on a story in Reader's Digest and was shot largely in Stamford, Connecticut....
  
• Born to Kill
  Born to Kill (1947 film)
  
  Born to Kill is a 1947 film noir starring Lawrence Tierney and directed by Robert Wise. It was the first film noir to be directed by Wise, who later directed The Set-Up , The Captive City , and Odds Against Tomorrow ....
  
• Buck Privates Come Home
  Buck Privates Come Home
  
  Buck Privates Come Home is a 1947 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. It is a sequel to their 1941 in film hit, Buck Privates....
  , 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....
  
• Captain from Castile
  Captain from Castile
  
  Captain from Castile is a swashbuckling, action adventure film released by 20th Century Fox in 1947 in film. Directed by Henry King, the Technicolor film starred Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, and Cesar Romero....
  
• Crossfire
  Crossfire (film)
  
  Crossfire is a film noir drama film which deals with the theme of antisemitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman's Agreement....
  
• Desert Fury
  Desert Fury
  
  Desert Fury is a 1947 in film Paramount Pictures color film noir drama film film starring Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak and Burt Lancaster, with Mary Astor and Wendell Corey....
  
• A Double Life
  A Double Life
  
  A Double Life is a 1947 in film film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays. The movie starred Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso....
  
• The Egg and I
  The Egg and I (film)
  
  The Egg and I is a 1947 film directed by Chester Erskine, and starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray and Marjorie Main.This comedy was such a hit with audiences, it spawned the Ma and Pa Kettle film series....
  
• Fame is the Spur
  Fame is the Spur (film)
  
  Fame is the Spur is a 1947 in film British drama film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles, David Tomlinson, Maurice Denham and Kenneth Griffith....
  , with 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....
  
• The Farmer's Daughter
• Forever Amber
  Forever Amber (film)
  
  Forever Amber is a 1947 film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Linda Darnell and Cornell Wilde. " It was based on the Forever Amber . It also starred Richard Greene, George Sanders , Glenn Langan, Richard Haydn, Dolores Hart, and Jessica Tandy....
  
• The Foxes of Harrow
  The Foxes of Harrow
  
  The Foxes of Harrow is an adventure film directed by John M. Stahl and produced by William A. Bacher. The film Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Haydn with Victor McLaglen, Vanessa Brown, Patricia Medina, Gene Lockhart, and Hugo Haas....
  
• Framed
  Framed (film)
  
  Framed is a black-and-white film noir directed by Richard Wallace and featuring Glenn Ford. The B-movie is generally praised by critics as an effective crime thriller despite its low budget....
  
• Fun and Fancy Free
  Fun and Fancy Free
  
  Fun and Fancy Free is a feature film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It was one of the "package films" that the studio produced in the 1940s....
  
• Gentleman's Agreement
  Gentleman's Agreement
  
  Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 in film drama film about a journalist who goes undercover as a Jew to research antisemitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut....
  
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
  The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
  
  The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is a romantic film fantasy film starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. It is based on a 1945 novel written by Josephine Leslie under the pseudonym of R....
  
• Good News
  Good News (films)
  
  Good News is the title of two United States MGM musical films based on the Good News .The first, released in 1930, was directed by Nick Grinde....
  
• 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....
   (U.S. release)
• Hi-De-Ho, starring Cab Calloway
  Cab Calloway
  
  Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader.Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s....
  
• High Wall
  High Wall
  
  High Wall is a film noir, starring Robert Taylor , Audrey Totter and Herbert Marshall. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt from a screenplay by Sydney Boehm and Lester Cole, based on a play by Alan R....
  
• Hue and Cry
  Hue and Cry (film)
  
  Hue and Cry is a Cinema of the United Kingdom directed by Charles Crichton and starring Alastair Sim, Harry Fowler and Joan Dowling.It is generally considered to be the first of the "Ealing Studios", although it is better characterised as a thriller for children....
  , the first Ealing comedy
  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....
  
• It Always Rains on Sunday
  It Always Rains on Sunday
  
  It Always Rains on Sunday is a film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Arthur La Bern, adapted and directed by Robert Hamer. In its gritty, unsentimental depiction of everyday life in post-war Britain, and in its exploration of the tedium, frustration and desperation wrought by grinding poverty, the film is a notable precursor to the "...
  
