1943 in film

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The year 1943 in film featured various significant events for the film industry.

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

The top ten 1943 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1943
Rank Title Studio Box-office gross rental
1 This is the Army Warner Bros. $8,301,000[1]
2 For Whom the Bell Tolls Paramount Pictures $6,300,000[2]
3 The Song of Bernadette 20th Century Fox $5,000,000[2]
4 Stage Door Canteen United Artists $4,400,000[2]
5 Star Spangled Rhythm Paramount Pictures $3,900,000[3]
6 Thousands Cheer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $3,751,000[4]
7 Casablanca Warner Bros. $3,398,000[1]
8 Coney Island 20th Century Fox $3,305,000[3]
9 Destination Tokyo Warner Bros. $3,237,000[1]
10 Dixie Paramount Pictures $3,100,000[5]

Events[]

  • January 23 – The film Casablanca is released nationally in the United States and becomes one of the top-grossing pictures of 1943. It goes on to win the Best Picture and Best Director awards at the 16th Academy Awards.
  • February 20 – American film studio executives agree to allow the United States Office of War Information to censor films.[6]
  • June 1 – Veteran English stage and screen actor Leslie Howard dies at the age of 50 in the crash of BOAC Flight 777 off the coast of Galicia, Spain. While best remembered for his role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind, Howard had roles in many other notable films and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
  • November 23 – British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation[6]
  • December 31 – New York City's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater[6]

Awards[]

Category/Organization 1st Golden Globe Awards
January 20, 1944		 16th Academy Awards
March 2, 1944
Best Film The Song of Bernadette Casablanca
Best Director Henry King
The Song of Bernadette		 Michael Curtiz
Casablanca
Best Actor Paul Lukas
Watch on the Rhine
Best Actress Jennifer Jones
The Song of Bernadette
Best Supporting Actor Akim Tamiroff
For Whom the Bell Tolls		 Charles Coburn
The More the Merrier
Best Supporting Actress Katina Paxinou
For Whom the Bell Tolls

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

1943 film releases[]

United States

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Notable films released in 1943[]

United States 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
  • Behind the Rising Sun, starring Tom Neal, produced by Howard Hughes
  • The Bells Go Down, starring Tommy Trinder and James Mason – (GB)
  • Best Foot Forward, starring Lucille Ball, William Gaxton, Virginia Weidler
  • Bombardier, starring Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley
  • Border Patrol, starring William Boyd, George Reeves, Robert Mitchum

C[]

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[]

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
  • Harlem, directed by Carmine Gallone, starring Massimo Girotti and Amedeo Nazzari (Italy)
  • 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[]

J[]

K[]

  • The Kansan, starring Richard Dix and Jane Wyatt
  • Kismet, starring Ashok Kumar – (India)

L[]

  • 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)

M[]

N[]

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

R[]

S[]

  • 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)
  • Stormy Weather, starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers
  • Strange Inheritance, starring Assia Noris and Jules Berry – (France)
  • A Stranger in Town, starring Frank Morgan

T[]

U[]

V[]

W[]

Y[]

  • Yellow Canary, starring Anna Neagle and Richard Greene – (GB)

Serials[]

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[]

Births[]

  • January 1 - Don Novello, American writer, film director, producer, actor, singer and comedian
  • January 13 – Richard Moll, actor
  • January 18 - Paul Freeman (actor), English actor
  • January 24 – Sharon Tate, actress and model (died 1969)
  • January 25 – Tobe Hooper, director and screenwriter (died 2017)
  • January 28 – John Beck, actor
  • January 31 – Peter McRobbie, 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 29 – Eric Idle, English actor, comedian, author and musician
  • March 31 – Christopher Walken, actor
  • April 20 – Edie Sedgwick, actress, socialite, model and heiress (died 1971)
  • June 2 - Charles Haid, American actor and film director
  • June 7 – Michael Pennington, English actor, director and writer
  • 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 9 - Art LaFleur, American character actor and acting coach (died 2021)
  • September 21 – Jerry Bruckheimer, producer
  • September 24 – Randall Duk Kim, Korean American stage, film and television actor
  • September 28 – J. T. Walsh, actor (died 1998)
  • October 4 – John Bindon, English actor and bodyguard (died 1993)
  • October 8 – Chevy Chase, actor and comedian
  • October 15 – Penny Marshall, American television actress, film director and producer (died 2018)
  • October 22 – Catherine Deneuve, French actress
  • November 5 – Sam Shepard, American actor (died 2017)
  • November 12 – Wallace Shawn, American actor
  • November 20 - Mie Hama, former Japanese actress, radio and television presenter
  • November 28 – Randy Newman, American singer, film composer
  • December 12 - Gianni Russo, American actor and singer
  • December 13 – Arturo Ripstein, Mexican director
  • December 16 - Patti Deutsch, American voice artist, actress and comedian (died 2017)
  • December 21 – Jack Nance, actor (died 1996)
  • December 23 – Harry Shearer, actor
  • December 31
    • Victor Raider-Wexler, American actor
    • Ben Kingsley, English actor

Deaths[]

  • February 14 – Dora Gerson, 43, German actress, Caravan of Death, On the Brink of Paradise
  • February 19 – Lynne Overman, 58, American actor, Little Miss Marker, Union Pacific, Dixie
  • February 20 – Donald Haines, 23, American child actor, Skippy, A Tale of Two Cities
  • 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
  • July 16 – Arthur Byron, 71, American actor, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, Gabriel Over the White House

Film Debuts[]

  • June Allyson – Best Foot Forward
  • Jeanne Crain – The Gang's All Here
  • Hume Cronyn – Shadow of a Doubt
  • Rhonda Fleming – In Old Oklahoma
  • Kim Hunter – The Seventh Victim
  • Richard Jaeckel – Guadalcanal Diary
  • Dorothy McGuire – Claudia
  • Robert Mitchum – The Human Comedy
  • Dorothy Malone – Gildersleeve on Broadway
  • Ella Raines – Corvette K-225
  • Jane Russell – The Outlaw
  • Cliff Robertson – We've Never Been Licked
  • Lawrence Tierney – Gildersleeve on Broadway
  • Shelley Winters – There's Something About a Soldier
  • Natalie Wood – The Moon Is Down

References[]

  1. ^ a b c 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 28 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  2. ^ a b c Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  3. ^ a b "All-time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990. p. M162 to 166.
  4. ^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  5. ^ "Top Grossers of the Season", Variety, 5 January 1944 p 54
  6. ^ a b c "Historical Events in 1943". www.historyorb.com.

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