1944 In Film

Sunday, 28 October 2012

1944 In Film

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Alan Ladd
Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964) was an American film actor.
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Alan Parker
Sir Alan William Parker, CBE (born 14 February 1944) is an English film director, producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British film industry and Hollywood and was a founding member of the Director's Guild of Great Britain.
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Alberto Cavalcanti
Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti (February 6, 1897 – August 23, 1982) was a Brazilian-born film director and producer.
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Alexander Knox
:This article is about the actor. For the Irish theologian, see Alexander Knox (1757-1831).
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Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. In 1956 he became an American citizen while remaining a British subject.
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Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra. After a short stint as a stage actress, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television.
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Barry Fitzgerald
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Basil Rathbone
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Bela Lugosi
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Belita
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Bette Davis
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Betty Grable
Betty Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American actress, dancer and singer.
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Betty Hutton
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (22 June 190627 March 2002) was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people who have won three Academy Awards for producing, directing and writing the same film (The Apartment).
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Bing Crosby
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Boris Karloff
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Bud Abbott
William Alexander "Bud" Abbott (October 2, 1895 – April 24, 1974) was an American actor, producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello.
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Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny is an American fictional character who starred in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which became Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1944. In 2002, he was named by TV Guide as the greatest cartoon character of all time. Bugs starred in 163 shorts in the Golden Age of American animation, and made cameos in three others along with a few appearances in non-animated films.
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Cary Grant
Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English-American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man: handsome, virile, charismatic, and charming.
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Charles B. Middleton
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Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer (28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in movies during the 1930s. His most famous role was opposite Ingrid Bergman in the 1944 mystery-thriller Gaslight. Other memorable performances were among the era's highly praised romantic dramas, Algiers (1938) and Love Affair (1939). He received four Academy Award nominations for Best Actor.
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Charles Coburn
Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American film and theater actor.
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Charles Crichton
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Charles Laughton
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Claire Trevor
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Claude Rains
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Claudette Colbert
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Clifton Webb
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Dale Evans
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Danny DeVito
Daniel Michael "Danny" DeVito, Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor, comedian, director, and producer. He first gained prominence for his portrayal of Louie De Palma on the ABC and NBC TV series Taxi (1978–1983), for which he won a Golden Globe and an Emmy.
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David Lean
Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 190816 April 1991) was a British filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia,
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Dennis Farina
Dennis Farina (born February 29, 1944) is an American film and television actor. He is a character actor, often typecast as a mobster or police officer.
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Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown sound as lead singer of The Supremes, before leaving the group for a solo career on January 14, 1970. Since the beginning of her career with The Supremes and as a solo artist, Ross has sold more than 150 million records.
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Dick Powell
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Dorothy Lamour
Dorothy Lamour (December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American film actress. She is probably best-remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies co-starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.
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Eddie Bracken
Edward Vincent "Eddie" Bracken (February 7, 1915 – November 14, 2002) was an American actor.
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Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932), also known as Liz Taylor, is an English-American actress. She is known for her acting talent and beauty, as well as her Hollywood lifestyle, including many marriages. Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden age.
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Ella Raines
Ella Raines (August 6, 1920 – May 30, 1988) was an American actress.
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Eric Portman
Eric Portman (13 July 1901, Akroydon, Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire - 7 December 1969, St Veep, Cornwall) was a distinguished English stage and film actor. He is probably best remembered for his roles in several films for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger during the 1940s.
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Ethel Barrymore
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Franchot Tone
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Frank Capra
Frank Russell Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937), ''You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life'' (1946).
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Frank Oz
Frank Oz (born Richard Frank Oznowicz; May 25, 1944) is a British-born American film director, actor and puppeteer who is known for creating the characters Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Show and for directing films including the 1986 Little Shop Of Horrors remake and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He is also the operator and voice of Yoda.
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Fred MacMurray
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Frick and Frack
Frick and Frack were two Swiss skaters who came to the U.S. in 1937 and joined the original Ice Follies show as comedy ice skaters. "Frick" was Werner Groebli (April 21, 1915 - April 14, 2008), born in Basel. "Frack" was Hansruedi (Hans Rudolf) Mauch, (May 4, 1919 - June 4, 1979), also born in Basel. Frick and Frack were known for skating in Alpine Lederhosen and performing eccentric tricks on ice, including the "cantilever spread-eagle", created by Groebli, and Mauch's "rubber legs", twisting and bending his legs while skating in a spread eagle position. Only a few skaters have successfully performed the duo's routines since.
