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The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double Indemnity, Gaslight and Laura.
Contents
1 Events
2 Top-grossing films (U.S.)[1]
3 Awards
4 Top Ten Money Making Stars
5 1944 film releases
5.1 January–March
5.2 April–June
5.3 July–September
5.4 October–December
6 Notable films released in 1944
7 Serials
8 Short film series
9 Animated short film series
10 Births
11 Deaths
12 Film Debuts
13 References
Events
- May 13 - Dale Evans appears in her first film with future husband, Roy Rogers - Cowboy and the Senorita.
- July 20 - Since You Went Away is released.
- September 6 - Double Indemnity is released.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)[1]
Box office numbers were reported at the time as a percentage compared to "normal" business at each theater. For example, Going My Way performed at a massive 264% while To Have and Have Not was a hit at 173%. This is why exact dollar grosses for the period are unreliable at best.
| Rank | Title | Studio |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Going My Way | Paramount |
| 2. | Wilson | 20th Century Fox |
| 3. | Since You Went Away | United Artists |
| 4. | Lady in the Dark | Paramount |
| 5. | Meet Me in St. Louis | MGM |
| 6. | Mrs. Parkington | |
| 7. | Here Come the Waves | Paramount |
| 8. | The Story of Dr. Wassell | |
| 9. | Winged Victory | 20th Century Fox |
| 10. | Hollywood Canteen | Warner Bros. |
Awards
| Category/Organization | 2nd Golden Globe Awards January 20, 1945 | 17th Academy Awards March 15, 1945 |
|---|---|---|
| Best Film | Going My Way | |
| Best Director | Leo McCarey Going My Way | |
| Best Actor | Alexander Knox Wilson | Bing Crosby Going My Way |
| Best Actress | Ingrid Bergman Gaslight | |
| Best Supporting Actor | Barry Fitzgerald Going My Way | |
| Best Supporting Actress | Agnes Moorehead Mrs. Parkington | Ethel Barrymore None but the Lonely Heart |
Top Ten Money Making Stars
| Rank | Actor/Actress |
|---|---|
| 1. | Bing Crosby |
| 2. | Gary Cooper |
| 3. | Bob Hope |
| 4. | Betty Grable |
| 5. | Spencer Tracy |
| 6. | Greer Garson |
| 7. | Humphrey Bogart |
| 8. (tie) | Bud Abbott Lou Costello |
| 9. | Cary Grant |
| 10. | Bette Davis |
1944 film releases
January–March
- January 1944
- 5 January
- I'll Be Seeing You
- 7 January
- Standing Room Only
- 11 January
- Career Girl
- 14 January
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- 28 January
- Lifeboat
- Phantom Lady
- 5 January
- February 1944
- 3 February
- None Shall Escape
- The Fighting Sullivans
- 5 February
- Captain America
- 10 February
- Lady in the Dark
- 11 February
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- 22 February
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (re-issue)
- 3 February
- March 1944
- 2 March
- The Curse of the Cat People
- 22 March
- Cover Girl
- 2 March
April–June
- April 1944
- 9 April
- Rosie the Riveter (film)
- 17 April
- The Lady and the Monster
- 25 April
- Pin Up Girl
- And the Angels Sing
- 9 April
- May 1944
- 5 May
- Follow the Boys
- 13 May
- Cowboy and the Senorita
- 27 May
- The Tiger Woman
- 5 May
- June 1944
- 1 June
- Address Unknown
- 1 June
July–September
- July 1944
- 2 July
- The Hairy Ape
- 6 July
- Double Indemnity
- 7 July
- The Mummy's Ghost
- 8 July
- Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More
- 12 July
- The Invisible Man's Revenge
- 14 July
- Summer Storm
- 20 July
- Since You Went Away
- 22 July
- The Adventures of Mark Twain
- 24 July
- The Seventh Cross
- 2 July
- August 1944
- 12 August
- Mr. Skeffington'
- 17 August
- Cry of the Werewolf
- The Soul of a Monster
- 23 August
- Marriage Is a Private Affair
- 30 August
- Till We Meet Again
- 12 August
- September 1944
- 2 September
- Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
- 9 September
- Crime by Night
- 12 September
- Strangers in the Night
- 23 September
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- 2 September
October–December
- October 1944
- 17 October
- None but the Lonely Heart
- 17 October
- November 1944
- 1 November
- Something for the Boys
- 3 November
- The Woman in the Window
- 11 November
- Bluebeard
- 28 November
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- 1 November
- December 1944
- 1 December
- House of Frankenstein
- 5 December
- Blonde Fever
- 6 December
- 'Nothing but Trouble
- 'Nothing but Trouble
- 18 December
- Dangerous Passage
- 22 December
- Winged Victory
- The Mummy's Curse
- 29 December
- Tomorrow, the World!
