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Overview of the events of 1950 in film
Overview of the events of 1950 in film
The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1950 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1950
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
Samson and Delilah
Paramount
$9,000,000
[1]
2
King Solomon's Mines
MGM
$5,047,000
[2]
3
Annie Get Your Gun
$4,708,000
[2]
4
Cheaper by the Dozen
20th Century Fox
$4,425,000
[3]
5
Cinderella
RKO /
Walt Disney
$4,275,000
[4]
6
Born Yesterday
Columbia
$4,100,000
[5]
7
Father of the Bride
MGM
$4,036,000
[2]
8
Broken Arrow
20th Century Fox
$3,600,000
[6]
9
All About Eve
$3,100,000
[6]
10
Three Little Words
MGM
$3,019,000
[2]
Events
Awards
Top ten money making stars
Notable films released in 1950
US unless stated
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A
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion , starring
Bud Abbott and
Lou Costello
The Admiral Was a Lady , starring
Wanda Hendrix and
Edmond O'Brien
All About Eve , directed by
Joseph L. Mankiewicz , starring
Bette Davis ,
Anne Baxter ,
George Sanders ,
Celeste Holm ,
Hugh Marlowe ,
Marilyn Monroe – winner of 6 Oscars
Ambush , starring
Robert Taylor and
Arlene Dahl
Annie Get Your Gun , starring
Betty Hutton ,
Howard Keel ,
Louis Calhern
Armored Car Robbery , starring
Charles McGraw and
William Talman
The Asphalt Jungle , directed by
John Huston , starring
Sterling Hayden ,
Louis Calhern ,
Sam Jaffe ,
James Whitmore ,
Jean Hagen and
Marilyn Monroe
The Astonished Heart , starring
Celia Johnson and
Noël Coward – (
GB )
At War with the Army , starring
Dean Martin and
Jerry Lewis
B
Babul (Father's House), starring
Dilip Kumar and
Nargis – (
India )
Backfire , starring
Virginia Mayo and
Gordon MacRae
The Bandit Queen , starring
Barbara Britton and
Phillip Reed
The Baron of Arizona , starring
Vincent Price
Beauty and the Devil (La Beauté du diable), directed by
René Clair , starring
Michel Simon – (
France /
Italy )
Beqasoor , starring
Madhubala – (
India )
The Big Lift , starring
Montgomery Clift and
Paul Douglas
Bitter Springs , starring
Tommy Trinder and
Chips Rafferty – (
Australia /GB)
The Black Forest Girl , starring
Sonja Ziemann and
Rudolf Prack – (West Germany)
The Black Rose , starring
Tyrone Power and
Orson Welles – (GB/US)
The Blue Lamp , starring
Jack Warner and
Dirk Bogarde – (
GB )
Born to Be Bad , starring
Joan Fontaine and
Robert Ryan
Born Yesterday , directed by
George Cukor , starring
Broderick Crawford ,
Judy Holliday and
William Holden
The Breaking Point , directed by
Michael Curtiz , starring
John Garfield and
Patricia Neal
Bright Leaf , starring
Gary Cooper ,
Lauren Bacall and
Patricia Neal
Broken Arrow , starring
James Stewart and
Jeff Chandler
C
Café Paradis – (
Denmark )
Caged , starring
Eleanor Parker
Caiçara , directed by and starring
Adolfo Celi – (
Brazil )
Captain Carey, U.S.A. , starring
Alan Ladd and
Wanda Hendrix
Captain China , starring
John Payne and
Gail Russell
Champagne for Caesar , starring
Ronald Colman ,
Celeste Holm ,
Vincent Price ,
Art Linkletter
Cheaper by the Dozen , starring
Clifton Webb and
Myrna Loy
Cinderella , a
Disney animated film. Directed by
Clyde Geronimi ,
Hamilton Luske , and
Wilfred Jackson , starring
Ilene Woods ,
Eleanor Audley ,
Verna Felton ,
Rhoda Williams ,
James MacDonald ,
Luis van Rooten ,
Don Barclay ,
Mike Douglas , and
Lucille Bliss
Comanche Territory , starring
Maureen O'Hara
Convicted , starring
Glenn Ford and
Broderick Crawford
Crisis , starring
Cary Grant and
Jose Ferrer
Cyrano de Bergerac , starring
José Ferrer
D
D.O.A. , starring
Edmond O'Brien
Dallas , starring
Gary Cooper
The Damned Don't Cry , starring
Joan Crawford
Dance Hall , directed by
Charles Crichton , starring
Diana Dors and
Petula Clark – (
GB )
Darah dan Doa , directed and produced by
Usmar Ismail – (
Indonesia ), first native-produced Indonesian film
Dark City , directed by
William Dieterle , starring
