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The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.

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Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Samson and Delilah
Samson and Delilah (1949 film)

Samson and Delilah is a film made by Paramount Pictures, produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr as the title characters....
 Paramount $11,500,000
2.Battleground MGM $5,051,000
3.Jolson Sings Again
Jolson Sings Again

Jolson Sings Again is the 1949 film sequel to The Jolson Story, both of which cover the life of singer Al Jolson....

Sands of Iwo Jima
Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 in film war film which follows a group of United States Marine Corps from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II....
 Columbia $5,000,000
4. I Was a Male War Bride
I Was a Male War Bride

I Was a Male War Bride is a 1949 in film comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan. This film was based upon the true account of the real Henri Rochard, a Belgian who married an American nurse; the experience was told in his story entitled I was an Alien Spouse of Female Military Personnel Enrout...
 20th Century Fox $4,100,000
5.The Stratton Story
The Stratton Story

The Stratton Story is a 1949 in film film directed by Sam Wood which tells the true story of Monty Stratton, a Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched for the Chicago White Sox from 1934-1938....
 MGM $4,025,000
6. Pinky 20th Century Fox $3,800,000
7. Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College is a 1949 in film comedy film starring Clifton Webb as prickly genius Lynn Belvedere. Needing a college degree, Mr....
 20th Century Fox $3,700,000
8. Little Women
Little Women (1949 film)

Little Women directed by Mervyn LeRoy is based on Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. The WGA screenwriting credit system Sally Benson, Victor Heerman, Sarah Y....
 MGM $3,600,000
9. Neptune's Daughter MGM $3,500,000


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The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.

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Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Samson and Delilah
Samson and Delilah (1949 film)

Samson and Delilah is a film made by Paramount Pictures, produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr as the title characters....
 Paramount $11,500,000
2.Battleground MGM $5,051,000
3.Jolson Sings Again
Jolson Sings Again

Jolson Sings Again is the 1949 film sequel to The Jolson Story, both of which cover the life of singer Al Jolson....

Sands of Iwo Jima
Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 in film war film which follows a group of United States Marine Corps from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II....
 Columbia $5,000,000
4. I Was a Male War Bride
I Was a Male War Bride

I Was a Male War Bride is a 1949 in film comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan. This film was based upon the true account of the real Henri Rochard, a Belgian who married an American nurse; the experience was told in his story entitled I was an Alien Spouse of Female Military Personnel Enrout...
 20th Century Fox $4,100,000
5.The Stratton Story
The Stratton Story

The Stratton Story is a 1949 in film film directed by Sam Wood which tells the true story of Monty Stratton, a Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched for the Chicago White Sox from 1934-1938....
 MGM $4,025,000
6. Pinky 20th Century Fox $3,800,000
7. Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College is a 1949 in film comedy film starring Clifton Webb as prickly genius Lynn Belvedere. Needing a college degree, Mr....
 20th Century Fox $3,700,000
8. Little Women
Little Women (1949 film)

Little Women directed by Mervyn LeRoy is based on Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. The WGA screenwriting credit system Sally Benson, Victor Heerman, Sarah Y....
 MGM $3,600,000
9. Neptune's Daughter MGM $3,500,000


source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1949.shtml

Awards


Academy Awards
22nd Academy Awards

The 22nd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1949....
:

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....
: All the King's Men
All the King's Men (1949 film)

All the King's Men is a 1949 in film drama film film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel All the King's Men. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark....
 - Rossen, Columbia
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....
: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an United States Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer....
 - A Letter to Three Wives
A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 in film film which tells the story of a woman who mails a letter to three women, telling them she has left town with the husband of one of them....
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....
: Broderick Crawford
Broderick Crawford

File:BroderickBurns.jpgWilliam Broderick Crawford was an American Academy Award-winning actor....
 - All the King's Men
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....
 - The Heiress
The Heiress

The Heiress is a 1949 drama film by Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz adapted from their 1947 The Heiress that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James....
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....
: Dean Jagger
Dean Jagger

Dean Jagger was an Academy Award-winning and a Daytime Emmy Award winning American film actor.Born Ira Dean Jagger in Columbus Grove, Ohio, Jagger made his film debut in The Woman from Hell with Mary Astor....
 - Twelve O'Clock High
Twelve O'Clock High

