17th Academy Awards

The 17th Academy Awards marked the first time the complete awards ceremony was broadcast nationally, on the Blue Network (ABC Radio). ^[1]

A Guy Named Joe

A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Victor Fleming.

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A. Arnold Gillespie

Albert Arnold "Buddy" Gillespie (October 14, 1899 – May 3, 1978) was an American cinema special effects artist.

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Academy Award for Best Actor

The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States.

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Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the Academy Awards annually since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931–32, to the present.

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Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work on one particular motion picture.

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Academy Award for Best Director

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award for Best Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

This is a list of films by year that have received an Academy Award together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject.

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is an award for documentary films.

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Academy Award for Best Film Editing

The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974.

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material.

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Academy Award for Best Original Song

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Production Design

The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film.

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Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing

The Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing or recording and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film.

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Academy Award for Best Story

The Academy Award for Best Story was an Academy Award given from the beginning of the Academy Awards until 1956.

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (often referred to as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is an Academy Award given for the best achievement in visual effects.

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Address Unknown (1944 film)

Address Unknown is a 1944 American drama film directed by William Cameron Menzies based on Kathrine Taylor's novel Address Unknown (1938).

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Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900April 30, 1974) was an American actress whose six-decade career included work in radio, stage, film, and television.

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Albert S. D'Agostino

Albert S. D'Agostino (December 27, 1892 – March 14, 1970) was an American art director.

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Alexander Golitzen

Prince Alexander Golitzen (Golitsyn), (Moscow, February 28, 1908San Diego, July 26, 2005) was Russian born production designer who oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.

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Alexander Knox

Alexander Knox (16 January 1907 – 25 April 1995) was a Canadian actor on stage, screen, and occasionally television.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Alfred Neumann (writer)

Alfred Neumann (15 October 1895 – 3 October 1952) was a German writer of novels, stories, poems, plays, and films, as well as a translator into German.

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Alfred Newman (composer)

Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music.

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Aline MacMahon

Aline Laveen MacMahon (May 3, 1899 – October 12, 1991) was an American actress.

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Angela Lansbury

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury, (born 16 October 1925) is an English-American-Irish actress who has appeared in theatre, television, and film, as well as a producer and singer.

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Arthur Hornblow Jr.

Arthur Hornblow Jr. (March 15, 1893 – July 17, 1976) was an American film producer.

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Arthur Johns

Arthur Johns (October 30, 1889 – September 4, 1947) was an American sound engineer.

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Arthur Lange

In the 1910s, Lange was active as a songwriter, collaborating frequently with lyricist Andrew B. Sterling and publishing with the Joe Morris Music Company.

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Ary Barroso

Ary de Resende Barroso, better known as Ary Barroso ONM (November 7, 1903 – February 9, 1964), was a Brazilian composer, pianist, soccer commentator, and talent-show host on radio and TV.

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Barbara McLean

Barbara McLean (November 16, 1903 – March 28, 1996) was an American film editor with 62 film credits.

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Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, model, and dancer.

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Barry Fitzgerald

Barry Fitzgerald (born William Joseph Shields; 10 March 1888 – 14 January 1961) was an Irish stage, film and television actor.

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Bernard B. Brown

Bernard B. Brown (July 24, 1898 – February 20, 1981) was an American sound engineer and composer, who wrote the scores for many early animated cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions for distribution by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater.

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Billy Wilder

Samuel "Billy" Wilder (June 22, 1906March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades.

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Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)Giddins 2001, pp.

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Blue Network

The Blue Network (previously the NBC Blue Network) was the on-air name of the now defunct American radio network, which ran from 1927 to 1945.

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Bob Hope

Sir Leslie Townes Hope, KBE, KC*SG, KSS (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) known professionally as Bob Hope, was an English-American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author.

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Brazil (1944 film)

Brazil (also known as Stars and Guitars) is a 1944 American musical comedy film directed by Joseph Santley and starring Tito Guízar, Virginia Bruce and Edward Everett Horton.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Carmen Dragon

Carmen Dragon (July 28, 1914 – March 28, 1984) was an American conductor, composer, and arranger who in addition to live performances and recording, worked in radio, film, and television.

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Carroll Clark

Carroll Clark (February 6, 1894 – May 17, 1968) was an American art director.

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Cary Grant

Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor, known as one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men.

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Cary Odell

Cary Odell (December 20, 1910 – January 19, 1988) was an American art director.

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Casanova Brown

Casanova Brown is a 1944 American romantic comedy film directed by Sam Wood, and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Frank Morgan.

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Cedric Gibbons

Austin Cedric Gibbons (March 23, 1890 – July 26, 1960) was an Irish-American art director and production designer for the film industry.

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Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer (28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976.

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Charles Coburn

Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American film and theatre actor.

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Charles Lang

Charles Bryant Lang, Jr., A.S.C. (March 27, 1902, Bluff, Utah – April 3, 1998, Santa Monica, California from the American Society of Cinematographers website) was an American cinematographer.

