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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:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
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1 | This is the Army | Warner Bros. | $8,301,000[1] |
2 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Paramount | $6,300,000[2] |
3 | The Song of Bernadette | 20th Century Fox
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$4,700,000[3] |
4 | Stage Door Canteen | United Artists | $4,350,000[4] |
5 | Star Spangled Rhythm | Paramount | $3,850,000[5] |
6 | Thousands Cheer | MGM | $3,751,000[6] |
7 | Casablanca | Warner Bros. | $3,398,000[1] |
8 | Coney Island | 20th Century Fox | $3,305,000[7] |
9 | Destination Tokyo | Warner Bros. | $3,237,000[1] |
10 | Dixie | Paramount | $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.[8]
- June 1 – Veteran English stage and screen actor 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.
- December 31 – New York City's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater.[8]
Awards
Category/Organization | 1st Golden Globe Awards January 20, 1944 |
16th Academy Awards March 2, 1944 |
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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 |
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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
- January 1943
- 12 January
- 23 January
- February 1943
- 3 February
- 5 February
- 11 February
- 12 February
- 19 February
- 20 February
- March 1943
- 1 March
- GB)
- 2 March
- 3 March
- Germany)
- 5 March
- 10 March
- 11 March
- 15 March
- GB)
- 19 March
- 22 March
- Spain)
- 25 March
- Japan)
- 26 March
- 27 March
- 1 March
April–June
- April 1943
- 2 April
- Border Patrol
- 9 April
- 12 April
- 15 April
- 22 April
- 23 April
- 24 April
- 30 April
- 2 April
- May 1943
- 4 May
- 7 May
- 8 May
- 13 May
- 14 May
- 16 May
- Italy)
- 17 May
- 21 May
- 22 May
- 27 May
- 28 May
- June 1943
- 2 June
- 3 June
- 10 June
- 11 June
- 22 June
- 23 June
- France)
- Dixie
- The Constant Nymph
July–September
- July 1943
- 3 July
- 8 July
- 16 July
- 17 July
- 21 July
- 26 July
- GB)
- August 1943
- 1 August
- 2 August
- Hi Diddle Diddle
- U.S.S.R.)
- 11 August
- 12 August
- 14 August
- 19 August
- Destroyer
- DuBarry Was a Lady
- 21 August
- 23 August
- GB)
- 27 August
- 30 August
- September 1943
- 2 September
- 9 September
- 10 September
- 13 September
- 16 September
- Mexico)
- 17 September
- 24 September
- GB)
- 25 September
- Thank Your Lucky Stars
- 28 September
- France)
- 29 September
October–December
- October 1943
- 7 October
- 8 October
- Best Foot Forward
- Crazy House
- 13 October
- France)
- 19 October
- GB)
- 23 October
- 29 October
- November 1943
- 4 November
- 5 November
- 10 November
- No Time for Love
- Germany)
- 11 November
- 12 November
- 13 November
- Denmark)
- Northern Pursuit
- 19 November
- 23 November
- 26 November
- 27 November
- December 1943
- 3 December
- 6 December
- 14 December
- GB)
- 15 December
- 17 December
- Calling Dr. Death
- Germany)
- 20 December
- GB)
- 24 December
- 25 December
- 29 December
- 31 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
- GB)
- Air Force, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Garfield
- 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
- GB)
- Bombardier, starring Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley
C
- Cabin in the Sky, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Ethel Waters
- 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
- France)
- Corvette K-225, starring Randolph Scott
- Portugal)
- Cowboy in Manhattan
- Crash Dive, starring Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter
- Crazy House, starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson
- Germany)
- Crime Doctor, starring Warner Baxter
- Cry 'Havoc', starring Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell
D
- The Dancing Masters, starring Laurel and Hardy
- Denmark)
- GB)
- GB)
- Destination Tokyo, starring Cary Grant and John Garfield
- Destroyer, starring Glenn Ford and Edward G. Robinson
- Mexico)
- DuBarry Was a Lady, starring Lucille Ball and Red Skelton
E
- Edge of Darkness, starring Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan
- France)
F
- 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
- Mexico)
- France)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, directed by Sam Wood, starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman
- Forever and a Day, featuring an all-star cast
- 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
- 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
- Spain)
- The Human Comedy, starring Mickey Rooney
I
- I Walked with a Zombie, starring Frances Dee
- Germany)
- It Ain't Hay, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- It Comes Up Love, starring Gloria Jean and Donald O'Connor
J
- Jack London, starring Michael O'Shea and Susan Hayward
- Robert Stevenson, starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine
- Journey into Fear, starring Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Río, Orson Welles
K
- Richard Dix and Jane Wyatt
- India)
L
- Lassie Come Home, starring Roddy McDowall and Donald Crisp
- The Leopard Man, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dennis O'Keefe
- GB)
M
- The Mad Ghoul, starring George Zucco
- Madame Curie, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
- GB)
- Mexico)
- Alexander Hammid
- 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
- Germany)
- GB)
N
- 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
- Italy)
- The Outlaw, controversial western directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jane Russell
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
- Béla Lugosi
- Revenge of the Zombies, starring John Carradine
- Riding High, starring Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell
S
- Sahara, starring Humphrey Bogart
- Saludos Amigos, a Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Goofy
- 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, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, co-starring Hillary Brooke
- Sherlock Holmes in Washington, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, co-starring Henry Daniell and George Zucco
- GB)
- 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
- GB)
- Stormy Weather, starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers
- France)
- A Stranger in Town, starring Frank Morgan
T
- Tender Comrade, starring Ginger Rogers and Robert Ryan
- Thank Your Lucky Stars, starring Eddie Cantor
- 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
- Germany)
- Top Man, starring Donald O'Connor
U
- U.S.S.R.)
