1942 in film

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The year of 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.

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

The top ten 1942 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1942
Rank Title Studio Box-office gross rental
1 Mrs. Miniver Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $5,358,000[1]
2 Random Harvest $4,650,000[1]
3 Yankee Doodle Dandy Warner Bros. $4,631,000[2]
4 Reap the Wild Wind Paramount Pictures $4,000,000[3]
5 Holiday Inn
Road to Morocco 		$3,800,000[4]
6 The Pride of the Yankees RKO Radio Pictures/Samuel Goldwyn Productions $3,671,000[4]
7 Wake Island Paramount Pictures $3,500,000[5]
8 For Me and My Gal Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $2,894,000[1]
9 Somewhere I'll Find You $2,885,000[1]
10 The Black Swan 20th Century Fox $2,586,000[4]

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. The film becomes MGM's highest-grossing film of the 1940s. At the 15th Academy Awards, Mrs. Miniver wins six awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (for William Wyler), Best Actress (for Greer Garson) and Best Supporting Actress (for Teresa Wright).
  • 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[]

Main article: 15th 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[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Notable films released in 1942[]

U.S.A unless stated

A[]

B[]

  • El Baisano Jalil – (Mexico)
  • Bambi, directed by David Hand, starring Bobby Stewart, Donnie Dunagan, Hardie Albright and John Sutherland
  • Basant, directed by Amiya Chakravorty and starring Madhubala and Mumtaz Shanti – (India)
  • 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[]

E[]

F[]

G[]

  • 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)

H[]

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[]

  • Jackass Mail, starring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main
  • Johnny Eager, starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner
  • Jungle Book, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Sabu

K[]

  • 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[]

  • 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[]

  • 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[]

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[]

T[]

U[]

V[]

W[]

  • 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

Y[]

Serials[]

Short film series[]

  • Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
  • Our Gang (1922–1944)
  • 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 (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
  • January 31 – Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress
  • 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 15 - Molly Peters, English actress and model (died 2017)
  • March 25 – Richard O'Brien, English actor and writer
  • March 27
    • Art Evans (actor), American actor
    • Michael York, English actor
  • March 28 – Mike Newell, English director and producer
  • April 2 - Roshan Seth, British-Indian actor, writer and director
  • April 3 – Marsha Mason, American actress
  • April 6 – Barry Levinson, American director, producer and screenwriter
  • April 17 - David Bradley (English actor), English actor
  • 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
  • August 19 - Fred Thompson, American politician, attorney, actor and radio personality (d. 2015)
  • August 28 - Peter Bartlett, American actor and voice actor
  • September 11 - Patricia Franklin, English actress
  • September 29
    • Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
    • Ian McShane, English actor
  • October 3 - Steve Susskind, American actor (d. 2005)
  • 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 20 - Robert Costanzo, American actor
  • 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 1 - Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (d. 2013)
  • November 17 – Martin Scorsese, American director, producer, screenwriter and actor
  • November 21 - Michael Cavanaugh (actor), American 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[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 23 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  3. ^ Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  4. ^ a b c "All-time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990.
  5. ^ "101 Pix Gross in Millions" Variety 6 Jan 1943 p 58
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