The year 1949 in film involved some significant events. [edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) | Rank | Title | Studio | Actors | Gross | | 1. | Samson and Delilah | Paramount | Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature | $11,500,000 | | 2. | Battleground | MGM | Van Johnson and John Hodiak | $5,051,000 | | 3. | Jolson Sings Again
Sands of Iwo Jima | Columbia
Republic | Larry Parks
John Wayne | $5,000,000 | | 4. | I Was a Male War Bride | 20th Century Fox | Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan | $4,100,000 | | 5. | Twelve O'Clock High | 20th Century Fox | Gregory Peck | $4,025,000 | | 6. | Pinky | 20th Century Fox | Jeanne Crain | $3,800,000 | | 7. | The Heiress | Paramount | Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift and Miriam Hopkins | $3,700,000 | | 8. | Little Women | MGM | June Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor | $3,600,000 | | 9. | All the King's Men | Columbia | Broderick Crawford and John Ireland | $3,500,000 | | 10. | Adam's Rib | MGM | Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn | $3,500,000 | [edit] Awards Academy Awards: - Best Picture: All the King's Men - Rossen, Columbia
- Best Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter to Three Wives
- Best Actor: Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men
- Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress
- Best Supporting Actor: Dean Jagger - Twelve O'Clock High
- Best Supporting Actress: Mercedes McCambridge - All the King's Men
Golden Globe Awards: - Best Picture: All the King's Men
- Best Director: Robert Rossen - All the King's Men
- Best Actor: Broderick Crawford - All the King's Men
- Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette), Italy
Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival): - The Third Man, directed by Carol Reed, United Kingdom
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival) - Manon, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, France
[edit] Films released in 1949 - Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Adam's Rib, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
- The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
- Africa Screams, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Alexander Popov
- All the King's Men, starring Broderick Crawford
- The Barkleys of Broadway, the last of 10 films starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
- The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, starring Betty Grable
- Beyond the Forest, starring Bette Davis
- The Bicycle Thief (U.S. release)
- The Big Steal, starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Patric Knowles
- The Bribe, starring Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price and John Hodiak
- Border Incident
- Champion, starring Kirk Douglas and Marilyn Maxwell
- City Across the River
- Criss Cross, starring Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo
- Come to the Stable, starring Loretta Young
- Edward, My Son, starring Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr
- The Fallen Idol (U.S. release)
- Father was a Fullback
- Flamingo Road, starring Joan Crawford
- The Fountainhead, starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal
- The Hasty Heart
- The Heiress, starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift and Miriam Hopkins
- I Was a Male War Bride
- Impact
- In the Good Old Summertime
- Intruder in the Dust
- The Inspector General
- It Happens Every Spring
- Jolson Sings Again
- Jour de fête
- Kind Hearts and Coronets
- A Letter to Three Wives, starring Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell and Ann Sothern
- Little Women, starring Elizabeth Taylor
- Ma and Pa Kettle -(film only mentioned in article)
- Madame Bovary, starring Jennifer Jones
- Malaya
- Manon
- Mighty Joe Young
- Mother Is a Freshman
- My Friend Irma, film debut of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
- My Foolish Heart, starring Susan Hayward and Dana Andrews
- Neptune's Daughter
- On the Town, starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra
- Passport to Pimlico
- Pinky, starring Jeanne Crain
- Prince of Foxes
- Samson and Delilah, starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature
- Saraband for Dead Lovers (U.S. release)
- The Set-Up
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
- "She Shoulda Said 'No'!"
- Slattery's Hurricane, starring Richard Widmark, Veronica Lake and Linda Darnell
- So Dear to My Heart
- Le Silence de la mer
- The Small Back Room
- The Stratton Story
- They Live by Night, starring Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell
- The Third Man
- Tulsa
- The Walls of Malapaga (Au-delà des grilles)
- The Window
- Under Capricorn, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Ingrid Bergman
- Where The Sidewalk Ends, starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney
- Whirlpool, starring Gene Tierney
- Whisky Galore!
- White Heat, starring James Cagney and Virginia Mayo
[edit] Serials [edit] Short film series [edit] Births - January 10 - Linda Lovelace, pornographic film actress (d. 2002)
- January 12 - Wayne Wang, director
- January 14 - Lawrence Kasdan, director, screenwriter
- January 17 - Andy Kaufman, comedian, actor (d. 1984)
- January 24 - John Belushi, US actor
- March 22 - Fanny Ardant, French actress
- April 20 - Veronica Cartwright, actress
- May 9 - Billy Joel, songwriter
- May 24 - Jim Broadbent, British actor
- May 31 - Tom Berenger, US actor
- June 22 - Meryl Streep, US actress
- July 7 - Shelley Duvall, US actress
- August 23 - Shelley Long, US actress
- August 31 - Richard Gere, US actor
- October 8 - Sigourney Weaver, US actress
- November 6 - Arturo Sandoval, songwriter
- November 26 - Juanin Clay, US actress
- December 4 - Jeff Bridges, US actor
- December 25 - Sissy Spacek, US actress
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