Overview of the events of 1943 in film
The year 1943 in film featured various significant events for the film industry.
The top ten 1943 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1943
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
This is the Army Warner Bros.
$8,301,000[ 1]
2
For Whom the Bell Tolls Paramount
$6,300,000[ 2]
3
The Song of Bernadette 20th Century Fox
$4,700,000[ 3]
4
Stage Door Canteen United Artists
$4,350,000[ 4]
5
Star Spangled Rhythm Paramount
$3,850,000[ 5]
6
Thousands Cheer MGM
$3,751,000[ 6]
7
Casablanca Warner Bros.
$3,398,000[ 1]
8
Coney Island 20th Century Fox
$3,305,000[ 7]
9
Destination Tokyo Warner Bros.
$3,237,000[ 1]
10
Dixie Paramount
$3,100,000[ 5]
Events
Awards
Top Ten Money Making Stars
1943 film releases
United States
January 1943
February 1943
3 February
5 February
11 February
12 February
19 February
20 February
March 1943
1 March
2 March
3 March
5 March
10 March
11 March
15 March
19 March
22 March
25 March
26 March
27 March
April 1943
2 April
9 April
12 April
15 April
22 April
23 April
24 April
30 April
May 1943
4 May
7 May
8 May
12 May
13 May
14 May
16 May
17 May
21 May
22 May
27 May
28 May
June 1943
2 June
3 June
10 June
11 June
22 June
23 June
July 1943
3 July
14 July
17 July
21 July
26 July
August 1943
1 August
2 August
11 August
12 August
14 August
19 August
21 August
23 August
27 August
30 August
September 1943
2 September
9 September
10 September
13 September
16 September
17 September
24 September
25 September
28 September
29 September
October 1943
7 October
8 October
13 October
19 October
23 October
29 October
November 1943
4 November
5 November
10 November
11 November
12 November
13 November
19 November
23 November
26 November
27 November
December 1943
3 December
6 December
14 December
15 December
17 December
20 December
24 December
25 December
29 December
31 December
Notable films released in 1943
United States unless stated
A
B
Background to Danger Raoul Walsh , starring George Raft and Peter Lorre Bataan Tay Garnett , starring Robert Taylor and Lloyd Nolan Behind the Rising Sun Tom Neal , produced by Howard Hughes The Bells Go Down Tommy Trinder and James Mason – (GB )Best Foot Forward Lucille Ball , William Gaxton , Virginia Weidler Bombardier Pat O'Brien , Randolph Scott , Anne Shirley Border Patrol William Boyd , George Reeves , Robert Mitchum
C
Cabin in the Sky Vincente Minnelli , starring Ethel Waters Calling Dr. Death Inner Sanctum Mysteries , starring Lon Chaney Jr. Clancy Street Boys The East Side Kids Coney Island Betty Grable The Constant Nymph Joan Fontaine Le Corbeau Henri-Georges Clouzot , starring Pierre Fresnay – (France )Corvette K-225 Randolph Scott O Costa do Castelo Portugal )Cowboy in Manhattan Crash Dive Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter Crazy House Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson The Crew of the Dora Germany )Crime Doctor Warner Baxter Cry 'Havoc' Margaret Sullavan , Ann Sothern , Joan Blondell
D
E
F
Fires Were Started Humphrey Jennings – (GB )Five Graves to Cairo Billy Wilder , starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter Flesh and Fantasy Edward G. Robinson , Barbara Stanwyck and Charles Boyer Flor Silvestre Dolores del Río – (Mexico )Forces Occultes Jean Mamy , starring Maurice Rémy , Marcel Vibert , Auguste Bovério , Giséle Parry – (France )For Whom the Bell Tolls Sam Wood , starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman Forever and a Day Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man Lon Chaney Jr. and Béla Lugosi Der Fuehrer's Face
G
The Gang's All Here Busby Berkeley , starring Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda The Ghost Ship Richard Dix Girl Crazy Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney Guadalcanal Diary Lloyd Nolan , Richard Conte , Preston Foster , William Bendix , Anthony Quinn A Guy Named Joe Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne
H
Hangmen Also Die! Brian Donlevy and Walter Brennan Happy Land Don Ameche and Frances Dee The Hard Way Ida Lupino Harlem Carmine Gallone , starring Massimo Girotti and Amedeo Nazzari (Italy)Heaven Can Wait Ernst Lubitsch , starring Gene Tierney and Don Ameche Hello, Frisco, Hello Alice Faye Hi Diddle Diddle Adolphe Menjou and Pola Negri Hit the Ice Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Hitler's Children Edward Dmytryk Holy Matrimony Monty Woolley and Gracie Fields Huella de luz Spain )The Human Comedy Mickey Rooney
