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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]
Notable films released in 1946
United States unless stated
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
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
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
Terror by Night , a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes, and Nigel Bruce as Watson
Theirs 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 .
Animated short film series
January 5 –
Diane Keaton , American actress, producer and director
January 6 -
Cheng Pei-pei , Chinese actress (d. 2024)
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 3
Michael 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
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
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b
"All-Time Top Grossers" .
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b The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .
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