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Overview of the events of 1948 in film
Overview of the events of 1948 in film
The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
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 , starring
Bud Abbott and
Lou Costello
Act of Violence , starring
Van Heflin ,
Robert Ryan ,
Janet Leigh
Adventures of Don Juan , starring
Errol Flynn
Albuquerque , starring
Randolph Scott and
Barbara Britton
The Amazing Mr. X , starring
Turhan Bey and
Lynn Bari
L'Amore , directed by
Roberto Rossellini , starring
Anna Magnani – (
Italy )
Anna Karenina , starring
Vivien Leigh and
Ralph Richardson – (
GB )
Another Part of the Forest , starring
Fredric March
April Showers , starring
Ann Sothern and
Jack Carson
Arch of Triumph , starring
Ingrid Bergman ,
Charles Boyer ,
Charles Laughton ,
Ruth Warrick
B
B.F.'s Daughter , starring
Barbara Stanwyck
Berlin Express , starring
Merle Oberon and
Robert Ryan
The Berliner (Berlin Balade), starring
Gert Fröbe – (
Germany )
Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette ), directed by
Vittorio De Sica – (
Italy )
The Big Clock , starring
Ray Milland ,
Charles Laughton ,
Elsa Lanchester ,
Maureen O'Sullivan
Blanche Fury , starring
Valerie Hobson and
Stewart Granger – (
GB )
Blonde Ice , starring
Leslie Brooks
Blood on the Moon , starring
Robert Mitchum
Bodyguard , starring
Lawrence Tierney and
Priscilla Lane
The Boy with Green Hair , directed by
Joseph Losey , starring
Dean Stockwell and
Robert Ryan
The Bride Goes Wild , directed by
Norman Taurog , starring
June Allyson and
Van Johnson
C
D
E
F
The Fallen Idol , written by
Graham Greene and directed by
Carol Reed , starring
Ralph Richardson – (
GB )
Fighter Squadron , directed by
Raoul Walsh , starring
Edmond O'Brien and
Robert Stack
Force of Evil , starring
John Garfield
A Foreign Affair , directed by
Billy Wilder , starring
Jean Arthur and
Marlene Dietrich
Fort Apache , directed by
John Ford and starring
John Wayne ,
Henry Fonda ,
Shirley Temple
Four Faces West , starring
Joel McCrea and
Frances Dee
G
H
Half Past Midnight , starring
Kent Taylor and
Peggy Knudsen
Hamlet , directed by and starring
Laurence Olivier , with
Basil Sydney and
Jean Simmons – (
GB )
He Walked by Night , starring
Richard Basehart and
Jack Webb
A Hen in the Wind (Kaze no naka no mendori), directed by
Yasujirō Ozu – (
Japan )
Hollow Triumph , starring
Paul Henreid and
Joan Bennett
Homecoming , starring
Clark Gable ,
Lana Turner ,
Anne Baxter ,
John Hodiak
I
J
K
L
La Terra Trema , directed by
Luchino Visconti (Italy)
Ladies of the Chorus , starring
Marilyn Monroe
Lal Dupatta , starring
Madhubala (
India )
The Lame Devil (Le Diable boiteux), directed by and starring
Sacha Guitry – (
France )
Letter from an Unknown Woman , directed by
Max Ophüls , starring
Joan Fontaine and
Louis Jourdan
London Belongs to Me , starring
Richard Attenborough and
Alastair Sim – (
GB )
Louisiana Story , documentary by
Robert J. Flaherty
The Loves of Carmen , starring
Rita Hayworth
The Luck of the Irish , starring
Tyrone Power and
Anne Baxter
Luxury Liner , starring
Jane Powell and
George Brent
M
Macbeth , directed by and starring
Orson Welles
The Mating of Millie , starring
Evelyn Keyes and
Glenn Ford
Mela , starring
Dilip Kumar – (
India )
Melody Time , starring
Roy Rogers &
Trigger and
The Andrews Sisters
Mexican Hayride , starring
Bud Abbott and
Lou Costello
Michurin , directed by
Alexander Dovzhenko – (
U.S.S.R. )
Miranda , directed by
Ken Annakin , starring
Glynis Johns – (GB)
Miss Tatlock's Millions , starring
Wanda Hendrix ,
Barry Fitzgerald ,
John Lund
The Monkey's Paw , starring
Milton Rosmer – (
GB )
Moonrise , directed by
Frank Borzage , starring
Gail Russell and
Dane Clark
Morituri – (
Germany )
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House , starring
Cary Grant and
Myrna Loy
My Dear Secretary , starring
Kirk Douglas ,
Laraine Day
Myriad of Lights (Wanjia denghuo) – (
China )