V
- Disney
W
- War of the Wildcats (a.k.a. In Old Oklahoma), starring John Wayne
- Watch on the Rhine, starring Paul Lukas and Bette Davis
- GB)
- We've Never Been Licked, starring Richard Quine and Noah Beery Jr.
- Whistling in Brooklyn, starring Red Skelton
- The Woman of the Town, starring Claire Trevor and Albert Dekker
Y
- 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)
- )
- 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 1 – Don Novello, American writer, film director, producer, actor, singer and comedian
- January 13 – Richard Moll, American actor (died 2023)
- January 14 – Holland Taylor, American actress
- January 18
- Paul Angelis, English actor and writer (died 2009)
- Paul Freeman, English actor
- January 19 - Larry Clark, American director, producer and writer
- January 24 – Sharon Tate, American actress and model (murdered 1969)
- January 25 – Tobe Hooper, American director and screenwriter (died 2017)
- January 28 – John Beck, American actor
- January 31 – Peter McRobbie, Scottish-born American actor
- February 1 - Linda Gaye Scott, American actress
- February 3 – Blythe Danner, American actress
- February 5 - Michael Mann, American director, screenwriter and producer
- February 9 – Joe Pesci, American actor
- February 20 – Mike Leigh, English director
- February 25 – George Harrison, English musician and songwriter (died 2001)
- February 26 – Bill Duke, American actor and director
- March 8 – Lynn Redgrave, English actress (died 2010)
- March 15 – David Cronenberg, Canadian director and screenwriter
- March 25 – Paul Michael Glaser, American actor and director
- March 26 - Giusi Merli, Italian actress
- March 28 – Conchata Ferrell, American actress (died 2020)
- March 29
- March 31 – Christopher Walken, American actor
- April 8 – Jack O'Halloran, American actor
- April 10 - Tom Pollock, American producer (died 2020)
- April 20 – Edie Sedgwick, American actress, socialite, model and heiress (died 1971)
- April 26 – Leon Pownall, Welsh-Canadian actor (died 2006)
- May 5 – Michael Palin, English actor, comedian and musician
- May 7 - Donal McCann, Irish actor (died 1999)
- May 25 - Leslie Uggams, American actress and singer
- May 27 – Raye Birk, American actor
- June 2 – Charles Haid, American actor and film director
- June 4 - Tom Luddy, American producer (died 2023)
- June 7 – Michael Pennington, English actor, director and writer
- June 11 - Oleg Vidov, Russian-American actor, director and producer (died 2017)
- June 13 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor
- June 19 - Peter Belli, Danish actor and singer (died 2023)
- June 22
- Judith Barker, English actress
- Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor and director
- June 23 – Patrick Bokanowski, French director
- June 24 – Georg Stanford Brown, American actor and director
- June 26 - John Beasley, American actor (died 2023)
- July 3 – Kurtwood Smith, American actor
- July 11 - Tom Holland, American screenwriter, actor and director
- July 21
- Michael Caton, Australian actor, comedian and television host
- Edward Herrmann, American actor (died 2014)
- July 25 - Janet Margolin, American actress (died 1993)
- July 26 – Mick Jagger, English singer, songwriter, actor, filmmaker, and dancer
- July 28 – Frances Lee McCain, American actress
- July 29 - Jim Ishida, Japanese-American character actor
- August 6 - Ray Buktenica, American character actor
- August 15 – Barbara Bouchet, German-American actress
- August 17 – Robert De Niro, American actor
- August 18 – Martin Mull, American actor and comedian
- August 20 - Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
- August 21
- Lino Capolicchio, Italian actor, screenwriter and director (died 2022)
- Hugh Wilson, American director, writer, television showrunner and actor (died 2018)
- August 27 – Tuesday Weld, actress
- August 28 - David Soul, American-British actor and singer (died 2024)
- August 30 - Miri Fabian, Israeli actress
- September 1 – Don Stroud, American actor and musician
- September 3 – Valerie Perrine, American actress and model
- September 5 - Jack Charles, Australian actor (died 2022)
- September 9 – Art LaFleur, American character actor and acting coach (died 2021)
