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 | $10,400,000[1] |
| 2 | Duel in the Sun | Selznick International Pictures | $10,000,000[1] |
| 3 | The Jolson Story | Columbia Pictures | $8,000,000[1] |
| 4 | Blue Skies | Paramount Pictures | $5,700,000[1] |
| 5 | The Razor's Edge | 20th Century Fox | $5,000,000[1] |
| 6 | Notorious | RKO Radio Pictures | $4,800,000[1] |
| 7 | The Yearling | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $4,768,000[2] |
| 8 | Till the Clouds Roll By | $4,762,000[2] | |
| 9 | Road to Utopia | Paramount Pictures | $4,500,000[1] |
| 10 | Two Years Before the Mast | $4,400,000[3] | |
The Outlaw, originally released in 1943, was re-released in 1946 and earned $3 million in domestic rentals.[4] By January 1951, it had earned a total of $5.075 million in domestic rentals.[5]
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
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 7 – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (d. 2011)
- February 20 – Brenda Blethyn, English actress
- February 21 – Alan Rickman, English actor (d. 2016)
- March 12 – Liza Minnelli, singer and actress
- March 21 – Timothy Dalton, actor
- April 19 – Tim Curry, English actor and singer
- April 25 – Talia Shire, actress
- 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
- 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
- Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
- The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
- Edgarton, Gary R. (2012). Westerns: The Essential 'Journal of Popular Film and Television' Collection. ISBN 978-0-415-78323-1.
Some court decisions were won, others were lost, but at the end of its run, The Outlaw had managed to play 5,000 of a possible 18,000 dates and, even though some of the biggest houses had to be by-passed, it still managed to gross $3,000,000, which, by this time, was little more than Hughes' costs. Over the next few years most of this opposition evaportated – even the Legion of Decency lifted its condemnation. During 1950 and 1952, the film went through two more general releases and raised its total rental gross to over five million, making it second only to Duel in the Sun, a calculated imitation done in color, as the second biggest boxoffice Western up to this point.
- "All-Time Top-Grossers". Variety. January 17, 1951. p. 5. Retrieved May 18, 2020 – via Archive.org.
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