1943 in film
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The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.
Events
- January 3 - first missing persons telecast (NYC)
- February 20 - American film studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor films.
- November 23 - British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation
- December 31 - NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater
Top grossing films (U.S.)[2]
Box office numbers were reported at the time as a percentage compared to 'normal' business at each theater. For example, For Whom the Bell Tolls performed at an extraordinary 254% while Thousands Cheer was a hit at 176%. This is why exact dollar grosses for the period are unreliable at best.
Awards
16th Academy Awards
- Best Picture: Casablanca - Warner Bros.
- Best Director: Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
- Best Actor: Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine
- Best Actress: Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette
- Best Supporting Actor: Charles Coburn - The More the Merrier
- Best Supporting Actress: Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls
1st Golden Globe Awards
- Best Picture: The Song of Bernadette
- Best Director: Henry King – The Song of Bernadette
- Best Actor: Paul Lukas – Watch on the Rhine
- Best Actress: Jennifer Jones – The Song of Bernadette
Top Ten Money Making Stars
| Rank | Actor/Actress |
|---|---|
| 1. | Betty Grable |
| 2. | Bob Hope |
| 3. (tie) | Bud Abbott Lou Costello |
| 4. | Bing Crosby |
| 5. | Gary Cooper |
| 6. | Greer Garson |
| 7. | Humphrey Bogart |
| 8. | James Cagney |
| 9. | Mickey Rooney |
| 10. | Clark Gable |
Notable films released in 1943
U.S.A. unless stated
A
- Above Suspicion, starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray
- Action in the North Atlantic, starring Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey
- The Adventures of Tartu, starring Robert Donat and Valerie Hobson - (GB)
- Air Force, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Garfield
- Angels of the Streets (Les anges du peche), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
B
- Background to Danger, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring George Raft and Peter Lorre
- Bataan, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Taylor and Lloyd Nolan
- The Bells Go Down, starring Tommy Trinder and James Mason - (GB)
- Bombardier, starring Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley
- Border Patrol, starring William Boyd, George Reeves, Robert Mitchum
C
- Cabin in the Sky, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Ethel Waters
- Calling Dr. Death, first of the Inner Sanctum Mysteries, starring Lon Chaney, Jr.
- Clancy Street Boys, starring The East Side Kids
- Coney Island, starring Betty Grable
- The Constant Nymph, starring Joan Fontaine
- Le Corbeau (The Raven), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Pierre Fresnay - (France)
- Corvette K-225, starring Randolph Scott
- O Costa do Castelo (The Costa from the Castle) - (Portugal)
- Crash Dive, starring Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter
- Crazy House, starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson
- The Crew of the Dora (Besatzung Dora) - (Germany)
- Crime Doctor, starring Warner Baxter
- Cry 'Havoc', starring Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell
D
- The Dancing Masters, starring Laurel and Hardy
- Day of Wrath (Vredens Dag), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - (Denmark)
- The Demi-Paradise, starring Laurence Olivier - (GB)
- Desert Victory, a propaganda documentary - (GB)
- Destination Tokyo, starring Cary Grant and John Garfield
- Destroyer, starring Glenn Ford and Edward G. Robinson
- Doña Bárbara, directed by Fernando de Fuentes - (Mexico)
- DuBarry Was a Lady, starring Lucille Ball and Red Skelton
E-F
- Edge of Darkness, starring Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan
- L'Éternel retour (The Eternal Return), directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais - (France)
- Fires Were Started, directed by Humphrey Jennings - (GB)
- Five Graves to Cairo, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter
- Flesh and Fantasy, starring Edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck and Charles Boyer
- Flor Silvestre, starring Dolores del Río - (Mexico)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, directed by Sam Wood, starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman
- Forever and a Day, featuring an all-star cast
- Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Béla Lugosi
- Der Fuehrer's Face, Donald Duck's Academy Award-winning short
G
- The Gang's All Here, directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda
- The Ghost Ship, starring Richard Dix
- Girl Crazy, starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
- Guadalcanal Diary, starring Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, Preston Foster, William Bendix, Anthony Quinn
- A Guy Named Joe, starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne
H
- Hangmen Also Die!, starring Brian Donlevy and Walter Brennan
- Happy Land, starring Don Ameche and Frances Dee
- The Hard Way, starring Ida Lupino
- Heaven Can Wait, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Gene Tierney and Don Ameche
- Hello, Frisco, Hello, starring Alice Faye
- Hi Diddle Diddle, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pola Negri
- Hit the Ice, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Hitler's Children, directed by Edward Dmytryk
- Holy Matrimony, starring Monty Woolley and Gracie Fields
- Huella de luz (A Sight of Light) - (Spain)
- The Human Comedy, starring Mickey Rooney
I
- I Walked with a Zombie, starring Frances Dee
- Immensee (aka Immensee: A German Folksong) - (Germany)
- It Ain't Hay, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- It Comes Up Love, starring Gloria Jean and Donald O'Connor
J-K
- Jane Eyre, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine
- Journey into Fear, starring Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles
- The Kansan, starring Richard Dix and Jane Wyatt
- Kismet, starring Ashok Kumar - (India)
L-M
- Lassie Come Home, starring Roddy McDowall and Donald Crisp
- The Leopard Man, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dennis O'Keefe
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook - (GB)
- The Mad Ghoul, starring George Zucco
- Madame Curie, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
- The Man in Grey, the first of the Gainsborough melodramas starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason - (GB)
- María Candelaria, starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz - (Mexico)
- Millions Like Us, directed by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder - (GB)
- Mission to Moscow, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Walter Huston
- Mister Big, starring Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean
- The More the Merrier, directed by George Stevens, starring Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea
- Mr. Lucky, starring Cary Grant
- Münchhausen - (Germany)
- My Learned Friend, starring Will Hay - (GB)
N
- Nasreddin in Bukhara - (U.S.S.R.)
- No Place for a Lady, starring William Gargan and Phyllis Brooks
- No Time for Love, starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray
- The North Star, starring Anne Baxter and Dana Andrews
- Northern Pursuit, starring Errol Flynn
O
- Old Acquaintance, starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins
- Ossessione (Obsession), directed by Luchino Visconti - (Italy)
- The Outlaw, controversial western directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jane Russell
- The Ox-Bow Incident, directed by William Wellman, starring Henry Fonda, Harry Morgan, Dana Andrews
P
- Phantom of the Opera, starring Claude Rains
- Prelude to War, directed by Frank Capra
- Princess O'Rourke, starring Olivia de Havilland and Robert Cummings
Q-S
- The Return of the Vampire, starring Béla Lugosi
- Riding High, starring Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell
- Sahara, starring Humphrey Bogart
- Saludos Amigos, a Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Goofy
- Sanshiro Sugata, directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)
- The Seventh Victim, starring Tom Conway
- Shadow of a Doubt, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten
- Sherlock Holmes Faces Death, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
- Sherlock Holmes in Washington, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
- The Shipbuilders, directed by John Baxter - (GB)
- The Silver Fleet, starring Ralph Richardson and Googie Withers - (GB)
- The Sky's the Limit, starring Fred Astaire and Joan Leslie
- So Proudly We Hail!, starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake
- Son of Dracula, starring Lon Chaney Jr.
