1942 in film
The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Casablanca.
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Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1942 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Studio | Box-office gross rental |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mrs. Miniver | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $5,358,000[1] |
| 2 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | Warner Bros. | $4,800,000[2] |
| 3 | Random Harvest | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $4,650,000[1] |
| 4 | Reap the Wild Wind | Paramount Pictures | $4,000,000[3] |
| 5 | Star Spangled Rhythm | $3,850,000[4] | |
| 6 | Holiday Inn Road to Morocco |
$3,800,000[5] | |
| 7 | The Pride of the Yankees | RKO Radio Pictures/Samuel Goldwyn Productions | $3,671,000[5] |
| 8 | Wake Island The Black Swan Springtime in the Rockies |
Paramount Pictures 20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox |
$3,500,000[6][7] |
| 9 | To the Shores of Tripoli | 20th Century Fox | $3,000,000[7] |
| 10 | For Me and My Gal | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $2,894,000[1] |
Events
- January 16 – Actress Carole Lombard is killed in a plane crash west of Las Vegas while returning home to Los Angeles from a War Bond tour.
- June 4 – Mrs. Miniver, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, opens at Radio City Music Hall in New York, in what will become a record-breaking 10-week run.
- August 8 – Walt Disney's animated film Bambi opens in United Kingdom.
- November 11 – Road to Morocco, starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour, premieres.
- November 26 – The film Casablanca premieres at the Hollywood Theatre in New York City. Released nationally in the United States on January 23, 1943, it becomes one of the top-grossing pictures of 1943 and goes on to win the Best Picture and Best Director awards at the 16th Academy Awards.
Academy Awards
- Best Picture: Mrs. Miniver – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Best Director: William Wyler – Mrs. Miniver
- Best Actor: James Cagney – Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Best Actress: Greer Garson – Mrs. Miniver
- Best Supporting Actor: Van Heflin – Johnny Eager
- Best Supporting Actress: Teresa Wright – Mrs. Miniver
- Special Academy Award: In Which We Serve
1942 film releases
U.S.A unless stated
January–March
- January 1942
- 1 January
- 6 January
- 8 January
- 10 January
- 19 January
- 23 January
- O Pátio das Cantigas (Portugal)
- 24 January
- 29 January
- February 1942
- 2 February
- 6 February
- 16 February
- 19 February
- 20 February
- 21 February
- March 1942
- 3 March
- The Great King (Germany)
- 7 March
- 10 March
- Un Garibaldino al Convento (Italy)
- 11 March
- 13 March
- 18 March
- 20 March
- 21 March
- This Was Paris (GB)
- 27 March
- 3 March
April–June
- April 1942
- 1 April
- There Was a Father (Japan)
- 2 April
- 3 April
- Jungle Book
- 4 April
- 19 April
- Hatter's Castle (GB)
- 22 April
- 24 April
- 29 April
- 30 April
- 1 April
- May 1942
- 8 May
- 12 May
- 13 May
- 21 May
- 22 May
- 29 May
- 31 May
- June 1942
- 4 June
- 13 June
- 15 June
- The Next of Kin (GB)
- 16 June
- 22 June
- 26 June
- 27 June
- One of Our Aircraft is Missing
July–September
- July 1942
- 2 July
- 8 July
- The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (France)
- 9 July
- 10 July
- 14 July
- Pride of the Yankees
- 16 July
- 29 July
- The Kids Grow Up (Argentina)
- 31 July
- August 1942
- 4 August
- 5 August
- 7 August
- 10 August
- Alibi (GB)
- 11 August
- Wake Island
- 20 August
- 21 August
- 24 August
- Uncensored (GB)
- 25 August
- 27 August
- 28 August
- 31 August
- September 1942
- 4 September
- 14 September
- The First of the Few (GB)
- 15 September
- Ala-Arriba! (Portugal)
- 16 September
- 17 September
- In Which We Serve (GB)
- 18 September
- 21 September
- The Young Mr. Pitt (GB)
- 25 September
October–December
- October 1942
- 8 October
- 16 October
- 23 October
- 24 October
- 30 October
- 31 October
- November 1942
- 6 November
- 9 November
- The Great Mr. Handel (GB)
- 10 November
- 19 November
- 20 November
- The Gaucho War (Argentina)
- 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
- 25 November
- Gentleman Jim
- 26 November
- 27 November
- 28 November
- December 1942
- 4 December
- 5 December
- Whom the Gods Love (Germany-Austria)
- 6 December
- 7 December
- Went the Day Well? (GB)
- 9 December
- 11 December
- 17 December
- 18 December
- Aniki-Bóbó (Portugal)
- The Great Impersonation
- 23 December
- Four Steps in the Clouds (Italy)
- 24 December
- 25 December
- 30 December
Notable films released in 1942
U.S.A unless stated
A
- Across the Pacific, starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor
- The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine, starring Dennis O'Keefe and Ruth Terry
- A-Haunting We Will Go, starring Laurel and Hardy
- Ala-Arriba! – (Portugal)
- Alias Boston Blackie, Starring Chester Morris, Adele Mara, and Richard Lane
- Alibi, starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason – (GB)
- All Through the Night, starring Humphrey Bogart
- American Empire, starring Richard Dix
- Andy Hardy's Double Life, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
- Aniki-Bóbó – (Portugal)
- Arabian Nights, starring Sabu, Jon Hall, Maria Montez
- Attack on Baku, starring Willy Fritsch, René Deltgen (Germany)
B
- El Baisano Jalil – (Mexico)
