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Overview of the events of 1945 in film
The year 1945 in film involved some significant events. With 1945 being the last year of World War II , the many films released this year had themes of patriotism, sacrifices, and peace.[1] [2]
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The top ten 1945 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1945
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1 The Bells of St. Mary's RKO
$8,000,000[3]
2 Leave Her to Heaven 20th Century Fox
$5,550,000[3]
3 Spellbound United Artists
$4,975,000[4]
4 The Valley of Decision MGM
$4,566,000[5]
5 Anchors Aweigh $4,498,000[5]
6 Week-End at the Waldorf $4,364,000[5]
7 Thrill of a Romance $4,338,000[5]
8 The Lost Weekend Paramount
$4,300,000[4]
9 State Fair 20th Century Fox
$4,050,000[4]
10 National Velvet MGM
$3,678,000[5]
Events
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January 26 – The film National Velvet Mickey Rooney , Elizabeth Taylor , Donald Crisp and Anne Revere , is released nationally in the United States. The film is an instant critical and commercial success, propelling 12-year-old Taylor to stardom and earning Revere the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress .
January 30 – Restricted release of Kolberg Nazi Germany propaganda pieces, in war-torn Berlin. Given its cast of 187,000 (including serving military personnel), probably fewer people watched it than appeared in it.
April 20 – Release of Son of Lassie Lassie film and the first film ever to be filmed using the Technicolor monopack method, where a single magazine of film is used to record all of the primary colors . Prior to this method, the most popular recording method was 3-Strip Technicolor , which simultaneously used 3 individual film magazines to record the primary colors.
August 10 – Animated Donald Duck short Duck Pimples
September 27 – Release of Roberto Rossellini 's Roma Città aperta Italian neorealism in film.
October 5 – A strike between the set decorators' union and the studios boils over and becomes known as the Hollywood Black Friday .
October 31 – Spellbound Alfred Hitchcock , premieres in New York City.
November 16 – Paramount Pictures releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost Casper .
November 29 – At the Nuremberg trials a documentary on the Nazi concentration camps directed by John Ford is exhibited as evidence.
Awards
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1945 film releases
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January 1945
4 January
8 January
18 January
26 January
February 1945
March 1945
3 March
The Picture of Dorian Gray
16 March
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April 1945
7 April
17 April
20 April
The Horn Blows at Midnight
29 April
May 1945
June 1945
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July 1945
August 1945
September 1945
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October 1945
20 October
26 October
31 October
November 1945
December 1945
7 December
8 December
20 December
25 December
28 December
31 December
Notable films released in 1945
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United States unless stated
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Back to Bataan Edward Dmytryk , with John Wayne
A Bell For Adano Gene Tierney and John Hodiak
The Bells of St. Mary's Leo McCarey , starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman
Blithe Spirit David Lean , starring Rex Harrison and Constance Cummings , based on the play by Noël Coward – (GB
Blood on the Sun James Cagney
The Body Snatcher Robert Wise , starring Boris Karloff
Boule de suif France )
Bougainvillea Pedro Armendariz and Dolores del Río – (Mexico )
Brewster's Millions Dennis O'Keefe
Brief Encounter David Lean , starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard - (GB
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Caesar and Cleopatra Gabriel Pascal , starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains – (GB
Captain Kidd Charles Laughton
The Cheaters Joseph Schildkraut and Billie Burke
The Cherokee Flash Sunset Carson and Linda Stirling
Children of Paradise Marcel Carné , starring Arletty , released following the liberation of France
Christmas in Connecticut Barbara Stanwyck
Circus Cavalcade Argentina )
The Clock Judy Garland
Confidential Agent Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall
Conflict Humphrey Bogart
Counter-Attack Paul Muni and Marguerite Chapman
The Corn Is Green Bette Davis and John Dall
Cornered Edward Dmytryk , starring Dick Powell
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Hangover Square Laird Cregar , Linda Darnell and George Sanders
Here Come the Co-Eds Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
High Powered Phyllis Brooks and Robert Lowery
The Horn Blows at Midnight Jack Benny
Hotel Berlin Faye Emerson and Raymond Massey
The House I Live In Frank Sinatra , awarded a special Oscar for its message of tolerance[1]
House of Dracula Lon Chaney Jr. and John Carradine
The House of Fear (1945 film)
The House on 92nd Street Louis de Rochemont , starring Lloyd Nolan and Signe Hasso
