Contents

1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Academy Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Other movies released

Events

Top grossing films

North America

1. For whom the Bell Tolls
2. The Song of Bernadette
3. This is the Army
4. Stage Door Canteen
5. Random Harvest
6. Star Spangled Rhythm
7. Casablanca

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Casablanca - Warner Bros.
• Best Actor: Paul Lukas - Watch on the Rhine
• Best Actress: Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette

Births

• January 13 - Richard Moll, actor
• March 15 - David Cronenberg, director
• March 31 - Christopher Walken, actor
• May 31 - Sharon Gless, actress
• June 13 - Malcolm McDowell, actor
• October 4 - John Bindon, actor and bodyguard

Deaths

Other movies released

• Lassie Come Home
• Heaven Can Wait
• Madame Curie
• Ivan the Terrible, Part I , by director Sergei Eisenstein
• Chicken Little
• Coney Island