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Gary Busey
Gary Busey (born June 29, 1944) is an American film and stage actor and artist.
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Gary Cooper
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Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer. A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen.
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George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film producer, screenwriter, director and founder/chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the science fiction franchise Star Wars and joint creator of the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones. Today, Lucas is one of the American film industry's most financially successful independent directors/producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.25 billion as of 2010.
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Geraldine Chaplin
Geraldine Leigh Chaplin (born July 31, 1944) is an American actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.
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Gilbert Roland
Gilbert Roland (December 11, 1905 – May 15, 1994) was a Mexican-born American film actor.
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Glenn Miller
Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing December 15, 1944) was an American jazz musician (trombone), arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big bands". Miller's signature recordings include In the Mood, American Patrol, Chattanooga Choo Choo, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Moonlight Serenade, Little Brown Jug and Pennsylvania 6-5000. While traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's plane disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. His body has never been found.
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Googie Withers
Googie Withers, CBE (born 12 March 1917) is an Indian born British theatre, film and television actress who has long been resident in Australia.
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Greer Garson
Greer Garson, CBE (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996) was a British-born actress who was very popular during World War II. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Actress award for Mrs. Miniver (1942). She was often cast in films with Walter Pidgeon as her co-star.
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Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor.
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Harold Ramis
Harold Allen Ramis (born November 21, 1944) is an American actor, director, and writer, specializing in comedy. His best-known film acting roles are as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981); Ramis also co-wrote both films. As a writer/director, his films include the comedies Caddyshack (1980), Groundhog Day (1993), and Analyze This (1999). Ramis was the original head writer of the television series SCTV (in which he also performed), and one of three writers to pen the screenplay for the film ''National Lampoon's Animal House'' (1978).
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Howard Hawks
Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Rio Bravo (1959), and El Dorado (1967).
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Humphrey Bogart
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Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid (; born 11 August 1944) is a Scottish theatre actor and director, who has also made sporadic appearances on film and television.
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Ida Lupino
Ida Lupino (4 February 1918 – 3 August 1995) was an English-American film actress and director, and a pioneer among women filmmakers. In her forty-eight year career, she appeared in fifty-nine films, and directed nine others. She also appeared in serial television programmes fifty-eight times and directed fifty other episodes. In addition, she contributed as a writer to five films and four TV episodes.
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Ingrid Bergman
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James Mason
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Jean Simmons
Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 January 22, 2010) was an English actress who later also became an American citizen. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain during and after World War II, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.
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Jennifer Jones
Phylis Lee Isley (March 2, 1919December 17, 2009) better known as her stage name Jennifer Jones, was an American actress. A five-time Academy Award nominee, Jones won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Song of Bernadette (1943).
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Jeroen Krabbe
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Jill Clayburgh
Jill Clayburgh (born April 30, 1944) is an American actress.
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Jim Abrahams
Jim Abrahams (born 10 May 1944) is an American movie director and writer.
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Joan Bennett
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Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977), born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre. Starting as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway, Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her parts, Crawford began a campaign of self-publicity and became nationally known as a flapper by the end of the 1920s. In the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and financial success. These "rags-to-riches" stories were well-received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women. Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money and by the end of the 1930s she was labeled "box office poison".
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Joel McCrea
Joel Albert McCrea, (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor and film star whose career spanned 50 years and appearances in over 90 films.
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John Garfield
John Garfield (March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor. Garfield was especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. Garfield is acknowledged as the predecessor of such Method actors as Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Montgomery Clift.
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John Glover (actor)
John Soursby Glover Jr. (born August 7, 1944) is an American actor, perhaps best known for a range of villainous roles in films and television, including Lionel Luthor on the Superman-inspired television series Smallville.
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John Hodiak
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John Mills
Sir John Mills, CBE (22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005) was an English actor, who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.
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John Wayne
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Jonathan Demme
Robert Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944) is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director.
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Judy Garland
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Kane Richmond
Kane Richmond (December 23, 1906 – March 22, 1973) was an American film actor of the 1930s and 1940s, mostly appearing in cliffhangers and serials. He is best known today for his portrayal of the character Lamont Cranston in The Shadow films in addition to his leading role in the successful serials Spy Smasher and Brick Bradford.
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Katharine Hepburn
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Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske September 16, 1924) is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks.
