1946 in film
The year 1946 in film involved some significant events.
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Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1946 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Studio | Box-office gross rental |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Best Years of Our Lives | RKO Radio Pictures/Samuel Goldwyn Productions | $10,170,000[1] |
| 2 | Duel in the Sun | Selznick International Pictures | $8,700,000[1] |
| 3 | The Jolson Story | Columbia Pictures | $7,600,000[2] |
| 4 | Blue Skies | Paramount Pictures | $5,700,000[2] |
| 5 | Saratoga Trunk | Warner Bros. | $5,148,000[3] |
| 6 | The Outlaw [nb 1] | RKO Radio Pictures | $5,100,000[2] |
| 7 | The Razor's Edge | 20th Century Fox | $5,000,000[2] |
| 8 | Notorious | RKO Radio Pictures | $4,800,000[2] |
| 9 | The Yearling | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $4,768,000[4] |
| 10 | Road to Utopia | Paramount Pictures | $4,500,000[2] |
- "The Outlaw" was filmed in 1941 and was first released in theaters in February 1943, but was quickly withdrawn due to violations of the Production Code. It was re-released in April 1946 and became a box office success.
Events
- November 21 – William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives premieres in New York featuring an ensemble cast including Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, and Harold Russell.
- December 20 – Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, and Thomas Mitchell opens in New York.
Awards
| Category/Organization | 4th Golden Globe Awards February 26, 1947 | 19th Academy Awards March 13, 1947 |
|---|---|---|
| Best Film | The Best Years of Our Lives | |
| Best Director | Frank Capra It's a Wonderful Life | William Wyler The Best Years of Our Lives |
| Best Actor | Gregory Peck The Yearling | Fredric March The Best Years of Our Lives |
| Best Actress | Rosalind Russell Sister Kenny | Olivia de Havilland To Each His Own |
| Best Supporting Actor | Clifton Webb The Razor's Edge | Harold Russell The Best Years of Our Lives |
| Best Supporting Actress | Anne Baxter The Razor's Edge | |
Notable films released in 1946
United States unless stated
A
B
- Bad Bascomb, starring Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien and Marjorie Main
- The Bandit of Sherwood Forest, starring Cornel Wilde
- The Beast with Five Fingers, starring Robert Alda and Peter Lorre
- Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête), directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais and Josette Day
- The Best Years of Our Lives, directed by William Wyler, starring Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews and Harold Russell – winner of 8 Oscars
- Beware, directed by Bud Pollard, starring Louis Jordan
- The Big Sleep, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
- Black Beauty, starring Mona Freeman and Richard Denning
- The Blue Dahlia, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake
- Blue Skies, starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire
- Boom in the Moon, starring Buster Keaton
- A Boy and His Dog, starring Harry Davenport
C
- The Captive Heart, the first Prisoner of War film from World War II
- Canyon Passage, starring Dana Andrews
- Centennial Summer
- Children of Paradise (U.S. release)
- Cluny Brown, starring Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones
D
- The Dark Corner, starring Lucille Ball and Mark Stevens
- The Dark Mirror, starring Olivia de Havilland
- Deception
- Decoy, a film noir starring Jean Gillie
- Devotion
- The Diary of a Chambermaid
- Dragonwyck, starring Gene Tierney
- Dressed to Kill, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
- Duel in the Sun, starring Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten and Lillian Gish
G
- Gallant Journey, directed by William A. Wellman
- Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford
- Great Expectations, directed by David Lean, starring John Mills, Jean Simmons and Valerie Hobson
- Green for Danger, starring Alastair Sim and Trevor Howard
- The Green Years
H
- The Harvey Girls, directed by George Sidney, starring Judy Garland and John Hodiak
- Henry V (U.S. release)
- Humoresque, starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield
I
- I See a Dark Stranger
- It's a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore
- Ivan the Terrible
J
- The Jolson Story, a biopic of Al Jolson starring Larry Parks
K
- The Kid from Brooklyn
- The Killers, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner
L
- Little Giant, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
M
- Make Mine Music
- Magnificent Doll, starring Ginger Rogers and David Niven
- A Matter of Life and Death, written and directed by Powell and Pressburger, starring David Niven
- Monsieur Beaucaire, starring Bob Hope
- The Murderers Are Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns), starring Hildegard Knef
- My Darling Clementine, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Linda Darnell
N
- Night and Day
- A Night in Casablanca with the Marx Brothers
- No Regrets for Our Youth (Waga seishun ni kuinashi)
- Nobody Lives Forever
- Notorious, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman
O
- The Outlaw (re-release)
- The Overlanders
P
- Paisan, directed by Roberto Rossellini
- People Are Funny, starring Jack Haley
- The Postman Always Rings Twice, starring Lana Turner and John Garfield
R
- The Razor's Edge, starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney
- Renegade Girl, starring Ann Savage
- The Return of Monte Cristo, starring Louis Hayward
- Road to Utopia, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope
S
- The Seventh Veil (U.S. release)
- She-Wolf of London. starring June Lockhart
- Shoeshine (Sciuscià), directed by Vittorio De Sica
- Shock, directed by Alfred L. Werker, starring Vincent Price and Lynn Bari
- Sister Kenny, starring Rosalind Russell
- Somewhere In The Night, starring John Hodiak
- Song of the South by Walt Disney, combines animation and live action.
