1950 in film

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The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1950 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1950
Rank	Title	Studio	Box-office gross rental
1	King Solomon's Mines	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$5,047,000^[1]
2	Annie Get Your Gun	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$4,708,000^[1]
3	Cheaper by the Dozen	20th Century Fox	$4,400,000^[2]
4	Cinderella	Walt Disney/RKO Radio Pictures	$4,300,000^[2]
5	Born Yesterday	Columbia Pictures	$4,100,000^[2]
6	Father of the Bride	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$4,036,000^[1]
7	Broken Arrow	20th Century Fox	$3,600,000^[3]
8	At War with the Army	Paramount Pictures	$3,300,000^[3]
9	All About Eve	20th Century Fox	$3,100,000^[3]
10	Three Little Words	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$3,019,000^[1]

Events

February 15 – Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts. The film was the most successful the studio has made since Dumbo, and saved the studio from four million dollars in debt.
July 19 – Walt Disney Studios' first completely live-action film Treasure Island debuts.

Awards

Category/Organization	8th Golden Globe Awards February 28, 1951		23rd Academy Awards March 29, 1951
Category/Organization	Drama	Comedy or Musical	23rd Academy Awards March 29, 1951
Best Film	Sunset Boulevard		All About Eve
Best Director	Billy Wilder Sunset Boulevard		Joseph L. Mankiewicz All About Eve
Best Actor	José Ferrer Cyrano de Bergerac	Fred Astaire Three Little Words	José Ferrer Cyrano de Bergerac
Best Actress	Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard	Judy Holliday Born Yesterday	Judy Holliday Born Yesterday
Best Supporting Actor	Edmund Gwenn Mister 880		George Sanders All About Eve
Best Supporting Actress	Josephine Hull Harvey
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Joseph L. Mankiewicz All About Eve		Joseph L. Mankiewicz All About Eve
Best Screenplay, Original	Joseph L. Mankiewicz All About Eve		Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman Jr. Sunset Boulevard

Top ten money making stars

Rank	Actor/Actress
1.	John Wayne
2.	Bob Hope
3.	Bing Crosby
4.	Betty Grable
5.	James Stewart
6. (tie)	Bud Abbott Lou Costello
7.	Clifton Webb
8.	Esther Williams
9.	Spencer Tracy
10.	Randolph Scott

Notable films released in 1950

US unless stated

U-V

El último caballo (The Last Horse) – (Spain)
The Underworld Story, starring Dan Duryea
Union Station, starring William Holden
Until We Meet Again (Mata au hi made) – (Japan)
Variety Lights (Luci del varietà), directed by Federico Fellini – (Italy)
Vendetta, starring Faith Domergue (filmed in 1946 but not released until 1950 due to delays from Howard Hughes)

W

Wabash Avenue, starring Betty Grable (a remake of Grable's 1943 film Coney Island)
Wagon Master, directed by John Ford, starring Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru and Ward Bond
Watch the Birdie, starring Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl and Ann Miller
The West Point Story, starring James Cagney and Doris Day
When Willie Comes Marching Home, starring Dan Dailey
Where Danger Lives, starring Robert Mitchum and Faith Domergue in her film debut
Where the Sidewalk Ends, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney
Winchester '73, starring James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Stephen McNally, Dan Duryea, and with early appearances by Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis
The Woman in Question, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Jean Kent and Dirk Bogarde – (GB)
Woman in Hiding, starring Ida Lupino, Howard Duff and Stephen McNally
Woman on the Run, starring Ann Sheridan and Dennis O'Keefe
The Wooden Horse, starring Leo Genn and Anthony Steel – (GB)

Y-Z

The Yellow Cab Man, starring Red Skelton and Gloria DeHaven
The Young and the Damned (Los Olvidados), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico)
Young Man with a Horn, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day
Zhukovsky – (USSR)

Serials

Atom Man vs. Superman, starring Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill and Lyle Talbot
Cody of the Pony Express
Desperadoes of the West, starring Tom Keene
Flying Disc Man from Mars, starring Walter Reed and Lois Collier
The Invisible Monster, starring Richard Webb and Aline Towne
The Mystery of the Snakeskin Belt^[pt]
Pirates of the High Seas, starring Buster Crabbe

