1948 in film
Overview of the events of 1948 in film
The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.
The top ten 1948 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1948
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
The Red Shoes General Film
$5,000,000[ 1]
2
Red River United Artists
$4,506,825[ 2]
3
The Paleface Paramount
$4,500,000[ 1]
4
Johnny Belinda Warner Bros.
$4,266,000[ 3]
5
Easter Parade MGM
$4,144,000[ 4]
6
The Three Musketeers $4,124,000[ 4]
7
The Snake Pit 20th Century Fox
$4,100,000[ 1]
8
The Emperor Waltz Paramount
$4,000,000[ 1]
9
Homecoming MGM
$3,699,000[ 4]
10
Sitting Pretty 20th Century Fox
$3,550,000[ 5]
Events
Awards
Top ten money making stars
Notable films released in 1948
United States unless stated
A
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Act of Violence Van Heflin , Robert Ryan , Janet Leigh Adventures of Don Juan Errol Flynn Albuquerque Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton The Amazing Mr. X Turhan Bey and Lynn Bari L'Amore Roberto Rossellini , starring Anna Magnani – (Italy )Anna Karenina Vivien Leigh and Ralph Richardson – (GB )Another Part of the Forest Fredric March April Showers Ann Sothern and Jack Carson Arch of Triumph Ingrid Bergman , Charles Boyer , Charles Laughton , Ruth Warrick
B
B.F.'s Daughter Barbara Stanwyck Berlin Express Jacques Tourneur , starring Merle Oberon and Robert Ryan The Berliner Gert Fröbe – (Germany )Bicycle Thieves Ladri di biciclette Vittorio De Sica – (Italy )The Big Clock Ray Milland , Charles Laughton , Elsa Lanchester , Maureen O'Sullivan Blanche Fury Valerie Hobson and Stewart Granger – (GB )Blonde Ice Leslie Brooks Blood on the Moon Robert Mitchum Bodyguard Lawrence Tierney and Priscilla Lane The Boy with Green Hair Joseph Losey , starring Dean Stockwell and Robert Ryan The Bride Goes Wild Norman Taurog , starring June Allyson and Van Johnson
C
D
E
F
The Fallen Idol Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed , starring Ralph Richardson – (GB )Fighter Squadron Raoul Walsh , starring Edmond O'Brien and Robert Stack Force of Evil John Garfield A Foreign Affair Billy Wilder , starring Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich Fort Apache John Ford and starring John Wayne , Henry Fonda , Shirley Temple Four Faces West Joel McCrea and Frances Dee
G
H
Half Past Midnight Kent Taylor and Peggy Knudsen Hamlet Laurence Olivier , with Basil Sydney and Jean Simmons – (GB )He Walked by Night Richard Basehart and Jack Webb A Hen in the Wind Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan )Hollow Triumph Paul Henreid and Joan Bennett Homecoming Clark Gable , Lana Turner , Anne Baxter , John Hodiak
I
J
K
L
La Terra Trema Luchino Visconti (Italy)Ladies of the Chorus Marilyn Monroe Lal Dupatta Madhubala (India )The Lame Devil Sacha Guitry – (France )Letter from an Unknown Woman Max Ophüls , starring Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan London Belongs to Me Richard Attenborough and Alastair Sim – (GB )Louisiana Story Robert J. Flaherty The Loves of Carmen Rita Hayworth The Luck of the Irish Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter Luxury Liner Jane Powell and George Brent
M
Macbeth Orson Welles The Mating of Millie Evelyn Keyes and Glenn Ford Mela Dilip Kumar – (India )Melody Time Roy Rogers & Trigger and The Andrews Sisters Mexican Hayride Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Michurin Alexander Dovzhenko – (U.S.S.R. )Miranda Ken Annakin , starring Glynis Johns – (GB)Miss Tatlock's Millions Wanda Hendrix , Barry Fitzgerald , John Lund The Monkey's Paw Milton Rosmer – (GB )Moonrise Frank Borzage , starring Gail Russell and Dane Clark Morituri Germany )Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House Cary Grant and Myrna Loy My Dear Secretary Kirk Douglas , Laraine Day Myriad of Lights China )The Mysterious Apartment Norway )
