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The year 1945 in film involved some significant events. With 1945 being the last year of World War II , the many films released this year had themes of patriotism, sacrifices, and peace. [ 1 ] In the United States, there were more than eighteen thousand movie theatres operating in 1945, a figure that grew by a third from a decade earlier.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Abbott and Costello in Hollywood: S. Sylvan Simon: Abbott and Costello, Lucille Ball, Rags Ragland: Comedy: MGM: Adventure: Victor Fleming: Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell
Wonder Man is a 1945 supernatural musical film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.It is based on a short story by Arthur Sheekman, adapted for the screen by a staff of writers led by Jack Jevne and Eddie Moran, and produced by Samuel Goldwyn.
(12 November 1929 – 14 September 1982) John Wayne (26 May 1907 – 11 June 1979) 14 Ginger Rogers (16 July 1911 – 25 April 1995) Laurence Olivier (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) 15 Mae West (17 August 1893 – 22 November 1980) Gene Kelly (23 August 1912 – 2 February 1996) 16 Vivien Leigh (5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967) Orson Welles
A recording sung by Helen Forrest and sheet music were released by Paramount in 1945, both renamed in movie tie-ins, You Came Along (Out of Nowhere). Though Forrest sung the original lyrics in the film and on the record, the changed lyrics appeared in the sheet music and is "sung by an offscreen chorus over the final scene and end title. [ 12 ]
The 24th is based on the true story of the Houston riot of 1917. The film features an African American (A.K.A. Buffalo Soldiers) military unit, the 24th Infantry Regiment in Houston, Texas. Despite their military service, the African American soldiers are subjected to racial discrimination by the all-white police force in Houston as well as ...
Farley Earle Granger Jr. [1] (July 1, 1925 – March 27, 2011) was an American actor. Granger was first noticed in a small stage production in Hollywood by a Goldwyn casting director, and given a significant role in The North Star (1943), a controversial film praising the Soviet Union at the height of World War II, but later condemned for its political position.
The 3 November 1945 declaration was made in Indonesia, encouraging the formation of political parties as part of democracy.; Irvin Charles Mollison was sworn in as a U.S. Customs Court judge in New York City, becoming the first African-American to serve on the federal bench within the continental United States.