• 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....
   (U.S. release)
• Kiss of Death
  Kiss of Death (1947 film)
  
  Kiss of Death is a 1947 in film film noir movie directed by Henry Hathaway and written by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer from a story by Eleazar Lipsky....
  
• Lady in the Lake
  Lady in the Lake
  
  Lady in the Lake is a film noir drama film that marked the film director debut of actor Robert Montgomery who also starred in the film....
  
• The Last Stage
  The Last Stage
  
  The Last Stage was a 1947 Polish feature film directed and co-written by Wanda Jakubowska, depicting her experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II....
  
• Life with Father
  Life with Father (film)
  
  Life with Father is a 1947 in film comedy film....
  
• Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
• The Long Night
• Mine Own Executioner
  Mine Own Executioner
  
  Mine Own Executioner is a 1947 in film cinema of the UK drama film directed by Anthony Kimmins. It was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival....
  
• Miracle on 34th Street
  Miracle on 34th Street
  
  Miracle on 34th Street is a 1947 film written by Valentine Davies, directed by George Seaton, and starring Maureen O'Hara, John Payne , Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn....
  
• Monsieur Verdoux
  Monsieur Verdoux
  
  Monsieur Verdoux is a 1947 black comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin....
  
• Moss Rose
• Mother Wore Tights
  Mother Wore Tights
  
  Mother Wore Tights is a 1947 in film musical film starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey as married vaudeville performers. This was Grable and Dailey's first film together, based on a book of the same name by Miriam Young....
  
• Mourning Becomes Electra
  Mourning Becomes Electra
  
  Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 where it ran for 150 performances before closing March 1932....
  
• My Wild Irish Rose, a biography starring Dennis Morgan
  Dennis Morgan
  
  Dennis Morgan was an American actor-singer.In 1945, he played the part of Jefferson Jones in the holiday classic Christmas in Connecticut opposite Barbara Stanwyck....
   as Chancellor Olcott
  Chancellor Olcott
  
  Chancellor "Chauncey" Olcott was an United States theatre actor, songwriter and singer.Born in Buffalo, New York, in the early years of his career Olcott sang in minstrel shows and Lillian Russell played a major role in helping make him a Broadway theatre star....
  
• Nightmare Alley
  Nightmare Alley (1947 film)
  
  Nightmare Alley is a 20th Century Fox film noir starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell, and directed by Edmund Goulding. The movie rights for the 1946 Nightmare Alley, written by William Lindsay Gresham, were bought by Power, who planned on starring in the film....
  
• Odd Man Out
  Odd Man Out
  
  Odd Man Out is an Anglo-Irish film noir directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason, and is based on a novel of the same name by F. L. Green....
  , directed by Carol Reed
  Carol Reed
  
  Sir Carol Reed was an England film director, most famous for directing The Third Man and Oliver! . He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for the latter....
  
• Out of the Past
  Out of the Past
  
  Out of the Past is a film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur. The movie was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring from his novel Build My Gallows High ....
  
• The Paradine Case
  The Paradine Case
  
  The Paradine Case is a Legal drama film, set in England, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by David O. Selznick. The screenplay was written by Selznick and an uncredited Ben Hecht, from an adaptation by Alma Reville and James Bridie of the novel by Robert S....
  
• The Perils of Pauline
  The Perils of Pauline (1947 film)
  
  The Perils of Pauline is a feature film released by Paramount Pictures. The movie is a fictionalized Hollywood account of silent film star Pearl White's rise to fame, starring Betty Hutton as White....
  
• Possessed
  Possessed (1947 film)
  
  Possessed is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, and Raymond Massey in a tale about an unstable woman's obsession with her ex-lover....
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• Quai des Orfèvres
  Quai des Orfèvres
  
  Quai des Orf?vres is a 1947 in film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. It stars Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Louis Jouvet and Simone Renant. The title translates literally to "quay of the goldsmiths", but actually refers to a famous police station in Paris at :fr:36 Quai des Orf?vres....
  
