List of fantasy films of the 1940s

A list of fantasy films released in the 1940s.

List

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