1942 in film

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The year 1942 in film involved some significant events.
Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Academy Awards
4 Films released in 1942
5 Serials
6 Short film series
7 Animated short film series
8 Births
9 Deaths
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[edit] Events
January 16 - Actress Carole Lombard is killed in a plane crash near Las Vegas while returning home to Los Angeles from a War Bond tour.
August 13 - Walt Disney's animated film Bambi opens at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
November 11 - Road to Morocco, starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour, premieres.
November 26 - The film Casablanca premieres at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.

[edit] Top grossing films
North America
Mrs. Miniver
Reap the Wild Wind
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Road to Morocco
Holiday Inn

[edit] Academy Awards
Best Picture: Mrs. Miniver - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Best Actor: James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy
Best Actress: Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver
Special Academy Award In Which We Serve

[edit] Films released in 1942
Ala-Arriba!
Alias Boston Blackie, Starring Chester Morris, Adele Mara, and Richard Lane
Bambi
The Black Swan
Bullet Scars
Captains of the Clouds
Casablanca
Cat People
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Der Fuehrer's Face, Donald Duck's Academy Award-winning short
Flying Tigers
Gentleman Jim -(film only mentioned in article)
The Ghost of Frankenstein starring Lon Chaney Jr.
Hatter's Castle
Holiday Inn
I Married a Witch
In Which We Serve
Listen to Britain, British propaganda film directed by Humphrey Jennings
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Major and the Minor
The Man Who Came to Dinner -(film only mentioned in article)
Mrs. Miniver
My Tender Comrade
Pardon My Sarong, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Pride of the Yankees starring Gary Cooper
Random Harvest
Reap the Wild Wind
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Rio Rita, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Road to Morocco
Saludos Amigos
Somewhere I'll Find You, starring Clark Gable
Sons of the Pioneers, starring Roy Rogers and Gabby Whittaker
Star Spangled Rhythm
The Undying Monster
Went the Day Well?
Who Done It?, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Yankee Doodle Dandy

[edit] Serials
Captain Midnight, starring Dave O'Brien, directed by James W. Horne
Don Winslow of the Navy
Gang Busters
Junior G-Men of the Air, starring the Dead End Kids
King of the Mounties, starring Allan Lane, directed by William Witney
Overland Mail
Perils of Nyoka, starring Kay Aldridge & Clayton Moore, directed by William Witney
Perils of the Royal Mounted, directed by James W. Horne
The Secret Code, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Spy Smasher, starring Kane Richmond, directed by William Witney
The Valley of Vanishing Men, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet

[edit] Short film series
Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)
Our Gang (1922-1944)
The Three Stooges (1934-1959)

[edit] Animated short film series
Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
Terrytoons (1930-1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
Scrappy (1931-1941)
Popeye (1933-1957)
Color Rhapsodies (1934-1949)
Donald Duck (1937-1956)
Pluto (1937-1951)
Walter Lantz Cartunes (also known as New Universal Cartoons or Cartune Comedies) (1938-1942)
Goofy (1939-1955)
Andy Panda (1939-1949)
Tom and Jerry (MGM) (1940-1958)
Woody Woodpecker (1941-1949)
Swing Symphonies (1941-1945)
The Fox and the Crow (1941-1950)

[edit] Births
January 3 - John Thaw, actor (+ 2002)
January 8 - Yvette Mimieux, actress
January 14 - Stig Engström, actor
January 15 - Charo, singer, actress
January 19 - Michael Crawford, singer, actor
February 13 - Peter Tork, musician/actor
March 28 - Mike Newell, British film director
July 1 – Geneviève Bujold, French-Canadian actress
July 13 - Harrison Ford, American actor/producer
October 22 - John Broderick, producer, director, Actor
October 31 - David Ogden Stiers, American actor
November 2 - Stefanie Powers, American actress
November 21 - Al Matthews, American actor
November 17 - Martin Scorsese, director

[edit] Deaths
January 16 - Carole Lombard, actress
May 29 - John Barrymore, actor
November 5 - George M. Cohan, actor, songwriter, entertainer