• Ride the Pink Horse
  Ride the Pink Horse
  
  Ride the Pink Horse is an United States crime film film noir produced by Universal Studios. It was film director by the actor Robert Montgomery from a screenplay by Ben Hecht, which was based on a novel of the same name by Dorothy B....
  
• Road to Rio
  Road to Rio
  
  Road to Rio is a 1947 comedy film, film director by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby as Scat Sweeney, Bob Hope as "Hot Lips" Barton, and Dorothy Lamour as Lucia Maria de Andrade....
  , starring Bob Hope
  Bob Hope
  
  Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
   and Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
  
• T-Men
  T-Men
  
  T-Men is a semidocumentary style film noir shot in black and white. The film was directed by Anthony Mann with cinematography by noted noir cameraman John Alton....
  
• The Sea of Grass
  The Sea of Grass (film)
  
  The Sea of Grass is a 1947 in film Western -drama film directed by Elia Kazan and based on The Sea of Grass by Conrad Richter. The movie stars Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and Melvyn Douglas....
  
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (film)
  
  The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 1947 in film comedy film, loosely based on the The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber. It stars Danny Kaye as a young daydreaming editor for a book publishing firm....
  
• The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, from Frederica Sagor Maas
  Frederica Sagor Maas
  
  Frederica Sagor Maas is an United States playwright, screenwriter, essayist and author, the youngest daughter of Russian immigration to the United States....
  
• Shoeshine (U.S. release)
• Song of Scheherazade, starring Yvonne De Carlo
  Yvonne De Carlo
  
  Yvonne De Carlo was a Canada-born United States film and television actor, dancer and singer. In her six decades of television, Her most prolific appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s, and included her best known film roles, such as Salome Where She Danced and The Ten Commandments , opposite Charlton Heston....
  , Jean-Pierre Aumont
  Jean-Pierre Aumont
  
  Jean-Pierre Aumont was a France actor....
   and Brian Donlevy
  Brian Donlevy
  
  Brian Donlevy was an Irish-born American actor, noted for playing tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s. He mainly appeared in supporting roles....
  
• Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman
  Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman
  
  Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman , also called A Woman Destroyed, is a drama film which tells the story of a nightclub singer who marries a rising singer and falls into alcoholism when she gives up her own career....
  
• Unconquered
  Unconquered
  
  Unconquered was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and released by Paramount Pictures. The film depicts the violent struggles between American colonists and Native Americans on the western frontier in the mid-eighteenth century, primarily around Fort Pitt ....
  
• Vivere in pace
• The Voice of the Turtle
• The Web
• The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
  The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
  
  The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap is a 1947 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....
  

• The Black Widow
  The Black Widow (serial)
  
  The Black Widow is a Republic Pictures Movie serial. Thirteen episodes were made....
  , starring Bruce Edwards
• Brick Bradford
  Brick Bradford (serial)
  
  Brick Bradford was the 35th serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was based on the comic strip Brick Bradford, which was created by Clarence Gray and William Ritt....
  , starring Kane Richmond
  Kane Richmond
  
  Kane Richmond was an American film actor of the 1930s and 1940s, mostly appearing in cliffhangers and serials. He is best known today for his portrayal of the character Lamont Cranston in The Shadow films in addition to his leading role in the successful serials Spy Smasher and Brick Bradford ....
  
• Jack Armstrong
  Jack Armstrong (serial)
  
  Jack Armstrong is a Columbia Pictures Serial ....
  
• Jesse James Rides Again
  Jesse James Rides Again
  
  Jesse James Rides Again is a Republic Pictures Serial ....
  , starring Clayton Moore
  Clayton Moore
  
  Clayton Moore was an United States actor best known for playing the fictional western character The Lone Ranger....
   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 Sea Hound
  The Sea Hound (serial)
  
  The Sea Hound is a Columbia Pictures Serial starring Buster Crabbe based on the radio show The Sea Hound. It was the thirty-fourth of the fifty seven serials produced by Columbia....
  , starring Buster Crabbe
  Buster Crabbe
  
  Buster Crabbe was an American athlete and actor, who starred in a number of popular Serial in the 1930s and 1940s....
  