- The Spiral Staircase, starring Dorothy McGuire
- A Stolen Life, starring Bette Davis
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, starring Barbara Stanwyck
- The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr and George Sanders
- The Stranger, directed by and starring Orson Welles, Loretta Young and Edward G. Robinson
T
- Terror by Night, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
- Theirs is the Glory
- Three Strangers
- Three Wise Fools, starring Margaret O'Brien and Lionel Barrymore
- The Time of Their Lives, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- To Each His Own, starring Olivia de Havilland
- Tomorrow is Forever, starring Orson Welles
- Two Sisters from Boston, starring Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, Lauritz Melchior, Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford.
U
- Utamaro and His Five Women (Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna)
W
Y
- The Yearling, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman
Serials
Short film series
- Shirley Temple (1932–1946)
- The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
- Popular Science (1935–1950)
Animated Short Film Series
- Mickey Mouse (1928–1952)
- Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
- Terrytoons (1930–1964)
- Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
- Popeye (1933–1957)
- Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
- Donald Duck (1936–1956)
- Pluto (1937–1951)
- Andy Panda (1939–1949)
- Goofy (1939–1953)
- Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
- Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
- The Fox and the Crow (1941–1950)
- Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949)
- Mighty Mouse (1942–1955)
- Droopy (1943–1958)
- Chip and Dale (1943–1956)
- Screwball Squirrel (1944–1946)
- Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
- George and Junior (1946–1948)
Births
- January 5 – Diane Keaton, actress, producer and director
- January 19 – Dolly Parton, country singer and actress
- January 20 – David Lynch, director
- January 26 – Gene Siskel, film critic, Siskel and Ebert (d. 1999)
- February 2 - Blake Clark, American stand-up comedian, actor and voice actor
- February 7 – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (d. 2011)
- February 20 – Brenda Blethyn, English actress
- February 21
- Anthony Daniels, English actor, voice actor and mine artist
- Alan Rickman, English actor (d. 2016)[5]
- March 12
- Liza Minnelli, singer and actress
- Frank Welker, American actor, voice actor and former stand-up comedian
- March 21 – Timothy Dalton, actor
- March 28 - Dianne Wiest, American actress
- April 12 - Ed O'Neil, American actor and comedian
- April 19 – Tim Curry, English actor and singer
- April 25 – Talia Shire, actress
- May 1 - Joanna Lumley, British actress, presenter, former model, author, television producer and activist
- May 9 – Candice Bergen, actress
- May 20 – Cher, singer and actress
- July 6 – Sylvester Stallone, actor and director
- July 10 – Sue Lyon, actress (d. 2019)
- July 13 – Cheech Marin, actor and comedian
- July 22 – Danny Glover, actor and director
- August 16 – Lesley Ann Warren, actress and singer
- September 15
- Tommy Lee Jones, actor
- Oliver Stone, director and producer
- September 28 – Jeffrey Jones, actor
- October 4 – Susan Sarandon, actress
- October 15 – John Getz, actor
- October 27 – Ivan Reitman, Slovakian-born director and producer
- October 31 – Stephen Rea, Northern Irish actor
- November 6 – Sally Field, actress
- November 20 - Samuel E. Wright, American actor and singer
- December 14 – Patty Duke, actress (d. 2016)
- December 17 – Eugene Levy, Canadian actor
- December 18 – Steven Spielberg, director and producer
- unknown – Omar Al-Shammaa, Lebanese actor, voice actor
Deaths
- April 1 – Noah Beery Sr., American actor
- June 23 – William S. Hart, American actor
- August 10 – Léon Gaumont, French film pioneer
- August 13 – H. G. Wells, British science fiction writer
- August 26 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter
- August 28 – Florence Turner, American actress
- September 21 – Olga Engl, Austrian actress
- November 2 – Gabriel Gabrio, French actor
- December 12 – Renée Jeanne Falconetti, French actress
- December 25 – W. C. Fields, American comedian and actor
Film Debuts
References
- "All-Time Top-Grossers", Variety 18 January 1950 p 18
- Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
- Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 26 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
- The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- "Alan Rickman obituary". the Guardian. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
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