N
O
P
The Paleface Bob Hope and Jane Russell Les Parents terribles Jean Cocteau , starring Jean Marais – (France )The Pirate Gene Kelly and Judy Garland Pitfall Dick Powell , Lizabeth Scott , Jane Wyatt , Raymond Burr Port of Call Ingmar Bergman – (Sweden )Portrait of Jennie William Dieterle , starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten
Q
R
Race Street George Raft and William Bendix Rachel and the Stranger Loretta Young , William Holden , Robert Mitchum Raw Deal Anthony Mann , starring Dennis O'Keefe , Claire Trevor , Marsha Hunt , Raymond Burr Red River Howard Hawks , starring John Wayne , Montgomery Clift , Walter Brennan , Joanne Dru , John Ireland The Red Shoes Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger , starring Moira Shearer and Anton Walbrook – (GB )Relentless Robert Young The Return of October Glenn Ford Road House Ida Lupino Rogues' Regiment Robert Florey and starring Dick Powell , Märta Torén , Vincent Price Romance on the High Seas Jack Carson , Janis Paige , Doris Day (film debut)Rope Alfred Hitchcock , starring James Stewart Ruthless Zachary Scott and Diana Lynn
S
Saigon Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake The Sainted Sisters Veronica Lake and Joan Caulfield Saraband for Dead Lovers Stewart Granger and Joan Greenwood – (GB)Scott of the Antarctic John Mills – (GB )Sealed Verdict Ray Milland The Search Fred Zinnemann , starring Montgomery Clift – (US /Switzerland )Secret Beyond the Door Fritz Lang , starring Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave Senza pietà Without Pity ) – (Italy )Shaheed Dilip Kumar – (India )Silver River Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan Sitting Pretty Robert Young and Maureen O'Hara Sleep, My Love Claudette Colbert Sleeping Car to Trieste Jean Kent – (GB )Smart Girls Don't Talk Virginia Mayo The Snake Pit Olivia de Havilland So Evil My Love Ray Milland , Ann Todd , Geraldine Fitzgerald – (GB)A Song Is Born Danny Kaye Sorry, Wrong Number Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster Spring in a Small Town Fei Mu – (China )Spring in Park Lane Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding – (GB )State of the Union Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn Station West Dick Powell and Jane Greer The Street with No Name Richard Widmark
T
U
V
W
Y
Serials
Short film series
Births
January 7 – Kenny Loggins , American singer-songwriter
January 10 – William Sanderson , American actor
January 12 – Anthony Andrews , English actor
January 13 – Malcolm Storry , British actor
January 14 – Carl Weathers , American actor and football player (d. 2024)
January 16 – John Carpenter , American director, producer and screenwriter
January 18 – M. C. Gainey , American character actor
January 20 – Geno Silva , American actor (d. 2020)
January 21 – Trey Wilson , American character actor (d. 1989)
January 25 – Emily Richard , British actress
January 28 – Mikhail Baryshnikov , Latvian-American actor
January 29 – Marc Singer , Canadian actor
February 1 – Rick James , American singer and actor (d. 2004)
February 3 – Thomas Rosales Jr. , American actor and stuntman
February 5
February 9 – David Hayman , Scottish actor and director
February 15 – Tino Insana , American actor, producer, writer, voice artist and comedian (d. 2017)
February 16 – Troy Evans , American actor
February 17 – Anne Lonnberg , American actress and singer of Swedish descent
February 18 – Sinéad Cusack , Irish actress
February 20 – Jennifer O'Neill , American actress
February 22 – John Ashton , American actor (d. 2024)
February 23 – Dennis Waterman , English actor and singer (d. 2022)
