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1943 in Film
Overview of the events of 1943 in film
Overview of the events of 1943 in film
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
Awards
Top Ten Money Making Stars
1943 film releases
United States
January-March
January 1943
6 January
12 January
23 January
February 1943
3 February
5 February
11 February
12 February
14 February
19 February
20 February
March 1943
1 March
2 March
3 March
5 March
10 March
11 March
15 March
22 March
25 March
26 March
27 March
April-June
April 1943
2 April
9 April
12 April
15 April
22 April
23 April
24 April
30 April
May 1943
4 May
7 May
8 May
13 May
14 May
16 May
17 May
21 May
22 May
27 May
28 May
June 1943
2 June
3 June
10 June
11 June
22 June
23 June
July-September
July 1943
3 July
14 July
17 July
21 July
26 July
August 1943
1 August
2 August
11 August
12 August
14 August
19 August
21 August
23 August
27 August
30 August
September 1943
2 September
10 September
13 September
16 September
17 September
24 September
25 September
28 September
29 September
October-December
October 1943
7 October
8 October
13 October
19 October
23 October
29 October
November 1943
4 November
5 November
10 November
11 November
12 November
13 November
19 November
23 November
26 November
27 November
December 1943
3 December
6 December
14 December
15 December
17 December
20 December
21 December
24 December
29 December
31 December
Notable films released in 1943
United States unless stated
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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
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 )
Cowboy in Manhattan
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
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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 )
Forces Occultes , directed by Jean Marny , starring Maurice Rémy , Marcel Vibert , Auguste Bovério , Giséle Parry - (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
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Béla Lugosi
Der Fuehrer's Face , Donald Duck's Academy Award-winning shortG
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
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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 )
Meshes of the Afternoon , directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid
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
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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
A Stranger in Town , starring Frank Morgan T
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 U
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Serials
Comedy film series
Animated short film series
Births
January 1 - Don Novello , American writer, film director, producer, actor, singer and comedian
January 13 - Richard Moll , 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 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
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 28 - Randy Newman , American singer, film composer
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
Deaths
February 14 - Dora Gerson , 43, German actress, Caravan of Death , On the Brink of Paradise
February 19 - Lynne Overman , 58, American actress, 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
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
^ a b c Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press. pp. 358-359 . ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6 .
^ a b "All-time Film Rental Champs". Variety . October 15, 1990. p. M162 to 166.
^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .
^ "Top Grossers of the Season" , Variety , 5 January 1944 p 54
^ a b c "Historical Events in 1943" . www.historyorb.com .
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