1949 in film

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The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1949 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1949
Rank	Title	Studio	Box-office gross rental
1	Samson and Delilah	Paramount Pictures	$9,000,000[1]
2	Jolson Sings Again	Columbia Pictures	$5,000,000[1]
3	Battleground	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$4,722,000[2]
4	I Was a Male War Bride	20th Century Fox	$4,100,000[3]
5	Sands of Iwo Jima	Republic Pictures	$4,000,000[3]
6	The Stratton Story	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$3,831,000[2]
7	Pinky	20th Century Fox	$3,800,000[4]
8	Mr. Belvedere Goes to College	20th Century Fox	$3,700,000[4]
9	Neptune's Daughter	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$3,477,000[2]
10	Little Women	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$3,425,000[2]

Events

April 26–June 21 – Ealing comedies Passport to Pimlico, Whisky Galore! and Kind Hearts and Coronets are released in the UK.
November 15 – Following the prior year's Supreme Court decision in United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., Paramount Pictures is split into two separate companies with the creation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for production-distribution and United Paramount Theaters for the theater operations.
December 21 – Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah, starring Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, and Henry Wilcoxon, receives its televised world premiere at the Paramount and Rivoli theatres in New York City.[5]

Awards

Category/Organization	7th Golden Globe Awards February 23, 1950	22nd Academy Awards March 23, 1950
Best Film	All the King's Men
Best Director	Robert Rossen All the King's Men	Joseph L. Mankiewicz A Letter to Three Wives
Best Actor	Broderick Crawford All the King's Men
Best Actress	Olivia de Havilland The Heiress
Best Supporting Actor	James Whitmore Battleground	Dean Jagger Twelve O'Clock High
Best Supporting Actress	Mercedes McCambridge All the King's Men
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Robert Pirosh Battleground	Joseph L. Mankiewicz A Letter to Three Wives
Best Screenplay, Original	Robert Pirosh Battleground	Robert Pirosh Battleground
Best Foreign Language Film	Bicycle Thieves

Top ten money making stars

Rank	Actor/Actress
1.	Bob Hope
2.	Bing Crosby
3. (tie)	Bud Abbott Lou Costello
4.	John Wayne
5.	Gary Cooper
6.	Cary Grant
7.	Betty Grable
8.	Esther Williams
9.	Humphrey Bogart
10.	Clark Gable

Notable films released in 1949

United States unless stated

Q

The Queen of Spades, starring Anton Walbrook and Edith Evans – (GB)
The Quiet Duel (Shizukanaru Ketto), starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)

R

The Reckless Moment, starring James Mason and Joan Bennett
Red, Hot and Blue, starring Betty Hutton and Victor Mature
Red Light, starring George Raft and Virginia Mayo
The Red Pony, starring Myrna Loy and Robert Mitchum
The Rocking Horse Winner, starring Valerie Hobson and John Howard Davies – (GB)
Rope of Sand, starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Rotation (Sowjetische Zone) – (East Germany)
A Run for Your Money, starring Donald Houston, Moira Lister, Alec Guinness – (GB)
Rustlers, starring Tim Holt and Martha Hyer

S

Samson and Delilah, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature
Sands of Iwo Jima, directed by Allan Dwan, starring John Wayne
The Secret Garden, starring Margaret O'Brien and Herbert Marshall
The Set-Up, starring Robert Ryan
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, starring John Wayne, Joanne Dru, Ben Johnson
Shockproof, starring Cornel Wilde
Une si jolie petite plage (Such a Pretty Little Beach), directed by Yves Allégret – (France)
Le Silence de la mer, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville – (France)
Slattery's Hurricane, starring Richard Widmark, Veronica Lake, Linda Darnell
The Small Back Room, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger – (GB)
Sons of Matthew (aka The Rugged O'Riordans) – (Australia)
Sorrowful Jones, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
South of St. Louis, starring Joel McCrea and Alexis Smith
The Stratton Story, starring James Stewart and June Allyson
Stray Dog (Nora inu), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
Streets of Laredo, starring William Holden, Macdonald Carey, William Bendix
The Sun Comes Up, starring Jeanette MacDonald, Lloyd Nolan, Lassie

T

Take One False Step, starring Shelley Winters and William Powell
Tension, starring Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse
That Dangerous Age, starring Myrna Loy and Peggy Cummins – (GB)
That Forsyte Woman, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
That Midnight Kiss, starring Kathryn Grayson and Mario Lanza
Thieves' Highway, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Richard Conte
The Third Man, directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles – (GB)
Too Late for Tears, starring Lizabeth Scott and Dan Duryea
Train of Events, starring Valerie Hobson, Jack Warner, Peter Finch – (GB)
Tulsa, starring Susan Hayward and Robert Preston
Twelve O'Clock High, starring Gregory Peck

U

Under Capricorn, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ingrid Bergman – (GB)
The Undercover Man, starring Glenn Ford and Nina Foch

W

Waga koi wa moenu (Flame of My Love), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi – (Japan)
The Walls of Malapaga (Au-delà des grilles), directed by René Clément, starring Jean Gabin – (France/Italy)
We Were Strangers, starring Jennifer Jones and John Garfield
Whirlpool, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Gene Tierney
Whisky Galore!, directed by Alexander Mackendrick (debut), starring Basil Radford and Joan Greenwood – (GB)
White Heat, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
The Window, starring Barbara Hale and Arthur Kennedy
Without Honor, starring Laraine Day
Women Side by Side, directed by Chen Liting, starring Shangguan Yunzhu and Zhao Dan – (China)

Y

You, the Rich (Ustedes los ricos), starring Pedro Infante – (Mexico)
You're My Everything, directed by Walter Lang, starring Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter

