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The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.


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Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Cinderella
Cinderella (1950 film)

Cinderella is a 1950 animated feature produced by Walt Disney, and released to theaters on February 15, 1950 by RKO Radio Pictures. The twelfth animated feature in the List of Disney animated features, the film was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson, based the fairy tale "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault....
*
Disney/RKO $41,087,000
2.King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon's Mines (1950 film)

King Solomon's Mines is an adventure film loosely based on the 1885 King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard, starring Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, and Richard Carlson....
MGM $5,586,000
3.Annie Get Your Gun
Annie Get Your Gun (film)

Annie Get Your Gun is a 1950 United States musical film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer release, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon based on the Annie Get Your Gun , was directed by George Sidney....
MGM $4,919,000
4. Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950 film)

The 1950 film Cheaper by the Dozen was based upon the 1948 book Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey....
20th Century Fox $4,425,000
5. Born Yesterday
Born Yesterday (1950 film)

Born Yesterday is a 1950 in film film based on the Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin which was directed by George Cukor. The screenplay was written by Albert Mannheimer with uncredited contributions from Kanin....
Columbia $4,115,000
6.Father of the Bride
Father of the Bride (1950 film)

Father of the Bride is a 1950 comedy film which tells the story of a man trying to cope with all of the disasters that happen along the way from the time that his daughter announces that she's engaged until the wedding actually occurs....
MGM $4,054,000
7. Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow (1950 film)

Broken Arrow is a Western film released in 1950. It was directed by Delmer Daves and starred James Stewart and Jeff Chandler . The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, and won a Golden Globe award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding. It made history as the first major Western movie since the Second World War...
20th Century Fox $3,600,000
8. At War with the Army
At War With The Army

At War with the Army is a 1950 in film musical comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. It was filmed from July through August 1949, and released on December 30, 1950 by Paramount Pictures....
Paramount $3,300,000
9. All About Eve
All About Eve

All About Eve is an Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr....
20th Century Fox $3,100,000
10. The Flame and the Arrow
The Flame and the Arrow

The Flame and the Arrow is a 1950 in film adventure film made by Warner Bros. and starring Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo and Nick Cravat. It was directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Harold Hecht and Frank Ross from a screenplay by Waldo Salt....

Francis
Francis (1950 film)

Francis is a 1950 in film black-and-white comedy film that launched the Francis the Talking Mule series. It starred Donald O'Connor as an American soldier who gets into trouble when he insists an Army mule named Francis can speak....

Kim
Kim (film)

Kim is a 1950 in film adventure film made by MGM. It was directed by Victor Saville and produced by Leon Gordon from a screenplay by Helen Deutsch, Leon Gordon and Richard Schayer, based on the Kim by Rudyard Kipling....
Paramount
Universal
MGM
$3,000,000


(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)







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The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.

Events

  • February 15 - Walt Disney Studios
    The Walt Disney Company

    The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
    ' animated film Cinderella
    Cinderella (1950 film)

    Cinderella is a 1950 animated feature produced by Walt Disney, and released to theaters on February 15, 1950 by RKO Radio Pictures. The twelfth animated feature in the List of Disney animated features, the film was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson, based the fairy tale "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault....
     debuts.


Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Cinderella
Cinderella (1950 film)

Cinderella is a 1950 animated feature produced by Walt Disney, and released to theaters on February 15, 1950 by RKO Radio Pictures. The twelfth animated feature in the List of Disney animated features, the film was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson, based the fairy tale "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault....
*
Disney/RKO $41,087,000
2.King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon's Mines (1950 film)

King Solomon's Mines is an adventure film loosely based on the 1885 King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard, starring Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, and Richard Carlson....
MGM $5,586,000
3.Annie Get Your Gun
Annie Get Your Gun (film)

Annie Get Your Gun is a 1950 United States musical film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer release, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon based on the Annie Get Your Gun , was directed by George Sidney....
MGM $4,919,000
4. Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950 film)