I
J
K
L
M
The Mad Ghoul George Zucco Madame Curie Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon The Man in Grey Gainsborough melodramas starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason – (GB )María Candelaria Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz – (Mexico )Meshes of the Afternoon Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid Millions Like Us Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder – (GB )Mission to Moscow Michael Curtiz , starring Walter Huston Mister Big Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean The More the Merrier George Stevens , starring Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea Mr. Lucky Cary Grant Münchhausen Germany )My Learned Friend Will Hay – (GB )
N
O
P
R
S
Sahara Humphrey Bogart Saludos Amigos Walt Disney animated film starring Donald Duck and Goofy Sanshiro Sugata Akira Kurosawa – (Japan )The Seventh Victim Tom Conway Shadow of a Doubt Alfred Hitchcock , starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten Sherlock Holmes Faces Death Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce , co-starring Hillary BrookeSherlock Holmes in Washington Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce , co-starring Henry Daniell and George ZuccoThe Shipbuilders John Baxter – (GB )The Silver Fleet Ralph Richardson and Googie Withers – (GB )The Sky's the Limit Fred Astaire and Joan Leslie So Proudly We Hail! Claudette Colbert , Paulette Goddard , Veronica Lake Son of Dracula Lon Chaney Jr. The Song of Bernadette Jennifer Jones Squadron Leader X Eric Portman and Ann Dvorak – (GB )Stormy Weather Lena Horne , Bill Robinson , Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers Strange Inheritance Assia Noris and Jules Berry – (France )A Stranger in Town Frank Morgan
T
Tender Comrade Ginger Rogers and Robert Ryan Thank Your Lucky Stars Eddie Cantor Theatre Royal Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen – (GB )They Came to Blow Up America George Sanders This is the Army Michael Curtiz This Land Is Mine Jean Renoir , starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara Thousands Cheer Gene Kelly , Kathryn Grayson , Mary Astor Titanic Germany )Top Man Donald O'Connor
U
V
W
Y
Serials
Comedy film series
Animated short film series
Births
January 1 – Don Novello , American writer, film director, producer, actor, singer and comedian
January 13 – Richard Moll , American actor (died 2023)
January 14 – Holland Taylor , American actress
January 18
January 19 - Larry Clark , American director, producer and writer
January 24 – Sharon Tate , American actress and model (murdered 1969)
January 25 – Tobe Hooper , American director and screenwriter (died 2017)
January 28 – John Beck , American actor
January 31 – Peter McRobbie , Scottish-born American actor
February 1 - Linda Gaye Scott , American actress
February 3 – Blythe Danner , American actress
February 5 - Michael Mann , American director, screenwriter and producer
February 9 – Joe Pesci , American actor
February 20 – Mike Leigh , English director
February 25 – George Harrison , English musician and songwriter (died 2001)
February 26 – Bill Duke , American actor and director
March 8 – Lynn Redgrave , English actress (died 2010)
March 15 – David Cronenberg , Canadian director and screenwriter
March 25 – Paul Michael Glaser , American actor and director
March 26 - Giusi Merli , Italian actress
March 28 – Conchata Ferrell , American actress (died 2020)
March 29
Eric Idle , English actor, comedian, author and musicianVangelis , Greek-born film composer (died 2022)
March 31 – Christopher Walken , American actor
April 8 – Jack O'Halloran , American actor
April 10 - Tom Pollock , American producer (died 2020)
April 20 – Edie Sedgwick , American actress, socialite, model and heiress (died 1971)
April 26 – Leon Pownall , Welsh-Canadian actor (died 2006)
May 5 – Michael Palin , English actor, comedian and musician
May 7 - Donal McCann , Irish actor (died 1999)
May 25 - Leslie Uggams , American actress and singer
May 27 – Raye Birk , American actor
June 2
June 4 - Tom Luddy , American producer (died 2023)
June 7 – Michael Pennington , English actor, director and writer