- 1 December
Notable films released in 1944
U.S.A. unless stated
A
The Adventures of Mark Twain, starring Fredric March
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, starring Maria Montez and Jon Hall
And Now Tomorrow, starring Alan Ladd and Loretta Young
And the Angels Sing, starring Fred MacMurray and Dorothy Lamour
Army (陸軍, Rikugun), directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, starring Chishū Ryū and Kinuyo Tanaka - (Japan)
Arsenic and Old Lace, directed by Frank Capra, starring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre; filmed in 1941 but not released until 1944
B
Bathing Beauty, starring Esther Williams and Red Skelton
Between Two Worlds, starring John Garfield, Eleanor Parker and Sydney Greenstreet
The Black Pirate (El corsario negro), starring Pedro Armendariz - (Mexico)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, starring Lynn Bari
Buffalo Bill, starring Joel McCrea and Maureen O'Hara
A Bullet in the Heart (Rossassa Fel Qalb) - (Egypt)
C
Candlelight in Algeria, starring James Mason - (GB)
Can't Help Singing, starring Deanna Durbin
A Canterbury Tale, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Eric Portman - (GB)
The Canterville Ghost, starring Charles Laughton, Robert Young and Margaret O'Brien
Casanova Brown, starring Gary Cooper
Champagne Charlie, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Tommy Trinder and Stanley Holloway - (GB)
The Children Are Watching Us (I bambini ci guardano), directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
Christmas Holiday, starring Gene Kelly
The Climax, starring Susanna Foster and Boris Karloff
Cobra Woman, starring Maria Montez
The Conspirators, starring Paul Henreid and Hedy Lamarr
Cover Girl, starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly
Cowboy and the Senorita, starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Crime by Night, starring Jane Wyman
Cry of the Werewolf, starring Nina Foch
The Curse of the Cat People, starring Simone Simon
D
Don't Take It to Heart, directed by Jeffrey Dell, starring Richard Greene - (GB)
Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson
Dragon Seed, starring Katharine Hepburn
Dream of the Red Chamber (Hong lou meng) - (China)
E-F
Experiment Perilous, starring Hedy Lamarr and George Brent
Fanny by Gaslight, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Stewart Granger - (GB)
The Fighting Seabees, starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward
The Fighting Sullivans, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Anne Baxter and Thomas Mitchell
For Those in Peril, directed by Charles Crichton - (GB)
Frenchman's Creek, starring Joan Fontaine and Basil Rathbone
Die Feuerzangenbowle (The Punch Bowl) - (Germany)
G
Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer and Joseph Cotten
Going My Way, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald - winner of 7 Oscars
The Great Moment, starring Joel McCrea and Betty Field
Greenwich Village, starring Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche
The Great Sacrifice (Opfergang) - (Germany)
H
Hail the Conquering Hero, written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Ella Raines
The Halfway House, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Mervyn Johns and Glynis Johns
To Have And Have Not, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
Henry V, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier - (GB)
Hollywood Canteen, starring Joan Leslie
Home in Indiana, starring Walter Brennan
The Hour Before the Dawn, starring Veronica Lake
House of Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr.