- Bambi, directed by David Hand, starring Bobby Stewart, Donnie Dunagan, Hardie Albright and John Sutherland
- The Battle of Midway, documentary directed by John Ford
- The Big Blockade, starring Leslie Banks, Michael Redgrave and Will Hay – (UK)
- The Big Shot, starring Humphrey Bogart
- The Big Street, starring Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball
- The Black Sheep of Whitehall, starring Will Hay and John Mills – (GB)
- The Black Swan, starring Tyrone Power
- Blue, White and Perfect, starring Lloyd Nolan
- Bullet Scars, starring Regis Toomey
C-D
- Captains of the Clouds, starring James Cagney
- Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz (Oscar winner), starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains
- Cat People, starring Simone Simon and Tom Conway
- Commandos Strike at Dawn, starring Paul Muni
- The Corpse Vanishes, starring Bela Lugosi
- The Courtship of Andy Hardy, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
- Derailed (Afsporet) – (Denmark)
- Desperate Journey, starring Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan
- The Devil's Envoys (Les Visiteurs du Soir), directed by Marcel Carné, starring Arletty – (France)
E-F
- Eagle Squadron, directed by Arthur Lubin
- Escape from Hong Kong, starring Marjorie Lord
- Eyes in the Night, directed by Fred Zinneman, starring Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed
- The Falcon Takes Over, starring George Sanders
- The First of the Few, directed by Leslie Howard, starring Howard and David Niven – (GB)
- The Fleet's In, starring Dorothy Lamour and William Holden
- Flying Fortress, starring Richard Greene (GB)
- Flying Tigers, starring John Wayne
- The Foreman Went to France, starring Clifford Evans and Tommy Trinder – (GB)
- For Me and My Gal, starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly
- Four Steps in the Clouds (Quattro passi fra le nuvole) – (Italy)
G-H
- Un Garibaldino al Convento, directed by Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
- The Gaucho War (La guerra gaucha) – (Argentina)
- Gentleman Jim, a biopic of boxer James J. Corbett, starring Errol Flynn
- George Washington Slept Here, starring Jack Benny
- The Ghost of Frankenstein starring Lon Chaney Jr.
- The Glass Key, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake
- The Goose Steps Out, starring Will Hay – (GB)
- The Great Impersonation, directed by John Rawlins, starring Ralph Bellamy
- The Great King (Der große König) – (Germany)
- The Great Man's Lady, directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Barbara Stanwyck
- The Great Mr. Handel, directed by Norman Walker, starring Wilfrid Lawson (GB)
- Hatter's Castle, starring Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, James Mason – (GB)
- Her Cardboard Lover, starring Robert Taylor and Norma Shearer
- Holiday Inn, starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire
- Historia de un gran amor (A Great Love Story) – (Mexico)
I
- I Married an Angel, starring Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald
- I Married a Witch, starring Veronica Lake and Fredric March
- In Old California, starring John Wayne
- In This Our Life, starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland
- In Which We Serve, directed by David Lean and Noël Coward, starring Coward and John Mills – (GB)
- Invisible Agent, starring Jon Hall
J-K
- Jackass Mail, starring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main
- Johnny Eager, starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner
- Jungle Book, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Sabu
- Kid Glove Killer, the directorial debut of Fred Zinnemann
- The Kids Grow Up (Los Chicos crecen) – (Argentina)
- Kings Row, starring Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Claude Rains
- Kokoda Front Line!, an Academy Award winning documentary film – (Australia)
L-M
- Larceny, Inc., starring Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
- Listen to Britain, propaganda film directed by Humphrey Jennings – (GB)
- The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe, starring Linda Darnell
- The Magnificent Ambersons, directed by Orson Welles, starring Joseph Cotten and Dolores Costello
- The Major and the Minor, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland
- The Male Animal, starring Henry Fonda and Olivia De Havilland
- The Man Who Came to Dinner, starring Bette Davis, Monty Woolley, Jimmy Durante
- The Man Who Wanted to Kill Himself (El hombre que se quiso matar) – (Spain)
- Miss Annie Rooney, starring Shirley Temple
- Moontide, starring Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino
- Mrs. Miniver, directed by William Wyler, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
- The Mummy's Tomb, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
- The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (L'Assassin habite au 21), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Pierre Fresnay – (France)
- My Favorite Blonde, starring Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll
- My Gal Sal, starring Rita Hayworth
- My Sister Eileen, starring Rosalind Russell
N-O
- 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge, starring The East Side Kids
- The Next of Kin, starring Mervyn Johns – (GB)
- Northwest Rangers
- Now, Voyager, starring Bette Davis and Paul Henreid
- One of Our Aircraft is Missing, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger – (GB)
- Overland Mail, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., Noah Beery, Jr., Noah Beery, Sr.