The 1950 film Cheaper by the Dozen was based upon the 1948 book Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey....
20th Century Fox $4,425,000
5. Born Yesterday
Born Yesterday (1950 film)

Born Yesterday is a 1950 in film film based on the Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin which was directed by George Cukor. The screenplay was written by Albert Mannheimer with uncredited contributions from Kanin....
Columbia $4,115,000
6.Father of the Bride
Father of the Bride (1950 film)

Father of the Bride is a 1950 comedy film which tells the story of a man trying to cope with all of the disasters that happen along the way from the time that his daughter announces that she's engaged until the wedding actually occurs....
MGM $4,054,000
7. Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow (1950 film)

Broken Arrow is a Western film released in 1950. It was directed by Delmer Daves and starred James Stewart and Jeff Chandler . The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, and won a Golden Globe award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding. It made history as the first major Western movie since the Second World War...
20th Century Fox $3,600,000
8. At War with the Army
At War With The Army

At War with the Army is a 1950 in film musical comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. It was filmed from July through August 1949, and released on December 30, 1950 by Paramount Pictures....
Paramount $3,300,000
9. All About Eve
All About Eve

All About Eve is an Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr....
20th Century Fox $3,100,000
10. The Flame and the Arrow
The Flame and the Arrow

The Flame and the Arrow is a 1950 in film adventure film made by Warner Bros. and starring Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo and Nick Cravat. It was directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Harold Hecht and Frank Ross from a screenplay by Waldo Salt....

Francis
Francis (1950 film)

Francis is a 1950 in film black-and-white comedy film that launched the Francis the Talking Mule series. It starred Donald O'Connor as an American soldier who gets into trouble when he insists an Army mule named Francis can speak....

Kim
Kim (film)

Kim is a 1950 in film adventure film made by MGM. It was directed by Victor Saville and produced by Leon Gordon from a screenplay by Helen Deutsch, Leon Gordon and Richard Schayer, based on the Kim by Rudyard Kipling....
Paramount
Universal
MGM
$3,000,000


(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1950.shtml

Awards


Academy Awards
23rd Academy Awards

The 23rd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1950. The nominations were noticeable this year, as All About Eve was nominated for fourteen Oscars, beating the previous record of Gone with the Wind ....
:


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 About Eve
All About Eve

All About Eve is an Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr....
- 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....
: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an United States Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer....
 - All About Eve
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....
: José Ferrer
José Ferrer

Jos? Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintr?n was a Puerto Rican people Theatre director, Director director and actor. He received one Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Tony Awards, besides multiple nominations....
 - Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a black-and-white feature film based on the 1897 in literature French language Alexandrines verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand....
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....
: Judy Holliday
Judy Holliday

File:Judy Holliday.jpgJudy Holliday was an United States Academy Awards- and Tony Award-winning actress....
 - Born Yesterday
Born Yesterday (1950 film)

Born Yesterday is a 1950 in film film based on the Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin which was directed by George Cukor. The screenplay was written by Albert Mannheimer with uncredited contributions from Kanin....
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....
: George Sanders
George Sanders

George Sanders may refer to*George Sanders , British actor*George Sanders , Victoria Cross recipient in World War I*George Nicholas Sanders , American official suspected in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln...
 - All About Eve
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....
: Josephine Hull
Josephine Hull

Josephine Hull was an Academy Awards and Golden Globe winning United States actress. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film....
 - Harvey
Harvey (film)

Harvey is a 1950 in film based on Mary Coyle Chase's Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning Harvey , directed by Henry Koster, and starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull....


