1943 in film
The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.
Events
- January 3 - 1st missing persons telecast (NYC)
- February 20 - American film studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor films.
- November 23 - British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation
- December 31 - NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater
[1]
Top grossing films (U.S.)
Awards
- Best Picture: Casablanca - Warner Bros.
- Best Director: Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
- Best Actor: Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine
- Best Actress: Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette
- Best Supporting Actor: Charles Coburn - The More the Merrier,
- Best Supporting Actress: Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Best Picture: The Song of Bernadette
- Best Director: Henry King - The Song of Bernadette
- Best Actor: Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine
- Best Actress: Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette
Films released in 1943
U.S.A. unless stated
- Above Suspicion, starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray
- Action in the North Atlantic
- The Adventures of Tartu, starring Robert Donat and Valerie Hobson - (U.K.)
- Air Force
- Angels of the Streets (Les anges du peche), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)
- The Ape Man
- Background to Danger, by Raoul Walsh with Peter Lorre
- Bataan, starring Robert Taylor
- Bombardier, starring Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley
- Cabin in the Sky
- Calling Dr. Death, first of the Inner Sanctum Mysteries, starring Lon Chaney, Jr.
- 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
- Crash Dive, starring Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter
- Crazy House
- Cry 'Havoc'
- The Dancing Masters
- Day of Wrath (Vredens Dag), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - (Denmark)
- The Demi-Paradise, starring Laurence Olivier - (U.K.)
- Desert Victory - (U.K.)
- Destination Tokyo, starring Cary Grant and John Garfield
- Doña Bárbara - (Mexico)
- Edge of Darkness, starring Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan
- L'Éternel retour (The Eternal Return), directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais - (France)
- Fires Were Started - (U.K.)
- 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)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman
- Forever and a Day
- Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Béla Lugosi
- Der Fuehrer's Face, Donald Duck's Academy Award-winning short
- The Gang's All Here
- Girl Crazy, starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
- Guadalcanal Diary, starring Lloyd Nolan and Richard Conte
- A Guy Named Joe, starring Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne
- Hangmen Also Die!, starring Brian Donlevy and Walter Brennan
- Happy Land, starring Don Ameche
- The Hard Way
- 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
- Holy Matrimony
- The Human Comedy, starring Mickey Rooney
- I Walked with a Zombie, starring Frances Dee
- It Ain't Hay, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- It Comes Up Love
- Journey into Fear, starring Joseph Cotton, Delores del Rio and Orson Welles
- Lassie Come Home
- The Leopard Man, directed by Jacques Tourneur
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook - (U.K.)
- The Mad Ghoul
- Madame Curie, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
- The Man in Grey, the first of the Gainsborough melodramas - (U.K.)
- María Candelaria, starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz - (Mexico)
- Millions Like Us, directed by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder - (U.K.)
- Mission to Moscow
- Mister Big
- 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 - (U.K.)
- Nasreddin in Bukhara - (U.S.S.R.)
- No Time for Love
- The North Star
- Northern Pursuit
- 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
- Phantom of the Opera, starring Claude Rains
- Princess O'Rourke
- Riding High
- Sahara, starring Humphrey Bogart
- Sanshiro Sugata, directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)
- The Seventh Victim
- 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 Silver Fleet, starring Ralph Richardson and Googie Withers - (U.K.)
- The Sky's the Limit
- So Proudly We Hail!, starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake
- Son of Dracula
- The Song of Bernadette, starring Jennifer Jones
- Star Spangled Rhythm
- Stormy Weather, starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway
- A Stranger in Town
- Tender Comrade
- Thank Your Lucky Stars
- They Came to Blow Up America
- This is the Army
- This Land Is Mine, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara
- Thousands Cheer, starring Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Mary Astor
- Titanic - (Germany)
- Top Man
- Ukraine in Flames - (U.S.S.R.)
- Victory Through Air Power
- War of the Wildcats (a.k.a. In Old Oklahoma)
- Watch on the Rhine, starring Paul Lukas and Bette Davis
- We Dive at Dawn, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring John Mills - (U.K.)
- We've Never Been Licked
- Yellow Canary, starring Anna Neagle and Richard Greene - (U.K.)
- You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith, screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley et al. (film mentioned in article)
Serials
Comedy film series
Animated short film series
Births
- January 13 - Richard Moll, actor
- January 24 - Sharon Tate, actress and model (d. 1969)
- January 25 - Tobe Hooper, director and screenwriter
- January 28 - John Beck, 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 (d. 2001)
- March 8 - Lynn Redgrave, English actress (d. 2010)
- March 15 - David Cronenberg, Canadian director and screenwriter
- March 31 - Christopher Walken, actor
- April 20 - Edie Sedgwick, actress, socialite, model and heiress (d. 1971)
- June 13 - Malcolm McDowell, English actor
- July 3 - Kurtwood Smith, actor
- July 21 - Edward Herrmann, actor
- August 15 - Barbara Bouchet, German-American actress
- August 17 - Robert De Niro, actor
- August 27 - Tuesday Weld, actress
- September 28 - J. T. Walsh, actor (d. 1998)
- October 4 - John Bindon, English actor and bodyguard
- October 8 - Chevy Chase, actor and comedian
- October 22 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress
- December 21 - Jack Nance, actor (d. 1996)
- December 31 - Ben Kingsley, English actor
Deaths
Film Debuts
References
Further reading