Twelve O'Clock High is a war film about crews of the United States Army's Eighth Air Force who flew daylight bombing missions against Nazi Germany and occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II....
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....
: Mercedes McCambridge
Mercedes McCambridge

Carlotta Mercedes McCambridge , nicknamed Mercy, was an Academy Awards-winning American film actress, also known for her acting in radio dramas....
 - All the King's Men


Golden Globe Awards
7th Golden Globe Awards

The 7th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1949 in film films, were held on February 23, 1950....
:

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....
: All the King's Men
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....
: Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen

Robert Rossen was an United States screenwriter, film director, and film producer. In a film career that spanned almost three decades, Rossen was twice nominated for an Academy Award for best director and once for best adapted screenplay....
 - All the King's Men
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....
: Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men
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....
: Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress


Best Foreign Language Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette), Italy


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):
The Third Man
The Third Man

The Third Man is a Cinema of the United Kingdom film noir directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard and Orson Welles....
, 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....
, United Kingdom


Golden Lion
Golden Lion

The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes....
 (Venice Film Festival)
Manon
Manon

Manon is an op?ra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on L?histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abb? Pr?vost....
, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Henri-Georges Clouzot

Henri-Georges Clouzot was a France film director, screenwriter and film producer....
, France


Films released in 1949

  • Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
    Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

    Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff is a 1949 in film comedy horror film starring Abbott and Costello and Boris Karloff. The full onscreen title is Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff....
    , 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....
  • Adam's Rib
    Adam's Rib

    Adam's Rib is a film written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin and directed by George Cukor. It stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn and features Judy Holliday in her first substantial film role....
  • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
    The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

    The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theaters on October 5, 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures....
  • Africa Screams
    Africa Screams

    Africa Screams is a 1949 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. The film is notable for having two members of the Three Stooges working together in a non-Stooge vehicle....
    , 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....
  • Alexander Popov
    Alexander Popov (film)

    Alexander Popov is a biographical film about the life and work of Alexander Stepanovich Popov , who was the notable physicist and electrical engineer, inventor of radio communication....
  • All the King's Men
    All the King's Men (1949 film)

    All the King's Men is a 1949 in film drama film film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel All the King's Men. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark....
  • The Barkleys of Broadway
    The Barkleys of Broadway

    The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 in film musical film from the Arthur Freed unit at MGM that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers after ten years apart....
  • Beyond the Forest
    Beyond the Forest

    Beyond the Forest is a Warner Brothers film noir directed by King Vidor, produced by Henry Blanke with Jack L. Warner as executive producer from a screenplay by Lenore J....
  • The Bicycle Thief (U.S. release)
  • The Big Steal
    The Big Steal

    The Big Steal is a 1949 in film black-and-white film noir/comedy reteaming Out of the Past stars Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer. The film was directed by Don Siegel, based on the short story "The Road to Carmichael's" by Richard Wormser....
  • The Bribe
    The Bribe

    The Bribe is a United States crime film noir directed by Robert Z. Leonard and written by Marguerite Roberts, based on a story written by Frederick Nebel....
  • Border Incident
    Border Incident

    Border Incident is a black-and-white film noir directed by Anthony Mann. The MGM film was written by John C. Higgins and George Zuckerman....
  • Champion
    Champion (1949 film)

    Champion is a United States film noir drama based on a short story by Ring Lardner. Filmed in black-and-white, it recounts the struggles of boxing "Midge" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring....
  • Criss Cross, a film noir debuting Tony Curtis
    Tony Curtis

    Tony Curtis is an United States film acting. He is best known for light comic roles, especially as a musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe....
  • Come to the Stable
    Come to the Stable

    Come to the Stable is a 1949 film which tells the story of two France nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital....
  • Edward, My Son
    Edward, My Son

    Edward, My Son is a 1949 in film Cinema of the United States/Cinema of the United Kingdom drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart is based on the play by Noel Langley and Robert Morley....
  • The Fallen Idol (U.S. release)
  • The Fountainhead
    The Fountainhead (film)

    The Fountainhead is a 1949 in film Cinema of the United States drama film based on the best-seller The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. The movie stars Gary Cooper as Howard Roark, Patricia Neal as Dominique Francon, Raymond Massey as Gail Wynand, Robert Douglas as Ellsworth Toohey and Kent Smith as Peter Keating....
  • The Hasty Heart
    The Hasty Heart

