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Overview of the events of 1944 in film
The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way Double Indemnity Gaslight Laura
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The top ten 1944 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1944
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1 Going My Way Paramount
$6,500,000[1]
2 Meet Me in St. Louis MGM
$5,016,000[2]
3 Since You Went Away United Artists
$4,950,000[3]
4 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo MGM
$4,297,000[2]
5 The Story of Dr. Wassell Paramount
$4,209,968
6 The White Cliffs of Dover MGM
$4,045,000[2]
7 A Guy Named Joe $3,970,000[2]
8 Hollywood Canteen Warner Bros.
$3,831,000[5]
9 To Have and Have Not $3,652,000[5]
10 Bathing Beauty MGM
$3,284,000[2]
Events
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March 10 – MGM's supernatural romantic drama A Guy Named Joe Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne , is released nationally in the United States.
May 3 – The musical comedy drama Going My Way Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald , premieres in New York City. It opens in Los Angeles on August 16. The highest-grossing picture of the year, it goes on to win a total of seven Academy Awards , including Best Picture , Best Director for McCary, Best Actor for Crosby and Best Original Song for "Swinging on a Star ".
May 13 – Dale Evans appears in her first film with future husband, Roy Rogers – Cowboy and the Senorita
July 20 – Home front drama Since You Went Away
August 16–September 11 – Nazi propaganda documentary Theresienstadt Theresienstadt Ghetto . Following completion of filming, co-director Kurt Gerron and many of those featured are transported to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered; although completed in 1945, the film is never released.[6]
September 6 – Crime thriller film noir Double Indemnity
September – Around 640 motion picture actors, writers and directors are included on the Gottbegnadeten listin Nazi Germany , protecting them from military conscription.
November 22 – MGM's musical Meet Me in St. Louis Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien , premieres. Hugely popular with both audiences and critics, the film is nominated for four Academy Awards.
Awards
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Top Ten Money Making Stars
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1944 film releases
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January 1944
7 January
11 January
14 January
28 January
February 1944
3 February
5 February
10 February
11 February
22 February
March 1944
2 March
10 March
17 March
22 March
23 March
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April 1944
9 April
17 April
25 April
26 April
May 1944
5 May
8 May
11 May
13 May
27 May
June 1944
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July 1944
2 July
6 July
7 July
8 July
12 July
14 July
20 July
22 July
24 July
August 1944
1 August
12 August
16 August
17 August
23 August
30 August
September 1944
2 September
9 September
12 September
23 September
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October 1944
November 1944
1 November
3 November
10 November
11 November
15 November
28 November
December 1944
1 December
5 December
6 December
15 December
18 December
22 December
23 December
24 December[7]
29 December
Notable films released in 1944
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United States unless stated
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The Adventures of Mark Twain Fredric March
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Maria Montez and Jon Hall
And Now Tomorrow Alan Ladd and Loretta Young
And the Angels Sing Fred MacMurray and Dorothy Lamour
Army Rikugun ), directed by Keisuke Kinoshita , starring Chishū Ryū and Kinuyo Tanaka – (Japan )
Arsenic and Old Lace Frank Capra , starring Cary Grant , Priscilla Lane , Raymond Massey , Peter Lorre ; filmed in 1941 but not released until 1944
At Land Maya Deren
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Candlelight in Algeria James Mason – (GB
Can't Help Singing Deanna Durbin
A Canterbury Tale Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger , starring Eric Portman – (GB
The Canterville Ghost Charles Laughton , Robert Young and Margaret O'Brien
Casanova Brown Gary Cooper
Champagne Charlie Alberto Cavalcanti , starring Tommy Trinder and Stanley Holloway – (GB
The Children Are Watching Us Vittorio De Sica – (Italy )
Christmas Holiday Gene Kelly
The Climax Susanna Foster and Boris Karloff
Cobra Woman Maria Montez
The Conspirators Paul Henreid and Hedy Lamarr
Cover Girl Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly
Cowboy and the Senorita Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Crime by Night Jane Wyman
Cry of the Werewolf Nina Foch
The Curse of the Cat People Simone Simon
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Fanny by Gaslight Anthony Asquith , starring Phyllis Calvert , James Mason , Stewart Granger – (GB
Fiddlers Three Tommy Trinder (GB
The Fighting Seabees John Wayne and Susan Hayward
The Fighting Sullivans Lloyd Bacon , starring Anne Baxter and Thomas Mitchell
For Those in Peril Charles Crichton – (GB
Frenchman's Creek Joan Fontaine and Basil Rathbone
Die Feuerzangenbowle Germany )
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Hail the Conquering Hero Preston Sturges , starring Eddie Bracken and Ella Raines
The Halfway House Basil Dearden , starring Mervyn Johns and Glynis Johns
The Heavenly Body William Powell and Hedy Lamarr
Henry V Laurence Olivier – (GB
The Hitler Gang Robert Watson
Hollywood Canteen Joan Leslie
Home in Indiana Walter Brennan
The Hour Before the Dawn Veronica Lake
House of Frankenstein Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr.
