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Overview of the events of 1946 in film
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 Academy Awards .
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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
1 The Best Years of Our Lives RKO
$10,170,000[1]
2 Duel in the Sun Selznick International
$8,700,000[1]
3 The Jolson Story Columbia
$7,600,000[2]
4 Blue Skies Paramount
$5,700,000[2]
5 Saratoga Trunk Warner Bros.
$5,148,000[3]
6 The Razor's Edge 20th Century Fox
$5,000,000[2]
7 Night and Day Warner Bros.
$4,990,000[3]
8 Notorious RKO
$4,850,000[4]
9 The Yearling MGM
$4,768,000[5]
10 Till the Clouds Roll By $4,748,000[5]
Events
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Awards
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Notable films released in 1946
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United States unless stated
A
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B
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Bad Bascomb Wallace Beery , Margaret O'Brien and Marjorie Main
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest Cornel Wilde
The Beast with Five Fingers 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 William Wyler , starring Fredric March , Myrna Loy , Dana Andrews and Harold Russell – winner of 8 Oscars
Beware Bud Pollard , starring Louis Jordan
The Big Sleep Howard Hawks , starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
Black Beauty Mona Freeman and Richard Denning
The Blue Dahlia Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake
Blue Skies Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire
Boom in the Moon Buster Keaton
A Boy and His Dog Harry Davenport
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The Dark Corner Lucille Ball and Mark Stevens
The Dark Mirror Olivia de Havilland
Deception
Decoy Jean Gillie
Devotion
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Dragonwyck Gene Tierney
Dressed to Kill Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code )
Duel in the Sun Jennifer Jones , Gregory Peck , Joseph Cotten and Lillian Gish
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The Seventh Veil
She-Wolf of London June Lockhart
Shoeshine Vittorio De Sica
Shock Alfred L. Werker , starring Vincent Price and Lynn Bari
Sister Kenny Rosalind Russell
Somewhere In The Night John Hodiak
Song of the South
The Spiral Staircase Dorothy McGuire
A Stolen Life Bette Davis
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers Barbara Stanwyck
The Strange Woman Hedy Lamarr and George Sanders
The Stranger Orson Welles , Loretta Young and Edward G. Robinson
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Terror by Night
Theirs Is the Glory
Three Strangers
Three Wise Fools Margaret O'Brien and Lionel Barrymore
The Time of Their Lives Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
To Each His Own Olivia de Havilland
Tomorrow Is Forever Orson Welles
Two Sisters from Boston Kathryn Grayson , June Allyson , Lauritz Melchior , Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford .
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Serials
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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 – 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
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 19 – Tim Curry , English actor and singer
April 20 – Haruhiko Yamanouchi , Japanese actor
April 23 – Blair Brown , American actress
April 25
April 29 – Wayne Robson , Canadian actor (d. 2011 )
May 1
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 25 - Drew Snyder , American actor
September 28
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 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
Novemb
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 , retired 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
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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
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References
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^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 26 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
^ "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.
^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study
^ "Alan Rickman obituary" . the Guardian . 14 January 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2021 .
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