Short film series

Births

January 24 – Daniel Auteuil, French actor
January 30 – Trinidad Silva, actor (died 1988)
February 5 - Jonathan Freeman, American actor, voice actor, singer and puppeteer
February 12 – Michael Ironside, Canadian actor
February 18
- Cybill Shepherd, actress
- John Hughes, director, producer and screenwriter (died 2009)
February 22 – Julie Walters, English actress
February 25 – Neil Jordan, Irish director
March 11 – Jerry Zucker, director and producer
March 13 – William H. Macy, actor
March 18 – Brad Dourif, actor
March 20 – William Hurt, actor
March 26
- Martin Short, Canadian comedian and actor
- Alan Silvestri, American film composer and conductor
March 30 – Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor
April 4 – Christine Lahti, actress
April 13 – Ron Perlman, actor
April 16 – David Graf, actor
April 22 – Thierry Zéno, Belgian director (d. 2017)
April 20 - Jay Leno, American comedian, actor, writer, producer and late-night television host
April 29 – Phillip Noyce, Australian director
May 8 – Robert Mugge, American director and producer
May 12 – Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor
May 22 – Peter Wildman, Canadian actor
June 6 – Chantal Akerman, Belgian director (d. 2015)
June 8 – Kathy Baker, actress
June 13 – Belinda Bauer, Australian actress
June 24 – Nancy Allen, actress
August 12 – Jim Beaver, actor
August 13 - Jane Carr, English actress
September 7 – Julie Kavner, film and television actress, voice actress and comedian
September 11 – Amy Madigan, actress
September 21 – Bill Murray, actor and comedian
September 28 – John Sayles, director and screenwriter
October 1 – Randy Quaid, actor
October 17 – Howard Rollins, actor
October 18 – Om Puri, Indian actor
October 31 – John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (d. 1994)
November 28 – Ed Harris, actor
December 10 - Gregg Berger, American voice actor
December 13 - Wendie Malick, American-Canadian actress and former fashion model

Deaths

January 2 – Emil Jannings, 65, Swiss-born German actor, The Blue Angel, The Last Laugh
January 12 – John M. Stahl, 63, American film director and producer, Leave Her to Heaven, Imitation of Life
January 22 – Corinne Luchaire, 28, French actress, Prison Without Bars, Conflict
March 10 – Marguerite De La Motte, 47, American actress, The Mark of Zorro, The Iron Mask
March 18 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, 74, American writer, creator of Tarzan
March 25 – Frank Buck, 66, American actor and animal expert, Bring 'Em Back Alive, Africa Screams
April 7 – Walter Huston, 67, American Academy Award-winning actor, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Dodsworth
May 1 – Ernst Laemmle, 49, German director and screenwriter, The Phantom of the Opera, The Palm Beach Story
June 22 – Jane Cowl, 66, American actress, No Man of Her Own, Payment on Demand
July 17 – Antonie Nedošinská, 65, Czech actress, Falešná kočička aneb Když si žena umíní, Capek's Tales
September 13 – Sara Allgood, 69, Irish actress, How Green Was My Valley, The Lodger
October 23 – Al Jolson, 64, Lithuanian-born American actor, singer, entertainer, The Jazz Singer, Rhapsody in Blue, The Singing Fool
October 29 – Maurice Costello, 73, American actor, Du Barry Was a Lady, Tin Pan Alley
December 4 – James Kevin McGuinness, 56, Irish-American producer and screenwriter, Madame X, Rio Grande
December 28 – William Garwood, 66, American silent-film actor and director, The Cowboy Millionaire, Proxy Husband

Film debuts

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d 'The Eddie Mannix Ledger', Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study, Los Angeles
^ ^a ^b ^c Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
^ ^a ^b ^c Top 20 Films of 1950 by Domestic Revenue

[Mannix-1] 'The Eddie Mannix Ledger', Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study, Los Angeles

[Finler-2] Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[1950DomesticRevenue-3] Top 20 Films of 1950 by Domestic Revenue

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