    The Hasty Heart is a melodramatic film which tells the story of a group of wounded Allies_of_World_War_II soldiers during World War II who rally around a surly, unappreciative Scotland when they find out he is dying....
  • The Heiress
    The Heiress

    The Heiress is a 1949 drama film by Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz adapted from their 1947 The Heiress that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James....
  • I Was a Male War Bride
    I Was a Male War Bride

    I Was a Male War Bride is a 1949 in film comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan. This film was based upon the true account of the real Henri Rochard, a Belgian who married an American nurse; the experience was told in his story entitled I was an Alien Spouse of Female Military Personnel Enrout...
  • Impact
  • In the Good Old Summertime
    In the Good Old Summertime

    In the Good Old Summertime is a 1949 in film musical film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. It starred Judy Garland, Van Johnson and S.Z. Sakall....
  • The Inspector General
    The Inspector General (film)

    The Inspector General is a 1949 musical comedy film. Loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's play The Government Inspector, it stars Danny Kaye and was directed by Henry Koster....
  • It Happens Every Spring
    It Happens Every Spring

    It Happens Every Spring is a movie which was made in 1949. The story is completely fictitious, and the main character King Kelly is not based on or related to the King Kelly....
  • Jolson Sings Again
    Jolson Sings Again

    Jolson Sings Again is the 1949 film sequel to The Jolson Story, both of which cover the life of singer Al Jolson....
  • Jour de fête
    Jour de fête

    Jour de f?te is the title of a film comedy by the France director Jacques Tati. Jour de f?te tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabitants, as well as inspect the traveling fair that has come to his small community....
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets
    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    Kind Hearts and Coronets is an Cinema of the United Kingdom black comedy/Thriller film, produced by the famous Ealing Studios, who made a number of popular post-war comedies, such as The Ladykillers....
  • A Letter to Three Wives
    A Letter to Three Wives

    A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 in film film which tells the story of a woman who mails a letter to three women, telling them she has left town with the husband of one of them....
  • Little Women
    Little Women (1949 film)

    Little Women directed by Mervyn LeRoy is based on Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. The WGA screenwriting credit system Sally Benson, Victor Heerman, Sarah Y....
  • Ma and Pa Kettle
    Ma and Pa Kettle

    Ma and Pa Kettle were comic characters who first appeared in the novel The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald. She based them on farming neighbors in Washington state, U.S.A....
     -(film only mentioned in article)
  • Madame Bovary
    Madame Bovary (1949 film)

    Madame Bovary is a 1949 in film film adaptation of the classic Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. It stars Jennifer Jones , James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin billed as Christopher Kent, Gene Lockhart, Frank Allenby and Gladys Cooper....
  • Malaya
    Malaya (film)

    Malaya is a 1949 in film war film starring Spencer Tracy, James Stewart , and Sydney Greenstreet....
  • Manon
    Manon (film)

    Manon is a 1949 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. It is an adaptation of the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut by Antoine Fran?ois Pr?vost....
  • Mighty Joe Young
  • Mother Is a Freshman
    Mother Is a Freshman

    Mother Is a Freshman is a 1949 comedy motion picture directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Loretta Young and Van Johnson.The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Costume Design....
  • My Friend Irma
    My Friend Irma (film)

    My Friend Irma is a comedy directed by George Marshall and is most notable as the film debut of Martin and Lewis Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis....
    , film debut of Dean Martin
    Dean Martin

    Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
     and Jerry Lewis
    Jerry Lewis

    Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
  • My Foolish Heart
    My Foolish Heart (film)

    My Foolish Heart is an Academy Award-nominated 1949 film which tells the story of a woman's reflections on the bad turns her life has taken....
  • Neptune's Daughter
    Neptune's Daughter (1949 film)

    Neptune's Daughter is an Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film starring Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalb?n, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn,Xavier Cugat,and Mel Blanc directed by Edward Buzzell, and featuring music by Frank Loesser....
  • On the Town
    On the Town (film)

    On the Town is a 1949 in film musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green....
    , starring Gene Kelly
    Gene Kelly

    Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an United States dancer, actor, singer, film director, Film producer, and choreographer.A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen....
     and Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  • Passport to Pimlico
    Passport to Pimlico

    Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 in film United Kingdom comedy film made by Ealing Studios. Margaret Rutherford, Stanley Holloway and Hermione Baddeley star under the direction of Henry Cornelius....
  • Pinky
    Pinky (1949 film)

    Pinky is a film directed by Elia Kazan. It was adapted by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols from the novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner. Originally John Ford was hired to direct the film, but was replaced after one week because producer Darryl F....
  • Prince of Foxes
    Prince of Foxes (film)

    Prince of Foxes is a 1949 in film film based on the Samuel Shellabarger novel Prince of Foxes. The movie starred Tyrone Power as Orsini and Orson Welles as Cesare Borgia....
  • Samson and Delilah
    Samson and Delilah (1949 film)

    Samson and Delilah is a film made by Paramount Pictures, produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr as the title characters....
  • Saraband for Dead Lovers
    Saraband for Dead Lovers

    Saraband for Dead Lovers is a 1948 in film costume drama film starring Stewart Granger and Joan Greenwood. It is based on the novel by Helen de Guerry Simpson...
     (U.S. release)
  • The Set-Up
  • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a 1949 in film western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. The film was the second of Ford's trilogy of films focusing on the US Cavalry , the other two films being Fort Apache and Rio Grande ....
  • "She Shoulda Said 'No'!"
  • Le Silence de la mer
    Le Silence de la Mer (film)

    Le Silence de la mer is a 1949 film by Jean-Pierre Melville that takes place in 1941 and concerns a Frenchman and his niece's relationship with a German lieutenant who lives in their house during the German occupation of France....
  • The Small Back Room
    The Small Back Room

    The Small Back Room is a film by the United Kingdom producer-writer-director team of Powell and Pressburger starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron and featuring Jack Hawkins and Cyril Cusack....
  • The Stratton Story
    The Stratton Story

    The Stratton Story is a 1949 in film film directed by Sam Wood which tells the true story of Monty Stratton, a Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched for the Chicago White Sox from 1934-1938....
  • They Live by Night
    They Live by Night

    They Live by Night is a film noir released in 1949. The film was directed by Nicholas Ray and starred Farley Granger as 'Bowie' Bowers and Cathy O'Donnell as 'Keechie' Mobley....
  • The Third Man
    The Third Man

    The Third Man is a Cinema of the United Kingdom film noir directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard and Orson Welles....
  • Tulsa
    Tulsa (film)

    Tulsa is a 1949 in film film that was film director by Stuart Heisler and starred Susan Hayward, Robert Preston , Lloyd Gough, Chill Wills , and featured Ed Begley in one of his earliest film Role , billed as Edward Begley....
  • The Walls of Malapaga
    The Walls of Malapaga

    The Walls of Malapaga , is a 1949 in film France-Italy film co-production made by Francinex and Italia Produzione. It was directed by Ren? Cl?ment and produced by Alfredo Guarini from a screenplay by Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi d'Amico and Alfredo Guarini adapted by Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost....
     (Au-delà des grilles)
  • The Window
    The Window

    The Window is a black-and-white suspense film noir based on the short story "The Boy Who Cried Murder" by Cornell Woolrich. The film, which was a critical success, was produced by Frederic Ullman, Jr....
  • Under Capricorn
    Under Capricorn

    Under Capricorn is an Alfred Hitchcock film based on a novel by Helen de Guerry Simpson, with screenplay written by James Bridie, and adaptation by Hume Cronyn....
  • Whisky Galore!
    Whisky Galore!

    Whisky Galore is a novel written by Compton Mackenzie and was subsequently adapted for the cinema under the title Whisky Galore!....
  • White Heat
    White Heat

    White Heat may refer to:In film:* White Heat, a 1949 film starring James CagneyIn music:* White Light/White Heat, a 1968 album by The Velvet Underground...


