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The year 1945 in film involved some significant events.
Contents
1 Events
2 Top-grossing films (U.S.)[1]
3 Awards
4 Top Ten Money Making Stars
5 1945 film releases
5.1 January–March
5.2 April–June
5.3 July–September
5.4 October–December
6 Notable films released in 1945
7 Serials
8 Short film series
9 Births
10 Deaths
11 Debuts
12 Notes
Events
- January 30 - Restricted release of Kolberg, an historical epic which is one of the last Nazi Germany propaganda pieces, in war-torn Berlin. Given its cast of 187,000, probably fewer people view it than appear in it.
- April 20 - Release of Son of Lassie, the 2nd Lassie film and the first movie ever to be filmed using the Technicolor Monobook method, where a single magazine of film is used to record all of the primary colors. Prior to this method, the most popular recording method was 3-Strip Technicolor, which simultaneously used 3 individual film magazines to record the primary colors.
- August 10 - Animated Donald Duck short Duck Pimples is released.
- September 27 - Release of Roberto Rossellini's Roma Città aperta marks the beginning of Italian neorealism in film.
- October 5 - A strike between the set decorators' union and the studios boils over and becomes known as the Hollywood Black Friday.
- November 16 - Paramount Pictures releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, introducing a ghost named Casper.
- November 29 - At the Nuremberg trials a documentary on the Nazi concentration camps directed by John Ford is exhibited as evidence.
- December 28 - Release of Spellbound, a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, across the United States.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)[1]
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
The Bells of St. Mary's |
RKO |
$8,500,000 |
| 2. |
Spellbound |
United Artists |
$7,775,000 |
| 3. |
Leave Her to Heaven |
20th Century Fox |
$6,505,000 |
| 4. |
Mildred Pierce |
Warner Bros. |
$5,638,000 |
| 5. |
Anchors Aweigh |
MGM |
$4,779,000 |
| 6. |
Week-End at the Waldorf |
$4,366,000 |
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| 7. |
Saratoga Trunk |
Warner Bros. |
$4,250,000 |
| 8. |
Thrill of a Romance |
MGM |
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| 9. |
The Valley of Decision |
$4,103,000 |
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| 10. |
Wonder Man |
RKO |
Awards
| Category/Organization | 18th Academy Awards March 7, 1946 |
3rd Golden Globe Awards March 30, 1996 |
|---|---|---|
| Best Film | The Lost Weekend |
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| Best Director | Billy Wilder The Lost Weekend |
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| Best Actor | Ray Milland The Lost Weekend |
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| Best Actress | Joan Crawford Mildred Pierce |
Ingrid Bergman The Bells of St. Mary's |
| Best Supporting Actor | James Dunn A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
J. Carrol Naish A Medal for Benny |
| Best Supporting Actress | Anne Revere National Velvet |
Angela Lansbury The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Top Ten Money Making Stars
Template:References section
| 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 |
1945 film releases
January–March
- January 1945
- February 1945
- 2 February
- Here Come the Co-eds
- 15 February
- The Seventh Veil
- 2 February
- March 1945
- 3 March
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 16 March
- The House of Fear
- 3 March
April–June
- April 1945
- 7 April
- Brewster's Millions
- 29 April
- Tarzan and the Amazons
- 7 April
- May 1945
- 25 May
- The Clock
- 25 May
- June 1945
- 23 June
- Murder, He Says
- 30 June
- Conflict
- 23 June
July–September
- July 1945
- 13 July
- Story of G.I. Joe
- 19 July
- Along Came Jones
- 27 July
- The Woman in Green
- 13 July
- August 1945
- 11 August
- Christmas in Connecticut
- 30 August
- State Fair
- 11 August
- September 1945
- 22 September
- Rhapsody in Blue
- 22 September
October–December
- October 1945
- 20 October
- Mildred Pierce
- 26 October
- Love Letters
- 31 October
- And Then There Were None
- 20 October
- November 1945
- 1 November
- Vacation from Marriage
- 10 November
- Confidential Agent
- 1 November
- December 1945
- 7 December
- House of Dracula
- 20 December
- Dick Tracy
- 25 December
- A Walk in the Sun
- 28 December
- Spellbound
- Scarlet Street
- 31 December
- They Were Expendable
- 7 December
Notable films released in 1945
U.S.A. unless stated
A
The Abandoned (Las Abandonadas), starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz - (Mexico)
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Allotment Wives, starring Kay Francis
