1950 in film

The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.

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Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1950 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1950
RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
1 Samson and Delilah Paramount $9,000,000[1]
2 King Solomon's Mines MGM $5,047,000[2]
3 Annie Get Your Gun $4,708,000[2]
4 Cheaper by the Dozen 20th Century Fox $4,425,000[3]
5 Cinderella RKO/Walt Disney $4,275,000[4]
6 Born Yesterday Columbia $4,100,000[5]
7 Father of the Bride MGM $4,036,000[2]
8 Broken Arrow 20th Century Fox $3,600,000[6]
9 All About Eve $3,100,000[6]
10 Three Little Words MGM $3,019,000[2]

Events

Awards

Category/Organization8th Golden Globe Awards
February 28, 1951
23rd Academy Awards
March 29, 1951
DramaComedy or Musical
Best FilmSunset BoulevardAll About Eve
Best DirectorBilly Wilder
Sunset Boulevard
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All About Eve
Best ActorJosé Ferrer
Cyrano de Bergerac
Fred Astaire
Three Little Words
José Ferrer
Cyrano de Bergerac
Best ActressGloria Swanson
Sunset Boulevard
Judy Holliday
Born Yesterday
Judy Holliday
Born Yesterday
Best Supporting ActorEdmund Gwenn
Mister 880
George Sanders
All About Eve
Best Supporting ActressJosephine Hull
Harvey
Best Screenplay, AdaptedJoseph L. Mankiewicz
All About Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All About Eve
Best Screenplay, OriginalCharles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman Jr.
Sunset Boulevard

Top ten money making stars

Rank Actor/Actress
1. John Wayne
2. Bob Hope
3. Bing Crosby
4. Betty Grable
5. James Stewart
6. (tie) Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
7. Clifton Webb
8. Esther Williams
9. Spencer Tracy
10. Randolph Scott

Notable films released in 1950

US unless stated

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F

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Q

R

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U

  • El último caballo (The Last Horse) – (Spain)
  • The Underworld Story, starring Dan Duryea
  • Union Station, starring William Holden
  • Until We Meet Again (Mata au hi made) – (Japan)

V

  • Variety Lights (Luci del varietà), directed by Federico Fellini – (Italy)
  • Vendetta, starring Faith Domergue (filmed in 1946 but not released until 1950 due to delays from Howard Hughes)
  • Virtue for Sale, directed by Mahmoud Zulfikar, starring Mahmoud Zulfikar, Faten Hamama – (Egypt)

W

Y

Z

  • Zhukovsky – (USSR)

