The year 1950 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1950 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
+ Highest-grossing films of 1950 Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals 1 Samson and Delilah Paramount $9,000,000 2King Solomon's MinesMGM $5,047,000'The Eddie Mannix Ledger', Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study, Los Angeles 3Annie Get Your Gun $4,708,000 4 Cheaper by the Dozen 20th Century Fox $4,425,000 5 Cinderella RKO/Walt Disney $4,275,000 6 Born Yesterday Columbia $4,100,000 7 Father of the Bride MGM $4,036,000 8 Broken Arrow20th Century Fox $3,600,000 9 All About Eve $3,100,000 10 Three Little Words MGM $3,019,000
Events January 13 – Three weeks after its world premiere at the Paramount and Rivoli theatres in New York City, Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah opens in Los Angeles. The film is a massive commercial success and wins the awards for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design at the 23rd Academy Awards. February 15 – Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts. The film is the most successful the studio has made since Dumbo, and saves the studio from four million dollars in debt. July 19 – Walt Disney Studios' first completely live-action film Treasure Island debuts.
Awards Category/Organization 8th Golden Globe AwardsFebruary 28, 1951 23rd Academy AwardsMarch 29, 1951 Drama Comedy or Musical Best Film Sunset Boulevard All About Eve Best Director Billy WilderSunset Boulevard Joseph L. MankiewiczAll About Eve Best Actor José FerrerCyrano de Bergerac Fred AstaireThree Little Words José FerrerCyrano de Bergerac Best Actress Gloria SwansonSunset Boulevard Judy HollidayBorn Yesterday Best Supporting Actor Edmund GwennMister 880 George SandersAll About Eve Best Supporting Actress Josephine HullHarvey Best Screenplay, Adapted Joseph L. MankiewiczAll About Eve Joseph L. MankiewiczAll About Eve Best Screenplay, Original Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman Jr.Sunset Boulevard
Top ten money making stars RankActor/Actress1.John Wayne2.Bob Hope3.Bing Crosby4.Betty Grable5.James Stewart6. (tie)Bud AbbottLou Costello7.Clifton Webb8.Esther Williams9.Spencer Tracy10.Randolph Scott
Notable films released in 1950 US unless stated
47 morto che parla, starring Totò – (Italy) 711 Ocean Drive, starring Edmond O'Brien and Joanne Dru
A Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello The Admiral Was a Lady, starring Wanda Hendrix and Edmond O'Brien All About Eve, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Marilyn Monroe – winner of 6 Oscars Ambush, starring Robert Taylor and Arlene Dahl Annie Get Your Gun, starring Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern Armored Car Robbery, starring Charles McGraw and William Talman The Asphalt Jungle, directed by John Huston, starring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen and Marilyn Monroe The Astonished Heart, starring Celia Johnson and Noël Coward – (GB) At War with the Army, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
B Babul (Father's House), starring Dilip Kumar and Nargis – (India) Backfire, starring Virginia Mayo and Gordon MacRae The Bandit Queen, starring Barbara Britton and Phillip Reed The Baron of Arizona, starring Vincent Price Beauty and the Devil (La Beauté du diable), directed by René Clair, starring Michel Simon – (France/Italy) Beqasoor, starring Madhubala – (India) The Big Lift, starring Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas Bitter Springs, starring Tommy Trinder and Chips Rafferty – (Australia/GB) The Black Forest Girl, starring Sonja Ziemann and Rudolf Prack – (West Germany) The Black Rose, starring Tyrone Power and Orson Welles – (GB/US) The Blue Lamp, starring Jack Warner and Dirk Bogarde – (GB) Born to Be Bad, starring Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan Born Yesterday, directed by George Cukor, starring Broderick Crawford, Judy Holliday and William Holden The Breaking Point, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring John Garfield and Patricia Neal Bright Leaf, starring Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall and Patricia Neal Broken Arrow, starring James Stewart and Jeff Chandler
C Café Paradis – (Denmark) Caged, starring Eleanor Parker Caiçara, directed by and starring Adolfo Celi – (Brazil) Captain Carey, U.S.A., starring Alan Ladd and Wanda Hendrix Captain China, starring John Payne and Gail Russell Champagne for Caesar, starring Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, Art Linkletter Cheaper by the Dozen, starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy Cinderella, a Disney animated film. Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wilfred Jackson, starring Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Rhoda Williams, James MacDonald, Luis van Rooten, Don Barclay, Mike Douglas, and Lucille Bliss Comanche Territory, starring Maureen O'Hara Convicted, starring Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford Crisis, starring Cary Grant and Jose Ferrer Cyrano de Bergerac, starring José Ferrer
D D.O.A., starring Edmond O'Brien Dallas, starring Gary Cooper The Damned Don't Cry, starring Joan Crawford Dance Hall, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Diana Dors and Petula Clark – (GB) Darah dan Doa, directed and produced by Usmar Ismail – (Indonesia), first native-produced Indonesian film Dark City, directed by William Dieterle, starring Charlton Heston (in his first studio film), Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger, Mike Mazurki, Ed Begley The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady, starring June Haver and Gordon MacRae Death is a Caress (Døden er et kjærtegn) – (Norway) Deported, starring Jeff Chandler Destination Moon, starring John Archer The Devil Is a Woman (Doña Diabla) – (Mexico) Devil's Doorway, starring Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond Dial 1119, starring Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, William Conrad Dieu a besoin des hommes (God Needs Man), directed by Jean Delannoy – (France)