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Charles Novi

Charles Novi (June 30, 1887 – April 1966) was an American art director.

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Charles Previn

Charles Previn (January 11, 1888 - September 21, 1973) was an American film composer who was highly active at Universal in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s.

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Charles Rosher

Charles G. Rosher, A.S.C. (November 17, 1885 – January 15, 1974) was a two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer who worked from the early days of silent films through the 1950s.

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Christmas Holiday

Christmas Holiday is a 1944 film noir crime film directed by Robert Siodmak starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly.

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Claude E. Carpenter

Claude E. Carpenter (September 26, 1904 – February 18, 1976) was an American set decorator.

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Claude Rains

William Claude Rains (10 November 188930 May 1967) was an English–American film and stage actor whose career spanned several decades.

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Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert (born Émilie Claudette Chauchoin; September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an American stage and film actress and a leading lady in Hollywood for over two decades, and has been called "The mixture of inimitable beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity".

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Clifton Webb

Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966), known professionally as Clifton Webb, was an American actor, dancer, and singer known for his roles in such films as Laura (1944), The Razor's Edge (1946), and Sitting Pretty (1948), all three being Oscar-nominated.

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Colonel

Colonel ("kernel", abbreviated Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank below the brigadier and general officer ranks.

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Constantin Bakaleinikoff

Constantin Romanovich Bakaleinikov (also spelled Bakaleynikov and Bakaleinikoff; Константин Романович Бакалейников; 26 April 1896 – 3 September 1966) was a Russian-born composer.

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Cover Girl (film)

Cover Girl is a 1944 American Technicolor musical film starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly.

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Daniel B. Cathcart

Daniel B. Cathcart (December 8, 1906 – January 23, 1959) was an American art director.

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Daniel J. Bloomberg

Daniel J. Bloomberg (July 4, 1905 – August 14, 1984) was an Academy Award-winning audio engineer.

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Darrell Silvera

Darrell Silvera (December 18, 1900 – July 22, 1983) was an American set decorator.

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Darryl F. Zanuck

Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era.

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David Allen (special effects artist)

David Allen was an American special effects artist.

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David Boehm

David Boehm (1 February 1893 in New York – 31 July 1962 in Santa Monica, California) was an American screenwriter.

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David O. Selznick

David O. Selznick (May 10, 1902June 22, 1965) was an American film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive.

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David Rose (songwriter)

David Rose (June 15, 1910 – August 23, 1990) was an American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader.

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Days of Glory (1944 film)

Days of Glory is a 1944 American film which tells the story of a group of Soviet guerrillas fighting back during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.

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Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894November 11, 1979) was a Russian-born American film composer and conductor.

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Donald Jahraus

Donald Jahraus (July 13, 1892 – April 3, 1963) was an American special effects artist.

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Double Indemnity (film)

Double Indemnity is a 1944 film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom.

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Double Indemnity (novel)

Double Indemnity is a 1943 crime novel, written by American journalist-turned-novelist James M. Cain.

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Douglas Shearer

Douglas G. Shearer (November 17, 1899 – January 5, 1971) was a Canadian American pioneering sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.

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Dragon Seed (film)

Dragon Seed is a 1944 war drama film starring Katharine Hepburn.

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Eddie Doherty

Edward J. "Eddie" Doherty (October 30, 1890 – May 4, 1975) was an American newspaper reporter, author and Oscar-nominated screenwriter.

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Edmund H. Hansen

Edmund H. Hansen (November 13, 1894 – October 10, 1962) was an American sound engineer.

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Edward Cronjager

Edward Cronjager (March 21, 1904 – June 15, 1960) was an American cinematographer, whose career spanned from the silent era through the 1950s.

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Edward J. Kay

Edward J. Kay (sometimes credited as Edward Kay or Eddie Kay; November 27, 1898 - December 22, 1973) was an American film composer and musical director, who worked on over 340 films from the 1930s into the 1960s, and was nominated on multiple occasions for an Academy Award for Best Original Score, although he never won.

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Edward Selzer

Edward Selzer (January 12, 1893 – February 22, 1970) was an American cartoon producer and head of Warner Bros. Cartoons from 1944 to 1958.

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Edwin B. Willis

Edwin Booth Willis (January 28, 1893 – November 26, 1963) was an American motion picture set designer and decorator.

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Ernst Fegté

Ernst Fegté (28 September 1900 – 15 December 1976) was a German art director.

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Ernst Toch

Ernst Toch (7 December 18871 October 1964) was an Austrian composer of classical music and film scores.

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Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.

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Farciot Edouart

Farciot Edouart, ASC (born Alexander Edouart Farciot; November 5, 1894 – March 17, 1980) was a motion picture special effects artist and innovator, a recognized specialist and innovator in the area of "process photography", also known as rear projection.

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Fay Babcock

Fay Babcock (June 15, 1895 – November 12, 1970) was a Hollywood set decorator, and one of the first women to have much success in the profession.

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Ferde Grofé

Ferde Grofé (March 27, 1892 April 3, 1972) was an American composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist.

