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1945 in film

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.[2]

January 26 – The film , starring Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp and Anne Revere, is released nationally in the United States. The film is an instant critical and commercial success, propelling 12-year-old Taylor to stardom and earning Revere the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

National Velvet

January 30 – Restricted release of , an historical epic which is one of the last Nazi Germany propaganda pieces, in war-torn Berlin. Given its cast of 187,000 (including serving military personnel), probably fewer people view it than appear in it.

Kolberg

April 20 – Release of , the 2nd Lassie film and the first film ever to be filmed using the Technicolor monopack method, where a single magazine of film is used to record all of the primary colors. Prior to this method, the most popular recording method was 3-Strip Technicolor, which simultaneously used 3 individual film magazines to record the primary colors.

Son of Lassie

August 10 – Animated short Duck Pimples is released.

Donald Duck

September 27 – Release of 's Roma Città aperta marks the beginning of Italian neorealism in film.

Roberto Rossellini

October 5 – A strike between the set decorators' union and the studios boils over and becomes known as the .

Hollywood Black Friday

October 31 – , a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, premieres in New York City.

Spellbound

November 16 – releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, introducing a ghost named Casper.

Paramount Pictures

November 29 – At the a documentary on the Nazi concentration camps directed by John Ford is exhibited as evidence.

Nuremberg trials

(Las Abandonadas), starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz – (Mexico)

The Abandoned

, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

Abbott and Costello in Hollywood

, starring Kay Francis

Allotment Wives

, starring Gary Cooper and Loretta Young

Along Came Jones

– (Mexico)

Amok

, starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra

Anchors Aweigh

, starring Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Judith Anderson

And Then There Were None

, starring Joan Woodbury

Brenda Starr, Reporter

, starring Marten Lamont

Federal Operator 99

, starring Edward Norris and Eddie Quillan

Jungle Queen

Jungle Raiders

, starring Richard Bailey and Linda Stirling

Manhunt on Mystery Island

, starring Dennis Moore

The Master Key

, starring Robert Lowery

The Monster and the Ape

, starring Dennis Moore and Linda Stirling

The Purple Monster Strikes

The Royal Mounted Rides Again

, starring Lloyd Bridges

Secret Agent X-9

Who's Guilty?

(19281953)

Mickey Mouse

(19301969)

Looney Tunes

(19301964)

Terrytoons

(19311969)

Merrie Melodies

(19311941)

Scrappy

(19331957)

Popeye

(19341949)

Color Rhapsodies

(19371956)

Donald Duck

(19391955)

Goofy

(19391949)

Andy Panda

(19401958)

Tom and Jerry

(19401962)

Bugs Bunny

(19411949)

Woody Woodpecker

Swing Symphonies (-1945)

1941

(19411950)

The Fox and the Crow

(19431949)

Red Hot Riding Hood

(19431958)

Droopy

(19441946)

Screwball Squirrel

(1945–1963)

Yosemite Sam

January 5 – , Canadian-British-American director, editor and writer

Roger Spottiswoode

January 9 - , American actor

John Doman

January 16 – , French actress

Élisabeth Margoni

Jophery Brown

January 25 – , American actress

Leigh Taylor-Young

January 28 – , Swiss actress

Marthe Keller

January 29 – , American actor

Tom Selleck

February 3 – , South African actor

Marius Weyers

February 4 – , English actor (died 2017)

Tony Haygarth

February 8 - , American actor

Louis Giambalvo

February 9 – , American actress

Mia Farrow

February 12 – , Swedish actress

Maud Adams

February 16 – , English actor (died 2020)

Jeremy Bulloch

Brenda Fricker

February 20 – , American actor (died 1999)

Brion James

February 24 – , American actor

Barry Bostwick

February 27 - , American singer and actor (died 2004)

Carl Anderson

February 28 – , American professional football player and actor (died 2011)

Bubba Smith

March 1 - , American actor

Dirk Benedict

George Miller

March 8 - , English-born Canadian actress (died 2016)

Janet Wright

March 13 – , American actor

Whitney Rydbeck

Curtis Hanson

March 28 – , Estonian actress (died 2020)

Raine Loo

April 2 – , American actress

Linda Hunt

April 3 – , Belgian-Italian actress and singer (died 2022)

Catherine Spaak

April 4 - , American actress (died 2010)

Caroline McWilliams

April 11 - , American actor

Michael Brandon

May 14 - , English actress

Francesca Annis

May 18 - , American character actress

Candice Azzara

May 24 – , American actress

Priscilla Presley

May 27 - , American actor (died 2019)

Kip Niven

May 30 - , Israeli-Arab actor

Makram Khoury

May 31 – , German director, producer and screenwriter (died 1982)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Jon Peters

June 3 - , Scottish actor

Bill Paterson

June 6 – , American actor (died 2000)

David Dukes

June 11 – , American actress

Adrienne Barbeau

June 12 – , American actor

Edwin Neal

July 1 – , American actress and singer (lead vocalist of Blondie (band))

Debbie Harry

July 3 – , American actor (died 2022)

Mickey Rooney Jr.