Serials

Adventures of Sir Galahad, starring George Reeves and Charles King
Batman and Robin, starring Robert Lowery
Bruce Gentry, starring Tom Neal
Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc, starring Kirk Alyn and Rosemary LaPlanche
Ghost of Zorro, starring Clayton Moore and Pamela Blake
The James Brothers of Missouri, starring Keith Richards and Noel Neill
King of the Rocket Men, starring Tristram Coffin and Mae Clarke
Radar Patrol vs Spy King, starring Kirk Alyn

Short film series

Mickey Mouse (1928–1952)
Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
Popeye (1933–1957)
Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
Donald Duck (1934–1956)
Pluto (1937–1951)
Chip and Dale (1943–1956)
Andy Panda (1939–1949)
Goofy (1939–1953)
Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
The Fox and the Crow (1941–1950)
Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949)
Mighty Mouse (1942–1955)
Droopy (1943–1958)
Blackie the Sheep (1947–1949)
Red Hot Riding Hood (1943–1949)
Jan Wickman Shorts (1949–1994)
Noveltoons (1943–1967)

Births

January 12 – Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born director
January 14 – Lawrence Kasdan, American director and screenwriter
January 16 – Caroline Munro, English actress and model
January 17 – Andy Kaufman, American actor and comedian (died 1984)
January 24 – John Belushi, American actor and comedian (died 1982)
January 27 – Zbigniew Rybczyński, Polish film and video cinematographer and director
February 8 – Brooke Adams, American actress
March 12 – Rob Cohen, American director, producer and writer
March 16 – Victor Garber, Canadian actor
March 22 – Fanny Ardant, French actress
April 14 – John Shea, American actor
April 20
- Jessica Lange, American actress
- Veronica Cartwright, English-born actress
May 20 - Dave Thomas, Canadian comedian, actor and television writer
May 24 – Jim Broadbent, English actor
May 26 – Pam Grier, American actress
May 31 – Tom Berenger, American actor
June 15 – Jim Varney, American actor and comedian (died 2000)
June 22 – Meryl Streep, American actress
July 5 - Ed O'Ross, American actor
July 7 – Shelley Duvall, American actress
July 27 - Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor
August 8 – Keith Carradine, American actor
August 17 – Julian Fellowes, English actor, writer, director and screenwriter
August 23 – Shelley Long, American actress
August 25 – John Savage, American actor
August 31 – Richard Gere, American actor
September 1 – Luminița Gheorghiu, Romanian actress
September 4 – Eero Spriit, Estonian actor and producer
September 16 – Ed Begley, Jr., American actor
September 18 - Beth Grant, American character actress
September 19 - Ernie Sabella, American actor
September 25 – Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish director
October 4 – Armand Assante, American actor
October 8 – Sigourney Weaver, American actress
October 10 – Jessica Harper, American actress
November 29 – Garry Shandling, American stand-up comedian, actor, director, writer and producer (died 2016)
November 30 – Nicholas Woodeson, English actor
December 4 – Jeff Bridges, American actor
December 12 – Bill Nighy, English actor
December 15 – Don Johnson, American actor
December 25 – Sissy Spacek, American actress

Deaths

January 6 – Victor Fleming, 59, American director and producer, The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Captains Courageous, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
January 19 – William Wright, 38, American actor, Philo Vance Returns, Eve Knew Her Apples
January 20 – Nora Gregor, 47, Austrian actress, The Rules of the Game, But the Flesh Is Weak
February 19 – Jean Gillie, 33, English actress, Decoy
April 15 – Wallace Beery, 64, American actor, Grand Hotel, The Champ, Robin Hood, Viva Villa!
April 18 – Will Hay, 60, English comedian, actor and director, Oh, Mr. Porter!, Hey! Hey! USA
April 22 – Charles B. Middleton, 74, American actor (born 1874), Flash Gordon
August 9 – Harry Davenport, 83, American actor (born 1866), Gone with the Wind, The Ox-Bow Incident
September 4 – Olof Ås, 56, Swedish actor, stage manager (born 1892)
September 14 – Romuald Joubé, 73, French actor (born 1876)
September 18 – Frank Morgan, 59, American actor (born 1890), The Wizard of Oz
September 20 – Richard Dix, 56, American actor (born 1893), Cimarron, Redskin
October 14 – Fritz Leiber, Sr., 67, American actor (born 1882)
November 25 – Bill Robinson, 72, American dancer and actor (born 1878), Stormy Weather, The Little Colonel
November 27 – Tom Walls, 66, English actor and director (born 1883), Stormy Weather, Lady in Danger
December 16 – Sidney Olcott, 76, Canadian-born American film director (born 1873)

Film Debuts

Julie Andrews – The Singing Princess
Yul Brynner – Port of New York
Richard Burton – Women of Dolwyn
Tony Curtis – City Across the River
Denholm Elliott – Dear Mr. Prohack
Jerry Lewis – My Friend Irma
Mercedes McCambridge – All the King's Men
Liza Minnelli – In the Good Old Summertime
Patricia Neal – John Loves Mary
Philippe Noiret – Gigi
Max von Sydow – Only a Mother
James Whitmore – The Undercover Man
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References

Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
Top 20 Films of 1949 by Domestic Revenue
"Boxoffice Magazine – December 10, 1949, p. 26". Boxoffice. Archived from the original on 2013-08-11.

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[Finler-1] Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[Mannix-2] The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

[Finler2-3] Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[1949DomesticRevenue-4] Top 20 Films of 1949 by Domestic Revenue

[BoxOffice_December_10,_1949_page_26-5] "Boxoffice Magazine – December 10, 1949, p. 26". Boxoffice. Archived from the original on 2013-08-11.