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Follow the Boys

Follow the Boys also known as Three Cheers for the Boys is a 1944 musical film made by Universal Pictures during World War II as an all-star cast morale booster to entertain the troops abroad and the civilians at home.

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Frank Butler (writer)

Frank Butler (December 28, 1890 — June 10, 1967) was an American film and theatre actor and later an award-winning screenwriter, born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.

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Fred F. Finklehoffe

Fred Franklin Finklehoffe (February 16, 1910, Springfield, Massachusetts – October 5, 1977) was an American film writer and producer.

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Fred M. MacLean

Fred M. MacLean (July 9, 1898 – June 3, 1976) was an American set decorator.

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Fred Quimby

Frederick Clinton "Fred" Quimby (July 31, 1886 – September 16, 1965) was an American cartoon producer, best known as producing Tom and Jerry cartoons, for which he won seven Academy Awards.

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Fred Rich

Frederic Efrem "Fred" Rich (January 31, 1898 – September 8, 1956) was a Polish-born American bandleader and composer who was active from the 1920s to the 1950s.

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Fred Sersen

Fred Sersen (February 24, 1890 – December 11, 1962) was a Czechoslovak-American painter and cinema special effects artist working mainly at 20th Century Fox Studios from the 1930s to the 1950s with credits in over 200 movies.

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Gas Light

Gas Light (known in the United States as Angel Street) is a 1938 play by the British dramatist Patrick Hamilton.

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Gaslight (1944 film)

Gaslight is an American 1944 mystery-thriller film, adapted from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play Gas Light, about a woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is going insane.

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George Dutton

George Dutton (December 19, 1899 – May 13, 1977) was an American sound engineer.

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George Folsey (cinematographer)

George Joseph Folsey, A.S.C. (July 2, 1898 – November 1, 1988) was an American cinematographer who worked on 162 films between 1919 and his retirement in 1976.

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George Pal

George Pal (born György Pál Marczincsak; February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980) was a Hungarian-American animator, film director and producer, principally associated with the fantasy and science-fiction genres.

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Georgie Stoll

Georgie Stoll (7 May 1905 in Minneapolis, MN – 18 January 1985 in Monterey, CA) was a musical director, conductor, composer and jazz violinist, associated with the Golden Age of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals and performers from the 1940s to 1960s.

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Gladys Lehman

Gladys Lehman (January 24th, 1892 – April 7th, 1993) was an American screenwriter.

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Glen MacWilliams

Glen MacWilliams (May 21, 1898 – April 15, 1984), was an American cinematographer.

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Going My Way

Going My Way is a 1944 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald.

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Gordon Hollingshead

Gordon Hollingshead (January 8, 1892 in Garfield, New Jersey – July 8, 1952 in Balboa Island, California) was an American movie producer, associate producer and assistant director.

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Gordon Jennings

Gordon Jennings, A.S.C. (1896 – January 11, 1953) was an American special effects artist.

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Grauman's Chinese Theatre

TCL Chinese Theatre is a movie palace on the historic Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, United States.

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Greer Garson

Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, CBE (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996), was a British-American actress popular during the Second World War, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top-ten box office draws from 1942 to 1946.

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Hail the Conquering Hero

Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) is a satirical comedy/drama written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines and William Demarest, and featuring Raymond Walburn, Franklin Pangborn, Elizabeth Patterson, Bill Edwards and Freddie Steele.

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Hal B. Wallis

Harold Brent Wallis (born Aaron Blum Wolowicz; October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer.

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Hal C. Kern

Hal C. Kern (July 14, 1894 – February 24, 1985) was an American film editor.

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Hanns Eisler

Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was an Austrian composer (his father was Austrian, and Eisler fought in a Hungarian regiment in World War I).

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Hans Dreier

Hans Dreier (August 21, 1885 – October 24, 1966) was a German motion picture art director.

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Hans J. Salter

Hans J. Salter (January 14, 1896 in Vienna – July 23, 1994 in Studio City, Cal.) was an Austrian-American film composer.

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Harold Adamson

Harold Adamson (December 10, 1906 – August 17, 1980) was an American lyricist during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Harold Arlen

Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide.

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Harold Rosson

Harold G. "Hal" Rosson, A.S.C. (April 6, 1895 – September 6, 1988) was an American cinematographer who worked during the early and classical Hollywood cinema.

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Harry Kusnick

Harry Kusnick was an American sound engineer.

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Harry Revel

Harry Revel (21 December 1905 – 3 November 1958) was a British-American composer of musical theatre.

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Henry King (director)

Henry King (January 24, 1886June 29, 1982) was an American film director.

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Herbert Stothart

Herbert P. Stothart (September 11, 1885February 1, 1949) was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer.

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Higher and Higher (film)

Higher and Higher is a 1944 musical film starring Michèle Morgan, Jack Haley, and Frank Sinatra (in his film debut), loosely based on a 1940 Broadway musical written by Gladys Hurlbut and Joshua Logan.