Serials

Short film series

Births

  • January 1 – Gerard McSorley, Irish actor
  • January 6 - Richard Norton, Australian martial artist, actor and stunt performer
  • January 7 – Erin Gray, American model and actress
  • January 9 - David Johansen, American singer-songwriter and actor
  • January 22 – Pamela Salem, British actress (d. 2024)
  • January 23 – Richard Dean Anderson, American actor
  • January 24 – Daniel Auteuil, French actor
  • January 27 - Alex Norton, Scottish actor
  • January 30
    • Randy Brooks, American actor
    • Trinidad Silva, American comedian and character actor (d. 1988)
  • January 31 - Robert Grubb, Australian actor
  • February 5 – Jonathan Freeman, American actor, voice actor, singer and puppeteer
  • February 12 – Michael Ironside, Canadian actor
  • February 16 - R. D. Call, American actor (d. 2020)
  • February 17 – Prunella Gee, English actress
  • February 18
  • February 19 - Johan Leysen, Belgian actor (d. 2023)
  • February 21 – Larry Drake, American actor and comedian (d. 2016)
  • February 22 – Julie Walters, English actress
  • February 23 – Mary Pat Gleason, American actress (d. 2020)
  • February 25 – Neil Jordan, Irish director
  • February 26 - Don Shanks, American actor and stuntman
  • March 2 – Matthew Laurance, American actor and comedian
  • March 3 – Laura Ziskin, American producer (d. 2011)
  • March 11 – Jerry Zucker, American director and producer
  • March 13 – William H. Macy, American actor
  • March 18 – Brad Dourif, American actor
  • March 20
  • March 23 – Corinne Cléry, French actress
  • March 26
  • March 29 – Barry Pearl, American actor
  • March 30 – Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor (d. 2022)[7]
  • April 4 – Christine Lahti, American actress
  • April 11 - Bill Irwin, American actor, clown and comedian
  • April 12 – David Cassidy, American actor and singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
  • April 13
  • April 15 – Josiane Balasko, French actress, writer and director
  • April 16 – David Graf, American actor (d. 2001)
  • April 22 – Thierry Zéno, Belgian director (d. 2017)
  • April 23 - Henry Goodman, British actor
  • April 28 – Jay Leno, American comedian, actor, writer, producer and late-night television host
  • April 29 – Phillip Noyce, Australian director
  • May 1 – John Diehl, American character actor
  • May 7 - Randall "Tex" Cobb, American actor and martial artist
  • May 8 – Robert Mugge, American director and producer
  • May 9 – Marcheline Bertrand, American actress (d. 2007)
  • May 12 – Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor
  • May 13 – Joe Johnston, American director, writer and visual effects artist
  • May 15 – Nicholas Hammond, American-born Australian actor and writer
  • May 18
    • Gerry Mendicino, Canadian actor
    • Nick Wyman, American actor
  • May 22 – Peter Wildman, Canadian actor
  • June 1 – John M. Jackson, American film and television actor
  • June 5 – Daniel von Bargen, American character actor (d. 2015)
  • June 6 – Chantal Akerman, Belgian-born director (d. 2015)
  • June 8 – Kathy Baker, American actress
  • June 13 – Belinda Bauer, Australian actress
  • June 14 - Jeremy Sinden, English actor (d. 1996)
  • June 17 – Lee Tamahori, New Zealand filmmaker
  • June 19 – Daria Nicolodi, Italian actress and screenwriter (d. 2020)
  • June 24 – Nancy Allen, American actress
  • June 25 – Thomas Jefferson Byrd, American actor (d. 2020)
  • June 26 – Michael Paul Chan, American actor
  • July 17 – Barbara Rosenblat, British actress
  • July 20 – Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress
  • July 24 - Johnny Lee Davenport, American actor (d. 2020)
  • July 27 - Nigel Plaskitt, English actor and producer
  • July 28 - Lani Minella, American voice actress, voice director and producer
  • July 29 – Mike Starr, American character actor
  • August 3 - John Landis, American filmmaker and actor
  • August 5 – Holly Palance, American actress
  • August 6 – Dorian Harewood, American actor
  • August 10 - Rémy Girard, Canadian actor
  • August 11
    • Elya Baskin, Latvian-American character actor
    • Adam LeFevre, American character actor
  • August 12 – Jim Beaver, American actor
  • August 13 – Jane Carr, English actress
  • August 14 – Peter Guinness, English actor
  • August 15 - Tess Harper, American actress
  • August 16 - Marshall Manesh, Iranian-American actor
  • August 20 – Skip O'Brien, American actor (d. 2011)
  • August 27 – Charles Fleischer, American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and musician
  • September 2 - Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
  • September 7 – Julie Kavner, American film and television actress, voice actress and comedian
  • September 11 – Amy Madigan, American actress
  • September 12 – Bruce Mahler, American actor, producer and writer
  • September 14 – Howard Deutch, American director
  • September 19 - Rudy Ramos, American actor and musician
  • September 21 – Bill Murray, American actor and comedian
  • September 24
  • September 27 - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese-born American actor, producer and martial artist
  • September 28 – John Sayles, American director and screenwriter
  • September 30 – Vondie Curtis-Hall, American actor, screenwriter and director
  • October 1 – Randy Quaid, American actor
  • October 2 – Ian McNeice, English actor
  • October 4 – Alan Rosenberg, American actor
  • October 5 – Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (d. 2011)
  • October 10 - Jerry Tondo, Japanese-American actor
  • October 17 – Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996)
  • October 18 – Om Puri, Indian actor (d. 2017)
  • October 31 – John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (d. 1994)
  • November 13 – Jules Sylvester, British wild animal trainer, actor and television presenter
  • November 16 – David Leisure, American actor
  • November 18 – Eric Pierpoint, American actor
  • November 28 – Ed Harris, American actor
  • December 2 - Dennis Christopher, American actor
  • December 10 – Gregg Berger, American voice actor
  • December 12 – Duane Chase, American actor
  • December 13
    • Lindsey Ginter, American actor
    • Wendie Malick, American-Canadian actress
  • December 21
  • December 22 – Jeris Lee Poindexter, American actor, comedian and musician
  • December 29 - Jon Polito, American character actor (d. 2016)

Deaths

Film debuts

References

  1. Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  2. 'The Eddie Mannix Ledger', Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study, Los Angeles
  3. "All-Time Top Grosses". Variety. January 4, 1961. p. 49. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
  4. "All-Time Top Grossers". Variety. January 13, 1954. p. 10. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
  5. Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  6. "Top 20 Films of 1950 by Domestic Revenue". boxofficereport.com. Archived from the original on 2008-06-15.
  7. "Robbie Coltrane obituary". the Guardian. 14 October 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
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