July 4 - , American actor

Bruce French

July 6 - , American actor

Burt Ward

July 19 - , American actor

George Dzundza

July 21 - , Mexican-born American actor (died 2023)

Sergio Calderón

July 23 – , American actress and voice actress

Edie McClurg

July 26 – , English actress

Helen Mirren

August 2 – , American actress

Joanna Cassidy

August 5 – , American actress

Loni Anderson

Steve Martin

Jill Haworth

August 21 – , American actress

Patty McCormack

August 23 – , English actor (died 1999)

Bob Peck

August 24 - , Argentine actor

Cástulo Guerra

August 28 - , American actress

Jeannie Linero

September 10 – , American actor (died 2013)

Dennis Burkley

September 11 - , American actor

Felton Perry

Roy Brocksmith

September 17 – , New Zealand actor

Bruce Spence

September 22 – , American actor

Paul Le Mat

October 7 – , American journalist and voice actor

Michael Wallis

October 17 - , American actor

Thomas Kopache

October 18 – , American actor, television personality, host, comedian (died 2013)

Huell Howser

October 19 – , American actor

John Lithgow

October 20 - , American actor

George Wyner

October 21 - , American actor

Everett McGill

October 23 - , English actor

Hugh Fraser

October 26 – , American actress

Jaclyn Smith

October 27 – , American actress (died 2004)

Carrie Snodgress

October 30 – , American actor

Henry Winkler

October 31 – , American actor and comedian

Brian Doyle-Murray

November 2 - , American singer-songwriter and actor

J. D. Souther

November 8 – , English actress (died 2011)

Angela Scoular

Terence Davies

November 15 – , American character actor

Bob Gunton

November 19 - , American producer (died 2024)

Paula Weinstein

November 21 – , American actress

Goldie Hawn

November 26 - , American actor

Daniel Davis

November 27 – , American actor (died 2013)

James Avery

November 28 – , Australian actor (died 1996)

John Hargreaves

November 30 – , American actor (died 2019)

Billy Drago

December 1 – , American actress, comedian and singer

Bette Midler

December 7 - , Scottish actor

Clive Russell

December 13 – , American actress (died 2017)

Heather North

December 17 – , American actor

Ernie Hudson

December 21 – , Estonian actress

Mari Lill

December 24 – , American screenwriter, director and producer

Nicholas Meyer

Rick Berman

December 30 - , American director, screenwriter, producer and actor

Lloyd Kaufman

Barbara Carrera

January 14 – , 73, German actor, Dr. Hart's Diary, Melody of a Great City, Die Entlassung, Rembrandt

Heinrich Schroth

February 23 – , 58, American director, Civilization, The Bargain, The Coward, The Moonstone

Reginald Barker

March 4 – , 72, American actress, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Abraham Lincoln, Orphans of the Storm, A Tale of Two Cities

Lucille La Verne

March 4 – , 44, American director, The Gay Divorcee, Follow the Fleet, Holiday Inn

Mark Sandrich

March 30 – , 60, Hungarian director

Béla Balogh

April 10 – , 27, American actress, Lady of Burlesque, They Won't Forget

Gloria Dickson

April 16 – , 49, Chinese-American actor, Come On, Cowboys, The Great Profile

Willie Fung

April 29 – , 52, American silent screen star, Lady of the Night, The Circle, The Whispering Shadow, The Ladybird

Malcolm McGregor

May 4 – , 77, American actress, The Extra Girl, Ride for Your Life

Anna Dodge

July 13 – , 66, Ukrainian-born stage and film actress, Blood and Sand, Salomé, Since You Went Away, Madame Peacock

Alla Nazimova

July 19 – , 80, American actor, No One Man, Evenings for Sale, The Cat's-Paw, The Magnificent Dope

George Barbier

August 11 – , 61, Polish actor, Countess Walewska

Stefan Jaracz

September 1 – , 11, American performing Cairn Terrier, The Wizard of Oz

Terry

November 11 – , 60, American composer, Show Boat, Swing Time

Jerome Kern

November 12 – , 74, Austrian actor, Diary of a Lost Girl, Joyless Street

Jaro Fürth

November 21 – , 56, American writer and actor, Foreign Correspondent, You'll Never Get Rich, Road to Utopia

Robert Benchley

December 25 – , 37, American actor, Undercover Agent, The Covered Trailer, News Is Made at Night

Russell Gleason

Rhapsody in Blue

Robert Alda

Adventure

Barbara Billingsley

Kiss and Tell

Kathryn Card

Romulus and the Sabines

Mario Castellani

Thrill of a Romance

Jeff Chandler

Booked on Suspicion

Steve Cochran

Pillow to Post

William Conrad

Bring on the Girls

June Foray

The House on 92nd Street

Vincent Gardenia

Inconto con Laura

Vittorio Gassman

Here Come the Co-Eds

Maxine Gates

Romulus and the Sabines

Laura Gore

State Fair

Coleen Gray

Pan-Americana

Jane Greer

Captain Eddie

Dwayne Hickman

A Walk in the Sun

John Ireland

It's a Pleasure

David Janssen

The Last Judgment

Silvana Mangano

The House on 92nd Street

E. G. Marshall

The Way to the Stars

Murray Matheson

A Song to Remember

Darren McGavin

What Next, Corporal Hargrove?

Cameron Mitchell

Perfect Strangers

Roger Moore

The Sailor Takes a Wife

Phillip Pine

A Royal Scandal

John Russell

The Valley of Decision

Dean Stockwell

Main Street After Dark

Audrey Totter

Boule de Suif

Howard Vernon

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List of 1945 films

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List of 1945 deaths

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