Humayun Ashok Kumar – (India )
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I Know Where I'm Going! Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger , starring Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey – (GB
I Live in Grosvenor Square Anna Neagle , Rex Harrison and Robert Morley – (GB
I'll Be Your Sweetheart Val Guest , starring Margaret Lockwood (GB
Incendiary Blonde Betty Hutton
The Invisible Army Denmark )
Isle of the Dead Boris Karloff and Ellen Drew
It's in the Bag! Fred Allen , Jack Benny , Don Ameche
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Madonna of the Seven Moons Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger – (GB
The Man in Half Moon Street Nils Asther
A Medal for Benny Dorothy Lamour
The Men who Tread on the Tiger's Tail Akira Kurosawa – (Japan )
Mildred Pierce Michael Curtiz , starring Joan Crawford , Ann Blyth , Jack Carson , Zachary Scott , Eve Arden
Mom and Dad
Momotaro, Sacred Sailors
My Name is Julia Ross Nina Foch
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Salome Where She Danced Yvonne De Carlo
San Antonio Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith
Saratoga Trunk Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman
Scarlet Street Fritz Lang , starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett
La selva de fuego (The Forest Fire), starring Dolores del Río and Arturo de Córdova – (Mexico )
The Seventh Veil James Mason and Ann Todd – (GB
Son of Lassie Peter Lawford
A Song to Remember Frédéric Chopin starring Cornel Wilde
The Southerner Zachary Scott
The Spanish Main Maureen O'Hara and Paul Henreid
Spellbound Alfred Hitchcock , starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck
State Fair Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain
The Stork Club Betty Hutton
The Story of G.I. Joe William Wellman , starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry George Sanders
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That's the Spirit Jack Oakie
They Were Expendable John Ford , starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne
The Thin Man Goes Home William Powell and Myrna Loy
This Man's Navy Wallace Beery
The Three Caballeros Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Dora Luz
Thrill of a Romance Richard Thorpe , starring Esther Williams and Van Johnson
Thunderhead, Son of Flicka Roddy McDowall
Tonight and Every Night Rita Hayworth
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Elia Kazan , starring Dorothy McGuire
Twice Blessed Lee and Lyn Wilde
Two O'Clock Courage Ann Rutherford and Tom Conway
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A Walk in the Sun Dana Andrews
War Comes to America Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak
Waterloo Road John Mills and Stewart Granger – (GB
The Way to the Stars John Mills and Michael Redgrave , written by Terence Rattigan – (GB
The Wicked Lady Margaret Lockwood and James Mason – (GB
Without Love Spencer Tracy , Katharine Hepburn , Lucille Ball
The Woman in Green
Wonder Man Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo
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Serials
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Short film series
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Births
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January 5 – Roger Spottiswoode , Canadian-British-American director, editor and writer
January 9 - John Doman , American actor
January 16 – Élisabeth Margoni , French actress
January 22
January 25 – Leigh Taylor-Young , American actress
January 28 – Marthe Keller , Swiss actress
January 29 – Tom Selleck , American actor
February 3 – Marius Weyers , South African actor
February 4 – Tony Haygarth , English actor (died 2017)
February 8 - Louis Giambalvo , American actor
February 9 – Mia Farrow , American actress
February 12 – Maud Adams , Swedish actress
February 16 – Jeremy Bulloch , English actor (died 2020)
February 17
February 20 – Brion James , American actor (died 1999)
February 24 – Barry Bostwick , American actor
February 27 - Carl Anderson , American singer and actor (died 2004)
February 28 – Bubba Smith , American professional football player and actor (died 2011)
March 1 - Dirk Benedict , American actor
March 3
March 8 - Janet Wright , English-born Canadian actress (died 2016)
March 13 – Whitney Rydbeck , American actor
March 24
March 28 – Raine Loo , Estonian actress (died 2020)
April 2 – Linda Hunt , American actress
April 3 – Catherine Spaak , Belgian-Italian actress and singer (died 2022)
April 4 - Caroline McWilliams , American actress (died 2010)
April 11 - Michael Brandon , American actor
May 14 - Francesca Annis , English actress
May 18 - Candice Azzara , American character actress
May 24 – Priscilla Presley , American actress
May 27 - Kip Niven , American actor (died 2019)
May 30 - Makram Khoury , Israeli-Arab actor
May 31 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder , German director, producer and screenwriter (died 1982)
June 2
June 3 - Bill Paterson , Scottish actor
June 6 – David Dukes , American actor (died 2000)
June 11 – Adrienne Barbeau , American actress
June 12 – Edwin Neal , American actor