Serials

  • Adventures of Sir Galahad
    Adventures of Sir Galahad

    Adventures of Sir Galahad was the 41st Serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was based on Matter of Britain#The Arthurian cycle and, notably, was one of the very few serials of the time with a Period piece setting that was not a Western ....
    , starring George Reeves
    George Reeves

    George Reeves was an United States actor, best known for his role as Superman in the 1950s television program Adventures of Superman and his death by a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 45....
     and Charles King
    Charles King (actor)

    Charles King was an American film actor who appeared in over 400 films between 1915 in film and 1953 in film. According to the Internet Movie Database, his first film appearance was in The Birth of a Nation, but this is unconfirmed....
  • Batman and Robin
    Batman and Robin (serial)

    Batman and Robin was a 15-chapter Serial released by Columbia Pictures.Robert Lowery played Batman, while Johnny Duncan played Robin. Supporting players included Poni Adams as Vicki Vale and veteran character actor Lyle Talbot as James Gordon ....
    , 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....
  • Bruce Gentry
    Bruce Gentry

    Bruce Gentry is a Columbia Pictures Serial based on the Bruce Gentry created by Ray Bailey. It may contain the first cinematic appearance of a Flying Saucer, here the secret weapon of the villainous Recorder....
    , starring Tom Neal
    Tom Neal

    Thomas Neal was an United States actor famous for appearing in the critically lauded film Detour , a tryst with Barbara Payton and later committing manslaughter....
  • Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc
    Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc

    Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc. is a 12-episode black and white Serial produced by Republic Pictures during July 1948 and released in January 1949, an original screenplay written collaboratively by Royal K....
    , starring Kirk Alyn
    Kirk Alyn

    'Kirk Alyn' was an United States actor, best known for being the first actor to play Superman on screen, in the 1948 film Serial Superman , and its 1950 sequel Atom Man Vs....
     and Rosemary LaPlanche
    Rosemary LaPlanche

    Rosemary LaPlanche was Miss America in 1941.LaPlanche, from Los Angeles, California, was Miss California in both 1940 and 1941. A new rule after her victory disallowed contestants from competing at the national level more than once....
  • Ghost of Zorro
    Ghost of Zorro

    Ghost of Zorro is a Republic Pictures Movie serial. It uses substantial stock footage from earlier serials, including Son of Zorro and Daredevils of the West....
    , starring Clayton Moore
    Clayton Moore

    Clayton Moore was an United States actor best known for playing the fictional western character The Lone Ranger....
     and Pamela Blake
    Pamela Blake

    Pamela Blake , is an American film actress. She starred opposite John Wayne in the 1939 in film Wyoming Outlaw.She was born in Oakland, California and she performed under her birth name, Adele Pearce, until 1942 in film....
  • The James Brothers of Missouri
    The James Brothers of Missouri

    The James Brothers of Missouri is a Republic Pictures Serial ....
    , starring Keith Richards and Noel Neill
    Noel Neill

    Noel Neill is an United States actress in motion pictures and television best known as Lois Lane in the television series The Adventures of Superman....
  • King of the Rocket Men
    King of the Rocket Men

    King of the Rocket Men is a 1949 in film Republic Pictures Movie serial, in twelve chapters, important for introducing the "Rocketman Character" who reappeared under a variety of names in later serials Radar Men from the Moon, Zombies of the Stratosphere and the semi-serial Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe....
    , starring Tristram Coffin and Mae Clarke
    Mae Clarke

    Mae Clarke was an American film actress.Mae Clarke was born Violet Mary Klotz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She started her career as a dancer and subsequently starred in many films for Universal Studios, including the original screen version of The Front Page and the first sound version of Frankenstein with Boris Karl...
  • Radar Patrol vs Spy King
    Radar Patrol vs Spy King

    Radar Patrol vs. Spy King is a 12 chapter black and white spy film Serial film produced and distributed by Republic Pictures from an original, commissioned screenplay collaboratively written by Royal K....
    , starring Kirk Alyn
    Kirk Alyn

    'Kirk Alyn' was an United States actor, best known for being the first actor to play Superman on screen, in the 1948 film Serial Superman , and its 1950 sequel Atom Man Vs....


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....
    -1952
    1952 in film

    The year 1952 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....
    )
  • 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....
    )
  • 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)
  • The Three Stooges (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    -1959
    1959 in film

    The year 1959 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • 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....
    )
  • 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
    1937 in film

    The year 1937 in film involved some significant events....
    -1951
    1951 in film

    The year 1951 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Chip and Dale (1943
    1943 in film

    The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
    -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
    1939 in film

    The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
    -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
    1939 in film

    The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
    -1953
    1953 in film

    The year 1953 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....
    )
  • 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....
    )
  • 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)
  • Mighty Mouse
    Mighty Mouse

    Mighty Mouse is an animation superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox....
     (1942
    1942 in film

