The year 1950 in film involved some significant events. [edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) | Rank | Title | Studio | Gross | | 1. | Cinderella* | Disney/RKO | $141,087,000 | | 2. | King Solomon's Mines | MGM | $5,586,000 | | 3. | Annie Get Your Gun | MGM | $4,919,000 | | 4. | Cheaper by the Dozen | 20th Century Fox | $4,425,000 | | 5. | Born Yesterday | Columbia | $4,115,000 | | 6. | Father of the Bride | MGM | $4,054,000 | | 7. | Broken Arrow | 20th Century Fox | $3,600,000 | | 8. | At War with the Army | Paramount | $3,300,000 | | 9. | All About Eve | 20th Century Fox | $3,100,000 | | 10. | The Flame and the Arrow
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MGM | $3,000,000 | (*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1950.shtml [edit] Awards Academy Awards: - Best Picture: All About Eve - 20th Century-Fox
- Best Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve
- Best Actor: José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac
- Best Actress: Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
- Best Supporting Actor: George Sanders - All About Eve
- Best Supporting Actress: Josephine Hull - Harvey
Golden Globe Awards: - Drama:
- Best Picture: Sunset Boulevard
- Best Actor: José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac
- Best Actress: Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: no award
- Best Actor: Fred Astaire - Three Little Words
- Best Actress: Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
- Other
- Best Director: Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival): not held Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival) - Justice Is Done (Justice est faite), directed by André Cayatte, France
[edit] Films released in 1950 - Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
- All About Eve, starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter with George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter and Marilyn Monroe
- Ambush
- Annie Get Your Gun, starring Betty Hutton
- The Asphalt Jungle, starring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen and Marilyn Monroe
- At War with the Army
- The Blue Lamp
- Battleground, starring Van Johnson and John Hodiak
- Bitter Rice (U.S. release)
- The Black Rose
- Born Yesterday, starring Broderick Crawford, Judy Holliday and William Holden
- Bright Leaf, starring Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall and Patricia Neal
- Broken Arrow
- Café Paradis
- Caged, starring Eleanor Parker
- Captain Carey, U.S.A., war drama starring Alan Ladd
- Cheaper by the Dozen
- Cinderella
- Comanche Territory
- Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Jose Ferrer
- The Damned Don't Cry, starring Joan Crawford
- Dark City
- Destination Moon
- Fancy Pants
- Father of the Bride, starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett and Elizabeth Taylor
- The Flame and the Arrow
- The Furies
- Gun Crazy (aka Deadly is the Female), starring John Dall and Peggy Cummins
- The Gunfighter, starring Gregory Peck
- The Happiest Days of Your Life
- Harvey, starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull
- I'll Get By
- In a Lonely Place, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame
- Justice is Done
- Kim
- King Solomon's Mines, starring Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger
- A Lady Without Passport, starring Hedy Lamarr and John Hodiak
- Last Holiday
- A Life of Her Own, starring Lana Turner
- Louisa
- The Magnificent Yankee, starring Louis Calhern
- The Men, starring Marlon Brando in his film debut. Also starring Teresa Wright
- The Miniver Story, starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon and John Hodiak
- Mister 880
- Mystery Street, starring Ricardo Montalban
- My Friend Irma Goes West
- Night and the City, starring Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney
- No Way Out, starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell and Sidney Poitier
- Orphée
- Rashomon
- Rio Grande, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara
- Sands of Iwo Jima, starring John Wayne
- Side Street, starring Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell
- Seven Days to Noon
- Stage Fright, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd
- Stromboli
- Summer Stock, starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly
- Sunset Boulevard, starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson
- Tension, starring Audrey Totter
- The Third Man (U.S. release)
- Three Little Words
- To Please a Lady
- Treasure Island
- Trio
- Twelve O'Clock High, starring Gregory Peck
- Vendetta, starring Faith Domergue. (Filmed in 1946 but not released until 1950 due to delayes from Howard Hughes)
- Wabash Avenue, starring Betty Grable. (A remake of Betty Grable's own 1943 film Coney Island)
- The West Point Story
- When Willie Comes Marching Home
- Where Danger Lives, starring Robert Mitchum and Faith Domergue in her film debut.
- Winchester '73
- Young Man with a Horn, starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall and Doris Day
[edit] Serials [edit] Short film series [edit] Births - January 16 - Debbie Allen, actress, dancer, choreographer
- January 24 - Daniel Auteuil, actor
- February 18 - Cybill Shepherd, actress
- February 22 - Julie Walters, actress
- February 25 - Neil Jordan, Irish director
- March 11 - Jerry Zucker, US director, producer
- March 13 - William H Macy, US actor
- March 16 - Kate Nelligan, actress
- March 18 - Brad Dourif, actor
- March 20 - William Hurt, US actor
- March 30 - Robbie Coltrane, actor
- April 4 - Christine Lahti, actress
- April 29 - Phillip Noyce, director
- May 12 - Gabriel Byrne, actor
- July 26 - Susan George, British actress
- September 21 - Bill Murray, US actor, comedian
- September 28 - John Sayles, director, screenwriter
- October 31 - John Candy, comedian and actor (d. 1994)
- November 28 - Ed Harris, US actor
- December 12 - Rajnikanth, actor
[edit] Deaths [edit] Film Debuts |
