1942 IN FILM

The year '1942 in film' involved some significant events.

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Academy Awards

Films released in 1942

Serials

Short film series

Animated short film series

Births

Deaths

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.

Top grossing films

:North America

★ ''Mrs. Miniver''

★ ''Reap the Wild Wind''

★ ''Yankee Doodle Dandy''

★ ''Road to Morocco''

★ ''Holiday Inn''

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''

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''

★ ''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''

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

Short film series

★ ''Laurel and Hardy'' (1921-1943)

★ ''Our Gang'' (1922-1944)

★ ''The Three Stooges'' (1934-1959)

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)

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

★ November 2 - Stefanie Powers, American actress

★ November 21 - Al Matthews, American actor

★ November 17 - Martin Scorsese, director

Deaths

★ January 16 - Carole Lombard, actress

★ May 29 - John Barrymore, actor

★ November 5 - George M. Cohan, actor, songwriter, entertainer