The Mysterious Apartment (Den hemmelighetsfulle leiligheten) – (
Norway )
N
O
P
The Paleface , starring
Bob Hope and
Jane Russell
Les Parents terribles , directed by
Jean Cocteau , starring
Jean Marais – (
France )
The Pirate , starring
Gene Kelly and
Judy Garland
Pitfall , starring
Dick Powell ,
Lizabeth Scott ,
Jane Wyatt ,
Raymond Burr
Port of Call (Hamnstad), directed by
Ingmar Bergman – (
Sweden )
Portrait of Jennie , starring
Jennifer Jones
Q
R
Race Street , starring
George Raft and
William Bendix
Rachel and the Stranger , starring
Loretta Young ,
William Holden ,
Robert Mitchum
Raw Deal , directed by
Anthony Mann , starring
Dennis O'Keefe ,
Claire Trevor ,
Marsha Hunt ,
Raymond Burr
Red River , directed by
Howard Hawks , starring
John Wayne ,
Montgomery Clift ,
Walter Brennan ,
Joanne Dru ,
John Ireland
The Red Shoes , directed by
Michael Powell and
Emeric Pressburger , starring
Moira Shearer and
Anton Walbrook – (
GB )
Relentless , starring
Robert Young
The Return of October , starring
Glenn Ford
Road House , starring
Ida Lupino
Rogues' Regiment , directed by
Robert Florey and starring
Dick Powell ,
Märta Torén ,
Vincent Price
Romance on the High Seas , starring
Jack Carson ,
Janis Paige ,
Doris Day (film debut)
Rope , directed by
Alfred Hitchcock , starring
James Stewart
Ruthless , starring
Zachary Scott and
Diana Lynn
S
Saigon , the final of 4 films starring
Alan Ladd and
Veronica Lake
The Sainted Sisters , starring
Veronica Lake and
Joan Caulfield
Saraband for Dead Lovers , starring
Stewart Granger and
Joan Greenwood – (GB)
Scott of the Antarctic , starring
John Mills – (
GB )
Sealed Verdict , starring
Ray Milland
The Search , directed by
Fred Zinnemann , starring
Montgomery Clift – (
US /
Switzerland )
Secret Beyond the Door , directed by
Fritz Lang , starring
Joan Bennett and
Michael Redgrave
Senza pietà (Without Pity ) – (
Italy )
Shaheed , starring
Dilip Kumar – (
India )
Silver River , starring
Errol Flynn and
Ann Sheridan
Sitting Pretty , starring
Robert Young and
Maureen O'Hara
Sleep, My Love , starring
Claudette Colbert
Sleeping Car to Trieste , starring
Jean Kent – (
GB )
Smart Girls Don't Talk , starring
Virginia Mayo
The Snake Pit , starring
Olivia de Havilland
So Evil My Love , starring
Ray Milland ,
Ann Todd ,
Geraldine Fitzgerald – (GB)
A Song Is Born , starring
Danny Kaye
Sorry, Wrong Number , starring
Barbara Stanwyck and
Burt Lancaster
Spring in a Small Town (Xiǎochéng zhī chūn), directed by
Fei Mu – (
China )
Spring in Park Lane , starring
Anna Neagle and
Michael Wilding – (
GB )
State of the Union , starring
Spencer Tracy and
Katharine Hepburn
Station West , starring
Dick Powell and
Jane Greer
The Street with No Name , starring
Richard Widmark
T
U
V
W
Y
Serials
Short film series
Births
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 28 -
Mikhail Baryshnikov , Latvian-American actor
January 29 –
Marc Singer , Canadian actor
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
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 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 –
Chris Mulkey , American actor
May 11 -
Pam Ferris , Welsh actress
May 12
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 director
Ben 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
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 –
Jeremy Irons , English actor
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 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 6 –
JoBeth Williams , American actress and director
December 14
December 15
December 21 –
Samuel L. Jackson , American actor and producer
December 27 –
Gérard Depardieu , French actor and filmmaker
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 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 . Vol. 193, no. 6. January 13, 1954. p. 10.
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 Shaefer 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 , January 5, 1949, p. 46.
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