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Lady in the Dark Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland
Lady, Let's Dance Belita and comedy ice team Frick and Frack
Lake Placid Serenade Vera Ralston
Laura Otto Preminger , starring Gene Tierney , Dana Andrews , Clifton Webb and Vincent Price
Lifeboat Alfred Hitchcock , starring Tallulah Bankhead , John Hodiak , William Bendix , Walter Slezak , Henry Hull and Hume Cronyn
The Lodger Merle Oberon and George Sanders
Lost in a Harem Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
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Man from Frisco Robert Florey , starring Michael O'Shea and Anne Shirley
Marie-Louise Leopold Lindtberg and an uncredited Franz Schnyder
The Mask of Dimitrios Peter Lorre , Sydney Greenstreet and Zachary Scott
Meet Me in St. Louis Vincente Minnelli , starring Judy Garland
Meet the People Lucille Ball
Melody of Murder Denmark )
Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress William Wyler
Ministry of Fear Ray Milland
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek Preston Sturges , starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton
Mr. Skeffington Bette Davis and Claude Rains
Mrs. Parkington Greer Garson
The Mummy's Curse Lon Chaney Jr.
The Mummy's Ghost Lon Chaney Jr.
Murder, My Sweet Edward Dmytryk , starring Dick Powell and Claire Trevor
Music for Millions Margaret O'Brien
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Pardon My Rhythm Gloria Jean
Passage to Marseille Humphrey Bogart , Claude Rains , Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet
The Pearl of Death
Phantom Lady Franchot Tone and Ella Raines
Pin Up Girl Betty Grable
Port of Freedom Germany )
Possession Denmark )
The Princess and the Pirate Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo
The Purple Heart Dana Andrews , Richard Conte and Farley Granger
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The Scarlet Claw Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes, and Nigel Bruce as Watson
The Seventh Cross Fred Zinnemann , starring Spencer Tracy
Sherlock Holmes and The Spider Woman , a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson; co-starring Gale Sondergaard
Since You Went Away Claudette Colbert , Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple
Something for the Boys Carmen Miranda , Michael O'Shea and Vivian Blaine
Song of Russia Robert Taylor
The Soul of a Monster George Macready
Storm Over Lisbon Vera Ralston
The Story of Dr. Wassell Gary Cooper
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier Anne Baxter and John Hodiak
The Suspect Charles Laughton
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Tall in the Saddle John Wayne
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson
This Happy Breed David Lean , starring John Mills and Celia Johnson – (GB
The Three Caballeros Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Dora Luz (released in South America in 1944, but was released in 1945 in the U.S.)
Time Flies Tommy Handley (GB
To Have And Have Not Howard Hawks , starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
Torment Alf Sjoberg – (Sweden )
The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks La Torre de los Siete Jorobados ) – (Spain )
Tunisian Victory Frank Capra , Hugh Stewart and John Huston – (US GB
Two Thousand Women Flora Robson and Phyllis Calvert – (GB
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The Way Ahead Immortal Battalion Carol Reed , starring David Niven and Stanley Holloway – (GB
Weird Woman Lon Chaney Jr. and Anne Gwynne
When Strangers Marry Dean Jagger , Kim Hunter , Robert Mitchum
The White Cliffs of Dover Irene Dunne
Wilson Woodrow Wilson , starring Alexander Knox and Charles Coburn
Wing and a Prayer Henry Hathaway , starring Dana Andrews and Don Ameche
The Woman in the Window Fritz Lang , starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett
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Short film series
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Animated short film series
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Births
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January 5 – Franco Ferrini , Italian screenwriter
January 9 – Harun Farocki , German filmmaker (died 2014)
January 10 – William Sanderson , American actor
January 13 - Mike Edmonds , English actor
January 20 – Margaret Avery , American actress
January 22 - Pamela Salem , British actress (died 2024)
January 23 – Rutger Hauer , Dutch actor (died 2019)[8]
January 28 - Andrew Jack , British dialect coach and actor (died 2020)
February 3 – Trisha Noble , Australian singer and actress (died 2021)
February 8 - Roger Lloyd-Pack , English actor (died 2014)
February 13
February 14 – Alan Parker , English director, producer and screenwriter (died 2020)
February 22 – Jonathan Demme , American director, producer and screenwriter (died 2017)
February 29 – Dennis Farina , American actor (died 2013)
March 5 – Peter Weibel , Ukrainian-born Austrian experimental filmmaker
March 6 - Harold Hopkins , Australian actor (died 2011)
March 10 – Richard Gant , American actor
March 14 – Steve Daskewisz , American actor and stunt double (died 2018)
March 19 - Guy Thauvette , Canadian actor
March 24 – R. Lee Ermey , American film, television and voice actor (died 2018)
March 26 – Diana Ross , American singer and actress
April 4 – Craig T. Nelson , American actor