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Laurence Olivier
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Leo McCarey
Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in nearly 200 movies, especially comedies. French director Jean Renoir once said that "Leo McCarey understood people better than any other Hollywood director."
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Linda Stirling
Linda Stirling (October 11, 1921 – July 20, 1997) was an American showgirl, model and actress. In her later years, she had a second career as a college English professor for more than two decades. She is most famous for her roles in movie serials.
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Lloyd Bacon
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Lou Costello
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Lupe Vélez
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Marlene Dietrich
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Mary Beth Hughes
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Maureen O'Hara
'''Maureen O'Hara (born Maureen FitzSimons'''; 17 August 1920) is an Irish film actress and singer. The famously red-headed O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. She often worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne. Her autobiography, '' 'Tis Herself '', was published in 2004.
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Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. He has won three Golden Globes and two Academy Awards, first as producer of 1975's Best Picture, ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as Best Actor in 1987 for his role in Wall Street''. Douglas received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2009.
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Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney (born September 23, 1920) is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Honorary Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award. Working as a performer since he was a small child, he was a superstar as a teenager for the films in which he played Andy Hardy, and he has had one of the longest careers of any actor.
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Mildred Harris
Mildred Harris (November 29, 1901 – July 20, 1944) was an American film actress. Harris began her career in the film industry as a popular child actress at age eleven. At the age of fifteen, she was cast as a harem girl in D. W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916). She appeared as a leading lady through the 1920s but her career slowed with the advent of the "talkies". She was critically praised for No, No Nanette in 1930, had a few bit parts in the early 1940s, and made her last appearance in the posthumously released Having A Wonderful Crime of 1945.
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Nigel Bruce
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Otto Preminger
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Paul Henreid
Paul Henreid (10 January 1908 – 29 March 1992), whose birthname was Paul Georg Julius Henreid Ritter von Wassel-Waldingau, was an Austrian actor and film director. Henreid's most famous showing was that of Victor Laszlo in Casablanca.
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Peter Weir
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Phyllis Calvert
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Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges (29 August 1898 – 6 August 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. In 1941 he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film The Great McGinty.
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Ray Milland
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Richard Greene
Richard Marius Joseph Greene (25 August 1918 – 1 June 1985) was a noted English movie and television actor. A matinee idol who appeared in more than 40 films, he was perhaps best known for the lead role in the long-running British TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood, which ran for 143 episodes from 1955 to 1960.
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Rita Hayworth
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Ronald Colman
Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English actor.
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Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), was an American singer and cowboy actor, as well as the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German Shepherd dog, Bullet, were featured in more than 100 movies and The Roy Rogers Show. The show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1957. His productions usually featured a sidekick, often either Pat Brady, (who drove a Jeep called "Nellybelle") or the crotchety George "Gabby" Hayes. Roy's nickname was "King of the Cowboys". Dale's nickname was "Queen of the West."
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Rutger Hauer
Rutger Oelsen Hauer (; ; born 23 January 1944) is a Dutch stage, television and film actor. His career began in 1969 with the title role in the popular Dutch television series "Floris", directed by Paul Verhoeven. His film credits include Flesh + Blood, Blind Fury, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Nighthawks, Sin City, Ladyhawke, The Blood of Heroes and Batman Begins.
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Sergei Eisenstein
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his forensic science skills to solve difficult cases.
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Shirley Temple
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Simone Simon
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Spencer Tracy
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American theatrical and film actor, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Tracy ninth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor in all, winning two.
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Stewart Granger
Stewart Granger (6 May 1913 – 16 August 1993), born James Lablache Stewart, was an English film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to the 1960s.
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Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing (born February 13, 1944) is an American stage, film and television actress. She is known for her portrayal of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing; for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease; and for her role in both the stage and screen versions of Six Degrees of Separation.
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Tallulah Bankhead
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Tommy Trinder
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Trisha Noble
Patricia Ann Ruth "Trisha" Noble (born February 3, 1944) is an Australian singer and actress.
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Veronica Lake
Veronica Lake (November 14, 1922 – July 7, 1973) was an American film actress and pin-up model. She received both popular and critical acclaim, most notably for her femme fatale roles in film noir with Alan Ladd during the 1940s, and was well-known for her peek-a-boo hairstyle. Her success did not last; she had a string of broken marriages and long struggles with mental illness and alcoholism until she died of hepatitis.
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Vincent Price
Vincent Leonard Price II (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.
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Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 or 1902 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
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William Wyler
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Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States. A leader of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican Party vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912.
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Tali-Ihantala 1944 (film 2007): Estonian volunteer in Finnish Army