P
- Pacific Rendezvous, starring Lee Bowman
- The Palm Beach Story, directed by Preston Sturges, starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Rudy Vallée
- Panama Hattie, starring Ann Sothern and Lena Horne
- Pardon My Sarong, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- O Pátio das Cantigas (The Courtyard of Songs) – (Portugal)
- People of the Mountains, directed by István Szőts – (Hungary)
- The Pied Piper, starring Monty Woolley and Roddy McDowall
- A Pistol Shot, starring Assia Noris, Fosco Giachetti (Italy)
- Pittsburgh, starring John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, Shemp Howard
- The Pride of the Yankees, starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan, Babe Ruth
Q-R
- Random Harvest, starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson
- Reap the Wild Wind, starring John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland
- Reunion in France, starring Joan Crawford
- Ride 'Em Cowboy, starring Abbott and Costello
- Rings on Her Fingers, starring Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney
- Rio Rita, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Road to Morocco, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope
- The Rock of the Souls (El Peñón de las Ánimas) – (Mexico)
- Roti (Bread) – (India)
- Roxie Hart, starring Ginger Rogers
S
- Saboteur, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Priscilla Lane and Robert Cummings
- Saludos Amigos, a Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Goofy (released in South America in 1942 and in the U.S. in 1943)
- Somewhere I'll Find You, starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake, starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney
- Song of the Islands, a Darryl F. Zanuck production starring Betty Grable and Victor Mature
- Sons of the Pioneers, starring Roy Rogers and George 'Gabby' Hayes
- The Spoilers, starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne
- Springtime in the Rockies, starring Betty Grable, John Payne, Carmen Miranda and Cesar Romero
- Star Spangled Rhythm, featuring an all-star cast
- Sweater Girl, starring Eddie Bracken, June Preisser, and Betty Jane Rhodes
- Syncopation, starring Adolphe Menjou
T-V
- Tales of Manhattan, directed by Julien Duvivier with an all-star cast
- The Talk of the Town, starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman
- Tarzan's New York Adventure, starring Johnny Weissmuller
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point, starring George Montgomery and Maureen O'Hara
- Tennessee Johnson, starring Van Heflin and Ruth Hussey
- There Was a Father (chichi ariki), directed by Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)
- There's One Born Every Minute, starring Hugh Herbert and Peggy Moran
- This Above All, starring Tyrone Power
- This Gun for Hire, starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd
- This Was Paris, starring Ann Dvorak – (GB)
- Time to Kill, starring Lloyd Nolan
- Thunder Rock, starring Michael Redgrave and James Mason – (GB)
- To Be or Not to Be, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Jack Benny and (in her last film) Carole Lombard
- Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die, starring Richard Dix
- Tortilla Flat, starring Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield
- Uncensored, directed by Anthony Asquith – (GB)
- The Undying Monster, starring James Ellison
- Valentin the Good (Valentin Dobrotivý), directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia)
- Valley of the Sun, starring Lucille Ball and James Craig
- The Voice of Terror, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
W-Z
- Wake Island, starring Brian Donlevy and Robert Preston
- Went the Day Well?, directed by Cavalcanti, starring Leslie Banks and Mervyn Johns – (GB)
- Who Done It?, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Whom the Gods Love, directed by Karl Hartl (Germany-Austria)
- Woman of the Year, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
- A Yank at Eton, starring Mickey Rooney
- Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney
- The Young Mr. Pitt, directed by Carol Reed, starring Robert Donat – biopic of William Pitt the Younger – (GB)
- You Were Never Lovelier, starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth
Serials
- Captain Midnight, starring Dave O'Brien, directed by James W. Horne
- Don Winslow of the Navy
- Gang Busters
- Junior G-Men of the Air, starring the Dead End Kids
- King of the Mounties, starring Allan Lane, directed by William Witney
- Overland Mail
- Perils of Nyoka, starring Kay Aldridge & Clayton Moore, directed by William Witney
- Perils of the Royal Mounted, directed by James W. Horne
- The Secret Code, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
- Spy Smasher, starring Kane Richmond, directed by William Witney
- The Valley of Vanishing Men, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Short film series