Charlton Heston (in his first studio film),
Lizabeth Scott ,
Viveca Lindfors ,
Dean Jagger ,
Mike Mazurki ,
Ed Begley
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady , starring
June Haver and
Gordon MacRae
Death is a Caress (Døden er et kjærtegn) – (
Norway )
Deported , starring
Jeff Chandler
Destination Moon , starring
John Archer
The Devil Is a Woman (Doña Diabla) – (
Mexico )
Devil's Doorway , starring
Robert Taylor ,
Louis Calhern ,
Paula Raymond
Dial 1119 , starring
Marshall Thompson ,
Virginia Field ,
William Conrad
Dieu a besoin des hommes (God Needs Man), directed by
Jean Delannoy – (
France )
E
F
The Fall of Berlin (Padeniye Berlina) – (
USSR )
Fancy Pants , starring
Bob Hope and
Lucille Ball
Father Is a Bachelor , starring
William Holden and
Colleen Gray
Father of the Bride , directed by
Vincente Minnelli , starring
Spencer Tracy ,
Joan Bennett and
Elizabeth Taylor
The File on Thelma Jordon , starring
Barbara Stanwyck
The Fireball , starring
Mickey Rooney and
Pat O'Brien
The Flame and the Arrow , starring
Burt Lancaster and
Virginia Mayo
The Flowers of St. Francis (Francesco, giullare di Dio), directed by
Roberto Rossellini – (
Italy )
For Heaven's Sake , starring
Clifton Webb and
Joan Bennett
Frenchie , starring
Joel McCrea and
Shelley Winters
The Fuller Brush Girl , starring
Lucille Ball and
Eddie Albert
The Furies , directed by
Anthony Mann , starring
Barbara Stanwyck and
Walter Huston
G
Gabriela , directed by
Géza von Cziffra , starring
Zarah Leander – (
West Germany )
Gerald McBoing-Boing
The Glass Menagerie , based on the play by
Tennessee Williams , starring
Jane Wyman ,
Kirk Douglas ,
Gertrude Lawrence and
Arthur Kennedy
Gone to Earth , starring
Jennifer Jones – (
GB )
Guilty of Treason , starring
Charles Bickford and
Bonita Granville
Gun Crazy (aka Deadly is the Female ), starring
John Dall and
Peggy Cummins
The Gunfighter , starring
Gregory Peck
Gunman in the Streets , starring
Simone Signoret – (
France )
H
I
J
K
L
A Lady Without Passport , starring
Hedy Lamarr and
John Hodiak
Last Holiday , starring
Alec Guinness – (
GB )
The Lawless , directed by
Joseph Losey , starring
Macdonald Carey
Let's Dance , starring
Fred Astaire and
Betty Hutton
Life (Jeevitham), directed by
A. V. Meiyappan , starring
Vyjayanthimala in her Telugu film debut – (
India )
A Life of Her Own , starring
Lana Turner and
Ray Milland
The Life of Wu Xun (Wu Xun zhuan) – (
China )
Louisa , starring
Ronald Reagan
Love Happy , starring the
Marx Brothers and, in a non-speaking role,
Marilyn Monroe
M
The Magnificent Yankee , starring
Louis Calhern
The Man Who Cheated Himself , starring
Lee J. Cobb and
Jane Wyatt
The Men , starring
Marlon Brando in his film debut, with
Teresa Wright ,
Everett Sloane ,
Jack Webb and, in a bit part,
DeForest Kelley
The Miniver Story , starring
Greer Garson ,
Walter Pidgeon and
John Hodiak
Mirror of Holland (Spiegel van Holland) – (
Netherlands ) winner of
Short Film Palme d'Or
Mister 880 , starring
Burt Lancaster and
Edmund Gwenn
Montana , starring
Errol Flynn and
Alexis Smith
Morning Departure (aka Operation Disaster), starring
John Mills and
Richard Attenborough – (GB)
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone , starring
Marjorie Main and
James Whitmore
The Mudlark , starring
Irene Dunne and
Alec Guinness – (
GB /
US )
Mussorgsky – (
USSR )
My Blue Heaven , starring
Betty Grable
My Friend Irma Goes West , starring
Dean Martin and
Jerry Lewis
Mystery Street , starring
Ricardo Montalbán
N
Nancy Goes to Rio , starring
Ann Sothern ,
Jane Powell ,
Barry Sullivan ,
Carmen Miranda ,
Louis Calhern , and
Scotty Beckett
The Nevadan , starring
Randolph Scott and
Dorothy Malone
Night and the City , directed by
Jules Dassin , starring
Richard Widmark and
Gene Tierney – (
GB )
No Man of Her Own , starring
Barbara Stanwyck
No Peace Under the Olive Tree (Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi), starring
Raf Vallone – (
Italy )
No Way Out , starring
Richard Widmark ,