June 8 - Colin Baker , English actor
June 11 - Oleg Vidov , Russian-American actor, director and producer (died 2017)
June 13 – Malcolm McDowell , English actor
June 19 - Peter Belli , Danish actor and singer (died 2023)
June 22
June 23 – Patrick Bokanowski , French director
June 24 – George Stanford Brown , American actor and director
June 26 - John Beasley , American actor (died 2023)
July 3 – Kurtwood Smith , American actor
July 7 - Robert East , Welsh actor
July 11 - Tom Holland , American screenwriter, actor and director
July 21
July 25 - Janet Margolin , American actress (died 1993)
July 26 – Mick Jagger , English singer, songwriter, actor, filmmaker, and dancer
July 28 – Frances Lee McCain , American actress
July 29 - Jim Ishida , Japanese-American character actor
August 6 - Ray Buktenica , American character actor
August 15 – Barbara Bouchet , German-American actress
August 17 – Robert De Niro , American actor
August 18 – Martin Mull , American actor and comedian (died 2024)
August 20 - Sylvester McCoy , Scottish actor
August 21
Lino Capolicchio , Italian actor, screenwriter and director (died 2022)Hugh Wilson , American director, writer, television showrunner and actor (died 2018)
August 27 – Tuesday Weld , American actress
August 28 - David Soul , American-British actor and singer (died 2024)
August 30 - Miri Fabian , Israeli actress
September 1 – Don Stroud , American actor and musician
September 3 – Valerie Perrine , American actress and model
September 5 - Jack Charles , Australian actor (died 2022)
September 9 – Art LaFleur , American character actor and acting coach (died 2021)
September 10 – Daniel Truhitte , American actor
September 19 - Diana Bellamy , American character actress (died 2001)
September 21 – Jerry Bruckheimer , American producer
September 23 - Toni Basil , American singer, actress and director
September 24 – Randall Duk Kim , Korean American stage, film and television actor
September 28 – J. T. Walsh , American character actor (died 1998)
October 4 – John Bindon , English actor and bodyguard (died 1993)
October 5 - Jennifer Hagan , Australian actress
October 8 – Chevy Chase , American actor and comedian
October 12 – Lin Shaye , American actress
October 15 – Penny Marshall , American television actress, film director and producer (died 2018)
October 20 – George Wyner , American actor
October 22
October 24 – Martin Campbell , New Zealand director
October 27 - Carmen Argenziano , American actor (died 2019)
October 29
November 1 – John McEnery , English actor and writer (died 2019)
November 5 – Sam Shepard , American actor (died 2017)
November 7 – Michael Byrne , British actor
November 10 - William Hoyland , English actor (died 2017)
November 12
November 16 - Wai Ching Ho , Hong Kong actress
November 20 – Mie Hama , former Japanese actress, radio and television presenter
November 23 – Tony Bonner , Australian actor and singer
November 28
December 2 - Henry Kingi , American stuntman and actor
December 12
December 13 – Arturo Ripstein , Mexican director
December 16 – Patti Deutsch , American voice artist, actress and comedian (died 2017)
December 21 – Jack Nance , American actor (died 1996)
December 23 – Harry Shearer , American voice actor
December 25 - David Darlow , American actor
December 31
Deaths
January 25 – Spencer Charters , 67, American actor, The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine The Postman Didn't Ring
February 14 – Dora Gerson , 43, German actress, Caravan of Death On the Brink of Paradise
February 19 – Lynne Overman , 58, American actor, Little Miss Marker Union Pacific Dixie
February 20 – Donald Haines , 23, American child actor, Skippy A Tale of Two Cities
March 10 – Tully Marshall , 78, American actor, Paid in Full The Big Trail
April 3 – Conrad Veidt , 50, German actor, Casablanca The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari The Thief of Baghdad The Spy in Black
June 1 – Leslie Howard , 50, Academy Award -nominated British actor, Gone with the Wind Pygmalion The Petrified Forest Of Human Bondage
June 30 – Carlo Wieth , 57, Danish actor
July 16 – Arthur Byron , 71, American actor, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing Gabriel Over the White House
November 24 - Frank Sheridan , 74, American actor,
Film Debuts
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