1944 in film

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The year 1944 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1944 5 Serials 6 Short film series 7 Animated short film series 8 Births 9 Deaths

[edit] Events

• July 20 - Since You Went Away is released.
• September 6 - Double Indemnity is released.

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

1. Going My Way, starring Bing Crosby
2. Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland
3. Since You Went Away
4. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
5. Hollywood Canteen
6. A Guy Named Joe
7. The White Cliffs of Dover
8. Laura

[edit] Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Going My Way - Paramount

Best Director: Leo McCarey - Going My Way

Best Actor: Bing Crosby - Going My Way

Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight

Best Supporting Actor: Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way

Best Supporting Actress: Ethel Barrymore - None but the Lonely Heart

Golden Globe Awards:

Best Picture: Going My Way

Best Director: Leo McCarey, Going My Way

Best Actor: Alexander Knox - Wilson

Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight

[edit] Films released in 1944

• The Adventures of Mark Twain
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• Between Two Worlds
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• Buffalo Bill
• A Canterbury Tale, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
• Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
• Casanova Brown, starring Gary Cooper
• Christmas Holiday, starring Gene Kelly
• Cover Girl
• Cry of the Werewolf
• Double Indemnity, starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson
• Dragon Seed
• The Fighting Seabees
• Frenchman's Creek
• Gaslight, the Hollywood remake, with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer
• The Eve of st Mark
• Going My Way
• Hail the Conquering Hero
• Henry V, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier
• Hollywood Canteen
• Home in Indiana
• House of Frankenstein
• In Society, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• It Happened Tomorrow
• Ivan the Terrible, by director Sergei Eisenstein
• Jane Eyre (1944 film), directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine
• The Keys of the Kingdom, starring Gregory Peck, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, and Roddy McDowall
• Kismet, starring Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich
• Lady in the Dark
• Lady, Let's Dance, ice skating musical starring Belita and comedy ice team Frick & Frack
• Laura
• Lifeboat
• Lost in a Harem, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Mr. Skeffington
• Mrs. Parkington
• The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
• Murder, My Sweet
• National Velvet
• None but the Lonely Heart
• None Shall Escape
• Passage to Marseille
• The Princess and the Pirate
• The Return of the Vampire
• The Seventh Cross
• Since You Went Away
• The Sullivans
• Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
• The Uninvited
• The Way Ahead, directed by Carol Reed
• The White Cliffs of Dover
• Wilson, biographical film about President Woodrow Wilson, starring Charles Coburn
• The Woman in the Window

[edit] Serials

• Black Arrow
• Captain America, starring Dick Purcell
• The Desert Hawk, starring Gilbert Roland and Charles Middleton
• The Great Alaskan Mystery
• Haunted Harbor, starring Kane Richmond
• Mystery of the River Boat
• Raiders of Ghost City
• The Tiger Woman, starring Linda Stirling
• Zorro's Black Whip, starring Linda Stirling

[edit] Short film series

• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)

[edit] Animated short film series

• Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Terrytoons (1930-1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Scrappy (1931-1941)
• Popeye (1933-1957)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934-1949)
• Donald Duck (1934-1956)
• Goofy (1939-1955)
• Andy Panda (1939-1949)
• Tom and Jerry (MGM) (1940-1958)
• Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941-1949)
• Swing Symphonies (1941-1945)
• The Fox and the Crow (1941-1950)
• Red Hot Riding Hood (1943-1949)
• Droopy (1943-1958)
• Screwball Squirrel (1944-1946)
• Sylvester the Cat (1944-1966)

[edit] Births

• January 6 - Bonnie Franklin, actress
• January 23 - Rutger Hauer, actor
• February 11 - Buddhadev Dasgupta, film director
• April 23 - Sandra Dee, actress
• May 14 - George Lucas, film director and producer
• August 8 - Peter Weir, film director
• November 23 - Joe Eszterhas, screenwriter

[edit] Deaths

• July 20 - Mildred Harris, actress
• December 13 - Lupe Vélez, actress
• December 15 - Glenn Miller, musician, actor