Linda Darnell ,
Stephen McNally and
Sidney Poitier
O
P
Panic in the Streets , directed by
Elia Kazan , starring
Richard Widmark ,
Jack Palance ,
Zero Mostel and
Barbara Bel Geddes
Path of Hope (Il Cammino della speranza), directed by
Pietro Germi , starring
Raf Vallone – (
Italy )
Perfect Strangers , starring
Ginger Rogers
Please Believe Me , starring
Deborah Kerr ,
Peter Lawford and
Robert Walker
Post Office Box 1001 (Apartado de correos 1001) – (
Spain )
Prehistoric Women , directed by
Gregg C. Tallas
Prima comunione (aka Father's Dilemma), starring
Aldo Fabrizi – (
Italy )
Q
R
Rashomon , directed by
Akira Kurosawa , starring
Toshiro Mifune and
Masayuki Mori – (
Japan )
Riding High , directed by
Frank Capra , starring
Bing Crosby
Right Cross , starring
June Allyson and
Dick Powell
Rio Grande , directed by
John Ford , starring
John Wayne and
Maureen O'Hara
Rocketship X-M , starring
Lloyd Bridges ,
Hugh O'Brian and
Noah Beery Jr.
Rocky Mountain , starring
Errol Flynn and
Patrice Wymore
Rogues of Sherwood Forest , starring
John Derek
La Ronde (The Merry-Go-Round), directed by
Max Ophüls , starring
Simone Signoret and
Anton Walbrook – (
France )
Room to Let , directed by
Godfrey Grayson
S
Scandal (Sukyandaru), directed by
Akira Kurosawa – (
Japan )
The Second Face , starring
Ella Raines
The Secret Fury , starring
Claudette Colbert and
Robert Ryan
September Affair , starring
Joan Fontaine and
Joseph Cotten
Seven Days to Noon , directed by the
Boulting Brothers , starring
Barry Jones – (
GB )
Shadow on the Wall , starring
Ann Sothern ,
Zachary Scott ,
Nancy Davis
Side Street , starring
Farley Granger and
Cathy O'Donnell
Sierra , starring
Wanda Hendrix and
Audie Murphy
The Sleeping City , starring
Richard Conte
So Long at the Fair , starring
Jean Simmons and
Dirk Bogarde – (
GB )
The Sound of Fury , starring
Frank Lovejoy and
Lloyd Bridges
Stage Fright , directed by
Alfred Hitchcock , starring
Jane Wyman ,
Marlene Dietrich ,
Michael Wilding and
Richard Todd – (
GB )
Stars in My Crown , starring
Joel McCrea
State Secret , starring
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and
Jack Hawkins – (
GB )
Story of a Love Affair (Cronaca di un amore), directed by
Michelangelo Antonioni – (Italy)
Stromboli , directed by
Roberto Rossellini , starring
Ingrid Bergman – (
Italy /
US )
Summer Stock , starring
Judy Garland and
Gene Kelly , with
Phil Silvers
Sunday in August (Domenica d'agosto) – (
Italy )
Sunset Boulevard , directed by
Billy Wilder , starring
William Holden ,
Gloria Swanson ,
Erich Von Stroheim ,
Nancy Olson
T
También de Dolor se Canta (They Also Sing from Sadness), starring
Pedro Infante – (
Mexico )
Tea for Two , starring
Doris Day and
Gordon MacRae
Tension , starring
Richard Basehart and
Audrey Totter
This Life of Mine (Wo zhe yi bei zi) – (
China )
Three Came Home , starring
Claudette Colbert
Three Little Words , starring
Fred Astaire and
Red Skelton
Three Secrets , starring
Eleanor Parker ,
Patricia Neal ,
Ruth Roman
A Ticket to Tomahawk , starring
Anne Baxter and
Dan Dailey
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo , award-winning documentary by
Robert J. Flaherty
To Joy (Till glädje), directed by
Ingmar Bergman – (
Sweden )
To Please a Lady , starring
Clark Gable and
Barbara Stanwyck
The Toast of New Orleans , starring
Kathryn Grayson and
Mario Lanza
Tomorrow Is Too Late (Domani è troppo tardi), starring
Pier Angeli and
Vittorio De Sica – (
Italy )
The Trap (Past), directed by
Martin Frič – (
Czechoslovakia )
Treasure Island , starring
Robert Newton – (GB/US)
Trio , starring
Nigel Patrick ,
Wilfred Hyde-White ,
Jean Simmons – (
GB )
Tripoli , starring
Maureen O'Hara and
John Payne
Two Flags West , starring
Joseph Cotten and
Linda Darnell
Two Weeks with Love , starring
Jane Powell and
Ricardo Montalbán
U
V
W
Wabash Avenue , starring
Betty Grable (a remake of Grable's 1943 film
Coney Island )
Wagon Master , directed by
John Ford , starring
Ben Johnson ,
Joanne Dru and
