1944 in film

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The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double Indemnity, Gaslight and Laura.

Events

• July 20 - Since You Went Away is released.
• September 6 - Double Indemnity is released.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors
1.	Going My Way	Paramount	Bing Crosby
2.	Meet Me in St. Louis	MGM	Judy Garland
3.	Since You Went Away	United Artists	Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple
4.	Pin Up Girl	20th Century Fox	Betty Grable
5.	Hollywood Canteen	Warner Bros.	John Garfield, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford
6.	Double Indemnity	Paramount	Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck
7.	Gaslight	MGM	Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer
8.	Cover Girl	Columbia	Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly
9.	Laura	20th Century Fox	Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews
10.	To Have and Have Not	Warner Bros.	Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Going My Way - Paramount

Best Director: Leo McCarey - Going My Way

Best Actor: Bing Crosby - Going My Way

Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight

Best Supporting Actor: Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way

Best Supporting Actress: Ethel Barrymore - None but the Lonely Heart

Golden Globe Awards:

Best Picture: Going My Way

Best Director: Leo McCarey, Going My Way

Best Actor: Alexander Knox - Wilson

Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight

Films released in 1944

U.S.A. unless stated

• The Adventures of Mark Twain
• And Now Tomorrow, starring Alan Ladd and Loretta Young
• And the Angels Sing, starring Fred MacMurray and Dorothy Lamour
• Arsenic and Old Lace, directed by Frank Capra, starring Cary Grant and Priscilla Lane
• Between Two Worlds
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• Buffalo Bill, starring Joel McCrea and Maureen O'Hara
• Can't Help Singing
• A Canterbury Tale, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Eric Portman - (U.K.)
• The Canterville Ghost, starring Charles Laughton
• Casanova Brown, starring Gary Cooper
• Champagne Charlie, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Tommy Trinder and Stanley Holloway - (U.K.)
• The Children Are Watching Us (I bambini ci guardano), directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
• Christmas Holiday, starring Gene Kelly
• The Climax, starring Boris Karloff
• The Conspirators, starring Paul Henreid and Hedy Lamarr
• Cover Girl, starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly
• Cry of the Werewolf
• The Curse of the Cat People, starring Simone Simon
• Don't Take It to Heart, directed by Jeffrey Dell and starring Richard Greene (U.K.)
• Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson
• Dragon Seed, starring Katharine Hepburn
• Dream of the Red Chamber (China)
• Fanny by Gaslight directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Phyllis Calvert, James Mason and Stewart Granger (U.K.)
• The Fighting Seabees, starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward
• The Fighting Sullivans, directed by Lloyd Bacon
• For Those in Peril, directed by Charles Crichton - (U.K.)
• Frenchman's Creek, starring Joan Fontaine and Basil Rathbone
• Die Feuerzangenbowle (The Punch Bowl) - (Germany)
• Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer
• Going My Way, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald - winner of 7 Oscars
• Hail the Conquering Hero, starring Eddie Bracken and Ella Raines
• To Have And Have Not, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
• Henry V, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier - (U.K.)
• Hollywood Canteen
• Home in Indiana
• The Hour Before the Dawn, starring Veronica Lake
• House of Frankenstein
• I Accuse My Parents, starring Mary Beth Hughes
• I'll Be Seeing You
• In Our Time, starring Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid
• In Society, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• It Happened Tomorrow, starring Dick Powell
• Ivan the Terrible (Ivan Grozniy), by director Sergei Eisenstein, starring Nikolai Cherkasov - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Keys of the Kingdom, starring Gregory Peck, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, and Roddy McDowall
• Kismet, starring Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich
• Lady in the Dark
• Lady, Let's Dance, ice skating musical starring Belita and comedy ice team Frick and Frack
• Laura, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb
• Lifeboat, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tallulah Bankhead and John Hodiak
• The Lodger, starring Merle Oberon
• Lost in a Harem, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Man from Frisco directed by Robert Florey, starring Michael O'Shea and Anne Shirley.
• The Mask of Dimitrios
• Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland
• Meet the People
• Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, a documentary by William Wyler
• Ministry of Fear, starring Ray Milland
• The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton
• Mr. Skeffington, starring Bette Davis and Claude Rains
• Mrs. Parkington, starring Greer Garson
• The Mummy's Curse
• The Mummy's Ghost
• Murder, My Sweet (aka Farewell My Lovely), starring Dick Powell and Claire Trevor
• National Velvet, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney
• None but the Lonely Heart, starring Cary Grant
• None Shall Escape
• North East Corner
• On Approval, starring Clive Brook and Googie Withers - (U.K.)
• Passage to Marseille
• The Pearl of Death, a Sherlock Holmes mystery starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
• Phantom Lady, starring Franchot Tone and Ella Raines
• Pin Up Girl, starring Betty Grable
• The Princess and the Pirate
• The Purple Heart
• Rainbow - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Return of the Vampire
• The Scarlet Claw, a Sherlock Holmes mystery starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
• The Seventh Cross
• Since You Went Away, starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple
• Song of Russia
• The Spider Woman, a Sherlock Holmes mystery featuring Gale Sondergaard
• The Story of Dr. Wassell, starring Gary Cooper
• Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
• The Suspect, starring Charles Laughton
• Tall in the Saddle
• Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, starring Spencer Tracy
• This Happy Breed, directed by David Lean, starring John Mills and Celia Johnson - (U.K.)
• The Three Caballeros
• Torment (Hets), directed by Alf Sjoberg - (Sweden)
• La Torre de los Siete Jorobados - (Spain)
• The Uninvited, starring Ray Milland
• Voodoo Man, starring Bela Lugosi
• The Way Ahead, directed by Carol Reed - (U.K.)
• The White Cliffs of Dover
• Wilson, biographical film about President Woodrow Wilson, starring Charles Coburn
• The Woman in the Window, starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett
• The Yellow Rose of Texas with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