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His Butler's Sister

His Butler's Sister is a 1943 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Deanna Durbin.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Hollywood Canteen (film)

Hollywood Canteen is a 1944 American musical romantic comedy film starring Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, and Dane Clark and distributed by Warner Bros. The film was written and directed by Delmer Daves, and is notable for featuring many stars (appearing as themselves) in cameo roles.

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Home in Indiana

Home in Indiana is a 1944 Technicolor film directed by Henry Hathaway.

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Howard Bristol

Howard Bristol (August 14, 1902 – February 11, 1971) was an American set decorator.

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Hugh Martin

Hugh Martin (August 11, 1914 – March 11, 2011) was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright.

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Hugo Butler

Hugo D. Butler (4 May 1914 – 7 January 1968) was a Canadian born screenwriter working in Hollywood who was blacklisted by the film studios in the 1950s.

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Hume Cronyn

Hume Blake Cronyn, Jr., OC (July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003) was a Canadian-American actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside Jessica Tandy, his wife of over fifty years.

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Hymn of the Nations

Hymn of the Nations, originally titled Arturo Toscanini: Hymn of the Nations, is a 1944 film directed by Alexander Hammid, which features the Inno delle nazioni, a patriotic work for tenor soloist, chorus, and orchestra, composed by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi in the early-1860s.

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I Won't Play

I Won't Play is a 1944 American short drama film directed by Crane Wilbur.

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I'll Walk Alone

"I'll Walk Alone" is a 1944 popular song with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

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Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films.

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Ira Gershwin

Ira Gershwin (6 December 1896 17 August 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

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Ira S. Webb

Ira S. Webb (May 12, 1899 – December 9, 1971) was an American film producer, set decorator, screenwriter, art director and film director.

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Irish Eyes Are Smiling

Irish Eyes Are Smiling is a 1944 musical film which chronicles the life of popular Irish song composer Ernest R. Ball.

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Irving Brecher

Irving S. Brecher (January 17, 1914 – November 17, 2008) was a screenwriter who wrote for the Marx Brothers among many others; he was the only writer to get sole credit on a Marx Brothers film, penning the screenplays for At the Circus (1939) and Go West (1940).

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It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow is a 1944 American fantasy film directed by René Clair, starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell and Jack Oakie, and featuring Edgar Kennedy and John Philliber.

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Jack Cosgrove (special effects artist)

Jack Cosgrove (June 9, 1902 – March 10, 1965) was an American special effects artist.

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Jack London (film)

Jack London, also known as The Story of Jack London, is a 1943 American biographical film made by Samuel Bronston Productions and distributed by United Artists.

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Jack McConaghy

Jack McConaghy (December 21, 1902 – October 13, 1977) was an American set decorator.

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Jack Whitney

Jack Whitney (February 21, 1905 – November 2, 1992) was an American sound engineer.

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James E. Newcom

James E. Newcom (August 29, 1905 – October 6, 1990) was an American film editor who had over 40 films during his long career.

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James G. Stewart

James Graham Stewart (May 21, 1907 in Homewood, Pennsylvania – March 22, 1997 in Los Angeles, California) was an American pioneer in the field of sound recording and re-recording.

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James M. Cain

James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American author and journalist.

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James V. Monaco

James Vincent Monaco (January 13, 1885 – October 16, 1945) was an Italian-born American composer of popular music.

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Jammin' the Blues

Jammin' the Blues is a 1944 American short film in which several prominent jazz musicians got together for a rare filmed jam session.

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Janie (1944 film)

Janie is a 1944 film directed by Michael Curtiz based on a 1942 Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel V. Williams, Jr.

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Jay Dratler

Jay Dratler (September 14, 1910- September 25, 1968) was an American screenwriter and novelist.

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Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Jones (born Phylis Lee Isley; March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American actress during Hollywood's golden years.

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Jerome Cady

Jerome Cady (August 15th, 1903 – November 7th, 1948) was a Hollywood screenwriter.

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Jerome Kern

Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.

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Jerry Bresler (film producer)

Jerry Bresler (Jerome S. Bresler: April 13, 1908 in Denver, Colorado – August 23, 1977 in Los Angeles) was an American film producer.

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Jerry Fairbanks

Gerald Bertram "Jerry" Fairbanks (November 1, 1904, San Francisco — June 21, 1995, Santa Barbara, California) was a producer and director in the Hollywood motion picture and television industry.

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Jimmy McHugh

James Francis McHugh (July 10, 1894 – May 23, 1969) was an American composer.

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Jimmy Van Heusen

Jimmy Van Heusen (born Edward Chester Babcock; January 26, 1913 – February 6, 1990), also named James Van Heusen, was an American composer.

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John B. Goodman (art director)

John B. Goodman (August 15, 1901 – June 30, 1991) was an American art director.

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John Cromwell (director)

Elwood Dager Cromwell (December 23, 1886 – September 26, 1979), known as John Cromwell, was an American film and stage director and actor.

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John Crouse

John Crouse (February 8, 1907 – March 17, 1982) was an American special effects artist.

