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The year 1946 in film involved some significant events, including the release of the decade's highest-grossing film, The Best Years of Our Lives, which won seven Academy Awards. Top-grossing films (U.S.)
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RKO, and the movie industry as a whole, had its most profitable year ever in 1946. A Goldwyn production released by RKO, The Best Years of Our Lives, was the most successful Hollywood film of the decade and won the Academy Award for Best Picture. [151]
Title Director Cast Genre Notes The Bachelor's Daughters: Andrew L. Stone: Claire Trevor, Gail Russell, Ann Dvorak: Comedy: United Artists: Bad Bascomb: S. Sylvan Simon: Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien, Marjorie Main
Film portal This category is for film events and films originally released in the year 1946 . Individual films appear in the subcategory Category:1946 films .
The film made $4.85 million in theatrical rentals in the United States and Canada on its first release, making it one of the highest-grossing films of the year. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] [ 45 ] Overseas, it earned $2.3 million, for worldwide rentals of $7.15 million, generating RKO a profit of $1.01 million.
The film was promoted as Monogram's "first million-dollar picture." [3] [4] Suspense was released by Monogram Pictures on June 15, 1946. Although it received mixed reviews from critics, it was considered a box office success. [5] The Kings reunited Sullivan and Belita the following year in The Gangster which was less successful.
The 1946 Windsor-Tecumseh, Ontario tornado on the Detroit River kills 17. Laurence Olivier's Henry V opens in the United States nearly 2 years after its release in the UK. It is the first Shakespeare film in color, and critics hail it as the finest film of a Shakespeare play ever made.