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Overview of the events of 1942 in film
The year 1942 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Top grossing films
- North America
Academy Awards
Films released in 1942
- Ala-Arriba!
- Alias Boston Blackie, Starring Chester Morris, Adele Mara, and Richard Lane
- Andy Hardy's Double Life, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, and Fay Holden
- Bambi
- The Black Swan
- Bullet Scars
- Captains of the Clouds
- Casablanca
- Cat People
- Commandos Strike at Dawn
- The Courtship of Andy Hardy,starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, and Fay Holden
- Der Fuehrer's Face, Donald Duck's Academy Award-winning short
- Flying Tigers
- Gentleman Jim -(film only mentioned in article)
- The Ghost of Frankenstein starring Lon Chaney Jr.
- Hatter's Castle
- Holiday Inn
- I Married a Witch
- In Which We Serve
- Listen to Britain, British propaganda film directed by Humphrey Jennings
- The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- The Major and the Minor
- The Man Who Came to Dinner -(film only mentioned in article)
- Mrs. Miniver
- My Tender Comrade
- The Palm Beach Story
- Pardon My Sarong, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Pride of the Yankees starring Gary Cooper
- Random Harvest
- Reap the Wild Wind
- Ride 'Em Cowboy
- Rio Rita, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Road to Morocco
- Saludos Amigos
- Somewhere I'll Find You, starring Clark Gable
- Sons of the Pioneers, starring Roy Rogers and Gabby Whittaker
- Star Spangled Rhythm
- The Talk of the Town
- Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die
- The Undying Monster
- Went the Day Well?
- Who Done It?, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Yankee Doodle Dandy
Serials
- Captain Midnight, starring Dave O'Brien, directed by James W. Horne
- Don Winslow of the Navy
- Gang Busters
- Junior G-Men of the Air, starring the Dead End Kids
- King of the Mounties, starring Allan Lane, directed by William Witney
- Overland Mail
- Perils of Nyoka, starring Kay Aldridge & Clayton Moore, directed by William Witney
- Perils of the Royal Mounted, directed by James W. Horne
- The Secret Code, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
- Spy Smasher, starring Kane Richmond, directed by William Witney
- The Valley of Vanishing Men, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Short film series
Animated short film series
Births
- January 3 - John Thaw, actor (+ 2002)
- January 8 - Yvette Mimieux, actress
- January 14 - Stig Engström, actor
- January 15 - Charo, singer, actress
- January 19 - Michael Crawford, singer, actor
- February 13 - Peter Tork, musician/actor
- March 28 - Mike Newell, British film director
- July 1 – Geneviève Bujold, French-Canadian actress
- July 13 - Harrison Ford, American actor/producer
- October 22 - John Broderick, producer, director, actor
- October 22 - Annette Funicello, American actress, singer
- October 31 - David Ogden Stiers, American actor
- November 2 - Stefanie Powers, American actress
- November 21 - Al Matthews, American actor
- November 17 - Martin Scorsese, director
Deaths