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John F. Seitz

John Francis Seitz, A.S.C. (June 23, 1892 – February 27, 1979) was an American cinematographer and inventor.

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John Hughes (art director)

John Hughes (May 23, 1882 – October 2, 1954) was an American art director.

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John L. Balderston

John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889, in Philadelphia – March 8, 1954, in Los Angeles) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts.

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John P. Livadary

John Paul Livadary (born 20 May 1896, Istanbul, Turkey, died 7 April 1987, Newport Beach, California, USA) was a sound designer.

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John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author.

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John Van Druten

John William Van Druten (1 June 190119 December 1957) was an English playwright and theatre director, known professionally as John Van Druten.

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Johnny Burke (lyricist)

John Francis Burke (October 3, 1908 – February 25, 1964) was a lyricist, successful and prolific between the 1920s and 1950s.

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Joseph Kish

Joseph Kish (June 14, 1899 – March 14, 1969) was an American set decorator.

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Joseph LaShelle

Joseph LaShelle, A.S.C. (July 9, 1900 - August 20, 1989) was a Los Angeles born film cinematographer.

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Joseph Ruttenberg

Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. (July 4, 1889 - May 1, 1983) was a Russian-born American photojournalist and cinematographer.

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Jule Styne

Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British-American song writer and composer known for a series of Broadway musicals, which include several famous and frequently revived shows.

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Julia Heron

Julia Heron (November 21, 1897 – April 9, 1977) was an American set decorator.

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Karl Hajos

Karl Hajos (January 28, 1889 – February 1, 1950) was a Hungarian composer who worked on many film scores.

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Kim Gannon

James Kimball "Kim" Gannon (November 18, 1900 – April 29, 1974) was an American songwriter, more commonly a lyricist than a composer.

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Kismet (1944 film)

Kismet is a 1944 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film in Technicolor starring Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Joy Page, and Florence Bates.

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Knickerbocker Holiday (film)

Knickerbocker Holiday is a 1944 American musical film directed by Harry Joe Brown and starring Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn and Constance Dowling.

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Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.

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Lady in the Dark (film)

Lady in the Dark is a 1944 American Technicolor musical film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Ginger Rogers.

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Lady, Let's Dance

Lady, Let's Dance is a 1944 black-and-white film directed by Frank Woodruff that was nominated for two Oscars.

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Lamar Trotti

Lamar Jefferson Trotti (October 18, 1900 – August 28, 1952) was an American screenwriter, producer, and motion picture executive.

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Laura (1944 film)

Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger.

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Laura (novel)

Laura (1942, 1943) is a detective novel by Vera Caspary.

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Lee Garmes

Lee Garmes, A.S.C. (May 27, 1898 – August 31, 1978) was an American cinematographer.

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Leland Fuller

Leland Fuller (February 16, 1899 – October 9, 1962) was an American art director.

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Leo Erdody

Leo Erdody (December 17, 1888 – April 5, 1949) was an American film composer of Hungarian descent.

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Leo McCarey

Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969) was a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Leon Shamroy

Leon Shamroy, A.S.C. (July 16, 1901 – July 7, 1974) was an American film cinematographer.

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LeRoy Stone

LeRoy Stone (January 5, 1894 in San Francisco, California – September 15, 1949 in Santa Monica, California) was an American film editor and a screenwriter.

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Lew Pollack

Lew Pollack (June 16, 1895 – January 18, 1946) was a song composer active during the 1920s and the 1930s.

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Lifeboat (film)

Lifeboat is a 1944 American survival and drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story by John Steinbeck.

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Lionel Banks

With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks (born June 22, 1901, Salt Lake City, Utah - died March 20, 1950, Los Angeles, California) was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949.

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Lionel Lindon

Lionel Lindon ASC (2 September 1905 – 20 September 1971) was an American film cameraman and cinematographer who spent much of his career working for Paramount.

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Long Ago (and Far Away)

"Long Ago (and Far Away)" is a popular song from the 1944 Technicolor film musical Cover Girl starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly and released by Columbia Pictures.

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Loren L. Ryder

Loren L. Ryder (March 9, 1900 – May 28, 1985) was an American sound engineer.

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Louis Harris

Louis Harris (January 6, 1921 – December 17, 2016) was an American opinion polling entrepreneur, journalist, and author.

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Lyle R. Wheeler

Lyle Reynolds Wheeler (February 2, 1905 – January 10, 1990) was an American motion picture art director.

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Mac Dalgleish

Mac Dalgleish (June 12, 1901 – December 31, 1974) was an American sound engineer.

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Mack Gordon

Mack Gordon (born Morris Gittler, June 21, 1904 – February 28, 1959) was a Jewish-American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film.

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Margaret O'Brien

Margaret O'Brien (born Angela Maxine O'Brien; January 15, 1937) is an American film, radio, television, and stage actress.

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Mark-Lee Kirk

Charles Mark-Lee Kirk (May 16, 1895 – December 10, 1969) was an American art director.