I
I'll Be Seeing You, starring Ginger Rogers and Shirley Temple
In Our Time, starring Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid
In Society, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
It Happened Tomorrow, starring Dick Powell
Ivan the Terrible (Ivan Grozniy), by director Sergei Eisenstein, starring Nikolai Cherkasov - (U.S.S.R.)
J-K
Janie, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Joyce Reynolds
Jwar Bhata - (India)
The Keys of the Kingdom, starring Gregory Peck, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price and Roddy McDowall
Kismet, starring Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich
L
Lady in the Dark, starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland
Lady, Let's Dance, ice skating musical starring Belita and comedy ice team Frick and Frack
Lake Placid Serenade, starring Vera Ralston
Laura, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb and Vincent Price
Lifeboat, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Henry Hull and Hume Cronyn
The Lodger, starring Merle Oberon and George Sanders
Lost in a Harem, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
M
Man from Frisco directed by Robert Florey, starring Michael O'Shea and Anne Shirley
Marie-Louise directed by Leopold Lindtberg and an uncredited Franz Schnyder
The Mask of Dimitrios, starring Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet and Zachary Scott
Meet Me in St. Louis, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Judy Garland
Meet the People, starring Lucille Ball
Melody of Murder (Mordets Melodi) - (Denmark)
Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, a documentary by William Wyler
Ministry of Fear, starring Ray Milland
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton
Mr. Skeffington, starring Bette Davis and Claude Rains
Mrs. Parkington, starring Greer Garson
The Mummy's Curse, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
The Mummy's Ghost, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
Murder, My Sweet (aka Farewell My Lovely), directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Dick Powell and Claire Trevor
Music for Millions, starring Margaret O'Brien
N
The Nail (El clavo) - (Spain)
National Velvet, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney
None but the Lonely Heart, starring Cary Grant and Ethel Barrymore
None Shall Escape, starring Alexander Knox
O-P
On Approval, starring Clive Brook and Googie Withers - (GB)
Once Upon a Time, starring Cary Grant, Ted Donaldson, Janet Blair
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, starring Gail Russell and Diana Lynn
Pardon My Rhythm, starring Gloria Jean
Passage to Marseille, starring Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet
The Pearl of Death, a Sherlock Holmes mystery starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
Phantom Lady, starring Franchot Tone and Ella Raines
Pin Up Girl, starring Betty Grable
Port of Freedom (Große Freiheit Nr. 7) - (Germany)
Possession (Besættelse) - (Denmark)
The Princess and the Pirate, starring Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo
The Purple Heart, starring Dana Andrews, Richard Conte and Farley Granger
Q-R
Rainbow (Raduga) - (U.S.S.R.)
Rationing, starring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main
The Rats of Tobruk (aka The Fighting Rats of Tobruk), starring Peter Finch and Chips Rafferty - (Australia)
The Respectable Ladies of Pardubice (Počestné paní pardubické), directed by Martin Frič - (Czechoslovakia)
S
The Scarlet Claw, a Sherlock Holmes mystery starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
The Seventh Cross, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Spencer Tracy
Since You Went Away, starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple
Something for the Boys starring Carmen Miranda, Michael O'Shea and Vivian Blaine
Song of Russia, starring Robert Taylor
The Soul of a Monster, starring George Macready.
