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On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building in New York City while flying in thick fog. The crash killed fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building), and an estimated twenty-four others were injured.
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
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On July 28, 1945, residents of New York City were horrified when an airplane crashed into the Empire State Building, leaving 14 dead. Though the events of that day have largely faded from public ...
At the 17th Academy Awards on March 15, 1945, Up in Arms was nominated in the Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) and Music (Song-"Now I Know") categories. [6] The film earned theatrical rentals of $3,015,000 in the United States and Canada and $1,700,000 overseas for a worldwide total of $4,715,000.
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.
In an accident similar to the B-25 Mitchell hitting the Empire State Building in 1945, USAAF Beech C-45F Expeditor 44-47570 of the 4108th AAF Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, [257] on a navigation-training flight from Lake Charles Army Air Field in Louisiana, [258] crashed in fog at about 20:10 into the 58th floor of the Bank of Manhattan Trust ...
An American Romance made its world premiere in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 11, 1944, opened in New York City on November 12, 1944, and in Los Angeles on December 13, 1944. [8] The film received mixed reviews and was a financial failure. [20] King Vidor refused to work for MGM again. [19]