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Max Steiner

Maximilian Raoul Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born American music composer for theatre and films.

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Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St.

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Meet Me in St. Louis (novel)

Meet Me in St.

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Mervyn LeRoy

Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 – September 13, 1987) was an American film director, film producer, author, and occasional actor.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Michel Michelet

Michel Michelet (July 14, 1894 – December 28, 1995) was a composer of film scores.

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Miklós Rózsa

Miklós Rózsa (18 April 1907 – 27 July 1995) was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931), and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953.

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Minstrel Man (1944 film)

Minstrel Man is a 1944 American film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and produced by Producers Releasing Corporation.

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Monty Woolley

Edgar Montilion Woolley (August 17, 1888May 6, 1963) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor.

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Morris Stoloff

Morris Stoloff (1 August 1898 – 16 April 1980) was a musical composer.

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Mouse Trouble

Mouse Trouble is a 1944 American one-reel animated cartoon short and is the 17th Tom and Jerry short produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with music direction by Scott Bradley The cartoon was animated by Ray Patterson, Irven Spence, Ken Muse and Pete Burness.

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Mr. Skeffington

Mr.

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Mrs. Parkington

Mrs.

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Music in Manhattan

Music in Manhattan is a 1944 American musical film directed by John H. Auer.

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Nathan Levinson

Nathan Levinson (July 15, 1888 – October 18, 1952) was an American sound engineer.

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Ned Washington

Ned Washington (August 15, 1901 – December 20, 1976) was an American lyricist born in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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New Americans (film)

New Americans is a 1944 American short documentary film directed by Slavko Vorkapić.

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No Time for Love (1943 film)

No Time for Love is a 1943 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.

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None but the Lonely Heart (film)

None but the Lonely Heart is a 1944 American drama romance film which tells the story of a young Cockney drifter who returns home with no ambitions but finds that his family needs him.

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None Shall Escape

None Shall Escape is a 1944 war film.

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Norma Shearer

Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress and Hollywood star from 1925 through 1942.

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Otto Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an American theatre and film director, originally from Austria-Hungary.

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Owen Marks

Owen Marks (8 August 1899 – 18 September 1960) was an English film editor.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Patrick Hamilton (writer)

Patrick Hamilton (17 March 1904 – 23 September 1962) was an English playwright and novelist.

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Paul Detlefsen

Paul Detlefsen (October 3, 1899 - August 1, 1986) was a commercial artist of the mid to late 20th century, associated with the "Hollywood scene".

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Paul Francis Webster

Paul Francis Webster (December 20, 1907 – March 18, 1984) was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Original Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.

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Paul Huldschinsky

Paul Huldschinsky (18 August 1889 – 1 February 1947) was a German-Jewish architect and set decorator.

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Paul Terry (cartoonist)

Paul Houlton Terry (February 19, 1887 – October 25, 1971) was an American cartoonist, screenwriter, film director and producer.

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Perry Ferguson

Perry Ferguson (November 13, 1901 – December 27, 1963) was an American art director.

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Pete Smith (film producer)

Peter Schmidt (September 4, 1892 – January 12, 1979), known as Pete Smith, was an American publicist, short subject producer and narrator.

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Phyllis Dietrichson

Phyllis Dietrichson (Phyllis Nirdlinger, in the book) is a fictional character in the book and two film adaptations of James M. Cain's novella Double Indemnity.

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Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges (born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director.

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Ralph Blane

Ralph Blane (July 26, 1914 – November 13, 1995) was an American composer, lyricist, and performer.

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Ralph Staub

Ralph Staub (July 21, 1899 in Chicago, Illinois – October 22, 1969, Los Angeles, California) was a movie director, writer and producer.

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Raoul Pene Du Bois

Raoul Pene Du Bois (November 29, 1914 – January 1, 1985) was an American costume designer and scenic designer for the stage and film.

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Ray Cory

Ray Cory (March 30, 1894 – March 15, 1968) was an American cinematographer.

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Ray Heindorf

Ray Heindorf (August 25, 1908 – February 3, 1980) was an American songwriter, composer, conductor, and arranger.

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Ray Moyer

Ray Moyer (February 21, 1898 – February 6, 1986) was an American set decorator.

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Ray Rennahan

Ray Rennahan, A.S.C. (May 1, 1896 – May 19, 1980) was a movie cinematographer.

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Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.

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Resisting Enemy Interrogation

Resisting Enemy Interrogation is a 1944 United States Army docudrama training film, directed by Robert B. Sinclair and written by Harold Medford and Owen Crump.

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Richard Connell

Richard Edward Connell Jr. (October 17, 1893 – November 22, 1949) was an American author and journalist.

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Richard Pefferle

Richard Pefferle (January 5, 1905 – March 7, 1969) was an American set decorator.

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RKO Pictures

RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company.

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Robert E. Dolan

Robert Emmett "Bobby" Dolan (August 3, 1908 – September 26, 1972) was a Broadway conductor, composer and arranger beginning in the 1920s.