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JAMMIN' THE BLUES (1944) !!!

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Jammin' The Blues 1944 Historic Black Jazz Jam Session HD

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Groovie Movie (1944). Funny jitterbug instructional video.

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"Nothing Like Peleliu" (from the film 'Peleliu 1944: Horror in the Pacific')

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Sampolit Film - In Memory - 1918 Narwa 1944

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Sky Blitz (1944) Captured German War Film

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The Lord Of The Rings (1944)

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CAROLINE - A film by Mani Nasry

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Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring – Part 1/4

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Articles Of War

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My Grandparents Wedding :: 16mm from 1944

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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.

1 Events
2 Top grossing films (U.S.)
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1944
5 Serials
6 Short film series
7 Animated short film series
8 Births
9 Deaths
10 Film Debuts

Events [link]

July 20 - Since You Went Away is released.
September 6 - Double Indemnity is released.

Top grossing films (U.S.)[link]

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors
1.	Going My Way	Paramount	Bing Crosby
2.	Meet Me in St. Louis	MGM	Judy Garland
3.	Since You Went Away	United Artists	Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple
4.	Pin Up Girl	20th Century Fox	Betty Grable
5.	Hollywood Canteen	Warner Bros.	John Garfield, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford
6.	Double Indemnity	Paramount	Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck
7.	Gaslight	MGM	Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer
8.	Cover Girl	Columbia	Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly
9.	Laura	20th Century Fox	Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews
10.	To Have and Have Not	Warner Bros.	Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall

Awards [link]

Academy 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

Golden Globe Awards:

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 [link]

