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The film becomes MGM's highest-grossing film of the 1940s. At the 15th Academy Awards, Mrs. Miniver wins six awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (for William Wyler), Best Actress (for Greer Garson) and Best Supporting Actress (for Teresa Wright). August 8 – Walt Disney's animated film Bambi opens in the United Kingdom.
Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains, and directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty .
Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical drama film about George M. Cohan, known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway". [2] It stars James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, and Richard Whorf, and features Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp, Jeanne Cagney, and Vera Lewis.
The film was one of a number of films sold by Paramount to United Artists in September 1942, when UA did not have enough films to meet its commitments and Paramount had a surplus. [3] It was released by UA on October 30 that year. At the time of the film's release, a film critic from The Chicago Tribune wrote, "I Married a Witch is bizarre but ...
The film ranked No. 6 in the list of top-grossing movies for 1942 in the US. Theodore Strauss of The New York Times described it as "all very easy and graceful; it never tries too hard to dazzle; even in the rousing and topical Fourth of July number, it never commits a breach of taste by violently waving the flag. Instead, it has skipped back ...
Propaganda film: Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject: The News Parade of the Year 1942: Eugene W. Castle: Short documentary: Prelude to War: Frank Capra: Documentary: The first of Capra's Why We Fight film series Sex Hygiene: Otto Brower, John Ford: George Reeves, Richard Derr: Docudrama: We Are the Marines: Louis de Rochemont: War ...
I Married an Angel is a 1938 musical comedy by Rodgers and Hart.It was adapted from a play by Hungarian playwright János Vaszary, entitled Angyalt Vettem Felesegul.The book was by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, with music by Rodgers and lyrics by Hart.
Desperate Journey is a 1942 American World War II action and aviation film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan. The supporting cast includes Raymond Massey, Alan Hale Sr., and Arthur Kennedy. The melodramatic film featured a group of downed Allied airmen making their way out of the Third Reich, often with their ...