Golden Globe Awards
8th Golden Globe Awards

The 8th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1950 in film films, were held on February 28, 1951....
:


Drama:
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....
: Sunset Boulevard
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....
: José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac
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....
: Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She was prolific during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B....
 - Sunset Boulevard


Musical or comedy:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: no award
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire was an United States Academy Award-winning film and Broadway theatre dance, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films....
 - Three Little Words
Three Little Words (film)

Three Little Words is a Hollywood musical film biography of the Tin Pan Alley songwriting partnership of Kalmar and Ruby and stars Fred Astaire as lyricist Bert Kalmar, Red Skelton as composer Harry Ruby, along with Vera-Ellen and Arlene Dahl as their wives, with Debbie Reynolds in a small but notable role as singer Helen Kane....
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday


Other
Best Director
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

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

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
 - Sunset Boulevard


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):
not held

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)
Justice Is Done
Justice Is Done

Justice Is Done is a 1950 France drama film directed by Andr? Cayatte. It tackles the subject of euthanasia by depicting a court case in which a woman is tried for killing her terminally ill husband at his request....
(Justice est faite), directed by André Cayatte
André Cayatte

Andr? Cayatte was a French New Wave filmmaker and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility, themes which Cayatte persisted in affirming regardless of changing contemporary attitudes....
, France


Films released in 1950

  • Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
    Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion

    Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion is a 1950 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello....
  • All About Eve
    All About Eve

    All About Eve is an Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr....
  • Annie Get Your Gun
    Annie Get Your Gun (film)

    Annie Get Your Gun is a 1950 United States musical film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer release, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon based on the Annie Get Your Gun , was directed by George Sidney....
  • The Asphalt Jungle
    The Asphalt Jungle

    The Asphalt Jungle is a film noir directed by John Huston. The caper film, is based on the novel of the same name by W.R. Burnett and stars an ensemble cast including Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, and Marilyn Monroe....
  • At War with the Army
    At War With The Army

    At War with the Army is a 1950 in film musical comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. It was filmed from July through August 1949, and released on December 30, 1950 by Paramount Pictures....
  • The Blue Lamp
    The Blue Lamp

    The Blue Lamp is a United Kingdom crime film released in early 1950 in film by Ealing Studios directed by Basil Dearden and produced by Michael Balcon....
  • Battleground
    Battleground (1949 film)

    Battleground is a war film that tells the story of the 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon of Item Company, 327th Infantry Regiment , 101st Airborne Division, trying to cope with the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II....
  • Bitter Rice
    Bitter Rice

    Bitter Rice , is a 1949 in film Cinema of Italy film made by Lux Film, written and directed by Giuseppe De Santis.Produced by Dino De Laurentiis, starring Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Doris Dowling and Vittorio Gassman, Bitter Rice was a commercial success in Europe and America....
     (U.S. release)
  • The Black Rose
    The Black Rose

    The Black Rose is a 1950 in film 20th Century-Fox film starring Tyrone Power and Orson Welles, loosely based on the Thomas B. Costain's book....
  • Born Yesterday
    Born Yesterday (1950 film)

    Born Yesterday is a 1950 in film film based on the Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin which was directed by George Cukor. The screenplay was written by Albert Mannheimer with uncredited contributions from Kanin....
  • Bright Leaf
    Bright Leaf

    Bright Leaf is a 1949 in literature novel written by Foster Fitzsimmons, which was adapted into a 1950 in film film by Henry Koster and starring Gary Cooper and Lauren Bacall....
  • Broken Arrow
    Broken Arrow (1950 film)

    Broken Arrow is a Western film released in 1950. It was directed by Delmer Daves and starred James Stewart and Jeff Chandler . The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, and won a Golden Globe award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding. It made history as the first major Western movie since the Second World War...
  • Café Paradis
    Café Paradis

    Caf? Paradis is an award-winning Denmark film made in 1950 in film, directed by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr., and written by Johannes Allen....
  • Caged
  • Captain Carey, U.S.A.
    Captain Carey, U.S.A.