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Robert Stolz

Robert Elisabeth Stolz (25 August 188027 June 1975) was an Austrian songwriter and conductor as well as a composer of operettas and film music.

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Robert Surtees (cinematographer)

Robert L. Surtees, A.S.C. (August 9, 1906 – January 5, 1985) was an American cinematographer who won three Academy Awards for the films King Solomon's Mines, The Bad and the Beautiful and the 1959 version of Ben Hur.

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Robert Usher

Robert Usher (February 27, 1901 – July 23, 1990) was an American art director.

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Robert Wright (special effects artist)

Robert Wright was an American special effects artist.

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Roger Heman Sr.

Roger Heman Sr. (February 27, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was an American sound engineer.

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Roland Gross

Roland Gross (January 13, 1909 – February 11, 1989) was an American film editor and television editor who had over 40 film and television credits during his career.

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Roy Granville

Roy Granville (August 12, 1910 – September 1986) was an American sound engineer.

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Roy Webb

Roy Webb (né Royden Denslow Webb; October 3, 1888 – December 10, 1982) was an American film music composer.

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Rudolph Maté

Rudolph Maté, born Rudolf Mayer (21 January 1898 – 27 October 1964), was a Polish-Hungarian-American cinematographer, film director and film producer who worked as cameraman and cinematographer in Hungary, Austria, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, before moving to Hollywood in the mid 1930s.

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Russell A. Gausman

Russell A. Gausman (July 4, 1892 – May 20, 1963) was an American set decorator.

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Russell Malmgren

Russell Malmgren (April 16, 1905 – October 1982) was an American sound engineer.

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Sally Benson

Sally Benson (September 3, 1897 – July 19, 1972) was an American screenwriter, who was also a prolific short story author, best known for her semi-autobiographical stories collected in Junior Miss and Meet Me in St. Louis.

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Sammy Cahn

Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician.

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Samuel Hoffenstein

Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein (October 8, 1890 - October 6, 1947) was a screenwriter and a musical composer.

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Samuel M. Comer

Samuel M. Comer (July 13, 1893 – December 27, 1974) was a set decorator who worked on over 300 films during a career spanning four decades.

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Secret Command

Secret Command is a 1944 American drama film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Pat O'Brien and Carole Landis.

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Sensations of 1945

Sensations of 1945 is a 1944 American musical-comedy film directed by Andrew Stone.

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Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away is a 1944 American drama film directed by John Cromwell for Selznick International Pictures and distributed by United Artists.

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Song of the Open Road

Song of the Open Road is a 1944 musical comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon, from a screenplay by Irving Phillips and Edward Verdier.

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Stanley Cortez

Stanley Cortez, A.S.C. (November 4, 1908 – December 23, 1997) was an American cinematographer.

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Step Lively (1944 film)

Step Lively is a 1944 American musical film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Frank Sinatra.

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Stephen Dunn (sound engineer)

Stephen Dunn (26 December 1894 – 3 February 1980) was an American sound engineer.

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Summer Storm (1944 film)

Summer Storm is a 1944 film noir crime film directed by Douglas Sirk, and starring Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Edward Everett Horton, and Anna Lee.

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Sweet and Low-Down

Sweet and Low-Down is a 1944 film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Benny Goodman and Linda Darnell.

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Swinging on a Star

"Swinging on a Star" is an American pop standard with music composed by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke.

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Swooner Crooner

Swooner Crooner is a 1944 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions and released to theaters by Warner Bros.

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Ted Koehler

Ted L. Koehler (July 14, 1894 – January 17, 1973) was an American lyricist.

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Teresa Wright

Muriel Teresa Wright (October 27, 1918 – March 6, 2005) was an American actress.

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The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944 film)

The Adventures of Mark Twain is a 1944 American biographical film starring Fredric March as Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and Alexis Smith as his wife, Olivia.

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944 film)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 1944 drama film made by Benedict Bogeaus Productions and released by United Artists.

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The Climax

The Climax is a horror film produced by Universal Pictures, first released in the United States in 1944.

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The Desert Song (1943 film)

The Desert Song is a 1943 American musical film.

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The Fighting Lady

The Fighting Lady is a 1944 documentary film produced by the U.S. Navy and narrated by Lt.

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The Fighting Seabees

The Fighting Seabees is a 1944 war film starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward.

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The Fighting Sullivans

The Fighting Sullivans, originally released as The Sullivans, is a 1944 American biographical war film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Edward Doherty, Mary C. McCall Jr., and Jules Schermer.

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The Hairy Ape

The Hairy Ape is a 1922 expressionist play by an American playwright Eugene O'Neill.

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The Merry Monahans

The Merry Monahans is a 1944, American, black-and-white film starring Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, and Jack Oakie.

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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a 1944 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and featuring Diana Lynn, William Demarest and Porter Hall.

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The Princess and the Pirate

The Princess and the Pirate is a 1944 American comedy film directed by David Butler and starring Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo.

