1941 in film

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Years in film:	1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Years in television:	1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Academy Awards 4 Films released in 1941 5 Serials 6 Short film series 7 Animated short film series 8 Births 9 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

1. Sergeant York
2. Buck Privates, starring Abbott and Costello
3. Tobacco Road

[edit] Academy Awards

• Best Picture: How Green Was My Valley - 20th Century-Fox
• Best Actor: Gary Cooper - Sergeant York
• Best Actress: Joan Fontaine - Suspicion

[edit] Films released in 1941

• Adam Had Four Sons
• Blossoms in the Dust, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
• Bowery Blitzkrieg
• Buck Privates, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Caught in the Draft
• Citizen Kane, directed by and starring Orson Welles
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner
• Dumbo
• Flying Wild
• Forty-Ninth Parallel
• Hellzapoppin'
• Hit the Road
• Hold That Ghost, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• How Green Was My Valley
• In The Navy, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Keep 'Em Flying, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Kipps -(film only mentioned in article)
• The Lady Eve
• Louisiana Purchase
• Major Barbara
• The Maltese Falcon, starring Humphrey Bogart
• Man Hunt
• Mob Town
• Pride of the Bowery
• Rage in Heaven
• Red River Valley, directed by Joseph Kane
• Sergeant York
• Shining Victory, starring James Stephenson and Geraldine Fitzgerald
• Spooks Run Wild
• Sullivan's Travels
• Sun Valley Serenade
• Suspicion
• Target for Tonight
• Tobacco Road
• Western Union
• The Wolf Man

[edit] Serials

• The Adventures of Captain Marvel, starring Tom Tyler
• Jungle Girl, starring Frances Gifford
• King of the Texas Rangers
• Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc, starring Ralph Byrd
• White Eagle
• The Spider Returns, starring Warren Hull
• The Iron Claw
• Holt of the Secret Service, starring

[edit] Short film series

• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)

[edit] 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)
• Walter Lantz Cartunes (also known as New Universal Cartoons or Cartune Comedies) (1938-1942)
• Goofy (1939-1955)
• Andy Panda (1939-1949)
• Tom and Jerry (MGM) (1940-1958)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941-1949)
• Swing Symphonies (1941-1945)
• The Fox and the Crow (1941-1950)
• Superman (1941-1943)

[edit] Births

• January 3 - Van Dyke Parks, musician, composer
• January 5 - Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese film maker
• January 8 - Graham Chapman, comedian
• January 9 - Susannah York, actress
• January 14 - Faye Dunaway, actress
• February 11 - Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman
• April 20 - Ryan O'Neal, actor
• June 25 - Denys Arcand, screenwriter, film director
• June 27 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, film director
• October 4 - Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer
• November 5 - Art Garfunkel, singer, occasional actor
• December 9 - Beau Bridges, actor

[edit] Deaths

• January 4 - Henri Bergson, writer
• January 10 - Joe Penner, comedian, actor
• May 12 - Ruth Stonehouse, actress, film director