February 25 – K. P. A. C. Lalitha , Indian actress (d. 2022)
February 28
February 29 – Ken Foree , American actor
March 1 – Karl Johnson , Welsh actor
March 4 – Brian Cummings , American voice actor
March 5 – Annette Charles , American actress and dancer (d. 2011)
March 6 – Anna Maria Horsford , American actress
March 14 – Billy Crystal , American actor and comedian
March 16 – James Otis , American actor (d. 2020)
March 20 – Helene Vannari , Estonian actress (d. 2022)
March 23 - Penelope Milford , American actress
March 25 – Bonnie Bedelia , American actress
March 26 – Steven Tyler , American singer, songwriter, musician and actor
March 28
Matthew Corbett , English television personality, actor, writer, puppeteer and comedian
March 29 – Bud Cort , American actor
March 31 – Rhea Perlman , American actress and writer
April 5 – Carlos Carrasco , American actor
April 6 – Patrika Darbo , American actress
April 9 – Jaya Bachchan , Indian actress
April 20 – Gregory Itzin , American character actor (d. 2022)
April 25 – Freda Foh Shen , American film, television and theatre actress
April 28 – Marcia Strassman , American actress and singer (d. 2014)
May 3
May 11 – Pam Ferris , Welsh actress
May 12
May 14 – Walter Olkewicz , American character actor (d. 2021)
May 15 – Malcolm Stewart , Canadian actor
May 18 – Jesper Christensen , Danish actor
May 19 – Bruce Jarchow , American actor
May 21 – Jonathan Hyde , Australian-born English actor
May 24 – James Cosmo , Scottish actor
June 1 – Powers Boothe , American actor (d. 2017)
June 7 – Xavier Saint-Macary , French actor (d. 1988)
June 11 – Michael Swan , American actor
June 19 – Phylicia Rashad , American actress, singer and director
June 21 – Ian McEwan , English author
June 22 – Steve Eastin , American character actor
June 28
July 2 – Saul Rubinek , German-born Canadian actor, director and producer
July 5 – William Hootkins , American actor (d. 2005)
July 6 – Nathalie Baye , French actress
July 7 – Lori Tan Chinn , American actress and comedian
July 9 – Ray Baker , American actor
July 12
Susan Blu , American voice actress, voice director and casting directorBen Burtt , American sound designer
July 13 – Catherine Breillat , French director
July 20 – Muse Watson , American actor
July 26 – Leon Vitali , English actor (d. 2022)
July 28 – Georgia Engel , American actress (d. 2019)
July 30 – Jean Reno , French actor
August 5 – Barbara Flynn , English actress
August 13 – Peter Iacangelo , American actor (d. 2021)
August 14 – Joseph Marcell , British actor and comedian
August 18 – Grainger Hines , American actor, writer, producer and director
August 19 – Jim Carter , English actor
August 20 – John Noble , Australian actor
August 30 – Lewis Black , American actor and comedian
September 1 – James Rebhorn , American character actor (d. 2014)
September 4 – Michael Berryman , American character actor
September 7 – Susan Blakely , American actress
September 11 – Philip Alford , former American actor
September 15 – Kathryn Kates , American actress (d. 2022)
September 17 – John Ritter , American actor (d. 2003)
September 19
September 24
September 26 – Olivia Newton-John , British-born Australian actress and singer (d. 2022)
September 27 – A Martinez , American actor and singer
October 2 – Persis Khambatta , Indian actress and model (d. 1998)
October 5 – Sal Viscuso , American actor
October 8 – James Harper , American actor
October 11
October 14 – Gerard Murphy , Irish actor (d. 2013)
October 16 – Hema Malini , Indian actress and politician
October 17
October 21 – Tom Everett , American actor
October 28 – Telma Hopkins , American actress and singer
October 29 – Kate Jackson , American actress
October 30 – Don Creech , American actor
October 31 – Michael Kitchen , English actor and producer
