1943 in film

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The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• January 3 - 1st missing persons telecast (NYC)
• February 20 - American film studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor films.
• November 23 - British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation
• December 31 - NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors
1.	This is the Army	Warner Bros.	Ronald Reagan, Joan Leslie and George Murphy
2.	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Paramount	Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman
3.	The Song of Bernadette	20th Century Fox	Jennifer Jones
4.	Coney Island	20th Century Fox	Betty Grable
5.	Stage Door Canteen	United Artists	Katharine Hepburn
6.	Casablanca	Warner Bros.	Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman
7.	Sweet Rosie O'Grady	20th Century Fox	Betty Grable
8.	Heaven Can Wait	20th Century Fox	Gene Tierney and Don Ameche
9.	The More the Merrier	Columbia	Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea
10.	So Proudly We Hail!	Paramount	Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard and Veronica Lake

Awards

16th Academy Awards

Best Picture: Casablanca - Warner Bros.

Best Director: Michael Curtiz - Casablanca

Best Actor: Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine

Best Actress: Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette

Best Supporting Actor: Charles Coburn - The More the Merrier,

Best Supporting Actress: Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls

1st Golden Globe Awards

Best Picture: The Song of Bernadette

Best Director: Henry King - The Song of Bernadette

Best Actor: Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine

Best Actress: Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette

Films released in 1943

U.S.A. unless stated

• Above Suspicion, starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray
• Action in the North Atlantic
• The Adventures of Tartu, starring Robert Donat and Valerie Hobson - (U.K.)
• Air Force
• Angels of the Streets (Les anges du peche), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
• The Ape Man
• Background to Danger, by Raoul Walsh with Peter Lorre
• Bataan, starring Robert Taylor
• Bombardier, starring Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley
• Cabin in the Sky
• Calling Dr. Death, first of the Inner Sanctum Mysteries, starring Lon Chaney, Jr.
• Coney Island, starring Betty Grable
• The Constant Nymph, starring Joan Fontaine
• Le Corbeau (The Raven), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Pierre Fresnay - (France)
• Corvette K-225
• Crash Dive, starring Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter
• Crazy House
• Cry 'Havoc'
• The Dancing Masters
• Day of Wrath (Vredens Dag), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - (Denmark)
• The Demi-Paradise, starring Laurence Olivier - (U.K.)
• Desert Victory - (U.K.)
• Destination Tokyo, starring Cary Grant and John Garfield
• Doña Bárbara - (Mexico)
• Edge of Darkness, starring Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan
• L'Éternel retour (The Eternal Return), directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais - (France)
• Fires Were Started - (U.K.)
• Five Graves to Cairo, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter
• Flesh and Fantasy, starring Edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck and Charles Boyer
• Flor Silvestre, starring Dolores del Río - (Mexico)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls, starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman
• Forever and a Day
• Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Béla Lugosi
• Der Fuehrer's Face, Donald Duck's Academy Award-winning short
• The Gang's All Here
• Girl Crazy, starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
• Guadalcanal Diary, starring Lloyd Nolan and Richard Conte
• A Guy Named Joe, starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne
• Hangmen Also Die!, starring Brian Donlevy and Walter Brennan
• Happy Land, starring Don Ameche
• The Hard Way
• Heaven Can Wait, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Gene Tierney and Don Ameche
• Hello, Frisco, Hello, starring Alice Faye
• Hi Diddle Diddle, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pola Negri
• Hit the Ice, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Hitler's Children
• Holy Matrimony
• The Human Comedy, starring Mickey Rooney
• I Walked with a Zombie, starring Frances Dee
• It Ain't Hay, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• It Comes Up Love
• Journey into Fear, starring Joseph Cotton, Delores del Rio and Orson Welles
• Lassie Come Home
• The Leopard Man, directed by Jacques Tourneur
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook - (U.K.)
• The Mad Ghoul
• Madame Curie, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
• The Man in Grey, the first of the Gainsborough melodramas - (U.K.)
• María Candelaria, starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz - (Mexico)
• Millions Like Us, directed by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder - (U.K.)
• Mission to Moscow
• Mister Big
• The More the Merrier, directed by George Stevens, starring Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea
• Mr. Lucky, starring Cary Grant
• Münchhausen - (Germany)
• My Learned Friend, starring Will Hay - (U.K.)
• Nasreddin in Bukhara - (U.S.S.R.)
• No Time for Love
• The North Star
• Northern Pursuit
• Old Acquaintance, starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins
• Ossessione (Obsession), directed by Luchino Visconti - (Italy)
• The Outlaw, controversial western directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jane Russell
• The Ox-Bow Incident, directed by William Wellman, starring Henry Fonda, Harry Morgan, Dana Andrews
• Phantom of the Opera, starring Claude Rains
• Princess O'Rourke
• Riding High
• Sahara, starring Humphrey Bogart
• Sanshiro Sugata, directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)
• The Seventh Victim
• Shadow of a Doubt, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten
• Sherlock Holmes Faces Death, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
• Sherlock Holmes in Washington, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
• The Shipbuilders, directed by John Baxter (U.K.)
• The Silver Fleet, starring Ralph Richardson and Googie Withers - (U.K.)
• The Sky's the Limit
• So Proudly We Hail!, starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake
• Son of Dracula
• The Song of Bernadette, starring Jennifer Jones
• Star Spangled Rhythm
• Stormy Weather, starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway
• A Stranger in Town
• Tender Comrade
• Thank Your Lucky Stars
• Theatre Royal, directed by John Baxter (U.K.)
• They Came to Blow Up America
• This is the Army
• This Land Is Mine, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara
• Thousands Cheer, starring Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Mary Astor
• Titanic - (Germany)
• Top Man
• Ukraine in Flames - (U.S.S.R.)
• Victory Through Air Power
• War of the Wildcats (a.k.a. In Old Oklahoma)
• Watch on the Rhine, starring Paul Lukas and Bette Davis
• We Dive at Dawn, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring John Mills - (U.K.)
• We've Never Been Licked
• Yellow Canary, starring Anna Neagle and Richard Greene - (U.K.)
• You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith, screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley et al. (film mentioned in article)