Ward Bond
Watch the Birdie , starring
Red Skelton ,
Arlene Dahl and
Ann Miller
The West Point Story , starring
James Cagney and
Doris Day
When Willie Comes Marching Home , starring
Dan Dailey
Where Danger Lives , starring
Robert Mitchum and
Faith Domergue in her film debut
Where the Sidewalk Ends , directed by
Otto Preminger , starring
Dana Andrews and
Gene Tierney
Winchester '73 , starring
James Stewart ,
Shelley Winters ,
Stephen McNally ,
Dan Duryea , and with early appearances by
Rock Hudson and
Tony Curtis
The Woman in Question , directed by
Anthony Asquith , starring
Jean Kent and
Dirk Bogarde – (
GB )
Woman in Hiding , starring
Ida Lupino ,
Howard Duff and
Stephen McNally
Woman on the Run , starring
Ann Sheridan and
Dennis O'Keefe
The Wooden Horse , starring
Leo Genn and
Anthony Steel – (
GB )
Y
Z
Serials
Short film series
Births
January 1 –
Gerard McSorley , Irish actor
January 6 -
Richard Norton , Australian martial artist, actor and stunt performer
January 7 –
Erin Gray , American model and actress
January 9 -
David Johansen , American singer-songwriter and actor
January 22 –
Pamela Salem , British actress (d. 2024)
January 23 –
Richard Dean Anderson , American actor
January 24 –
Daniel Auteuil , French actor
January 27 -
Alex Norton , Scottish actor
January 30
January 31 -
Robert Grubb , Australian actor
February 5 –
Jonathan Freeman , American actor, voice actor, singer and puppeteer
February 12 –
Michael Ironside , Canadian actor
February 16 -
R. D. Call , American actor (d. 2020)
February 17 –
Prunella Gee , English actress
February 18
February 19 -
Johan Leysen , Belgian actor (d. 2023)
February 21 –
Larry Drake , American actor and comedian (d. 2016)
February 22 –
Julie Walters , English actress
February 23 –
Mary Pat Gleason , American actress (d. 2020)
February 25 –
Neil Jordan , Irish director
February 26 -
Don Shanks , American actor and stuntman
March 2 –
Matthew Laurance , American actor and comedian
March 3 –
Laura Ziskin , American producer (d. 2011)
March 11 –
Jerry Zucker , American director and producer
March 13 –
William H. Macy , American actor
March 18 –
Brad Dourif , American actor
March 20
March 23 –
Corinne Cléry , French actress
March 26
March 29 –
Barry Pearl , American actor
March 30 –
Robbie Coltrane , Scottish actor (d. 2022)
[7]
April 4 –
Christine Lahti , American actress
April 11 -
Bill Irwin , American actor, clown and comedian
April 12 –
David Cassidy , American actor and singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
April 13
April 15 –
Josiane Balasko , French actress, writer and director
April 16 –
David Graf , American actor (d. 2001)
April 22 –
Thierry Zéno , Belgian director (d. 2017)
April 23 -
Henry Goodman , British actor
April 28 –
Jay Leno , American comedian, actor, writer, producer and late-night television host
April 29 –
Phillip Noyce , Australian director
May 1 –
John Diehl , American character actor
May 7 -
Randall "Tex" Cobb , American actor and martial artist
May 8 –
Robert Mugge , American director and producer
May 9 –
Marcheline Bertrand , American actress (d. 2007)
May 12 –
Gabriel Byrne , Irish actor
May 13 –
Joe Johnston , American director, writer and visual effects artist
May 15 –
Nicholas Hammond , American-born Australian actor and writer
May 18
May 22 –
Peter Wildman , Canadian actor
June 1 –
John M. Jackson , American film and television actor
June 5
June 6 –
Chantal Akerman , Belgian-born director (d. 2015)
June 13 –
Belinda Bauer , Australian actress
June 14 -
Jeremy Sinden , English actor (d. 1996)
June 17 –
Lee Tamahori , New Zealand filmmaker
June 19 –
Daria Nicolodi , Italian actress and screenwriter (d. 2020)
June 24 –
Nancy Allen , American actress
June 25 –
Thomas Jefferson Byrd , American actor (d. 2020)
June 26 –
Michael Paul Chan , American actor
July 17 –
Barbara Rosenblat , British actress
July 20 –
Tantoo Cardinal , Canadian actress
July 24 -
Johnny Lee Davenport , American actor (d. 2020)
July 27 -