- September 10 – Daniel Truhitte, American actor
- September 19 - Diana Bellamy, American character actress (died 2001)
- September 21 – Jerry Bruckheimer, producer
- September 23 - Toni Basil, American singer, actress and director
- September 24 – Randall Duk Kim, Korean American stage, film and television actor
- September 28 – J. T. Walsh, American character actor (died 1998)
- October 4 – John Bindon, English actor and bodyguard (died 1993)
- October 5 - Jennifer Hagan, Australian actress
- October 8 – Chevy Chase, American actor and comedian
- October 12 – Lin Shaye, American actress
- October 15 – Penny Marshall, American television actress, film director and producer (died 2018)
- October 20 – George Wyner, American actor
- October 22
- Jan de Bont, Dutch cinematographer, director and producer
- Catherine Deneuve, French actress
- October 24 – Martin Campbell, New Zealand director
- October 27 - Carmen Argenziano, American actor (died 2019)
- October 29
- Christopher Cain, American director, screenwriter and producer
- Margaret Nolan, English actress (died 2020)
- Don Simpson, American producer, screenwriter and actor (died 1996)
- November 1 – John McEnery, English actor and writer (died 2019)
- November 5 – Sam Shepard, American actor (died 2017)
- November 7 – Michael Byrne, British actor
- November 10 - William Hoyland, English actor (died 2017)
- November 12
- Valerie Leon, English actress and model
- Wallace Shawn, American actor
- November 16 - Wai Ching Ho, Hong Kong actress
- November 20 – Mie Hama, former Japanese actress, radio and television presenter
- November 23 – Tony Bonner, Australian actor and singer
- November 28
- George T. Miller, Scottish-Australian director and producer (died 2023)
- Randy Newman, American singer, film composer
- December 12
- Gianni Russo, American actor and singer
- Phyllis Somerville, American actress (died 2020)
- December 13 – Arturo Ripstein, Mexican director
- December 16 – Patti Deutsch, American voice artist, actress and comedian (died 2017)
- December 21 – Jack Nance, American actor (died 1996)
- December 23 – Harry Shearer, American voice actor
- December 25 - David Darlow, American actor
- December 31
- Ben Kingsley, English actor
- Victor Raider-Wexler, American actor
Deaths
- January 25 – Spencer Charters, 67, American actor, The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine, The Postman Didn't Ring
- February 14 – Caravan of Death, On the Brink of Paradise
- February 19 – Little Miss Marker, Union Pacific, Dixie
- February 20 – Donald Haines, 23, American child actor, Skippy, A Tale of Two Cities
- March 10 – Tully Marshall, 78, American actor, Paid in Full, The Big Trail
- April 3 – The Thief of Baghdad, The Spy in Black
- June 1 – 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
- Best Foot Forward
- Sunset Carson – Stage Door Canteen
- Linda Christian – The Rock of Souls
- Jeanne Crain – The Gang's All Here
- Hume Cronyn – Shadow of a Doubt
- María Félix – The Rock of Souls
- Rhonda Fleming – In Old Oklahoma
- Dorothy Ford – Thousands Cheer
- Farley Granger – The North Star
- Barbara Hale – Gildersleeve's Bad Day
- Gladys Henson – The Demi-Paradise
- John Hodiak – A Stranger in Town
- Kim Hunter – The Seventh Victim
- Richard Jaeckel – Guadalcanal Diary
- Jack Lambert – Stage Door Canteen
- Moira Lister – The Shipbuilders
- Dorothy Malone – Gildersleeve on Broadway
- Dorothy McGuire – Claudia
- Robert Mitchum – The Human Comedy
- Robert Quarry – Shadow of a Doubt
- Cliff Robertson – We've Never Been Licked
- Ruth Roman – Stage Door Canteen
- Lawrence Tierney – Gildersleeve on Broadway
- Shelley Winters – There's Something About a Soldier
- Natalie Wood – Happy Land
References
- ^ 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
- ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
- ISBN 978-0810842441.
- ^ "All-Time Top Grossers". Variety. 6 January 1965. p. 67. Retrieved 29 December 2022 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ a b "Top Grossers of the Season". Variety. 5 January 1944. p. 54.
- ^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ "All-time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990. p. M162 to 166.
- ^ a b "Historical Events in 1943". www.historyorb.com.