Serials

• Adventures of the Flying Cadets
• The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
• Batman, starring Lewis Wilson
• Daredevils of the West, starring Allan Lane, directed by John English
• Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
• G-Men vs the Black Dragon, starring Rod Cameron, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
• The Masked Marvel, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
• The Phantom, starring Tom Tyler
• Secret Service in Darkest Africa, starring Rod Cameron, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet

Comedy film series

• Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1945)
• Our Gang (1922–1944)
• The Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
• The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

Animated short film series

• Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Scrappy (1931–1941)
• Popeye (1933–1957)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
• Donald Duck (1934–1956)
• Daffy Duck (1937 – 1966)
• Goofy (1939–1955)
• Andy Panda (1939–1949)
• Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949)
• Swing Symphonies (1941–1945)
• The Fox and the Crow (1941–1950)
• Red Hot Riding Hood (1943–1949)
• Chip 'n Dale (1943–1956)
• Droopy (1943–1958)

Births

• January 13 - Richard Moll, actor
• January 24 - Sharon Tate, actress and model (d. 1969)
• January 25 - Tobe Hooper, director and screenwriter
• January 28 - John Beck, actor
• February 3 - Blythe Danner, actress
• February 9 - Joe Pesci, actor
• February 20 - Mike Leigh, English director
• February 25 - George Harrison, English musician and songwriter (d. 2001)
• March 8 - Lynn Redgrave, English actress (d. 2010)
• March 15 - David Cronenberg, Canadian director and screenwriter
• March 31 - Christopher Walken, actor
• April 20 - Edie Sedgwick, actress, socialite, model and heiress (d. 1971)
• June 13 - Malcolm McDowell, English actor
• July 3 - Kurtwood Smith, actor
• July 21 - Edward Herrmann, actor
• August 15 - Barbara Bouchet, German-American actress
• August 17 - Robert De Niro, actor
• August 27 - Tuesday Weld, actress
• September 28 - J. T. Walsh, actor (d. 1998)
• October 4 - John Bindon, English actor and bodyguard
• October 8 - Chevy Chase, actor and comedian
• October 22 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress
• December 21 - Jack Nance, actor (d. 1996)
• December 31 - Ben Kingsley, English actor

Deaths

• February 14 - Dora Gerson, German actress (born 1899)
• June 1 - Leslie Howard, Academy Award-nominated British actor (born 1893)

Film Debuts

• Cyd Charisse
• Robert Mitchum
• Frank Sinatra
• Shelley Winters

Further reading

• Historical Events for Year 1943 (Part 5)