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A list of
fantasy films released in the 1940s.
List
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Notes
|
1940
|
The Blue Bird |
Walter Lang |
Shirley Temple,
Spring Byington,
Nigel Bruce |
United States |
|
Fantasia |
Various directors for
Walt Disney |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
Mr. Bug Goes to Town |
Dave Fleischer,
Max Fleischer |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
One Million B.C. |
Hal Roach |
Victor Mature,
Carole Landis,
Lon Chaney Jr. |
United States |
|
Pinocchio |
Various directors for
Walt Disney |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
The Thief of Bagdad |
Ludwig Berger,
Michael Powell,
Tim Whelan |
Conrad Veidt,
Sabu,
June Duprez |
United Kingdom |
|
1941
|
The Devil and Daniel Webster |
William Dieterle |
Edward Arnold,
Walter Huston,
James Craig |
United States |
|
Dumbo |
Various directors for
Walt Disney |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
Here Comes Mr. Jordan |
Alexander Hall |
Robert Montgomery,
Evelyn Keyes,
Claude Rains |
United States |
|
The Iron Crown |
Alessandro Blasetti |
Elisa Cegani,
Luisa Ferida,
Rina Morelli |
Italy |
|
The Reluctant Dragon |
Alfred L. Werker |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
1942
|
Bambi |
Various directors for
Walt Disney |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
Cat People |
Jacques Tourneur |
|
United States |
Horror film
|
I Married a Witch |
René Clair |
Fredric March,
Veronica Lake,
Robert Benchley |
United States |
|
Les Visiteurs du Soir |
Marcel Carné |
Arletty,
Jules Berry,
Marie Déa |
France |
|
1943
|
A Guy Named Joe |
Victor Fleming |
Spencer Tracy,
Irene Dunne,
Van Johnson |
United States |
|
Happy Land |
Irving Pichel |
Don Ameche,
Frances Dee,
Harry Carey |
United States |
|
Heaven Can Wait |
Ernst Lubitsch |
Don Ameche,
Gene Tierney,
Charles Coburn |
United States |
|
Münchhausen |
Josef von Báky |
Hans Albers,
Brigitte Horney,
Wilhelm Bendow |
Germany |
|
1944
|
The Canterville Ghost |
Jules Dassin |
Charles Laughton,
Robert Young,
Margaret O'Brien |
United States |
|
The Curse of the Cat People |
Robert Wise |
Simone Simon,
Kent Smith,
Jane Randolph |
United States |
|
It Happened Tomorrow |
René Clair |
Dick Powell,
Linda Darnell,
Jack Oakie |
United States |
|
Kashchey the Deathless |
Alexander Rou |
Sergei Stolyarov,
Georgy Millyar |
Soviet Union |
|
Kismet |
William Dieterle |
Ronald Colman,
Marlene Dietrich,
James Craig |
United States |
|
Between Two Worlds |
Edward A. Blatt |
John Garfield,
Sydney Greenstreet,
Eleanor Parker |
United States |
|
1945
|
Blithe Spirit |
David Lean |
Rex Harrison,
Constance Cummings,
Kay Hammond |
United Kingdom |
|
The Enchanted Cottage |
John Cromwell |
Dorothy McGuire,
Robert Young,
Herbert Marshall |
United States |
|
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Albert Lewin |
George Sanders,
Hurd Hatfield,
Donna Reed |
United States |
|
Sylvie et le fantôme (US Title: Sylvie and the Phantom) |
Claude Autant-Lara |
Odette Joyeux,
Julien Carette,
François Périer |
France |
|
A Thousand and One Nights |
Alfred E. Green |
Cornel Wilde,
Evelyn Keyes,
Phil Silvers |
United States |
|
Yolanda and the Thief |
Vincente Minnelli |
Fred Astaire,
Lucille Bremer,
Frank Morgan |
United States |
|
1946
|
Angel on My Shoulder |
Archie Mayo |
Paul Muni,
Anne Baxter,
Claude Rains |
United States |
|
Beauty and the Beast |
Jean Cocteau |
Josette Day,
Jean Marais,
Mila Parély |
France |
|
A Matter of Life and Death |
Michael Powell,
Emeric Pressburger |
David Niven,
Kim Hunter,
Marius Goring |
United Kingdom |
|
Make Mine Music |
Various directors for
Walt Disney |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
The Stone Flower |
Alexander Ptushko |
Vladimir Druzhnikov,
Tamara Makarova,
Mikhail Troyanovsky |
Soviet Union |
|
1947
|
The Bishop's Wife |
Henry Koster |
Cary Grant,
Loretta Young,
David Niven |
United States |
|
Cinderella |
Nadezhda Kosheverova,
Mikhail Shapiro |
Yanina Zheymo,
Erast Garin,
Faina Ranevskaya |
Soviet Union |
|
Down to Earth |
Alexander Hall |
James Burke,
Rita Hayworth,
Larry Parks |
United States |
|
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Gene Tierney,
Rex Harrison,
George Sanders |
United States |
|
Heaven Only Knows |
|
Robert Cummings,
Brian Donlevy,
Marjorie Reynolds |
United States |
|
Miracle on 34th Street |
George Seaton |
Maureen O'Hara,
John Payne,
Edmund Gwenn |
United States |
|
1948
|
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid |
Irving Pichel |
Ann Blyth,
William Powell,
Irene Hervey |
United States |
|
One Touch of Venus |
William A. Seiter,
Gregory La Cava |
Ava Gardner,
Robert Walker,
Eve Arden |
United States |
|
Portrait of Jennie |
William Dieterle |
Joseph Cotten,
Jennifer Jones,
Ethel Barrymore |
United States |
|
Vice Versa |
Peter Ustinov |
Frank Tickle,
Kay Walsh,
Harcourt Williams |
United Kingdom |
|
1949
|
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad |
James Algar,
Clyde Geronimi,
Jack Kinney for
Walt Disney |
|
United States |
Animated film
|
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
Tay Garnett |
Bing Crosby,
Rhonda Fleming,
Cedric Hardwicke |
United States |
|
Alice in Wonderland |
Dallas Bower,
Lou Bunin |
Stephen Murray,
Carol Marsh,
Raymond Bussières |
France |
|