1946 in film
The year 1946 in film involved some significant events.
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Events
- November 21 – William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives premieres in New York featuring an ensemble cast including Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, and Harold Russell.
- December 20 – Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, and Thomas Mitchell opens in New York.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
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1. | Song of the South* | Disney | $63,717,040 |
2. | The Best Years of Our Lives* | RKO | $23,650,000 |
3. | Duel in the Sun* | $20,408,163 | |
4. | The Postman Always Rings Twice* | MGM | $8,330,000 |
5. | Blue Skies | Paramount | $5,700,000 |
6. | The Yearling | MGM | $5,568,000 |
7. | The Razor's Edge | 20th Century Fox | $5,000,000 |
8. | Notorious | RKO | $4,800,000 |
9. | Till the Clouds Roll By | MGM | $4,762,000 |
10. | Road to Utopia | Paramount | $4,500,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
Awards
Category/Organization | 4th Golden Globe Awards February 26, 1947 | 19th Academy Awards March 13, 1947 |
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Best Film | The Best Years of Our Lives | |
Best Director | Frank Capra It's a Wonderful Life | William Wyler The Best Years of Our Lives |
Best Actor | Gregory Peck The Yearling | Fredric March The Best Years of Our Lives |
Best Actress | Rosalind Russell Sister Kenny | Olivia de Havilland To Each His Own |
Best Supporting Actor | Clifton Webb The Razor's Edge | Harold Russell The Best Years of Our Lives |
Best Supporting Actress | Anne Baxter The Razor's Edge |
Films released in 1946
- Angel on My Shoulder
- Anna and the King of Siam, starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison and Linda Darnell
- Aru yo no Tonosama
- Bad Bascomb, starring Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien and Marjorie Main
- The Bandit of Sherwood Forest, starring Cornell 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
- The Blue Dahlia, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake
- Blue Skies, starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire
- Boom in the Moon starring Buster Keaton
- Caesar and Cleopatra, starring Vivien Leigh
- The Captive Heart, the first Prisoner of War film from World War II
- Centennial Summer
- Children of Paradise (U.S. release)
- Cluny Brown, starring Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones
- The Dark Corner, starring Lucille Ball and Mark Stevens
- The Dark Mirror, starring Olivia de Havilland
- Deception
- Decoy, a film noir starring Jean Gillie
- The Diary of a Chambermaid
- Dragonwyck, starring Gene Tierney
- Dressed to Kill, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
- Duel in the Sun, starring Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten and Lillian Gish
- Gallant Journey, directed by William A. Wellman
- Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford
- Great Expectations, directed by David Lean, starring John Mills, Jean Simmons and Valerie Hobson
- Green for Danger, starring Alastair Sim and Trevor Howard
- The Green Years
- The Harvey Girls, directed by George Sidney, starring Judy Garland and John Hodiak
- Henry V (U.S. release)
- Humoresque, starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield
- I See a Dark Stranger
- It's a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore
- Ivan the Terrible
- The Jolson Story, a biopic of Al Jolson starring Larry Parks
- The Kid from Brooklyn
- The Killers, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner
- Little Giant, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Make Mine Music
- A Matter of Life and Death, written and directed by Powell and Pressburger, starring David Niven
- The Murderers Are Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns), starring Hildegard Knef
- My Darling Clementine, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Linda Darnell
- Night and Day
- A Night in Casablanca with the Marx Brothers
- No Regrets for Our Youth (Waga seishun ni kuinashi)
- Nobody Lives Forever
- Notorious, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman
- The Overlanders
- Paisan, directed by Roberto Rossellini
- The Postman Always Rings Twice, starring Lana Turner and John Garfield
- The Razor's Edge, starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney
- The Return of Monte Cristo
- Road to Utopia, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope
- The Seventh Veil (U.S. release)
- She-Wolf of London
- Shoeshine (Sciuscià), directed by Vittorio De Sica
- Shock, directed by Alfred L. Werker, starring Vincent Price and Lynn Bari
- Sister Kenny, starring Rosalind Russell
- Smithy
- Somewhere In The Night, starring John Hodiak
- Song of the South by Walt Disney, combines animation and live action.
- Terror by Night, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
- The Spiral Staircase, starring Dorothy McGuire
- A Stolen Life
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, starring Barbara Stanwyck
- The Stranger, directed by and starring Orson Welles, Loretta Young and Edward G. Robinson
- Theirs is the Glory
- Three Strangers
- The Time of Their Lives, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- To Each His Own, starring Olivia de Havilland
- Tomorrow is Forever
- Utamaro and His Five Women (Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna)
- The Verdict
- Wake Up and Dream
- Wanted for Murder
- The Wife of Monte Cristo, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
- Without Reservations
- The Yearling, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman
Serials
Short film series
- Shirley Temple (1932–1946)
- The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
- Popular Science (1935–1950)
Animated Short Film Series
- Mickey Mouse (1928–1952)
- Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
- Terrytoons (1930–1964)
- Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
- Popeye (1933–1957)
- Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
- Donald Duck (1936–1956)
- Pluto (1937–1951)
- Andy Panda (1939–1949)
- Goofy (1939–1953)
- Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
- Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
- The Fox and the Crow (1941–1950)
- Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949)
- Mighty Mouse (1942–1955)
- Droopy (1943–1958)
- Chip and Dale (1943–1956)
- Screwball Squirrel (1944–1946)
- Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
- George and Junior (1946–1948)
Births
- January 5 – Diane Keaton, actress, producer and director
- January 19 – Dolly Parton, country singer and actress
- January 20 – David Lynch, director
- January 26 – Gene Siskel, film critic, Siskel and Ebert (d. 1999)
- February 7 – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (d. 2011)
- February 20 – Brenda Blethyn, English actress
- February 21 – Alan Rickman, English actor (d. 2016)
- March 12 – Liza Minnelli, singer and actress
- March 21 – Timothy Dalton, Welch actor
- April 19 – Tim Curry, English actor and singer
- April 25 – Talia Shire, actress
- May 9 – Candice Bergen, actress
- May 20 – Cher, singer and actress
- July 6 – Sylvester Stallone, actor and director
- July 13 – Cheech Marin, actor and comedian
- July 22 – Danny Glover, actor and director
- August 16 – Lesley Ann Warren, actress and singer
- September 15
- Tommy Lee Jones, actor
- Oliver Stone, director and producer
- September 28 – Jeffrey Jones, actor
- October 4 – Susan Sarandon, actress
- October 15 – John Getz, actor
- October 27 – Ivan Reitman, Slovakian-born director and producer
- October 31 – Stephen Rea, Northern Irish actor
- November 6 – Sally Field, actress
- December 14 – Patty Duke, actress
- December 17 – Eugene Levy, Canadian actor
- December 18 – Steven Spielberg, director and producer
- date unknown – Omar Al-Shammaa, Lebanese actor, voice actor
Deaths
- April 1 – Noah Beery, Sr., American actor
- June 23 – William S. Hart, American actor
- August 10 – Léon Gaumont, French film pioneer
- 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
- November 2 – Gabriel Gabrio, French actor
- December 12 – Renée Jeanne Falconetti, French actress
- December 25 – W. C. Fields was an American comedian and actor
Film Debuts
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