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The year 1946 in film involved some significant events.
Contents
1 Events
2 Top grossing films (U.S.)
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1946
5 Serials
6 Short film series
7 Animated Short Film Series
8 Births
9 Deaths
10 Film Debuts
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.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
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1. | Song of the South* | Disney | $63,717,040 |
2. | The Best Years of Our Lives* | RKO | $23,650,000 |
3. | Duel in the Sun* | $20,408,163 | |
4. | The Postman Always Rings Twice* | MGM | $8,330,000 |
5. | Blue Skies | Paramount | $5,700,000 |
6. | The Yearling | MGM | $5,568,000 |
7. | The Razor's Edge | 20th Century Fox | $5,000,000 |
8. | Notorious | RKO | $4,800,000 |
9. | Till the Clouds Roll By | MGM | $4,762,000 |
10. | Road to Utopia | Paramount | $4,500,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
Awards
Category/Organization | 4th Golden Globe Awards February 26, 1947 | 19th Academy Awards March 13, 1947 |
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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 |
Films released in 1946
- Angel on My Shoulder
Anna and the King of Siam, starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison and Linda Darnell
- Aru yo no Tonosama
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
The Blue Dahlia, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake
Blue Skies, starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire
Boom in the Moon starring Buster Keaton
Caesar and Cleopatra, starring Vivien Leigh
The Captive Heart, the first Prisoner of War film from World War II- Centennial Summer
Children of Paradise (U.S. release)
Cluny Brown, starring Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones
The Dark Corner, starring Lucille Ball and Mark Stevens
The Dark Mirror, starring Olivia de Havilland
- Deception
Decoy, a film noir starring Jean Gillie
- The Diary of a Chambermaid
Dragonwyck, starring Gene Tierney
Duel in the Sun, starring Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten and Lillian Gish
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
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 See a Dark Stranger
It's a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore
- Ivan the Terrible
The Jolson Story, a biopic of Al Jolson starring Larry Parks
- The Kid from Brooklyn
The Killers, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner
Little Giant, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Make Mine Music
A Matter of Life and Death, written and directed by Powell and Pressburger, starring David Niven
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
- 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
- The Overlanders
Paisan, directed by Roberto Rossellini
The Postman Always Rings Twice, starring Lana Turner and John Garfield
The Razor's Edge, starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney
Road to Utopia, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope
The Seventh Veil (U.S. release)- She-Wolf of London
Shoeshine (Sciuscià), directed by Vittorio De Sica
Shock, directed by Alfred L. Werker, starring Vincent Price and Lynn Bari
Sister Kenny, starring Rosalind Russell
- Smithy
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
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, starring Barbara Stanwyck
The Stranger, directed by and starring Orson Welles, Loretta Young and Edward G. Robinson
- Theirs is the Glory
- Three Strangers
The Time of Their Lives, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
To Each His Own, starring Olivia de Havilland
- Tomorrow is Forever
Utamaro and His Five Women (Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna)- The Verdict
- Wake Up and Dream
- Wanted for Murder
- Without Reservations
The Yearling, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman
Serials
- Daughter of Don Q
- Chick Carter, Detective
- The Crimson Ghost
- Hop Harrigan
King of the Forest Rangers, starring Larry Thompson
- Lost City of the Jungle
- The Mysterious Mr. M
The Phantom Rider, starring Robert Kent and Peggy Stewart
- The Scarlet Horseman
- Son of the Guardsman
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, Welch 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 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
- December 17 - Eugene Levy, Canadian actor
- December 18 - Steven Spielberg, director and producer
date 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 was an American comedian and actor
Film Debuts
- Kirk Douglas
- Burt Lancaster
- Natalie Wood