1946 in film explained
The year 1946 in film involved some significant events, including the release of the decade's highest-grossing film, The Best Years of Our Lives, which won seven Academy Awards.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1946 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1946| Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
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| 1 | The Best Years of Our Lives | RKO | $10,170,000[1] |
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| 2 | The Jolson Story | Columbia | $7,600,000[2] |
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| 3 | Blue Skies | Paramount | $5,700,000 |
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| 4 | Saratoga Trunk | Warner Bros. | $5,148,000[3] |
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| 5 | The Razor's Edge | 20th Century Fox | $5,000,000 |
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| 6 | Night and Day | Warner Bros. | $4,990,000 |
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| 7 | Notorious | RKO | $4,850,000[4] |
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| 8 | The Yearling | MGM | $4,768,000[5] |
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| 9 | Till the Clouds Roll By | $4,748,000 |
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| 10 | Road to Utopia | Paramount | $4,500,000 | |
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Events
Awards
Notable films released in 1946
United States unless stated
A
B
- Bad Bascomb, starring Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien and Marjorie Main
- The Bandit of Sherwood Forest, starring Cornel Wilde
- 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
- 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 Beauty, starring Mona Freeman and Richard Denning
- The Blue Dahlia, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake
- Blue Skies, starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire
- Boom in the Moon, starring Buster Keaton
- A Boy and His Dog, starring Harry Davenport
C
D
- The Dark Corner, starring Lucille Ball and Mark Stevens
- The Dark Mirror, starring Olivia de Havilland
- Deception
- Decoy, a film noir starring Jean Gillie
- Devotion
- The Diary of a Chambermaid
- Dragonwyck, starring Gene Tierney
- Dressed to Kill, a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes, and Nigel Bruce as Watson (released in U.K. as Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code)
- Duel in the Sun, starring Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten and Lillian Gish
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
- Terror by Night, a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes, and Nigel Bruce as Watson
- Theirs Is the Glory
- Three Strangers
- Three Wise Fools, starring Margaret O'Brien and Lionel Barrymore
- The Time of Their Lives, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- To Each His Own, starring Olivia de Havilland
- Tomorrow Is Forever, starring Orson Welles
- Two Sisters from Boston, starring Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, Lauritz Melchior, Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford.
U
V
W
Y
Serials
Short film series
Animated short film series
Births
- January 5 – Diane Keaton, American actress, producer and director
- January 6 - Cheng Pei-pei, Chinese actress (d. 2024)
- January 7 – Arnis Līcītis, Latvian actor (d. 2022)
- January 16 - Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
- January 19 – Dolly Parton, American country singer and actress
- January 20 – David Lynch, American director
- January 26 – Gene Siskel, film critic, Siskel and Ebert (d. 1999)
- February 2
- February 4 - Ivano Marescotti, Italian actor (d. 2023)
- February 5 – Charlotte Rampling, English actress
- February 7 – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (d. 2011)
- February 8 – Alex Diakun, Canadian actor
- February 13 – Joe Estevez, American actor, director and producer
- February 20 – Brenda Blethyn, English actress
- February 21
- March 1 - Lana Wood, American actress and producer
- March 6 - Martin Kove, American actor and martial artist
- March 7
- March 9 - Alexandra Bastedo, British actress (d. 2014)
- March 12
- Dean Cundey, American cinematographer and filmmaker
- Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress
- Frank Welker, American actor, voice actor and former stand-up comedian
- March 21 – Timothy Dalton, British actor
- March 27 - Carl Weintraub, American actor
- March 28 – Dianne Wiest, American actress
- March 29 – Paul Herman, American actor (d. 2022)
- April 3 - Nicholas Jones, English character actor
- April 5
- April 12 – Ed O'Neill, American actor and comedian
- April 15
- April 18 – Hayley Mills, English actress
- April 19 – Tim Curry, English actor and singer
- April 20 – Haruhiko Yamanouchi, Japanese actor
- April 22 - John Waters, American filmmaker, writer and actor
- April 23 – Blair Brown, American actress
- April 25
- April 29 – Wayne Robson, Canadian actor (d. 2011)
- May 1 - Joanna Lumley, British actress
- May 2 – David Suchet, English actor
- May 9 – Candice Bergen, American actress
- May 11 – Ago Roo, Estonian actor
- May 13 – Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor (d. 2017)
- May 18 – Andreas Katsulas, American actor (d. 2006)
- May 19 – André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (d. 1993)
- May 20 – Cher, American singer and actress
- May 22 – Jack Kehler, American character actor (d. 2022)
- June 1 – Brian Cox, Scottish actor
- June 3 – Penelope Wilton, English actress
- June 5 - John Bach, British-born New Zealand actor
- June 8 - Alan Scarfe, British-Canadian actor
- June 12 - Jack Thibeau, American actor
- June 15
- June 26
- June 28
- July 2 – Ron Silver, American actor (d. 2009)
- July 6 – Sylvester Stallone, actor and director
- July 10 – Sue Lyon, actress (d. 2019)
- July 13 – Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian
- July 14 – Vincent Pastore, American actor
- July 16
- July 17 – Alun Armstrong, English actor
- July 18 – Dicken Ashworth, English actor
- July 20 - Randal Kleiser, American director, producer, screenwriter and actor
- July 22 – Danny Glover, actor and director
- July 27 – Rade Šerbedžija, Croatian actor, director and musician
- August 6 – Peter Simonischek, Austrian actor (d. 2023)
- August 9 - Alain Dorval, French voice actor of Sylvester Stallone, from 1976 to 2024 (d 2024).