Nigel Plaskitt , English actor and producer
July 28 -
Lani Minella , American voice actress, voice director and producer
July 29 –
Mike Starr , American character actor
August 3 -
John Landis , American filmmaker and actor
August 5 –
Holly Palance , American actress
August 6 –
Dorian Harewood , American actor
August 10 -
Rémy Girard , Canadian actor
August 11
August 12 –
Jim Beaver , American actor
August 13 –
Jane Carr , English actress
August 14 –
Peter Guinness , English actor
August 15 -
Tess Harper , American actress
August 16 -
Marshall Manesh , Iranian-American actor
August 20 –
Skip O'Brien , American actor (d. 2011)
August 27 –
Charles Fleischer , American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and musician
September 2 -
Rosanna DeSoto , American actress
September 7 –
Julie Kavner , American film and television actress, voice actress and comedian
September 11 –
Amy Madigan , American actress
September 12 –
Bruce Mahler , American actor, producer and writer
September 14 –
Howard Deutch , American director
September 19 -
Rudy Ramos , American actor and musician
September 21 –
Bill Murray , American actor and comedian
September 24
September 27 -
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa , Japanese-born American actor, producer and martial artist
September 28 –
John Sayles , American director and screenwriter
September 30 –
Vondie Curtis-Hall , American actor, screenwriter and director
October 1 –
Randy Quaid , American actor
October 2 –
Ian McNeice , English actor
October 4 –
Alan Rosenberg , American actor
October 5 –
Jeff Conaway , American actor and singer (d. 2011)
October 10 -
Jerry Tondo , Japanese-American actor
October 17 –
Howard Rollins , American actor (d. 1996)
October 18 –
Om Puri , Indian actor (d. 2017)
October 31 –
John Candy , Canadian comedian and actor (d. 1994)
November 13 –
Jules Sylvester , British wild animal trainer, actor and television presenter
November 16 –
David Leisure , American actor
November 18 –
Eric Pierpoint , American actor
November 28 –
Ed Harris , American actor
December 2 -
Dennis Christopher , American actor
December 10 –
Gregg Berger , American voice actor
December 12 –
Duane Chase , American actor
December 13
December 21
December 22 –
Jeris Lee Poindexter , American actor, comedian and musician
December 29 -
Jon Polito , American character actor (d. 2016)
Deaths
January 2 –
Emil Jannings , 65, Swiss-born German actor,
The Blue Angel ,
The Last Laugh
January 12 –
John M. Stahl , 63, American film director and producer,
Leave Her to Heaven ,
Imitation of Life
January 22
March 10 –
Marguerite De La Motte , 47, American actress,
The Mark of Zorro ,
The Iron Mask
March 18 –
Edgar Rice Burroughs , 74, American writer, creator of
Tarzan
March 25 –
Frank Buck , 66, American actor and animal expert,
Bring 'Em Back Alive ,
Africa Screams
April 7 –
Walter Huston , 67, American
Academy Award -winning actor,
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ,
Dodsworth
April 26 –
Hobart Cavanaugh , 63, American actor,
I Cover the Waterfront ,
A Letter to Three Wives
May 1 –
Ernst Laemmle , 49, German director and screenwriter,
The Phantom of the Opera ,
The Palm Beach Story
June 22 –
Jane Cowl , 66, American actress,
No Man of Her Own ,
Payment on Demand
July 17 –
Antonie Nedošinská , 65, Czech actress,
Falešná kočička aneb Když si žena umíní ,
Capek's Tales
September 13 –
Sara Allgood , 69, Irish actress,
How Green Was My Valley ,
The Lodger
October 23 –
Al Jolson , 64, Lithuanian-born American actor, singer, entertainer,
The Jazz Singer ,
Rhapsody in Blue ,
The Singing Fool
October 29 –
Maurice Costello , 73, American actor,
Du Barry Was a Lady ,
Tin Pan Alley
December 4 –
James Kevin McGuinness , 56, Irish-American producer and screenwriter,
Madame X ,
Rio Grande
December 28 –
William Garwood , 66, American silent-film actor and director,
The Cowboy Millionaire ,
Proxy Husband
Film debuts
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