Along Came Jones, starring Gary Cooper and Loretta Young
Amok - (Mexico)
Anchors Aweigh, starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra
And Then There Were None, starring Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Judith Anderson
B
Back to Bataan, directed by Edward Dmytryk, with John Wayne
A Bell For Adano, starring Gene Tierney and John Hodiak
The Bells of St. Mary's, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman
Blithe Spirit, directed by David Lean, starring Rex Harrison and Constance Cummings, based on the play by Noël Coward - (GB)
Blood on the Sun, starring James Cagney
The Body Snatcher, directed by Robert Wise, starring Boris Karloff
Boule de suif (Angel and Sinner) - (France)
Bougainvillea (Bugambilia), starring Pedro Armendariz and Dolores del Rio - (Mexico)
Brewster's Millions, starring Dennis O'Keefe
Brief Encounter, directed by David Lean, starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard- (GB)
C
Caesar and Cleopatra, directed by Gabriel Pascal, starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains - (GB)
Captain Kidd, starring Charles Laughton
The Cheaters, starring Joseph Schildkraut and Billie Burke
The Cherokee Flash, starring Sunset Carson and Linda Stirling
Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), by Marcel Carné, starring Arletty, released following the liberation of France
Christmas in Connecticut, starring Barbara Stanwyck
Circus Cavalcade (La cabalgata del circo) - (Argentina)
The Clock, starring Judy Garland
Confidential Agent, starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall
Conflict, starring Humphrey Bogart
Counter-Attack, starring Paul Muni and Marguerite Chapman
The Corn Is Green, starring Bette Davis and John Dall
Cornered, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Dick Powell
D-F
Dakota, starring John Wayne
Les dames du Bois de Boulogne, directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
Dead of Night, Ealing Studios chiller compendium starring Mervyn Johns and Googie Withers - (GB)
Death Mills, directed by Billy Wilder
Detour, starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage
Diamond Horseshoe, starring Betty Grable
Dick Tracy, starring Morgan Conway and Mike Mazurki
Dillinger, starring Lawrence Tierney
Docks of New York, starring The East Side Kids
Doll Face, starring Vivian Blaine
The Dolly Sisters, starring Betty Grable
The Enchanted Cottage, starring Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young
Fallen Angel, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Alice Faye in her last major film role, Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell
Flame of Barbary Coast, starring John Wayne
G-H
The Great Flamarion, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Erich von Stroheim
Guest Wife, starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche
Gun Smoke, starring Johnny Mack Brown and Jennifer Holt
Hangover Square, starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell and George Sanders
Here Come the Co-Eds, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
High Powered, starring Phyllis Brooks and Robert Lowery
Hotel Berlin, starring Faye Emerson and Raymond Massey
The House I Live In, a short film starring Frank Sinatra
House of Dracula, starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and John Carradine
The House on 92nd Street, produced by Louis de Rochemont, starring Lloyd Nolan and Signe Hasso
Humayun, starring Ashok Kumar - (India)
I-J
I Know Where I'm Going!, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey - (GB)
I Live in Grosvenor Square, starring Anna Neagle, Rex Harrison and Robert Morley - (GB)
I'll Be Your Sweetheart, directed by Val Guest, starring Margaret Lockwood (GB)
Incendiary Blonde, starring Betty Hutton
The Invisible Army (Den usynlige hær) - (Denmark)
Isle of the Dead, starring Boris Karloff and Ellen Drew
It's in the Bag!, starring Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche
Johnny Angel, starring George Raft and Claire Trevor
K-L
Kiss and Tell, starring Shirley Temple
Kitty, directed by Mitchell Leisen, starring Paulette Goddard and Ray Milland
Lady on a Train, starring Deanna Durbin and Ralph Bellamy
The Last Chance (Die letzte Chance) - (Switzerland)
Leave Her to Heaven, starring Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde
Life Begins Anew, directed by Mario Mattoli starring Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti (Italy)
The Lost Letter (Propavshaya gramota) - (USSR)
The Lost Weekend, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman
Love Letters, starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten
M-N
Madonna of the Seven Moons, starring Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger - (GB)
The Man in Half Moon Street, starring Nils Asther