- August 16 – Lesley Ann Warren, American actress and singer
- August 19
- August 24 - BP Fallon, Irish actor
- August 26 - Alison Steadman, English actress
- August 29 – Lindy Davies, Australian actress and director
- August 30 - Peggy Lipton, American actress, model and singer (d. 2019)
- September 1 - Susan Backlinie, American actress and stuntwoman (d. 2024)
- September 5 – Dennis Dugan, American director, actor, writer and comedian
- September 13 – Frank Marshall, American producer and director
- September 15
- September 18
- September 22 - John Woo, Hong Kong director, producer and screenwriter
- September 25 - Drew Snyder, American actor
- September 28
- Peter Egan, British actor
- Jeffrey Jones, American actor
- October 2 – Dale Soules, American actress
- October 4 – Susan Sarandon, American actress
- October 6 - John Hostetter, American actor and visual artist (d. 2016)
- October 10
- October 14 - Katy Manning, British actress
- October 15 – John Getz, American actor
- October 16 - Suzanne Somers, American actress and singer (d. 2023)
- October 22 – Richard McGonagle, American actor
- October 27 – Ivan Reitman, Slovakian-born Canadian director and producer (d. 2022)
- October 31 – Stephen Rea, Northern Irish actor
- November 3
- Michael Champion, American singer, musician and actor (d. 2021)
- Tom Savini, American prosthetic makeup artist, actor, stunt performer and director
- November 4 - John Callen, English-born New Zealand actor and director
- November 6 – Sally Field, actress
- November 7 – John Aylward, American actor (d. 2022)
- November 16 - Dan Shor, American actor, director and writer
- November 20
- November 21 - Andrew Davis, American director, producer and writer
- November 22 – Paul A. Partain, American actor (d. 2005)
- November 26 - Mark L. Lester, American director, screenwriter and producer
- December 1 - Maggie Steed, English actress and comedian
- December 8
- December 14 – Patty Duke, American actress (d. 2016)
- December 16 - Charles Dennis, Canadian actor, director and screenwriter
- December 17
- December 18 – Steven Spielberg, American director and producer
- December 19 - Robert Urich, American actor and producer (d. 2002)
- December 20 – John Spencer, American actor (d. 2005)
- December 21 - Josh Mostel, American actor
- December 24 - Daniel Beretta, French voice actor and singer (d. 2024).
- December 25 – Stuart Wilson, English actor
- December 31 - Margaret Travolta, American actress
- unknown – Omar Al-Shammaa, Lebanese actor, voice actor
Deaths
- January 13 – Enid Stamp Taylor, English actress
- February 5 – George Arliss, English actor
- April 1 – Noah Beery Sr., American actor
- June 23 – William S. Hart, American actor
- July 10 - Slim Summerville, American actor and director
- August 8 – Paul Porcasi, Italian actor
- August 10 – Léon Gaumont, French film pioneer
- August 12 – Egon Brecher, Austrian actor, director
- August 13 – H. G. Wells, British science fiction writer
- August 26 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter
- August 28 – Florence Turner, American actress
- September 21 – Olga Engl, Austrian actress
- October 8 – John St. Polis, American actor
- November 2 – Gabriel Gabrio, French actor
- November 18 – Donald Meek, Scottish-American actor
- December 12 – Renée Jeanne Falconetti, French actress
- December 25 – W. C. Fields, American comedian and actor
Film Debuts
External links
Notes and References
- All-Time Top Grossers. . 18 January 1950. 18 . 3 December 2023 . Internet Archive.
- Book: Finler, Joel Waldo . 2003 . The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press . 978-1-903364-66-6 . 356–357.
- Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 26 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
- News: Richard B. Jewell's RKO film grosses, 1929–51: The C. J. Trevlin Ledger: A comment. . Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Volume 14, Issue 1, 1994.
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- Web site: Alan Rickman obituary . the Guardian . 14 January 2021 . en . 14 January 2016.