July 1 – Debbie Harry , American actress and singer (lead vocalist of Blondie (band) )
July 3 – Mickey Rooney Jr. , American actor (died 2022)
July 4 - Bruce French , American actor
July 6 - Burt Ward , American actor
July 19 - George Dzundza , American actor
July 21 - Sergio Calderón , Mexican-born American actor (died 2023)
July 23 – Edie McClurg , American actress and voice actress
July 26 – Helen Mirren , English actress
August 2 – Joanna Cassidy , American actress
August 5 – Loni Anderson , American actress
August 14
August 15
August 21 – Patty McCormack , American actress
August 23 – Bob Peck , English actor (died 1999)
August 24 - Cástulo Guerra , Argentine actor
August 28 - Jeannie Linero , American actress
September 10 – Dennis Burkley , American actor (died 2013)
September 11 - Felton Perry , American actor
September 15
September 17 – Bruce Spence , New Zealand actor
September 22 – Paul Le Mat , American actor
October 7 – Michael Wallis , American journalist and voice actor
October 17 - Thomas Kopache , American actor
October 18 – Huell Howser , American actor, television personality, host, comedian (died 2013)
October 19 – John Lithgow , American actor
October 20 - George Wyner , American actor
October 21 - Everett McGill , American actor
October 23 - Hugh Fraser , English actor
October 26 – Jaclyn Smith , American actress
October 27 – Carrie Snodgress , American actress (died 2004)
October 30 – Henry Winkler , American actor
October 31 – Brian Doyle-Murray , American actor and comedian
November 2 - J. D. Souther , American singer-songwriter and actor
November 8 – Angela Scoular , English actress (died 2011)
November 10
November 15 – Bob Gunton , American character actor
November 19 - Paula Weinstein , American producer (died 2024)
November 21 – Goldie Hawn , American actress
November 26 - Daniel Davis , American actor
November 27 – James Avery , American actor (died 2013)
November 28 – John Hargreaves , Australian actor (died 1996)
November 30 – Billy Drago , American actor (died 2019)
December 1 – Bette Midler , American actress, comedian and singer
December 7 - Clive Russell , Scottish actor
December 9 - Michael Nouri , American actor
December 13 – Heather North , American actress (died 2017)
December 17 – Ernie Hudson , American actor
December 21 – Mari Lill , Estonian actress
December 24 – Nicholas Meyer , American screenwriter, director and producer
December 25
December 30 - Lloyd Kaufman , American director, screenwriter, producer and actor
December 31
Deaths
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January 14 – Heinrich Schroth , 73, German actor, Dr. Hart's Diary Melody of a Great City Die Entlassung Rembrandt
February 23 – Reginald Barker , 58, American director, Civilization The Bargain The Coward The Moonstone
March 4 – Lucille La Verne , 72, American actress, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Abraham Lincoln Orphans of the Storm A Tale of Two Cities
March 4 – Mark Sandrich , 44, American director, The Gay Divorcee Follow the Fleet Holiday Inn
March 30 – Béla Balogh , 60, Hungarian director
April 10 – Gloria Dickson , 27, American actress, Lady of Burlesque They Won't Forget
April 16 – Willie Fung , 49, Chinese-American actor, Come On, Cowboys The Great Profile
April 29 – Malcolm McGregor , 52, American silent screen star, Lady of the Night The Circle The Whispering Shadow The Ladybird
May 4 – Anna Dodge , 77, American actress, The Extra Girl Ride for Your Life
July 13 – Alla Nazimova , 66, Ukrainian-born stage and film actress, Blood and Sand Salomé Since You Went Away Madame Peacock
July 19 – George Barbier , 80, American actor, No One Man Evenings for Sale The Cat's-Paw The Magnificent Dope
August 11 – Stefan Jaracz , 61, Polish actor, Countess Walewska
September 1 – Terry , 11, American performing Cairn Terrier, The Wizard of Oz
November 11 – Jerome Kern , 60, American composer, Show Boat Swing Time
November 12 – Jaro Fürth , 74, Austrian actor, Diary of a Lost Girl Joyless Street
November 21 – Robert Benchley , 56, American writer and actor, Foreign Correspondent You'll Never Get Rich Road to Utopia
December 25 – Russell Gleason , 37, American actor, Undercover Agent The Covered Trailer News Is Made at Night
Debuts
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*Source: Best Years Going to the Movies, 1945-1946 [6]
Notes
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^ a b Affron, Charles; Affron, Mirella Jona (2009). Best Years : Going to the Movies, 1945-1946 . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. pp. 1–9. ISBN 9786613588685
^ Film Daily Year Book (Reading, UK: Research Publications, 1947), microfilm, 59.
^ a b "All-Time Top Grossers" . Variety 39 . Retrieved 29 December 2022 – via Internet Archive.
^ a b c "All-Time Top Grossers" . Variety 67 . Retrieved 29 December 2022 – via Internet Archive.
^ a b c d e The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study
^ Affron, Charles; Affron, Mirella Jona (2009). Best Years Going to the Movies, 1945-1946 . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. p. 297. ISBN 9780813548456
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