1949 in film

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 Distributor Domestic rentals
1 Jolson Sings Again Columbia $5,000,000[1]
2 Battleground MGM $4,722,000[2]
3 I Was a Male War Bride 20th Century Fox $4,100,000[3]
4 Sands of Iwo Jima Republic $4,000,000[3]
5 The Stratton Story MGM $3,831,000[2]
6 Pinky 20th Century Fox $3,800,000[4]
7 Mr. Belvedere Goes to College $3,700,000[4]
8 Neptune's Daughter MGM $3,477,000[2]
9 Little Women $3,425,000[2]
10 Sorrowful Jones Paramount $3,400,000[4]

Events

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
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

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Serials

Short film series

Births

  • January 1 – Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Senegalese actress
  • January 6 – Rudolf van den Berg, Dutch director and screenwriter (died 2025)
  • January 7
  • January 9 – Vincent Grass, Belgian actor
  • January 12 – Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born director
  • January 14 – Lawrence Kasdan, American director and screenwriter
  • January 17 – Andy Kaufman, American actor and comedian (died 1984)
  • January 24 – John Belushi, American actor and comedian (died 1982)
  • January 26 – David Strathairn, American actor
  • January 27 – Zbigniew Rybczyński, Polish film and video cinematographer and director
  • February 2
  • February 8
  • February 9 – Judith Light, American actress
  • February 16 – Marc de Jonge, French actor (died 1996)
  • February 27 - Debra Monk, American actress, singer and writer
  • March 1 - Tom Mason, American actor
  • March 2 – Gates McFadden, American actress
  • March 3
    • Gloria Hendry, American actress and former model
    • Sandy Martin, American actress, director and producer
  • March 9 - Lizbeth MacKay, American actress
  • March 12 – Rob Cohen, American director, producer and writer
  • March 16
  • March 22 – Fanny Ardant, French actress
  • March 28
  • March 31 – Regina Baff, American actress
  • April 2
  • April 5 – John Berg, American actor (died 2007)
  • April 8 – John Madden, English director
  • April 9 – Sorcha Cusack, Irish actress
  • April 11 – Bernd Eichinger, German producer, director and screenwriter (died 2011)
  • April 14 – John Shea, American actor
  • April 20
  • April 21 – Patti LuPone, American actress and singer
  • April 24 – Peter Friedman, American actor
  • April 26 – Dominic Sena, American director
  • April 28
  • April 29 - Anita Dobson, English actress and singer
  • May 3 – Ron Canada, American actor
  • May 7 – Marilyn Burns, American actress (died 2014)
  • May 8 - Rockets Redglare, American character actor and stand-up comedian (died 2001)
  • May 10 – Walter von Hauff, German actor
  • May 13 – Zoë Wanamaker, American-born British actress
  • May 18
    • Marco Perella, American character actor
    • Hubert Saint-Macary, French actor
  • May 20 – Dave Thomas, Canadian comedian, actor and television writer
  • May 21 – Will Ryan, American voice actor, singer and musician (died 2021)
  • May 22 – Cheryl Campbell, English actress
  • May 24 – Jim Broadbent, English actor
  • May 25 – Joe Unger, American actor
  • May 26
  • May 28 – Sandy Helberg, German-born American actor
  • May 29 – Cotter Smith, American actor
  • May 31 – Tom Berenger, American actor
  • June 5 – Guts Ishimatsu, Japanese actor and comedian
  • June 10 – Frankie Faison, American actor
  • June 11 – Sherman Howard, American actor
  • June 12 – Roger Aaron Brown, American character actor
  • June 14 – Antony Sher, British actor (died 2021)
  • June 15
    • Simon Callow, English actor, director and writer
    • Richard Henzel, American actor
    • Jim Varney, American actor and comedian (died 2000)
  • June 16 – Geoff Pierson, American actor
  • June 18 - Mac McDonald, American actor
  • June 22 – Meryl Streep, American actress
  • June 29
    • Roger Allers, American director, screenwriter, animator and storyboard artist (died 2026)
    • Greg Burson, American voice actor (died 2008)
  • July 3 – Masato Harada, Japanese director, film critic and actor (died 2025)
  • July 5 – Ed O'Ross, American actor
  • July 7 – Shelley Duvall, American actress (died 2024)