    Captain Carey, U.S.A. is a 1950 film. The theme song of the film, "Mona Lisa " sung by Nat King Cole, won the Academy Award for Best Song....
    , war drama starring Alan Ladd
    Alan Ladd

    Alan Walbridge Ladd was an United States film actor....
  • Cheaper by the Dozen
    Cheaper by the Dozen (1950 film)

    The 1950 film Cheaper by the Dozen was based upon the 1948 book Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey....
  • Cinderella
    Cinderella (1950 film)

    Cinderella is a 1950 animated feature produced by Walt Disney, and released to theaters on February 15, 1950 by RKO Radio Pictures. The twelfth animated feature in the List of Disney animated features, the film was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson, based the fairy tale "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault....
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
    Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film)

    Cyrano de Bergerac is a black-and-white feature film based on the 1897 in literature French language Alexandrines verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand....
  • Dark City
    Dark City (1950 film)

    Dark City is a 1950 film noir. The casting of Charlton Heston?in his first film appearance?as a petty hood is unusual in light of his subsequent career....
  • Destination Moon
    Destination Moon (film)

    Destination Moon is a 1950 United States science fiction feature film produced by George P?l, who later produced When Worlds Collide , The War of the Worlds , and The Time Machine ....
  • Fancy Pants
    Fancy Pants

    Fancy Pants is a 1950 in film American comedy film, directed by George Marshall starring Lucille Ball and Bob Hope....
  • Father of the Bride
    Father of the Bride (1950 film)

    Father of the Bride is a 1950 comedy film which tells the story of a man trying to cope with all of the disasters that happen along the way from the time that his daughter announces that she's engaged until the wedding actually occurs....
  • The Flame and the Arrow
    The Flame and the Arrow

    The Flame and the Arrow is a 1950 in film adventure film made by Warner Bros. and starring Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo and Nick Cravat. It was directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Harold Hecht and Frank Ross from a screenplay by Waldo Salt....
  • The Furies
    The Furies (film)

    The Furies is a 1950 Western film directed by Anthony Mann and featuring Walter Huston in his last performance....
  • Gun Crazy
    Gun Crazy

    For other links, see Gun Crazy .Gun Crazy is a film noir feature film starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a story about the crime-spree of a gun-toting husband and wife....
     (aka Deadly is the Female)
  • The Gunfighter
  • The Happiest Days of Your Life
    The Happiest Days of Your Life

    The Happiest Days of Your Life is a 1950 in film United Kingdom Comedy films based on the play by John Dighton and directed by Frank Launder....
  • Harvey
    Harvey (film)

    Harvey is a 1950 in film based on Mary Coyle Chase's Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning Harvey , directed by Henry Koster, and starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull....
  • In a Lonely Place
    In a Lonely Place

    In a Lonely Place is a film noir directed by Nicholas Ray, and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, produced for Bogart's Santana Productions....
  • Justice is Done
    Justice Is Done

    Justice Is Done is a 1950 France drama film directed by Andr? Cayatte. It tackles the subject of euthanasia by depicting a court case in which a woman is tried for killing her terminally ill husband at his request....
  • Kim
    Kim (film)

    Kim is a 1950 in film adventure film made by MGM. It was directed by Victor Saville and produced by Leon Gordon from a screenplay by Helen Deutsch, Leon Gordon and Richard Schayer, based on the Kim by Rudyard Kipling....
  • King Solomon's Mines
    King Solomon's Mines (1950 film)

    King Solomon's Mines is an adventure film loosely based on the 1885 King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard, starring Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, and Richard Carlson....
  • A Lady Without Passport
    A Lady Without Passport

    A Lady Without Passport is a suspense film directed by Joseph H. Lewis. Shot in semidocumentary style, it is considered film noir....
  • Last Holiday
    Last Holiday (1950 film)

    Last Holiday is a 1950 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom featuring Alec Guinness in his sixth starring role....
  • Louisa (film), starring Ronald Reagan
  • The Magnificent Yankee
    The Magnificent Yankee

    'The Magnificent Yankee' is a 1950 biographical film adapted by Emmet Lavery from his play of the same title, which was in-turn adapted from the book Mr....
  • The Men
  • The Miniver Story
    The Miniver Story