A Medal for Benny, starring Dorothy Lamour
The Men who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi), directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)
Mildred Pierce, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
Mom and Dad, a hygiene documentary
Momotaro, Sacred Sailors (Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei), the first feature-length animated film from Japan
My Name is Julia Ross, starring Nina Foch
The Naughty Nineties, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
O-Q
Objective, Burma!, starring Errol Flynn
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, starring Edward G. Robinson and Margaret O'Brien
Pardon My Past, starring Fred MacMurray and Marguerite Chapman
Perfect Strangers, starring Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr - (GB)
The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring George Sanders and Hurd Hatfield
Pink String and Sealing Wax, starring Googie Withers and Mervyn Johns - (GB)
La porta del cielo (The Gate of Heaven), directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
Pride of the Marines, starring John Garfield
Pursuit to Algiers, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
R
The Rake's Progress, starring Rex Harrison - (GB)
The Red Meadows (De røde enge) - (Denmark)
Rhapsody in Blue, a biopic of George Gershwin starring Robert Alda
Roll Call in Heaven (Cuando en el cielo pasen lista) - (Argentina)
Rome, Open City (Roma Città aperta), directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Anna Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi - (Italy)
A Royal Scandal, starring Tallulah Bankhead
Rustlers' Hideout, starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John
S
Salome Where She Danced, starring Yvonne De Carlo
San Antonio, starring Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith
Saratoga Trunk, starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman
Scarlett Street, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett
- La selva de fuego (The Forest Fire), starring Dolores del Río and Arturo de Córdova - (Mexico)
The Seventh Veil, starring James Mason and Ann Todd - (GB)
Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
Son of Lassie, starring Peter Lawford
A Song to Remember, a biopic of Frédéric Chopin starring Cornel Wilde
The Southerner, starring Zachary Scott
The Spanish Main, starring Maureen O'Hara and Paul Henreid
Spellbound, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck
State Fair, starring Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain
The Stork Club, starring Betty Hutton
The Story of G.I. Joe, directed by William Wellman, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry, starring George Sanders
T-V
They Were Expendable, directed by John Ford, starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne
The Thin Man Goes Home, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
The Three Caballeros, a Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Dora Luz
Thrill of a Romance, directed by Richard Thorpe, starring Esther Williams and Van Johnson
Thunderhead, Son of Flicka, starring Roddy McDowall
Tonight and Every Night, starring Rita Hayworth
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Dorothy McGuire
Twice Blessed, starring Lee and Lyn Wilde
Two O'Clock Courage, starring Ann Rutherford and Tom Conway
The Unseen, starring Joel McCrea and Gail Russell
The Valley of Decision, starring Greer Garson and Gregory Peck
La vida en un hilo (Life on a Wire) - (Spain)
W-Z
A Walk in the Sun, starring Dana Andrews
War Comes to America, directed by Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak
Waterloo Road, starring John Mills and Stewart Granger - (GB)
The Way to the Stars, starring John Mills and Michael Redgrave, written by Terence Rattigan - (GB)
The Wicked Lady, starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason - (GB)
Without Love, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball
The Woman in Green, starring Basil Rathbone (as Sherlock Holmes) and Nigel Bruce
Wonder Man, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo
Yolanda and the Thief, starring Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer
Ziegfeld Follies, with an MGM all-star cast
Serials
Brenda Starr, Reporter, starring Joan Woodbury
Federal Operator 99, starring Marten Lamont
Jungle Queen, starring Edward Norris and Eddie Quillan
- Jungle Raiders
Manhunt on Mystery Island, starring Richard Bailey and Linda Stirling
The Master Key, starring Dennis Moore
The Monster and the Ape, starring Robert Lowery
The Purple Monster Strikes, starring Dennis Moore and Linda Stirling
- The Royal Mounted Rides Again
Secret Agent X-9, starring Lloyd Bridges
- Who's Guilty?