April 6 – Anita Pallenberg , Italian-born actress and model (died 2017)
April 8 - Joey D. Vieira , American actor
April 13 – Charles Burnett , American director
April 30 – Jill Clayburgh , American actress (died 2010)
May 4 – Russi Taylor , American voice actress (died 2019)
May 5
May 10 – Jim Abrahams , American director, producer and screenwriter
May 14 – George Lucas , American director, producer and screenwriter
May 16 – Danny Trejo , American actor and voice actor
May 19
May 25 – Frank Oz , American actor, filmmaker and puppeteer
May 26
May 28 – Sondra Locke , American actress (died 2018)
May 29 - Helmut Berger , Austrian actor (died 2023)
June 11 – Roscoe Orman , American actor
June 12 - Terence Kelly , Canadian actor
June 14 - Joe Grifasi , American character actor
June 20 - Oliver Cotton , English actor, comedian and playwright
June 21 - Tony Scott , British director and producer (died 2012)
June 23 – Ingrīda Andriņa , Latvian actress (died 2015)
June 24 - Julian Holloway , British actor
June 29 – Gary Busey , American actor
July 1 – Wahid Hamed , Egyptian screenwriter (died 2021)
July 2 – Viiu Härm , Estonian actress
July 8 – Jeffrey Tambor , American actor
July 17 – Catherine Schell , Hungarian-born British actress
July 22 - Peter Jason , American character actor
July 23 - Pepe Serna , American actor
July 30
July 31 – Geraldine Chaplin , American actress
August 4 - Richard Belzer , American actor and stand-up comedian (died 2023)
August 7 – John Glover , American actor
August 9 – Sam Elliott , American actor
August 11 – Ian McDiarmid , Scottish actor
August 19 – John Roselius , American actor (died 2018)
August 21 – Peter Weir , Australian director, producer and screenwriter
August 25 - Anthony Heald , American character actor
August 26 - Stephen Greif , English actor (died 2022)
August 27 - G. W. Bailey , American actor
August 30 – Wolf Roth , German actor
September 1 – Beau Starr , American actor
September 6 - Swoosie Kurtz , American actress
September 13 – Jacqueline Bisset , English actress
September 15 – Pik-Sen Lim , Malaysian-British actress
September 16 - Michael Edwards , American actor
September 20 – Jeremy Child , British actor (died 2022)
September 21 - Fannie Flagg , American actress and comedian
September 22
September 25 – Michael Douglas , American actor and producer
September 26 - Helmut Bakaitis , German-born Australian director, actor and screenwriter
September 28 - Matthew Cowles , American actor (died 2014)
October 1 – Jean-Pierre Castaldi , French actor
October 8 – Dale Dye , American actor, technical advisor, radio personality and writer
October 10 – Lii Tedre , Estonian actress
October 14 - Udo Kier , German actor
October 20 - Robert Swan , American actor (died 2023)
October 28 – Dennis Franz , American actor
November 4 – Linda Gary , American actress, voice actress (died 1995)
November 17
November 21 – Harold Ramis , American actor, director and screenwriter (died 2014)
November 22 - Paul Brooke , retired English actor
November 25
December 4 - Carol Sutton , American actress (died 2020)
December 5 – Jeroen Krabbe , Dutch actor and director
December 8 – Sharmila Tagore , Indian actress
December 12 – Kenneth Cranham , Scottish actor
December 15 – Morgan Paull , American actor (died 2012)
December 17 – Bernard Hill , English actor (died 2024)
Deaths
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January 3 – Aage Hertel , Danish actor (born 1873)
March 14 – Merta Sterling , American actress (born 1883)
April 10 – Pat West , American actor (born 1888)
July 14 – Emil Fjellström , Swedish actor (born 1884)
July 18 – Alan Dinehart , American actor (born 1889)
July 20 – Mildred Harris , American actress (born 1901)
September 24 – Hugo Thimig , Austrian actor (born 1854)
October 28 – Kurt Gerron , German film director (born 1897)
November 27 – Jill Furse , British actress (born 1915)[9]
December 9 – Laird Cregar , American actor (born 1913)
December 13 – Lupe Vélez , Mexican actress (born 1908)
December 15 – Glenn Miller , American bandleader, actor (born 1904)
Film Debuts
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References
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^ a b c d e The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study
^ "All-Time Top Grossers" . Variety 67 . Retrieved 29 December 2022 – via Internet Archive.
^ a b Glancy, H. Mark (1995). "Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921-51: the William Schaefer ledger" . Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television . 15 1 ): 64. doi :10.1080/01439689500260031 .
^ Margry, Karel (January 1992). "Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 12 2 ): 145–162. doi :10.1080/01439689200260091 . ISSN 0143-9685 .
^ Michael D. Gambone, The Greatest Generation Comes Home: The Veteran in American Society , Texas A&M University Press, 2005 p 152
^ "Blade Runner star Rutger Hauer dies aged 75" . BBC News . 24 July 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
^ Ravilious, Robin (2004). "Whistler, Sir (Alan Charles) Laurence" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/75009 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Bibliography
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Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood . University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0813123240
External links
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