    The Miniver Story is a 1950 in film film sequel to the successful 1942 in film film Mrs. Miniver .Like its predecessor, it was made by MGM and starred Greer Garson in the title role, but it was filmed on location in England....
  • Mister 880
    Mister 880

    Mister 880 is a 1950 film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire, Edmund Gwenn, and Millard Mitchell. It is based on an article by St....
  • Mystery Street
    Mystery Street

    Mystery Street is a black-and-white film noir directed by John Sturges with cinematography by famed Photographer John Alton. The MGM film was shot on location in Boston and Cape Cod....
  • My Friend Irma Goes West
    My Friend Irma Goes West

    My Friend Irma Goes West is a 1950 film based on the radio show My Friend Irma and featuring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis . The movie was released May 31, 1950 in film by Paramount Pictures....
  • No Way Out
    No Way Out (1950 film)

    No Way Out is a black-and-white film noir directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, and Sidney Poitier....
  • Orphée
    Orphée

    Orpheus is a 1949 in film Cinema of France directed by Jean Cocteau and starring Jean Marais. This film is the central part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet , Orpheus and Testament of Orpheus ....
  • Rashomon
    Rashomon (film)

    is a 1950 in film Cinema of Japan directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. It stars Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori and Minoru Chiaki....
  • Rio Grande
    Rio Grande (film)

    Rio Grande is a 1950 in film western film and the third installment of John Ford's "cavalry trilogy", following two RKO Pictures releases: Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ....
  • 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....
  • Side Street
  • Seven Days to Noon
    Seven Days to Noon

    Seven Days to Noon is a 1950 in film United Kingdom drama film / thriller film directed by John Boulting and Roy Boulting. Paul Dehn and James Bernard won the Academy Award for Best Story for this film....
  • Stage Fright
    Stage Fright (film)

    Stage Fright is an Alfred Hitchcock crime film starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding , and Richard Todd. Others in the cast include Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Hitchcock's daughter Patricia Hitchcock in her movie debut, and Joyce Grenfell in a humorous vignette....
  • Stromboli
    Stromboli (film)

    Stromboli is an Italy and United States film directed by Roberto Rossellini and featuring Ingrid Bergman. The drama is considered a classic example of Italian neorealism....
  • Summer Stock
    Summer Stock

    Summer Stock is an MGM musical film made in 1950. The film was directed by Charles Walters and stars Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, and Phil Silvers....
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Tension
    Tension (film)

    Tension is a crime thriller film noir directed by John Berry, and written by Allen Rivkin, based on a story written by John D. Klore. The drama features Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, and others....
  • 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....
     (U.S. release)
  • Three Little Words
    Three Little Words (film)

    Three Little Words is a Hollywood musical film biography of the Tin Pan Alley songwriting partnership of Kalmar and Ruby and stars Fred Astaire as lyricist Bert Kalmar, Red Skelton as composer Harry Ruby, along with Vera-Ellen and Arlene Dahl as their wives, with Debbie Reynolds in a small but notable role as singer Helen Kane....
  • Treasure Island
    Treasure Island (1950 film)

    Treasure Island is a Disney film, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, and was released on July 19, 1950. It starred Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins, and Robert Newton as Long John Silver....
  • Trio
    Trio (1950 film)

    Trio is a 1950 in film anthology film based on three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Verger", "Mr. Know-All" and "Sanatorium". Ken Annakin directed "The Verger" and "Mr....
  • 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....
  • The West Point Story
    The West Point Story (film)

    The West Point Story is a 1950 in film musical film comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Doris Day....
  • When Willie Comes Marching Home
  • Where Danger Lives
    Where Danger Lives

    Where Danger Lives is a 1950 in film thriller film directed by John Farrow. The film was actress Faith Domergue's film debut. At the time, she was the latest of Howard Hughes' protegees....
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends
    Where the Sidewalk Ends

    Where the Sidewalk Ends is an United States film noir directed and produced by Otto Preminger. The screenplay for the film was written by Ben Hecht, and adapted by Robert E....
  • Winchester '73
    Winchester '73 (1950 film)

    Winchester '73 is an United States Western movie released by Universal Pictures in 1950. It stars James Stewart and is the first of eight collaborations between Stewart and director Anthony Mann....