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 (1937–1956)
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)
Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)
Births
- January 25 - Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
- January 29 - Tom Selleck, American actor
- February 9 - Mia Farrow, American actress
- February 12 - Maud Adams, Swedish actress
- February 16 - Jeremy Bulloch, English actor
- February 17 - Brenda Fricker, Irish actress
- February 20 - Brion James, American actor (died 1999)
- February 24 - Barry Bostwick, American actor
- February 28 - Bubba Smith, American professional football player and actor (died 2011)
- April 2 - Linda Hunt, American actress
- March 28 - Raine Loo, Estonian actress
- May 24 - Priscilla Presley, American actress
- May 31 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, producer and screenwriter (died 1982)
- June 2 - Jon Peters, American producer
- June 6 - David Dukes, American actor (died 2000)
- June 11 - Adrienne Barbeau, American actress
- July 26 - Helen Mirren, English actress
- August 2 - Joanna Cassidy, American actress
- August 5 - Loni Anderson, American actress
- August 14
Steve Martin, American actor and comedian
Wim Wenders, German director, producer and screenwriter
- August 21 - Patty McCormack, American actress
- August 23 - Bob Peck, English actor (died 1999)
- September 17 - Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
- September 22 - Paul Le Mat, American actor
- October 18 - Huell Howser, American actor, television personality, host, comedian (died 2013)
- October 19 - John Lithgow, American actor
- October 26 - Jaclyn Smith, American actress
- October 27 - Carrie Snodgress, American actress (died 2004)
- October 30 - Henry Winkler, American actor
- October 31 - Brian Doyle-Murray, American actor and comedian
- November 21 - Goldie Hawn, American actress
- November 27 - James Avery, American actor (died 2013)
- December 1 - Bette Midler, American actress, comedian and singer
- December 17 - Ernie Hudson, American actor
- December 21 - Mari Lill, Estonian actress
- December 24 - Nicholas Meyer, American screenwriter, director and producer
- December 31 - Barbara Carrera, Nicaraguan-born American actress
Deaths
- January 14 - Heinrich Schroth, 73, German actor, Dr. Hart's Diary, Melody of a Great City, Die Entlassung, Rembrandt
- February 23 - Reginald Barker, 58, American director, Civilization, The Bargain, The Coward, The Moonstone
- March 4 - Lucille La Verne, 72, American actress, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Abraham Lincoln, Orphans of the Storm, A Tale of Two Cities
- March 4 - Mark Sandrich, 44, American director, The Gay Divorcee, Follow the Fleet, Holiday Inn
- March 30 - Béla Balogh, 60, Hungarian director
- April 10 - Gloria Dickson, 27, American actress, Lady of Burlesque, They Won't Forget
- April 29 - Malcolm McGregor, 52, American silent screen star, Lady of the Night, The Circle, The Whispering Shadow, The Ladybird
- May 4 - Anna Dodge, 77, American actress, The Extra Girl, Ride for Your Life
- July 13 - Alla Nazimova, 66, Ukrainian-born stage and film actress, Blood and Sand, Salomé, Since You Went Away, Madame Peacock
- August 11 - Stefan Jaracz, 61, Polish actor, Countess Walewska
- September 1 - Terry, 11, American performing Cairn Terrier, The Wizard of Oz
- November 11 - Jerome Kern, 60, American composer, Show Boat, Swing Time
- November 12 - Jaro Fürth, 74, Austrian actor, Diary of a Lost Girl, Joyless Street
- November 21 - Robert Benchley, 56, American writer and actor, Foreign Correspondent, You'll Never Get Rich, Road to Utopia
Debuts
Vittorio Gassman - Inconto con Laura
Jane Greer - Pan-Americana
Silvana Mangano - The Last Judgment
Dean Stockwell - The Horn Blows at Midnight
Lizabeth Scott - You Came Along
Betty White - Time to Kill
Notes
^ Box Office Digest, March 1946, p.18
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