E The Eagle and the Hawk, starring Rhonda Fleming and John Payne Edge of Doom, starring Farley Granger and Mala Powers Les Enfants Terribles, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville – (France) La escalinata, directed by César Enríquez – (Venezuela) Escape at Dawn (Akatsuki no dasso) – (Japan)
F The Fall of Berlin (Padeniye Berlina) – (USSR) Fancy Pants, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball Father Is a Bachelor, starring William Holden and Colleen Gray Father of the Bride, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett and Elizabeth Taylor The File on Thelma Jordon, starring Barbara Stanwyck The Fireball, starring Mickey Rooney and Pat O'Brien The Flame and the Arrow, starring Burt Lancaster and Virginia Mayo The Flowers of St. Francis (Francesco, giullare di Dio), directed by Roberto Rossellini – (Italy) For Heaven's Sake, starring Clifton Webb and Joan Bennett Frenchie, starring Joel McCrea and Shelley Winters The Fuller Brush Girl, starring Lucille Ball and Eddie Albert The Furies, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston
G Gabriela, directed by Géza von Cziffra, starring Zarah Leander – (West Germany) Gerald McBoing-Boing The Glass Menagerie, based on the play by Tennessee Williams, starring Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence and Arthur Kennedy Gone to Earth, starring Jennifer Jones – (GB) Guilty of Treason, starring Charles Bickford and Bonita Granville Gun Crazy (aka Deadly is the Female), starring John Dall and Peggy Cummins The Gunfighter, starring Gregory Peck Gunman in the Streets, starring Simone Signoret – (France)
H The Happiest Days of Your Life, starring Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford – (GB) Harriet Craig, starring Joan Crawford and Wendell Corey Harvey, starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull Highly Dangerous, starring Margaret Lockwood and Dane Clark – (GB) Highway 301, starring Steve Cochran and Virginia Grey The Hollywood Ten, documentary by John Berry House by the River, starring Louis Hayward and Jane Wyatt Hunt the Man Down, starring Gig Young and Carla Balenda
I The Iroquois Trail, starring George Montgomery I Was a Shoplifter, starring Scott Brady and Mona Freeman I'll Get By, starring June Haver, Gloria DeHaven, Steve Allen, Dennis Day In a Lonely Place, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame
J The Jackie Robinson Story, starring Robinson as himself, with Ruby Dee Jogan, starring Dilip Kumar and Nargis – (India) Johnny One-Eye, starring Pat O'Brien Julius Caesar, starring Charlton Heston Justice is Done (Justice est faite) – (France)
K Key to the City, starring Clark Gable and Loretta Young The Kid (Xi lu xiang), starring 10-year-old Bruce Lee – (Hong Kong) Kill the Umpire, starring William Bendix, William Frawley, Una Merkel The Killer That Stalked New York, starring Evelyn Keyes Kim, starring Errol Flynn King Solomon's Mines, starring Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, starring James Cagney
L A Lady Without Passport, starring Hedy Lamarr and John Hodiak Last Holiday, starring Alec Guinness – (GB) The Lawless, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Macdonald Carey Let's Dance, starring Fred Astaire and Betty Hutton Life (Jeevitham), directed by A. V. Meiyappan, starring Vyjayanthimala in her Telugu film debut – (India) A Life of Her Own, starring Lana Turner and Ray Milland The Life of Wu Xun (Wu Xun zhuan) – (China) Louisa, starring Ronald Reagan Love Happy, starring the Marx Brothers and, in a small role, Marilyn Monroe
M The Magnificent Yankee, starring Louis Calhern The Man Who Cheated Himself, starring Lee J. Cobb and Jane Wyatt The Men, starring Marlon Brando in his film debut, with Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb and, in a bit part, DeForest Kelley The Miniver Story, starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon and John Hodiak Mirror of Holland (Spiegel van Holland) – (Netherlands) winner of Short Film Palme d'Or Mister 880, starring Burt Lancaster and Edmund Gwenn Montana, starring Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith Morning Departure (aka Operation Disaster), starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough – (GB) Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone, starring Marjorie Main and James Whitmore The Mudlark, starring Irene Dunne and Alec Guinness – (GB/US) Mussorgsky – (USSR) My Blue Heaven, starring Betty Grable My Friend Irma Goes West, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Mystery Street, starring Ricardo Montalbán
N Nacha Regules, directed by Luis César Amadori (Argentina) Nancy Goes to Rio, starring Ann Sothern, Jane Powell, Barry Sullivan, Carmen Miranda, Louis Calhern, and Scotty Beckett The Nevadan, starring Randolph Scott and Dorothy Malone Night and the City, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney – (GB) No Man of Her Own, starring Barbara Stanwyck No Peace Under the Olive Tree (Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi), starring Raf Vallone – (Italy) No Way Out, starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally and Sidney Poitier
O Odette, starring Anna Neagle and Trevor Howard – (GB) Los Olvidados, directed by Luis Buñuel – photograph of Gabriel Figueroa – (Mexico) Once a Thief, starring Cesar Romero and Lon Chaney Jr. One Way Street, starring James Mason Orphée, directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais – (France) Outrage, directed by Ida Lupino, starring Mala Powers Outside the Wall, starring Richard Basehart and Marilyn Maxwell
P Panic in the Streets, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel and Barbara Bel Geddes Path of Hope (Il Cammino della speranza), directed by Pietro Germi, starring Raf Vallone – (Italy) Perfect Strangers, starring Ginger Rogers Please Believe Me, starring Deborah Kerr, Peter Lawford and Robert Walker Post Office Box 1001 (Apartado de correos 1001) – (Spain) Prehistoric Women, directed by Gregg C. Tallas Prima comunione (aka Father's Dilemma), starring Aldo Fabrizi – (Italy)
Q Quicksand, starring Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre
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