Serials

  • Atom Man vs. Superman
    Atom Man vs. Superman

    Atom Man vs. Superman , Columbia Pictures's 43rd Movie serial, finds Lex Luthor , secretly the Atom Man, blackmailing the city of Metropolis by threatening to destroy the entire community....
    , 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....
    , 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....
     and Lyle Talbot
    Lyle Talbot

    Lyle Talbot was an United States actor best known for playing Joe Randolph on television's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and for his long career in films from 1931 to 1960....
  • Cody of the Pony Express
    Cody of the Pony Express

    Cody of the Pony Express is the 42nd serial released by Columbia Pictures....
  • Desperadoes of the West
    Desperadoes of the West

    Desperadoes of the West is a Republic Pictures Serial ....
    , starring Tom Keene
    Tom Keene

    Tom Keene was an United States actor born in Rochester, New York known mostly for his roles in B Westerns.Little is known of his earlier life but he arrived in Hollywood in the late 20s after college studies at Columbia and Carnegie Tech and immediately made some impact co-starring in The Godless Girl directed by Cecil B....
  • Flying Disc Man from Mars
    Flying Disc Man from Mars

    Flying Disc Man from Mars is a Republic Pictures Serial . This is considered a weak example of the serial medium, even compared to other post-World War II serials....
    , starring Walter Reed
    Walter Reed (actor)

    Walter Reed was an American stage, film and television actor. Following a stint as a Broadway actor, Reed broke into films in the early 1940s....
     and Lois Collier
    Lois Collier

    Lois Collier was an United States of America film actress born in Salley, South Carolina. She was sometimes credited as Lois Collyer.Collier's acting career started in 1938, when she had a small but credited role in A Desperate Adventure, starring Ramon Novarro and Marian Marsh....
  • The Invisible Monster
    The Invisible Monster

    The Invisible Monster is a Republic Pictures Serial ....
    , starring Richard Webb
    Richard Webb (actor)

    Richard Webb was a film, television and radio actor. He was born in Bloomington, Illinois.He appeared in over 50 films including many westerns and films noir including Out of the Past , Night Has a Thousand Eyes , I Was a Communist for the FBI and Carson City ....
     and Aline Towne
    Aline Towne

    Aline Towne born Fern Aline Eggen, also known as Fern Aline Waller, was an United States film and television actress, best remembered for her lead roles in 1950s Republic Pictures Serial ....
  • The Mystery of the Snakeskin Belt
  • Pirates of the High Seas
    Pirates of the High Seas

    Pirates of the High Seas is the 44th movie serial released by Columbia Pictures. It starred the heroic Buster Crabbe, along with Lois Hall and Tommy Farrell, under the direction of Spencer Gordon Bennet and Thomas Carr ....
    , 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....


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

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

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

    The year 1962 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • 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)
  • 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....
    )
  • 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....
    )
  • Yosemite Sam
    Yosemite Sam

    Yosemite Sam is an animation fictional character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation....
     (1945
    1945 in film

    The year 1945 in film involved some significant events....
    -1963
    1963 in film

    The year 1963 in film involved some significant events....
    )


Births

  • January 16 - Debbie Allen
    Debbie Allen

    Deborrah Maye ?Debbie? Allen is an United States actress, choreographer, television director, television producer, and a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities....
    , actress, dancer, choreographer
  • January 24 - Daniel Auteuil
    Daniel Auteuil

    Daniel Auteuil is a France actor born at January 24 1950. He was born in Algiers, French Algeria, to parents who were both opera singers. His starring role in Jean de Florette brought him international recognition, and he has since become one of the best-known, best-paid and most popular actors in France....
    , actor
  • February 18 - Cybill Shepherd
    Cybill Shepherd

