Overview of the events of 1946 in film
The year1946 in film involved some significant events, withThe Best Years of Our Lives Academy Awards .
[ edit ] 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 Duel in the Sun Selznick International $10,000,000[ 1] 2 The Best Years of Our Lives RKO $7,675,000[ 2] 3 The Jolson Story Columbia $7,600,000[ 1] 4 Blue Skies Paramount $5,700,000[ 1] 5 Saratoga Trunk Warner Bros. $5,148,000[ 3] 6 The Razor's Edge 20th Century Fox $5,000,000[ 1] 7 Night and Day Warner Bros. $4,990,000[ 3] 8 Notorious RKO $4,850,000[ 2] 9 The Yearling MGM $4,768,000[ 4] 10 Till the Clouds Roll By $4,748,000[ 4]
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Notable films released in 1946 [ edit ] United States unless stated
Bad Bascomb Wallace Beery ,Margaret O'Brien andMarjorie Main The Bandit of Sherwood Forest Cornel Wilde The Beast with Five Fingers Robert Alda andPeter Lorre Beauty and the Beast La Belle et la Bête ), directed byJean Cocteau , starringJean Marais andJosette Day The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler , starringFredric March ,Myrna Loy ,Dana Andrews andHarold Russell – winner of 8Oscars Beware Bud Pollard , starringLouis Jordan The Big Sleep Howard Hawks , starringHumphrey Bogart andLauren Bacall Black Beauty Mona Freeman andRichard Denning The Blue Dahlia Alan Ladd andVeronica Lake Blue Skies Bing Crosby andFred Astaire Boom in the Moon Buster Keaton A Boy and His Dog Harry Davenport The Dark Corner Lucille Ball andMark 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 andLillian Gish The Seventh Veil She-Wolf of London June Lockhart Shoeshine Vittorio De Sica Shock Alfred L. Werker , starringVincent Price andLynn 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 andGeorge Sanders The Stranger Orson Welles ,Loretta Young andEdward G. Robinson Terror by Night Theirs Is the Glory Three Strangers Three Wise Fools Margaret O'Brien andLionel Barrymore The Time of Their Lives Bud Abbott andLou 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 andPeter Lawford .Animated short film series [ edit ] January 1 -Rick Hurst , American actor (d. 2025) January 5 –Diane Keaton , American actress, producer and director (d. 2025) 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 (d. 2025) January 26 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 14 –Steve Kanaly , American actor 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 8 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) May 23 –Anthony May , English actor (d. 2021) 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 (d. 2024) June 12 –Jack Thibeau , American actor June 15 June 26Ricky Jay , American actor and writer (d. 2018)Leo Rossi , American actor, writer and producer June 28 July 2 –Ron Silver , American actor (d. 2009) July 6 –Sylvester Stallone , American actor and director July 9 –Norbert Weisser , German actor July 10 –Sue Lyon , American actress (d. 2019) July 11 -Beverly Todd , American actress 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 , American 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 ofSylvester Stallone , from 1976 to 2024 (d 2024). August 14 –Antonio Fargas , American actor August 16 –Lesley Ann Warren , American actress and singer August 19 August 20 –José Wilker , Brazilian actor (d. 2014) 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 –Struan Rodger , British actor September 19 –Michael Elphick , English actor (d. 2002) September 22 –John Woo , Hong Kong director, producer and screenwriter September 25 September 26 –Togo Igawa , Japanese character 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 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 3Michael 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 , American actress November 7 –John Aylward , American actor (d. 2022) November 10 -Alaina Reed Hall , American actress and singer (d. 2009) 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 November 29 -Nathan Jung , American actor and stuntman (d. 2021) December 1 –Maggie Steed , English actress and comedian December 8 December 14 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 29 –Marianne Faithfull , British actress and singer (d. 2025) December 31 –Margaret Travolta , American actress 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 ^a b c d Finler, Joel Waldo (2003).The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357 .ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6 ^a b "Richard B. Jewell's RKO film grosses, 1929–51: The C. J. Trevlin Ledger: A comment". 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