    The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the Films considered the greatest ever, Casablanca .....
    -1955
    1955 in film

    The year 1955 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Droopy (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....
    )
  • Blackie the Sheep (1947
    1947 in film

    The year 1947 in film involved some significant events....
    -1949)
  • 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)


Births

  • January 10 - Linda Lovelace
    Linda Lovelace

    Linda Susan Boreman , better known by her stage name "Linda Lovelace", was a Pornographic actor who was famous for her performance of deep throat fellatio in the enormously successful 1972 hardcore porn film Deep Throat ....
    , pornographic film actress (d. 2002
    2002 in film

    The year '2002 in film' involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Litt...
    )
  • January 12 - Wayne Wang
    Wayne Wang

    Wayne Wang is a Chinese American film director.Wang was born and raised in Hong Kong, and named after his father's favorite movie star, John Wayne....
    , director
  • January 14 - Lawrence Kasdan
    Lawrence Kasdan

    Lawrence Kasdan is an American Film Film producer, film director and screenwriter. Raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, West Virginia, where he graduated from Morgantown High School in 1966, he went on to attend the University of Michigan as an education major....
    , director, screenwriter
  • January 17 - Andy Kaufman
    Andy Kaufman

    Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman was an United States entertainer, actor and performance artist. While often referred to as a comedian, Kaufman did not consider himself one....
    , comedian, actor (d. 1984
    1984 in film

    Events* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.*TriStar Entertainment, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
    )
  • March 22 - Fanny Ardant
    Fanny Ardant

    Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant is a French actress. She has appeared in more than fifty motion pictures....
    , actress
  • April 20 - Veronica Cartwright
    Veronica Cartwright

    Veronica A. Cartwright is an Emmy Award-nominated English/American actress.Cartwright was born in Bristol, England, the sister of actress Angela Cartwright, who appeared in The Sound of Music and in the television series Lost in Space....
    , actress
  • May 9 - Billy Joel
    Billy Joel

    William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
    , songwriter
  • May 31 - Tom Berenger
    Tom Berenger

    Tom Berenger is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning United States actor known mainly for his roles in action films....
    , actor
  • June 22 - Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep

    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
    , US actress
  • July 7 - Shelley Duvall
    Shelley Duvall

    Shelley Alexis Duvall is an award-winning United States film and television actor. She began her career in the 1970s, playing characters in the movies of Robert Altman, and eventually starred in movies by Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, Steve Martin and Tim Burton....
    , actress
  • August 23 - Shelley Long
    Shelley Long

    Shelley Lee Long is a Golden Globe Award- and Emmy Award-winning United States feature film, Theatre and television dramatic and comedic actress....
    , US actress
  • August 31 - Richard Gere
    Richard Gere

    Richard Tiffany Gere is an United States actor. He began acting in the 1970s, and came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol....
    , US actor
  • October 8 - Sigourney Weaver
    Sigourney Weaver

    Sigourney Weaver is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, best known for her roles as Lt. Ellen Ripley in the Alien film series and as Dana Barrett in the Ghostbusters movies....
    , US actress
  • November 6 - Arturo Sandoval
    Arturo Sandoval

    Arturo Sandoval is a jazz trumpeter and pianist. He was born in Artemisa, in Havana Province, Cuba.Sandoval, while still in Cuba, was influenced by jazz legends Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie, finally meeting Dizzy later in 1977....
    , songwriter
  • November 26 - Juanin Clay
    Juanin Clay

    Juanin Clay was an United States actress who appeared in the 1983 movie WarGames. She was one of the contenders for the role of Wilma Deering in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century TV series, but lost the role when Erin Gray returned to reprise her role from the theatrical release....
    , US actress
  • December 25 - Sissy Spacek
    Sissy Spacek

    Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek is an Academy Award–winning United States actress and singer. Her screen debut was in the 1972 film Prime Cut co-starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman....
    , US actress


Deaths

  • January 6 - Victor Fleming
    Victor Fleming

    Victor Fleming was an Academy Award-winning United States film director....
    , director
  • December 16 - Sidney Olcott
    Sidney Olcott

    Sidney Olcott was a Canada-born film producer, film director, actor and screenwriter.Born John Sidney Alcott in Toronto, Ontario, he became one of the first great directors of the motion picture business....
    , pioneer film director