    Cybill Lynne Shepherd is a United States actress, singer and former fashion model .Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting , as Cybill Sheridan in Cybill, as Betsy in Taxi Driver and as Phyllis Kroll in The L Word....
    ,actress
  • March 16 - Kate Nelligan
    Kate Nelligan

    Patricia Colleen "Kate" Nelligan is an award-winning Canada stage, film and television actor....
    , actress
  • March 18 - Brad Dourif
    Brad Dourif

    Bradford Claude "Brad" Dourif is a BAFTA-winning and Academy Award- and Emmy Award-nominated United States film and television actor, best known for his roles as Younger Brother in ragtime , Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Gr?ma Wormtongue in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Doc Cochran in the HBO...
    , actor
  • March 30 - Robbie Coltrane
    Robbie Coltrane

    Robbie Coltrane, Order of the British Empire , is a Scottish actor, comedian and author....
    , actor
  • April 4 - Christine Lahti
    Christine Lahti

    Christine Lahti is an United States Emmy Award- and two-time Golden Globe Award-winning actress and Academy Awards-winning film director....
    , actress
  • April 29 - Phillip Noyce
    Phillip Noyce

    Phillip Noyce is an Australian film director.Noyce was born in Griffith, New South Wales, New South Wales, attended Barker College, Sydney, and began making short films at the age of 18, starting with Better to Reign in Hell, using his friends as the cast....
    , director
  • May 12 - Gabriel Byrne
    Gabriel Byrne

    Gabriel James Byrne is a Golden Globe Awards-winning, Emmy Awards- and Tony Award-nominated Irish people actor, film director, Academy Award-nominated film producer, and writer, as well as a Grammy-nominated audiobook narrator....
    , actor
  • September 28 - John Sayles
    John Sayles

    John Thomas Sayles is an United States independent film film director and screenwriter who frequently plays small roles in his own and other indie films....
    , director, screenwriter
  • October 31 - John Candy
    John Candy

    John Franklin Candy was a Canadian comedian and actor. He rose to fame as a member of the Toronto, Ontario branch of The Second City. Candy died of a heart attack in 1994....
    , comedian and actor
  • December 12 - Rajnikanth
    Rajnikanth

    Rajinikanth is an Indian film actor and one of the most influential and bankable movie stars in Indian cinema. Rajinikanth's mass popularity and appeal is largely drawn from his mannerisms and stylized delivery of dialogue....
    , actor


Deaths

  • January 3 - Emil Jannings
    Emil Jannings

    Emil Jannings was a Switzerland-born German people actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor....
    , actor
  • January 12 - John M. Stahl
    John M. Stahl

    John Malcolm Stahl was an United States film director and film producer.Born in New York City, New York, he began working in the city's growing motion picture industry at a young age and directed his first silent film short film in 1914....
    , film director and producer
  • March 10 - Marguerite De La Motte
    Marguerite De La Motte

    Marguerite De La Motte was an United States film actress, most notably of the silent film era....
    , actress
  • April 7 - Walter Huston
    Walter Huston

    Walter Huston was an Academy Award-winning Canada-born American actor....
    , Academy Award
    Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
     winning actor
  • October 23 - Al Jolson
    Al Jolson

    Al Jolson , born in Lithuania, Russian Empire, was a highly acclaimed American singer, comedian, and actor, and, according to PBS, the "first openly Jewish man to become an entertainment star in America." His career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950, during which time he was commonly dubbed "the world's greatest entertainer.? Numerous...
    , actor, singer, entertainer
  • October 28 - Maurice Costello
    Maurice Costello

    Maurice Costello was a prominent vaudeville actor of the late 1890s and early 1900s, who later played a principal role in early American films, as both a leading man, supporting player and a director....
    , actor of stage & screen
  • December 28 - William Garwood
    William Garwood

    William Garwood was an United States stage and cinema of the United States actor and Film director of the early silent film era in the 1910s....
    , actor