1943 in film

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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

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Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

16th Academy 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

1st Golden Globe Awards

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 Shipbuilders, directed by John Baxter (U.K.)
• 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
• Theatre Royal, directed by John Baxter (U.K.)
• 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

• Adventures of the Flying Cadets
• The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
• Batman, starring Lewis Wilson
• Daredevils of the West, starring Allan Lane, directed by John English
• Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
• G-Men vs the Black Dragon, starring Rod Cameron, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
• The Masked Marvel, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
• The Phantom, starring Tom Tyler
• Secret Service in Darkest Africa, starring Rod Cameron, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet

Comedy film series

• Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1945)
• Our Gang (1922–1944)
• The Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
• The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

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 (1934–1956)
• Daffy Duck (1937 – 1966)
• Goofy (1939–1955)
• Andy Panda (1939–1949)
• Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949)
• Swing Symphonies (1941–1945)
• The Fox and the Crow (1941–1950)
• Red Hot Riding Hood (1943–1949)
• Chip 'n Dale (1943–1956)
• Droopy (1943–1958)

Births

• January 13 - Richard Moll, actor
• January 24 - Sharon Tate, actress and model (died 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 (died 2001)
• March 8 - Lynn Redgrave, English actress (died 2010)
• March 15 - David Cronenberg, Canadian director and screenwriter
• March 31 - Christopher Walken, actor
• April 20 - Edie Sedgwick, actress, socialite, model and heiress (died 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 (died 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 (died 1996)
• December 31 - Ben Kingsley, English actor

Deaths

• February 14 - Dora Gerson, German actress (born 1899)
• June 1 - Leslie Howard, Academy Award-nominated British actor (born 1893)

Film Debuts

• Cyd Charisse
• Robert Mitchum
• Frank Sinatra
• Shelley Winters

References

Further reading

• Historical Events for Year 1943 (Part 5)