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A list of fantasy films released in the 1940s.
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Notes
|
| 1940
|
| The Blue Bird |
Walter Lang |
Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce |
United States |
|
| Fantasia |
Various directors for Walt Disney |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
| Mr. Bug Goes to Town |
Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
| One Million B.C. |
Hal Roach |
Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr. |
United States |
|
| Pinocchio |
Various directors for Walt Disney |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
| The Thief of Bagdad |
Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan |
Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez |
United Kingdom |
|
| 1941
|
| The Devil and Daniel Webster |
William Dieterle |
Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, James Craig |
United States |
|
| Dumbo |
Various directors for Walt Disney |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
| Here Comes Mr. Jordan |
Alexander Hall |
Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains |
United States |
|
| The Iron Crown |
Alessandro Blasetti |
Elisa Cegani, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli |
Italy |
|
| The Reluctant Dragon |
Alfred L. Werker |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
| 1942
|
| Bambi |
Various directors for Walt Disney |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
| Cat People |
Jacques Tourneur |
|
United States |
Horror film
|
| I Married a Witch |
René Clair |
Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley |
United States |
|
| Les Visiteurs du Soir |
Marcel Carné |
Arletty, Jules Berry, Marie Déa |
France |
|
| 1943
|
| A Guy Named Joe |
Victor Fleming |
Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson |
United States |
|
| Happy Land |
Irving Pichel |
Don Ameche, Frances Dee, Harry Carey |
United States |
|
| Heaven Can Wait |
Ernst Lubitsch |
Don Ameche, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn |
United States |
|
| Münchhausen |
Josef von Báky |
Hans Albers, Brigitte Horney, Wilhelm Bendow |
Germany |
|
| 1944
|
| The Canterville Ghost |
Jules Dassin |
Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien |
United States |
|
| The Curse of the Cat People |
Robert Wise |
Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph |
United States |
|
| It Happened Tomorrow |
René Clair |
Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie |
United States |
|
| Kashchey the Deathless |
Alexander Rou |
Sergei Stolyarov, Georgy Millyar |
Soviet Union |
|
| Kismet |
William Dieterle |
Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, James Craig |
United States |
|
| Between Two Worlds |
Edward A. Blatt |
John Garfield, Sydney Greenstreet, Eleanor Parker |
United States |
|
| 1945
|
| Blithe Spirit |
David Lean |
Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond |
United Kingdom |
|
| The Enchanted Cottage |
John Cromwell |
Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall |
United States |
|
| The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Albert Lewin |
George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed |
United States |
|
| Sylvie et le fantôme (US Title: Sylvie and the Phantom) |
Claude Autant-Lara |
Odette Joyeux, Julien Carette, François Périer |
France |
|
| A Thousand and One Nights |
Alfred E. Green |
Cornel Wilde, Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers |
United States |
|
| Yolanda and the Thief |
Vincente Minnelli |
Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan |
United States |
|
| 1946
|
| Angel on My Shoulder |
Archie Mayo |
Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains |
United States |
|
| Beauty and the Beast |
Jean Cocteau |
Josette Day, Jean Marais, Mila Parély |
France |
|
| A Matter of Life and Death |
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring |
United Kingdom |
|
| Make Mine Music |
Various directors for Walt Disney |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
| The Stone Flower |
Alexander Ptushko |
Vladimir Druzhnikov, Tamara Makarova, Mikhail Troyanovsky |
Soviet Union |
|
| 1947
|
| The Bishop's Wife |
Henry Koster |
Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven |
United States |
|
| Cinderella |
Nadezhda Kosheverova, Mikhail Shapiro |
Yanina Zheymo, Erast Garin, Faina Ranevskaya |
Soviet Union |
|
| Down to Earth |
Alexander Hall |
James Burke, Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks |
United States |
|
| The Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders |
United States |
|
| Heaven Only Knows |
|
Robert Cummings, Brian Donlevy, Marjorie Reynolds |
United States |
|
| Miracle on 34th Street |
George Seaton |
Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn |
United States |
|
| 1948
|
| Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid |
Irving Pichel |
Ann Blyth, William Powell, Irene Hervey |
United States |
|
| One Touch of Venus |
William A. Seiter, Gregory La Cava |
Ava Gardner, Robert Walker, Eve Arden |
United States |
|
| Portrait of Jennie |
William Dieterle |
Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Ethel Barrymore |
United States |
|
| Vice Versa |
Peter Ustinov |
Frank Tickle, Kay Walsh, Harcourt Williams |
United Kingdom |
|
| 1949
|
| The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad |
James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney for Walt Disney |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
Tay Garnett |
Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke |
United States |
|
| Alice in Wonderland |
Dallas Bower, Lou Bunin |
Stephen Murray, Carol Marsh, Raymond Bussières |
France |
|