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The Seventh Cross (film)

The Seventh Cross is a 1944 drama film, set in Nazi Germany, starring Spencer Tracy as a prisoner who escaped from a concentration camp. The story chronicles how he interacts with ordinary Germans and sheds his cynical view of humanity.

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The Story of Dr. Wassell

The Story of Dr.

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The Trolley Song

"The Trolley Song" is a song written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and made famous by Judy Garland in the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis.

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The Uninvited (1944 film)

The Uninvited is a 1944 American supernatural horror film directed by Lewis Allen, in his feature film debut.

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The White Cliffs of Dover (film)

The White Cliffs of Dover is a 1944 film based on the Alice Duer Miller poem titled ''The White Cliffs''.

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The Woman of the Town

The Woman of the Town is a 1943 American Western film directed by George Archainbaud and written by Aeneas MacKenzie.

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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 American war film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Thomas Little

Thomas Little (August 27, 1886 in Ogden, Utah – March 5, 1985 in Santa Monica, California) was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953.

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Thomas T. Moulton

Thomas T. Moulton (January 1, 1896 – March 29, 1967) was an American sound engineer.

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Three Russian Girls

Three Russian Girls is a 1943 American World War II pro-Soviet propaganda film produced by R-F Productions and distributed by United Artists.

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Two Girls and a Sailor

Two Girls and a Sailor is a 1944 musical film about two singing sisters who are helped to set up a canteen to entertain soldiers by a mysterious wealthy admirer.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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United States Office of War Information

The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II.

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United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.

United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.,. (also known as the Hollywood Antitrust Case of 1948, the Paramount Case, the Paramount Decision or the Paramount Decree) was a landmark United States Supreme Court antitrust case that decided the fate of movie studios owning their own theatres and holding exclusivity rights on which theatres would show their films.

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Up in Arms

Up in Arms (1944) is a film directed by Elliott Nugent, and starring Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore.

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Up in Mabel's Room (1944 film)

Up in Mabel's Room is a 1944 American comedy film directed by Allan Dwan, based on the 1919 play by Wilson Collison and Otto A. Harbach, and starring Marjorie Reynolds, Dennis O'Keefe and Gail Patrick.

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Vera Caspary

Vera Louise Caspary (November 13, 1899 – June 13, 1987) was an American writer of novels, plays, screenplays, and short stories.

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Vernon L. Walker

Vernon L. Walker (May 2, 1894 – March 1, 1948) was an American special effects artist and cinematographer.

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Victor A. Gangelin

Victor A. Gangelin (March 4, 1899 – April 2, 1967) was an American feature film and television set decorator.

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Voice in the Wind

Voice in the Wind is a 1944 American film noir directed by Arthur Ripley and written by Friedrich Torberg, based on a story written by Arthur Ripley.

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W. Franke Harling

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.

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Walter Holscher

Walter Holscher (January 23, 1901 – August 7, 1973) was a German-born American art director.

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Walter Kent

Walter Kent was born to a Jewish family on November 29, 1911 in New York City.

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Walter Lantz

Walter Benjamin Lantz (April 27, 1899 – March 22, 1994) was an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, director and actor best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.

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Walter Reisch

Walter Reisch (May 23, 1903 – March 28, 1983) was an Austrian-born director and screenwriter.

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Walter Scharf

Walter Scharf (August 1, 1910 – February 24, 2003) was an American film composer.

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Walter Wanger

Walter Wanger (July 11, 1894 – November 18, 1968) was an American film producer active in filmmaking from the 1910s to the turbulent production of Cleopatra, his last film, in 1963.

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Warren Newcombe

Warren Newcombe (April 28, 1894 – August 3, 1960) was an American special effects artist.

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Werner R. Heymann

Werner Richard Heymann (14 February 1896 – 30 May 1961), also known as Werner R. Heymann was a German-Jewish composer active in Germany and in Hollywood.

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Who's Who in Animal Land

Who's Who in Animal Land is a 1944 short comedy film directed by Leslie M. Roush.

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Wiard Ihnen

Wiard B. "Bill" Ihnen (August 5, 1897 – June 22, 1979) was an American art director.

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William Ferrari

William Ferrari (April 21, 1901 – September 10, 1962) was an American art director.

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Wilson (1944 film)

Wilson is a 1944 American biographical film in Technicolor about the 28th American President Woodrow Wilson.

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Wing and a Prayer

Wing and a Prayer (also known as Queen of the Flat Tops and Torpedo Squadron Eight) is a black-and-white 1944 war film about the heroic crew of an American carrier in the desperate early days of World War II in the Pacific theater, directed by Henry Hathaway and stars Don Ameche, Dana Andrews and William Eythe.

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With the Marines at Tarawa

With the Marines at Tarawa is a 1944 short propaganda documentary film directed by Louis Hayward.

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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1944 in film

The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double Indemnity, Gaslight and Laura.

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20th Academy Awards

No film received more than three awards at the 20th Academy Awards.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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2nd Golden Globe Awards

The 2nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1944 filmmaking, were held late January 1945 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Academy_Awards

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