Serials

• Black Arrow
• Captain America, starring Dick Purcell
• The Desert Hawk, starring Gilbert Roland and Charles Middleton
• The Great Alaskan Mystery
• Haunted Harbor, starring Kane Richmond
• Mystery of the River Boat
• Raiders of Ghost City
• The Tiger Woman, starring Linda Stirling
• Zorro's Black Whip, starring Linda Stirling

Short film series

• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• 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)
• Goofy (1939-1955)
• Andy Panda (1939-1949)
• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)
• Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941-1949)
• Swing Symphonies (1941-1945)
• The Fox and the Crow (1941-1950)
• Red Hot Riding Hood (1943-1949)
• Droopy (1943-1958)
• Screwball Squirrel (1944-1946)
• Sylvester the Cat (1944-1966)

Births

• January 23 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
• February 3 - Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress
• February 13 - Stockard Channing, actress
• February 14 - Alan Parker, English director, producer and screenwriter
• February 22 - Jonathan Demme, director, producer and screenwriter
• February 29 - Dennis Farina, actor
• March 26 - Diana Ross, singer and actress
• April 30 - Jill Clayburgh, actress (d. 2010)
• May 5 - John Rhys-Davies, English actor
• May 10 - Jim Abrahams, director, producer and screenwriter
• May 14 - George Lucas, director, producer and screenwriter
• May 25 - Frank Oz, English director and puppeteer
• June 29 - Gary Busey, actor
• July 31 - Geraldine Chaplin, actress
• August 7 - John Glover, actor
• August 9 - Sam Elliott, actor
• August 11 - Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
• August 21 - Peter Weir, Australian director, producer and screenwriter
• September 13 - Jacqueline Bisset, English actress
• September 25 - Michael Douglas, actor and producer
• November 17 - Danny DeVito, actor, comedian, producer and director
• November 21 - Harold Ramis, actor, director and screenwriter
• December 5 - Jeroen Krabbe, Dutch actor and director
• December 17 - Bernard Hill, English actor

Deaths

• July 20 - Mildred Harris, actress
• December 13 - Lupe Vélez, actress (born 1908)
• December 15 - Glenn Miller, musician, actor (born 1904)

Film Debuts

• Lauren Bacall
• Angela Lansbury
• Gregory Peck
• Jean Simmons