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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 , which won seven Academy Awards .
Top-grossing films (U.S.) 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 Awards Notable films released in 1946 United States unless stated
A B Bad Bascomb , starring Wallace Beery , Margaret O'Brien and Marjorie Main The Bandit of Sherwood Forest , starring Cornel 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 Black Beauty , starring Mona Freeman and Richard Denning The Blue Dahlia , starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake Blue Skies , starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire Boom in the Moon , starring Buster Keaton A Boy and His Dog , starring Harry Davenport C D The Dark Corner , starring Lucille Ball and Mark Stevens The Dark Mirror , starring Olivia de Havilland Deception Decoy , a film noir starring Jean Gillie Devotion The Diary of a Chambermaid Dragonwyck , starring Gene Tierney Dressed to Kill , a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes, and Nigel Bruce as Watson (released in U.K. as Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code )Duel in the Sun , starring Jennifer Jones , Gregory Peck , Joseph Cotten and Lillian Gish G H I J K L M N O P R S The Seventh Veil (U.S. release)She-Wolf of London . starring June Lockhart Shoeshine (Sciuscià), directed by Vittorio De Sica Shock , directed by Alfred L. Werker , starring Vincent Price and Lynn Bari Sister Kenny , starring Rosalind Russell Somewhere In The Night , starring John Hodiak Song of the South by Walt Disney, combines animation and live action.The Spiral Staircase , starring Dorothy McGuire A Stolen Life , starring Bette Davis The Strange Love of Martha Ivers , starring Barbara Stanwyck The Strange Woman , starring Hedy Lamarr and George Sanders The Stranger , directed by and starring Orson Welles , Loretta Young and Edward G. Robinson T Terror by Night , a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes, and Nigel Bruce as WatsonTheirs Is the Glory Three Strangers Three Wise Fools , starring Margaret O'Brien and Lionel Barrymore The Time of Their Lives , starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello To Each His Own , starring Olivia de Havilland Tomorrow Is Forever , starring Orson Welles Two Sisters from Boston , starring Kathryn Grayson , June Allyson , Lauritz Melchior , Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford .U V W Y Serials Short film series Animated short film series Births January 5 – Diane Keaton , American actress, producer and director January 6 - Cheng Pei-pei , Chinese actress 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 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 , 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 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 References External links