1944 in film
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The year 1944 in film involved some significant events.
Contents |
Events
- July 20 - Since You Went Away is released.
- September 6 - Double Indemnity is released.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Going My Way | Paramount | |
| 2. | Meet Me in St. Louis | MGM | |
| 3. | Since You Went Away | United Artists | |
| 4. | Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | MGM | |
| 5. | Hollywood Canteen | Warner Bros. | |
| 6. | A Guy Named Joe | MGM | |
| 7. | The White Cliffs of Dover | MGM | |
| 8. | Laura | 20th Century Fox |
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
- Best Picture: Going My Way
- Best Director: Leo McCarey, Going My Way
- Best Actor: Alexander Knox - Wilson
- Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
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
- The Climax
- 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 and Frack
- Laura
- Lifeboat
- Lost in a Harem, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- Meet the People
- Mr. Skeffington
- Mrs. Parkington
- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
- The Mummy's Curse
- The Mummy's Ghost
- Murder, My Sweet
- National Velvet
- None but the Lonely Heart
- None Shall Escape
- North East Corner
- Passage to Marseille
- The Princess and the Pirate
- The Return of the Vampire
- The Seventh Cross
- The Spider Woman
- Since You Went Away
- The Sullivans
- Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
- 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
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 (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)
Births
- January 6 - Bonnie Franklin, actress
- January 23 - Rutger Hauer, actor
- February 11 - Buddhadev Dasgupta, film director
- May 14 - George Lucas, film director and producer
- August 8 - Peter Weir, film director
- November 23 - Joe Eszterhas, screenwriter
- December 11 - Teri Garr, US actress
Deaths
- July 20 - Mildred Harris, actress
- December 13 - Lupe Vélez, actress
- December 15 - Glenn Miller, musician, actor
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