  • July 12
    • Diana Hardcastle, English actress
    • Bernice Stegers, English actress
  • July 24 – Michael Richards, American actor, writer, producer and retired comedian
  • July 27
  • July 28 – Randall Wallace, American screenwriter, director and producer
  • August 2 – Madeline Smith, English actress
  • August 3 – Philip Casnoff, American actor
  • August 5 - Penne Hackforth-Jones, Australian actress (died 2013)
  • August 8 – Keith Carradine, American actor
  • August 11 – Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (died 1990)
  • August 15 – Phyllis Smith, American actress
  • August 17 – Julian Fellowes, English actor, writer, director and screenwriter
  • August 20 – Patrick Kilpatrick, American actor, director and screenwriter
  • August 21 – Loretta Devine, American actress
  • August 23 – Shelley Long, American actress
  • August 24 – Joe Regalbuto, American actor and director
  • August 25 – John Savage, American actor
  • August 31
  • September 1 – Luminița Gheorghiu, Romanian actress (died 2021)
  • September 4 – Eero Spriit, Estonian actor and producer
  • September 5 – Steve Sweeney, American comedian and actor
  • September 13 – Burghart Klaußner, German actor
  • September 16 – Ed Begley, Jr., American actor
  • September 18 – Beth Grant, American character actress
  • September 19 – Ernie Sabella, American actor
  • September 21 - Yūsaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (died 1989)
  • September 25
  • October 2 – Larry Sellers, Osage-American actor and stuntman (died 2021)
  • October 4 – Armand Assante, American actor
  • October 8
  • October 10 – Jessica Harper, American actress
  • October 13 – Tarık Akan, Turkish actor and activist (d. 2016)
  • October 15 – Tanya Roberts, American actress (died 2021)
  • October 19 - Christopher Adamson, British actor (died 2025)
  • October 20 – George Harris, British actor
  • October 21 – LaTanya Richardson Jackson, American actress
  • October 25
  • October 30 – Leon Rippy, American character actor
  • November 1 – Jeannie Berlin, American actress and screenwriter
  • November 6 – Brad Davis, American actor (died 1991)
  • November 7
    • Terry Camilleri, Australian actor
    • Ben Guillory, American actor and director
  • November 10 – Ann Reinking, American actress and singer (died 2020)
  • November 14 – Gary Grubbs, American character actor
  • November 17 – Jon Avnet, American director, writer and producer
  • November 19 - Nigel Bennett, English-born Canadian actor, director and writer
  • November 27
  • November 28
  • November 29 – Garry Shandling, American stand-up comedian, actor, director, writer and producer (died 2016)
  • November 30
  • December 3 – Heather Menzies, Canadian-American actress (died 2017)
  • December 4 – Jeff Bridges, American actor
  • December 5 – Pamela Blair, American actress (died 2023)
  • December 7 – Tom Waits, American musician and actor
  • December 8 – Nancy Meyers, American filmmaker
  • December 10 – Enrique Castillo, American actor, writer, director and producer
  • December 12 – Bill Nighy, British actor
  • December 13 – Robert Lindsay, English actor
  • December 15 – Don Johnson, American actor
  • December 16 - Allan Graf, American athlete, actor, stuntman and director
  • December 18 – Kai Wulff, German-born American actor
  • December 19
    • Marlene Clark, American actress (died 2023)
    • Nancy Kyes, American former actress
    • Kjell Nilsson, Swedish actor
    • Rita Taggart, American actress
  • December 21 – Michael Horse, American actor
  • December 22 – Graham Beckel, American character actor
  • December 25 – Sissy Spacek, American actress
  • December 28 – Hilton McRae, Scottish actor

Deaths

Film debuts

References

  1. ^ Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  2. ^ a b c d The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  3. ^ a b Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  4. ^ a b c "Top 20 Films of 1949 by Domestic Revenue". boxofficereport.com. Archived from the original on 2008-06-15.
  5. ^ "Boxoffice Magazine – December 10, 1949, p. 26". Boxoffice.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
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