1946 in film

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The year 1946 in film involved some significant events.

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	Actors	Gross
1.	Song of the South*	Disney/RKO		$29,229,000
2.	The Best Years of Our Lives Duel in the Sun	RKO Selznick	Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy and Fredric March Jennifer Jones and Gregory Peck	$11,300,000
3.	The Postman Always Rings Twice	MGM	Lana Turner and John Garfield	$7,600,000
4.	Blue Skies	Paramount	Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire	$5,700,000
5.	The Yearling	MGM	Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman	$5,568,000
6.	The Razor's Edge	20th Century Fox	Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney	$5,000,000
7.	Notorious	RKO	Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman	$4,800,000
8.	Till the Clouds Roll By	MGM	Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Robert Walker	$4,762,000
9.	Road to Utopia	Paramount	Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope	$4,500,000
10.	Gilda	Columbia	Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford	$4,488,000

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives - Goldwyn, RKO Radio

Best Director: William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives

Best Actor: Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives

Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own

Best Supporting Actor: Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives

Best Supporting Actress: Anne Baxter - The Razor's Edge (1946 film)

Golden Globe Awards:

Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives

Best Director: Frank Capra - It's a Wonderful Life

Best Actor: Gregory Peck - The Yearling

Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Sister Kenny

Best Film Promoting International Understanding: The Last Chance (Switzerland)

GRAND PRIX (Cannes Film Festival):

Portrait of Maria (María Candelaria), directed by Emilio Fernández, Mexico

The Turning Point (Великий перелом, Velikiy perelom), directed by Fridrikh Ermler, Soviet Union

La Symphonie pastorale, directed by Jean Delannoy, France

The Last Chance (Die Letzte Chance), directed by Leopold Lintberg, Switzerland

Men Without Wings (Muži bez křídel), directed by František Čáp, Czechoslovakia

Rome, Open City (Roma, città aperta), directed by Roberto Rossellini, Italy

Films released in 1946

U.S.A. unless stated

• Angel on My Shoulder
• Anna and the King of Siam, starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison and Linda Darnell
• Appointment with Crime - (U.K.)
• Aru yo no Tonosama - (Japan)
• The Bandit (Il Bandito), starring Anna Magnani - (Italy)
• La Bataille du rail (The Battle of the Rails), directed by René Clément - (France)
• 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 - (France)
• 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 Angel
• The Blue Dahlia, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake
• Blue Skies, starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire
• Boom in the Moon starring Buster Keaton - (Mexico)
• The Brute Man starring Rondo Hatton
• Canyon Passage, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dana Andrews and Brian Donlevy
• The Captive Heart, starring Michael Redgrave, the first Prisoner of War film from World War II - (U.K.)
• Centennial Summer
• Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) - (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
• A Day in the Country (Partie de campagne), directed by Jean Renoir - (France)
• Deception, starring Bette Davis and Paul Henreid
• Decoy, a film noir starring Jean Gillie
• The Diary of a Chambermaid
• Dragonwyck, starring Gene Tierney
• Dressed to Kill, starring Basil Rathbone
• Duel in the Sun, starring Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten and Lillian Gish
• Enamorada, starring Pedro Armendáriz - (Mexico)
• Gallant Journey, directed by William A. Wellman
• Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford
• God's Country, staring Robert Lowery and Buster Keaton
• Great Expectations, directed by David Lean, starring John Mills, Jean Simmons and Valerie Hobson - (U.K.)
• Green for Danger, starring Alastair Sim and Trevor Howard - (U.K.)
• The Green Years
• The Harvey Girls, directed by George Sidney, starring Judy Garland and John Hodiak
• Henry V (U.S. release)
• The Hoodlum Saint, starring William Powell
• Humoresque, starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield
• I See a Dark Stranger - (U.K.)
• It Rains on Our Love (Det regnar på vår kärlek), directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
• It's a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore
• The Jolson Story, a biopic of Al Jolson starring Larry Parks
• The Kid from Brooklyn, starring Danny Kaye
• The Killers, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner
• Little Giant, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• The Locket, starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne and Robert Mitchum
• London Town, directed by Wesley Ruggles, starring Sid Field and Petula Clark - (U.K.)
• Make Mine Music
• A Matter of Life and Death, written and directed by Powell and Pressburger, starring David Niven - (U.K.)
• The Murderers Are Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns), starring Hildegard Knef - (Germany)
• My Darling Clementine, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Linda Darnell
• The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
• Neecha Nagar - (India)
• Night and Day, starring Cary Grant
• A Night in Casablanca with the Marx Brothers
• No Regrets for Our Youth (Waga seishun ni kuinashi), directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)
• Nobody Lives Forever, starring John Garfield
• Notorious, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman
• The Others (La Otra), starring Dolores del Río - (Mexico)
• The Overlanders, starring Chips Rafferty - (Australia/U.K.)
• Paisan, directed by Roberto Rossellini - (Italy)
• 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
• Shock, directed by Alfred L. Werker, starring Vincent Price and Lynn Bari
• Shoeshine (Sciuscià), directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
• Sister Kenny, starring Rosalind Russell
• Smithy - (Australia)
• 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 Stone Flower - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, starring Barbara Stanwyck
• The Stranger, directed by and starring Orson Welles, co-starring Loretta Young and Edward G. Robinson
• Swing Parade of 1946, starring The Three Stooges and Gale Storm
• La Symphonie Pastorale, directed by Jean Delannoy, starring Michèle Morgan - (France)
• Terror by Night, starring Basil Rathbone
• Theirs is the Glory - (U.K.)
• Three Strangers
• The Time of Their Lives, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• To Each His Own, starring Olivia de Havilland
• Tomorrow is Forever, starring Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles
• Utamaro and His Five Women (Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi - (Japan)
• The Verdict
• Wake Up and Dream
• Wanted for Murder - (U.K.)
• 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 (1943-1946)
• 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
• 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 and model
• May 20 - Cher, singer and actress
• June 1 - Brian Cox, Scottish actor
• July 6 - Sylvester Stallone, actor, screenwriter 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 19 - Michael Elphick (d. 2002)
• 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 and singer
• December 14 - Patty Duke, actress
• December 17 - Eugene Levy, Canadian actor, comedian and director
• December 18 - Steven Spielberg, director and producer

Deaths

• April 1 - Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (born 1882)
• June 23 - William S. Hart, American actor (born 1864)
• August 10 - Léon Gaumont, French film pioneer (born 1864)
• August 13 - H.G. Wells, British science fiction writer (born 1866)
• 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 (1880)

Film debuts

• Kirk Douglas
• Vittorio Gassman
• Alec Guinness
• Burt Lancaster
• Dean Martin
• Yves Montand
• Natalie Wood