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 (1937–1956)
- Pluto (1937–1951)
- Walter Lantz Cartune (also known as New Universal Cartoons or Cartune Comedies) (1938-1942)
- Goofy (1939–1955)
- Andy Panda (1939–1949)
- Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
- Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949)
- Swing Symphonies (1941–1945)
- The Fox and the Crow (1941–1950)
Births
- January 3 – John Thaw, English actor (d. 2002)
- January 8 – Yvette Mimieux, American actress
- January 10 – Walter Hill, American director, producer and screenwriter
- January 19 – Michael Crawford, English actor and singer
- February 1 – Terry Jones, Welsh comedic actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2020)
- February 9 – Ada Lundver, Estonian actress and singer (d. 2011)
- February 21 – Margarethe von Trotta, German director
- March 25 – Richard O'Brien, English actor and writer
- March 27 – Michael York, English actor
- March 28 – Mike Newell, English director and producer
- April 3 – Marsha Mason, American actress
- April 6 – Barry Levinson, American director, producer and screenwriter
- April 23 – Sandra Dee, American actress (d. 2005)
- April 24 – Barbra Streisand, American actress, singer, director and producer
- June 18
- Roger Ebert, American film critic of the Chicago Sun Times (d. 2013)
- Paul McCartney, English musician and composer (The Beatles)
- July 1 – Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress
- July 9 – Richard Roundtree, American actor
- July 13 – Harrison Ford, American actor and producer
- July 24 – Chris Sarandon, American actor
- August 7 – Tobin Bell, actor
- September 29
- Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
- Ian McShane, English actor
- October 4 – Christopher Stone, American actor (d. 1995)
- October 6 – Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
- October 11 – Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor
- October 13 – Suzzanna, Indonesian actress (d. 2008)
- October 22 – Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
- October 26
- Bob Hoskins, English actor and director (d. 2014)
- Eili Sild, Estonian actress
- October 31 – David Ogden Stiers, American actor (d. 2018)
- November 17 – Martin Scorsese, American director, producer, screenwriter and actor
- November 24 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian and actor
- December 4 – Gemma Jones, English actress
Deaths
- January 16 – Carole Lombard, 33, American actress, To Be or Not to Be, My Man Godfrey, Made for Each Other, Nothing Sacred
- January 31 – Rolf Wenkhaus, 24, German actor, Emil and the Detectives, S.A.-Mann Brand
- April 10 – Carl Schenstrøm, 60, Danish actor, Cocktails, The Last Laugh
- May 29 – John Barrymore, 60, American actor, Grand Hotel, Twentieth Century, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dinner at Eight
- June 4 – Virginia Lee Corbin, 31, American actress, Hands Up!, X Marks the Spot
- July 5 – Karin Swanström, 69, Swedish actress, director, His English Wife, Black Roses
- August 18 – Rafaela Ottiano, 54, Italian-born American actress, Grand Hotel, She Done Him Wrong, The Devil-Doll, Curly Top
- October 20 – May Robson, 84, Australian-born American stage & film actress, Bringing Up Baby, A Star is Born, Lady for a Day, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- October 22 – Olga Svendsen, 59, Danish actress, Kidnapped
- November 5 – George M. Cohan, 64, American actor, songwriter, entertainer, The Phantom President, Broadway Jones, subject of Yankee Doodle Dandy
- November 9 – Edna May Oliver, 59, American stage & film actress, David Copperfield, Drums Along the Mohawk, Little Women, A Tale of Two Cities
- November 12 – Laura Hope Crews, 62, American stage & screen actress, Gone with the Wind, Camille, Angel, The Blue Bird
- November 15 – Sidney Fox, 30, American actress, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Bad Sister, Six Cylinder Love
- December 12 – Helen Westley, 67, American stage & screen actress, Heidi, Roberta, All This, and Heaven Too, Alexander's Ragtime Band
Film Debuts
- Richard Attenborough – In Which We Serve
- Betty Hutton – The Fleet's In
- Anne Jeffreys – Billy the Kid Trapped
- Gene Kelly – For Me and My Gal
- Harry Morgan – To the Shores of Tripoli
- Eleanor Parker – The Big Shot
- Simone Signoret – Bolero
- Elizabeth Taylor – There's One Born Every Minute
- Peter Ustinov – One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
- Esther Williams – Andy Hardy's Double Life
- Tweety Bird – A Tale of Two Kitties
References
- The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
- Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
- "Top Grossers of the Season", Variety, 5 January 1944 p 54
- Annual US Box Office Chart of 1942
- "101 Pix Gross in Millions" Variety 6 Jan 1943 p 58
- Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 219
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