The Spider Woman, a Sherlock Holmes mystery featuring Gale Sondergaard
Storm Over Lisbon, starring Vera Ralston
The Story of Dr. Wassell, starring Gary Cooper
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier, starring Anne Baxter and John Hodiak
The Suspect, starring Charles Laughton
T-V
Tall in the Saddle, starring John Wayne
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, starring Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson
This Happy Breed, directed by David Lean, starring John Mills and Celia Johnson - (GB)
The Three Caballeros, a Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Dora Luz (released in South America in 1944, but was released in 1945 in the U.S.)- Time Flies
Torment (Hets), directed by Alf Sjoberg - (Sweden)
The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (La Torre de los Siete Jorobados) - (Spain)
Tunisian Victory, directed by Frank Capra, Hugh Stewart and John Huston - (USA/GB)
Two Thousand Women, starring Flora Robson and Phyllis Calvert - (GB)
The Uninvited, starring Ray Milland
Up in Arms, starring Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore
W-Z
The Way Ahead (Immortal Battalion), directed by Carol Reed, starring David Niven and Stanley Holloway - (GB)
Weird Woman, starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Anne Gwynne
When Strangers Marry, starring Dean Jagger, Kim Hunter, Robert Mitchum
The White Cliffs of Dover, starring Irene Dunne
Wilson, a biopic of President Woodrow Wilson, starring Alexander Knox and Charles Coburn
Wing and a Prayer, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Dana Andrews and Don Ameche
The Woman in the Window, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett
The Yellow Rose of Texas, starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
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
Short film series
Our Gang (1922-1944)
The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
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 (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)
Births
- January 5 – Franco Ferrini, Italian screenwriter
- January 9 – Harun Farocki, German filmmaker (died 2014)
- January 20 - Margaret Avery, American actress
- January 23 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
- February 3 - Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress
- February 13 - Stockard Channing, American actress
- February 14 - Alan Parker, English director, producer and screenwriter
- February 22 - Jonathan Demme, American director, producer and screenwriter (died 2017)
- February 29 - Dennis Farina, American actor (died 2013)
- March 5 - Peter Weibel, Ukrainian-born Austrian experimental filmmaker
- March 26 - Diana Ross, American singer and actress
- April 4- Craig T. Nelson, American Actor
- April 6 - Anita Pallenberg, Italian-born actress and model (died 2017)
- April 13 - Charles Burnett, American director
- April 30 - Jill Clayburgh, American actress (died 2010)
- May 4 - Russi Taylor, American voice actress
- May 5 - John Rhys-Davies, English actor
- May 10 - Jim Abrahams, American director, producer and screenwriter
- May 14 - George Lucas, American director, producer and screenwriter
- May 19 - Peter Mayhew, English actor
- May 25 - Frank Oz, English director and puppeteer
- May 28 - Sondra Locke, American actress
- June 23 - Ingrīda Andriņa, Latvian actress (died 2015)
- June 29 - Gary Busey, American actor
- July 2 - Viiu Härm, Estonian actress
- July 8 - Jeffrey Tambor, American actor
- July 31 - Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
- August 7 - John Glover, American actor
- August 9 - Sam Elliott, American actor
- August 11 - Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
- August 21 - Peter Weir, Australian director, producer and screenwriter
- September 13 - Jacqueline Bisset, English actress
- September 25 - Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
- November 17 - Danny DeVito, American actor, comedian, producer and director
- November 21 - Harold Ramis, American actor, director and screenwriter (died 2014)
- December 5 - Jeroen Krabbe, Dutch actor and director
- December 17 - Bernard Hill, English actor
Deaths
- July 14 - Emil Fjellström, Swedish actor (born 1884)
- July 20 - Mildred Harris, American actress (born 1901)
- December 9 - Laird Cregar, American actor (born 1913)
- December 13 - Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (born 1908)
- December 15 - Glenn Miller, American musician, actor (born 1904)
Film Debuts
Lauren Bacall - To Have and Have Not
Red Buttons - Winged Victory
Stan Freberg - Swooner Crooner
Gloria Grahame - Blonde Fever
Judy Holiday - Greenwich Village
Shashi Kapoor - Meena
Angela Lansbury - Gaslight
Janis Paige - Bathing Beauty
Gregory Peck - Days of Glory
Jane Powell - Song of the Open Road
Zachary Scott - The Mask of Dimitrios
Jean Simmons - Give Us the Moon
References
^ Box Office Digest, March 1945, p. 18.
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