• Son of Zorro
  Son of Zorro
  
  Son of Zorro is a Republic Pictures Serial film. It was the 43rd of the 66 serials produced by that studio. The serial was directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and Fred C....
  , starring George Turner 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 Vigilante, starring Ralph Byrd
  Ralph Byrd
  
  Ralph Byrd was an United States actor. He was most famous for playing the comic strip character Dick Tracy on screen, in Serial s, Film and Television program....
  

• 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)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)
• Donald Duck
  Donald Duck
  
  Donald Duck is a cartoon fictional character from The Walt Disney Company. Donald is a white anthropomorphism duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet....
  (1934
  1934 in film
  
  Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
  -1956
  1956 in film
  
  The year 1956 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Chip and Dale (1943-1956)
• Red Hot Riding Hood
  Red Hot Riding Hood
  
  Red Hot Riding Hood is an animated cartoon short subject, directed by Tex Avery and released on May 8, 1943 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1994 it was voted #7 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field....
  (1943-1949)
• 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....
  )
• 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
  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....
  )
• 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)
• Blackie the Sheep (1947-1949)
• Mighty Mouse
  Mighty Mouse
  
  Mighty Mouse is an animation superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox....
  (1942-1955)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

Births

• February 7 - Wayne Allwine
  Wayne Allwine
  
  Wayne Anthony Allwine Allwine's first appearance as Mickey was voicing the animated lead-ins for The New Mickey Mouse Club in 1977. His first appearance as Mickey for a theatrical release was in the 1983 featurette Mickey's Christmas Carol and he has provided the voice for Mickey Mouse ever since....
  , voiceover actor
• March 6 - Rob Reiner
  Rob Reiner
  
  Robert "Rob" Reiner is an United States actor, Film director, Film producer, writer, and political activist. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence as Archie and Edith Bunker's son-in-law, Michael Stivic, on All in the Family....
  , actor, comedian, movie producer
• March 11 - Brigitte Fossey
  Brigitte Fossey
  
  Brigitte Fossey, born in Tourcoing, Nord , is a France acting....
  , French actress
• March 26 – Dar Robinson
  Dar Robinson
  
  Dar Allen Robinson was an American film stuntman and film actor.Dar broke 9 world records and made 21 "worlds firsts." He invented the decelerator which allowed a cameraman to film a top-down view of the stuntman as he fell without accidentally showing the airbag on the ground....
  , film stuntman (+ 1986)
• April 12 - David Letterman
  David Letterman
  
  David Michael Letterman is an United States comedian, known for hosting the Late Show with David Letterman on CBS since 1993. Letterman's Irony, often Surreal humour comedy is heavily influenced by former The Tonight Show hosts Steve Allen, Johnny Carson and Jack Paar....
   - US entertainer
• April 15 - Lois Chiles
  Lois Chiles
  
  Lois Cleveland Chiles is an United States actor and former fashion model best known for her role as Dr. Holly Goodhead in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker ....
   - US actress
• April 23 - Blair Brown
  Blair Brown
  
  Bonnie Blair Brown is an United States theater, film, and television actress. She has had a number of high profile roles, including a Tony Award winning turn in the play Copenhagen on Broadway, as well as a run as the title character in the television comedy-drama The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, which ran from 1987 to 1991....
  , actress
• October 15 - Lynn Lowry
  Lynn Lowry
  
  Lynn Lowry is an United States actress, raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Her real name is Linda Kay Lowry. Her first film appearance was I Drink Your Blood in 1970....
   - US actress
• September 21 - Stephen King
  Stephen King
  
  Stephen Edwin King is an United States author of contemporary horror fiction, fantasy fiction and science fiction.Having sold an estimated List of bestselling fiction authors of his books, King is best known for his work in horror fiction, in which he demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the genre's history....
  , author

Deaths

• January 26 - Grace Moore
  Grace Moore
  
  Grace Moore was an United States operatic soprano and Academy Award-nominated actress in musical theatre and film, nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale." Her films helped to popularize opera by bringing it to a larger audience....
  , singer(opera) & actress
• May 31 - Adrienne Ames
  Adrienne Ames
  
  Adrienne Ames was an American film actress....
  , 39, actress, from cancer.
• September 21 - Harry Carey
  Harry Carey
  
  Harry Carey was an United States actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars....
  , actor