U.S.A. unless stated

The Adventures of Mark Twain
And Now Tomorrow, starring Alan Ladd and Loretta Young
And the Angels Sing, starring Fred MacMurray and Dorothy Lamour
Arsenic and Old Lace, directed by Frank Capra, starring Cary Grant and Priscilla Lane
Between Two Worlds
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Buffalo Bill, starring Joel McCrea and Maureen O'Hara
Can't Help Singing
A Canterbury Tale, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Eric Portman - (U.K.)
The Canterville Ghost, starring Charles Laughton
Casanova Brown, starring Gary Cooper
Champagne Charlie, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Tommy Trinder and Stanley Holloway - (U.K.)
The Children Are Watching Us (I bambini ci guardano), directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
Christmas Holiday, starring Gene Kelly
The Climax, starring Boris Karloff
The Conspirators, starring Paul Henreid and Hedy Lamarr
Cover Girl, starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly
Cry of the Werewolf
The Curse of the Cat People, starring Simone Simon
Don't Take It to Heart, directed by Jeffrey Dell and starring Richard Greene (U.K.)
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 (China)
Fanny by Gaslight directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Phyllis Calvert, James Mason and Stewart Granger (U.K.)
The Fighting Seabees, starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward
The Fighting Sullivans, directed by Lloyd Bacon
For Those in Peril, directed by Charles Crichton - (U.K.)
Frenchman's Creek, starring Joan Fontaine and Basil Rathbone
Die Feuerzangenbowle (The Punch Bowl) - (Germany)
Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer
Going My Way, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald - winner of 7 Oscars
Hail the Conquering Hero, starring Eddie Bracken and Ella Raines
To Have And Have Not, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
Henry V, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier - (U.K.)
Hollywood Canteen
Home in Indiana
The Hour Before the Dawn, starring Veronica Lake
House of Frankenstein
I Accuse My Parents, starring Mary Beth Hughes
I'll Be Seeing You
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.)
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, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb
Lifeboat, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tallulah Bankhead and John Hodiak
The Lodger, starring Merle Oberon
Lost in a Harem, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Man from Frisco directed by Robert Florey, starring Michael O'Shea and Anne Shirley.
The Mask of Dimitrios
Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland
Meet the People
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
The Mummy's Ghost
Murder, My Sweet (aka Farewell My Lovely), starring Dick Powell and Claire Trevor
National Velvet, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney
None but the Lonely Heart, starring Cary Grant
None Shall Escape
North East Corner
On Approval, starring Clive Brook and Googie Withers - (U.K.)
Passage to Marseille
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
The Princess and the Pirate
The Purple Heart
Rainbow - (U.S.S.R.)
The Return of the Vampire
The Scarlet Claw, a Sherlock Holmes mystery starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
The Seventh Cross
Since You Went Away, starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple
Song of Russia
The Spider Woman, a Sherlock Holmes mystery featuring Gale Sondergaard
The Story of Dr. Wassell, starring Gary Cooper
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
The Suspect, starring Charles Laughton
Tall in the Saddle
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, starring Spencer Tracy
This Happy Breed, directed by David Lean, starring John Mills and Celia Johnson - (U.K.)
The Three Caballeros
Torment (Hets), directed by Alf Sjoberg - (Sweden)
La Torre de los Siete Jorobados - (Spain)
The Uninvited, starring Ray Milland
Voodoo Man, starring Bela Lugosi
The Way Ahead, directed by Carol Reed - (U.K.)
The White Cliffs of Dover
Wilson, biographical film about President Woodrow Wilson, starring Charles Coburn
The Woman in the Window, starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett
The Yellow Rose of Texas with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

Serials [link]

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 [link]

Our Gang (1922-1944)
The Three Stooges (1934-1959)

Animated short film series [link]

Births [link]

January 23 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
February 3 - Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress
February 13 - Stockard Channing, actress
February 14 - Alan Parker, English director, producer and screenwriter
February 22 - Jonathan Demme, director, producer and screenwriter
February 29 - Dennis Farina, actor
March 26 - Diana Ross, singer and actress
April 30 - Jill Clayburgh, actress (died 2010)
May 5 - John Rhys-Davies, English actor
May 10 - Jim Abrahams, director, producer and screenwriter
May 14 - George Lucas, director, producer and screenwriter
May 25 - Frank Oz, English director and puppeteer
June 29 - Gary Busey, actor
July 31 - Geraldine Chaplin, actress
August 7 - John Glover, actor
August 9 - Sam Elliott, 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, actor and producer
November 17 - Danny DeVito, actor, comedian, producer and director
November 21 - Harold Ramis, actor, director and screenwriter
December 5 - Jeroen Krabbe, Dutch actor and director
December 17 - Bernard Hill, English actor

Deaths [link]

July 20 - Mildred Harris, actress
December 13 - Lupe Vélez, actress (born 1908)
December 15 - Glenn Miller, musician, actor (born 1904)

Film Debuts [link]

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Top grossing films (U.S.)[link]

Awards [link]

Films released in 1944 [link]

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Births [link]

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