- The Song of Bernadette, starring Jennifer Jones
- Squadron Leader X, starring Eric Portman and Ann Dvorak - (GB)
- Star Spangled Rhythm, featuring an all-star cast
- Stormy Weather, starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway
- A Stranger in Town, starring Frank Morgan
T-V
- Tender Comrade, starring Ginger Rogers and Robert Ryan
- Thank Your Lucky Stars, starring Eddie Cantor
- Theatre Royal, starring Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen - (GB)
- They Came to Blow Up America, starring George Sanders
- This is the Army, directed by Michael Curtiz
- This Land Is Mine, directed by Jean Renoir, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara
- Thousands Cheer, starring Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Mary Astor
- Titanic - (Germany)
- Top Man, starring Donald O'Connor
- Ukraine in Flames (Bitva za nashu Sovetskuyu Ukrainu) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Victory Through Air Power, a propaganda film by Disney
- Le Voyageur de la Toussaint - (France)
W-Z
- War of the Wildcats (a.k.a. In Old Oklahoma), starring John Wayne
- Watch on the Rhine, starring Paul Lukas and Bette Davis
- We Dive at Dawn, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring John Mills - (GB)
- We've Never Been Licked, starring Richard Quine and Noah Beery, Jr.
- Whistling in Brooklyn, starring Red Skelton
- Yellow Canary, starring Anna Neagle and Richard Greene - (GB)
Serials
- Adventures of the Flying Cadets
- The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
- Batman, starring Lewis Wilson
- Daredevils of the West, starring Allan Lane, directed by John English
- Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
- G-Men vs the Black Dragon, starring Rod Cameron, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
- The Masked Marvel, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
- The Phantom, starring Tom Tyler
- Secret Service in Darkest Africa, starring Rod Cameron, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Comedy film series
- Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
- Laurel and Hardy (1921-1945)
- Our Gang (1922–1944)
- The Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
- The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
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 (1934–1956)
- Daffy Duck (1937 – 1966)
- 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)
- Red Hot Riding Hood (1943–1949)
- Chip 'n Dale (1943–1956)
- Droopy (1943–1958)
Births
- January 13 - Richard Moll, actor
- January 24 - Sharon Tate, actress and model (died 1969)
- January 25 - Tobe Hooper, director and screenwriter
- January 28 - John Beck, actor
- February 3 - Blythe Danner, actress
- February 9 - Joe Pesci, actor
- February 20 - Mike Leigh, English director
- February 25 - George Harrison, English musician and songwriter (died 2001)
- March 8 - Lynn Redgrave, English actress (died 2010)
- March 15 - David Cronenberg, Canadian director and screenwriter
- March 31 - Christopher Walken, actor
- April 20 - Edie Sedgwick, actress, socialite, model and heiress (died 1971)
- June 13 - Malcolm McDowell, English actor
- June 23 - Patrick Bokanowski, French director
- July 3 - Kurtwood Smith, actor
- July 21 - Edward Herrmann, actor (died 2014)
- August 15 - Barbara Bouchet, German-American actress
- August 17 - Robert De Niro, actor
- August 27 - Tuesday Weld, actress
- September 21 - Jerry Bruckheimer, producer
- September 28 - J. T. Walsh, actor (died 1998)
- October 4 - John Bindon, English actor and bodyguard
- October 8 - Chevy Chase, actor and comedian
- October 22 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress
- November 12 - Wallace Shawn, American actor
- November 28 - Randy Newman, American singer, film composer
- December 13 - Arturo Ripstein, Mexican director
- December 21 - Jack Nance, actor (died 1996)
- December 23 - Harry Shearer, actor
- December 31 - Ben Kingsley, English actor
Deaths
- February 14 - Dora Gerson, 43, German actress, Caravan of Death, On the Brink of Paradise
- April 3 - Conrad Veidt, 50, German actor, Casablanca, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Thief of Baghdad, The Spy in Black
- June 1 - Leslie Howard, 50, Academy Award-nominated British actor, Gone with the Wind, Pygmalion, The Petrified Forest, Of Human Bondage
- June 30 - Carlo Wieth, 57, Danish actor
Film Debuts
- Robert Mitchum - The Human Comedy
- Shelley Winters - There's Something About a Soldier
- Natalie Wood - The Moon is Down
References
- ↑ http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1943?p=5
- ↑ Box Office Digest, March 1944, p. 14
Further reading
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