November 3 - Robert Pugh , Welsh actor
November 11 – Vincent Schiavelli , American actor (d. 2005)
November 13 – Adelle Lutz , American model, actress and costume designer
November 14 – Robert Ginty , American actor and producer (d. 2009)
November 18 – Dom Irrera , American actor and stand-up comedian
November 20 – Richard Masur , American character actor
November 26 – Marianne Muellerleile , American actress
November 28 – Agnieszka Holland , Polish director and screenwriter
November 30 – Larry Bishop , American actor, screenwriter and director
December 1 – Remo Girone , Italian actor
December 6 – JoBeth Williams , American actress and director
December 14
December 15
December 21 – Samuel L. Jackson , American actor and producer
December 22 – Lynne Thigpen , American actress (d. 2003)
December 27 – Gérard Depardieu , French actor and filmmaker
December 31 – Donna Summer , American singer and songwriter (d. 2012)
Deaths
January 7 – Charles C. Wilson , 53, American actor, It Happened One Night The Hell Cat Waterfront Lady Legion of Terror
February 11 – Sergei Eisenstein , 50, Russian film director, Battleship Potemkin Alexander Nevsky Ivan the Terrible, Part One Ivan the Terrible, Part Two
February 14 – James Baskett , 44, American actor, Song of the South
February 23 – Patricia Farr , 35, American actress, Lady Luck Criminals of the Air Girls Can Play Lady Behave!
March 10 – William L. Thorne , 69, American actor, Vanishing Men
March 25 – Warren Hymer , 42, American actor, Up the River She's Dangerous The Lady and the Mob
May 3 – Gideon Wahlberg , 58, Swedish actor, writer and film director
May 12 – Dante Cappelli , 82, Italian actor, Macbeth Love Everlasting The Mysterious Mirror
May 26 – Torsten Bergström , 51, Swedish actor and director, The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar Trollebokungen Ungdom
May 29 – May Whitty , 82, English actress, Lassie Come Home Gaslight My Name Is Julia Ross
July 5 – Carole Landis , 29, American actress, Topper Returns I Wake Up Screaming One Million B.C. Four Jills in a Jeep
July 15 – William Selig , 84, American pioneer studio builder
July 23 – David Wark Griffith , 73, American film director, The Birth of a Nation Intolerance Broken Blossoms Orphans of the Storm
August 13 – Elaine Hammerstein , 51, American actress, Paint and Powder The Midnight Express
August 13 – Edwin Maxwell , 62, American actor, Duck Soup Cleopatra His Girl Friday
September 24 – Warren William , 53, American actor, Gold Diggers of 1933 The Wolf Man Lady for a Day Imitation of Life
September 28 – Gregg Toland , 44, American cinematographer, Citizen Kane The Best Years of Our Lives The Long Voyage Home December 7th: The Movie Wuthering Heights The Grapes of Wrath Song of the South The Little Foxes
October 10 – Mary Eaton , 47, American actress, Glorifying the American Girl The Cocoanuts
October 13 – Samuel S. Hinds , 73, American actor, It's a Wonderful Life Buck Privates
October 16 – Nora Lane , 43, American actress, The Cisco Kid Six-Gun Trail
October 21 – Elissa Landi , 43, Austrian-American actress, The Count of Monte Cristo After the Thin Man
November 9 – Edgar Kennedy , 58, American actor, Duck Soup A Star Is Born
December 20 – C. Aubrey Smith , 85, English actor, A Bill of Divorcement Madame Curie
Film debuts
References
^ a b c d "All-Time Top-Grossers" . Variety ISSN 0042-2738 . Retrieved 2022-07-20 – via Archive.org .^ Andreychuk, Ed (1997). The Golden Corral: A Roundup of Magnificent Western Films . McFarland & Company Inc. pp. 24–25 . ISBN 0-7864-0393-4 ^ Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1–31 p 29 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study^ "Top Grossers of 1948." Variety
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