The year 1944 in film involved some significant events. [edit] Events
[edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) [edit] Awards Academy Awards: - Best Picture: Going My Way - Paramount
- Best Director: Leo McCarey - Going My Way
- Best Actor: Bing Crosby - Going My Way
- Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
- Best Supporting Actor: Barry Fitzgerald - Going My Way
- Best Supporting Actress: Ethel Barrymore - None but the Lonely Heart
Golden Globe Awards: - Best Picture: Going My Way
- Best Director: Leo McCarey, Going My Way
- Best Actor: Alexander Knox - Wilson
- Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight
[edit] Films released in 1944 - The Adventures of Mark Twain
- Arsenic and Old Lace, starring Cary Grant and Priscilla Lane
- Between Two Worlds
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Buffalo Bill
- A Canterbury Tale, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
- Casanova Brown, starring Gary Cooper
- Christmas Holiday, starring Gene Kelly
- The Climax, Starring Boris Karloff
- Cover Girl, starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly
- Cry of the Werewolf
- Double Indemnity, starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson
- Dragon Seed, starring Katharine Hepburn
- The Fighting Seabees, starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward
- Frenchman's Creek
- Gaslight, the Hollywood remake, with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer
- Going My Way
- Hail the Conquering Hero
- To Have And Have Not, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
- Henry V, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier
- Hollywood Canteen
- Home in Indiana
- The Hour Before the Dawn, starring Veronica Lake
- House of Frankenstein
- In Society, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- It Happened Tomorrow
- Ivan the Terrible, by director Sergei Eisenstein
- Jane Eyre (1944 film), directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine
- The Keys of the Kingdom, starring Gregory Peck, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, and Roddy McDowall
- Kismet, starring Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich
- Lady in the Dark
- Lady, Let's Dance, ice skating musical starring Belita and comedy ice team Frick and Frack
- Laura, starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews
- Lifeboat, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tallulah Bankhead and John Hodiak
- Lost in a Harem, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland
- Meet the People
- Mr. Skeffington, starring Bette Davis
- Mrs. Parkington, starring Greer Garson
- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
- The Mummy's Curse
- The Mummy's Ghost
- Murder, My Sweet, starring Dick Powell and Claire Trevor
- National Velvet
- None but the Lonely Heart, starring Cary Grant
- None Shall Escape
- North East Corner
- Passage to Marseille
- Pin Up Girl, starring Betty Grable
- The Princess and the Pirate
- The Return of the Vampire
- The Seventh Cross
- The Spider Woman
- Since You Went Away, starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple
- Song of Russia
- The Sullivans
- Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
- Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
- The Three Caballeros
- The Uninvited
- The Way Ahead, directed by Carol Reed
- The White Cliffs of Dover
- Wilson, biographical film about President Woodrow Wilson, starring Charles Coburn
- The Woman in the Window, starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett
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