* 1946 – Dawn Steel, American film producer ( d. 1997 )

Nin appeared in the Kenneth Anger film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome ( 1954 ) as Astarte ; in the Maya Deren film Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ); and in Bells of Atlantis ( 1952 ), a film directed by Guiler under the name " Ian Hugo " with a soundtrack of electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron.

With Ava Gardner in The Killers ( 1946 film ) | The Killers ( 1946 )

* Harold Russell, Academy Award winning actor for his portrayal of Homer Parrish, in the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives.

* Dressed to Kill, A 1946 Sherlock Holmes film uses Dartmoor Prison in the plot as the supposed location where three music boxes were made that contain a secret code for a criminal gang.

In Jean Cocteau's 1946 film La Belle et la Bête it is Diana's power which has transformed and imprisoned the beast.

* 1946 – The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.

* 1946 – Michael Ovitz, American film producer

Such films include Wolfgang Staudte's Die Mörder sind unter uns ( The Murderers are among us ) ( 1946 ), the first film made in post-war Germany, and Wolfgang Liebeneiner's Liebe 47 ( Love 47 ) ( 1949 ), an adaptation of Wolfgang Borchert's play Draußen vor der Tür.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).

These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).

The term film noir, French for " black film ," first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era.

A slew of now-renowned noir " bad girls " would follow, such as those played by Rita Hayworth in Gilda ( 1946 ), Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), Ava Gardner in The Killers ( 1946 ), and Jane Greer in Out of the Past ( 1947 ).

Other seminal noir sleuths served larger institutions, such as Dana Andrews's police detective in Laura ( 1944 ), Edmond O ' Brien's insurance investigator in The Killers, and Edward G. Robinson's government agent in The Stranger ( 1946 ).

Opinion is divided on the noir status of several of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers from the era ; at least four qualify by consensus: Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Notorious ( 1946 ), Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), and The Wrong Man ( 1956 ).

During Siodmak's tenure, Universal made the most of the noir style, but the capstone was The Killers in 1946.

Gardner came to prominence in the Mark Hellinger-produced smash hit film noir The Killers ( 1946 ), which introduced Burt Lancaster to the screen in the lead role.

In 2000, Edinburgh-based Canongate Books started a series called " Canongate Crime Classics ," in which they published John Franklin Bardin's The Deadly Percheron ( 1946 ) — both a whodunnit and a roman noir about amnesia and insanity — and other novels.

John Brahm's The Locket ( 1946 ) featured Mitchum as bitter ex-husband to Laraine Day's femme fatale, while Raoul Walsh's Pursued ( 1947 ) combined western and noir styles, with Mitchum's character attempting to recall his past and find those responsible for killing his family.

In the 1940s, Robinson demonstrated his ability to succeed in comedic and film noir roles, including Raoul Walsh's Manpower ( 1941 ) with Marlene Dietrich and George Raft, Larceny, Inc. ( 1942 ) with Jane Wyman and Broderick Crawford, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity ( 1944 ) with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window ( 1945 ) with Joan Bennett and Raymond Massey, Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street ( 1945 ) with Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea, and Orson Welles ' The Stranger ( 1946 ) with Orson Welles and Loretta Young.

She is known as one of the first Hollywood scream queens thanks to her role in the 1941 horror film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and her reputation as a glamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her performance in the film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ).

The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 film noir, directed by George Marshall and written by Raymond Chandler.

Her erotic appeal was most noted in Charles Vidor's black and white film noir Gilda ( 1946 ), with Glenn Ford, which caused censors some consternation.

Between 1945 and 1962 he produced 18 films for Paramount, Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including the 1946 film noir, The Blue Dahlia and the 1953 film adaptation of Julius Caesar ( for which he received an Academy Award nomination for " Best Picture ").

The 1946 version is probably the best known, and is regarded as an important film noir.

In 1944, Dick Powell played the part of the hard-boiled detective in a classic film noir which was alternatively entitled Murder, My Sweet and Farewell, My Lovely — two years before Humphrey Bogart was offered the role of Philip Marlowe in 1946 for The Big Sleep.

Following military service, Ford's breakthrough role was in 1946, starring alongside Rita Hayworth in the noir classic Gilda.

The term film noir ( French for " black film ") was coined by critic Nino Frank in 1946, but was rarely used by film makers, critics or fans until several decades later.

Shock is a 1946 film noir directed by Alfred L. Werker.

Pereira was also the producer of the noir crime / drama Johnny Angel ( 1945 ), and of the Joan Fontaine drama From This Day Forward ( 1946 ).

She followed this with supporting roles in another thriller, The Spiral Staircase ( 1946 ), directed by Robert Siodmak, the Randolph Scott western Abilene Town ( 1946 ), and the film noir classic Out of the Past ( 1947 ) with Robert Mitchum.

The Dark Corner is a 1946 film noir directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Lucille Ball, Mark Stevens and Clifton Webb.

She is best-remembered as the cigarette-puffing femme fatale in the critically acclaimed film noir Detour ( 1945 ), and starred in more than twenty B movies between 1943 and 1946.

* Undercurrent ( 1946 )

She landed the role of Si-Tchun, a lady-in-waiting, in the 1946 Broadway musical about the Orient, Lute Song, starring Mary Martin and a pre-stardom Yul Brynner.

* The 1946 Paramount film O. S. S., starring Alan Ladd and Geraldine Fitzgerald, showed agents training and on a dangerous mission.

* Of Human Bondage ( 1946 ) version starring Eleanor Parker.

Not knowing about their gentle nature, two 1930s movies played on the manta's " fearsome " appearance: 1930's The Sea Bat, starring a pre-Frankenstein Boris Karloff, and 1936's The Sea Fiend, later re-issued as the 1946 Devil Monster.

He resumed his career in 1946, now only in starring roles.

In 1946, Talbot Jennings and Sally Benson adapted it into the screenplay for a dramatic film of the same name, starring Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison.

The 1946, film version of Anna and the King of Siam starring Rex Harrison as Mongkut was allowed to be shown in Thailand, although it was banned in newly independent India as an inaccurate insult by westerners to an Eastern king.

Lorre made nine movies altogether with Sydney Greenstreet counting The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, most of them variations on the latter film, including Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ); Passage to Marseille ( 1944, reteaming them with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains ); The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, with character actor Greenstreet receiving top billing ); The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ); Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ); Three Strangers ( 1946 ), a suspense film about three people who are joint partners on a winning lottery ticket starring top-billed Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and third-billed Lorre cast against type by director Jean Negulesco as the romantic lead ; and Greenstreet and Lorre's final film together, suspense thriller The Verdict ( 1946 ), director Don Siegel's first movie, with Greenstreet and Lorre finally billed first and second, respectively.

Her initial saintly image — as shown in her first starring role — was a stark contrast three years later when she was cast as a provocative bi-racial woman in Selznick ’ s controversial film Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ).

Other notable films included Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Love Letters ( 1945 ), Cluny Brown ( 1946 ), Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ), Madame Bovary ( 1949 ), We Were Strangers ( 1949 ), Gone to Earth ( 1950 ), Carrie ( 1952 ), Ruby Gentry ( also 1952 ), Indiscretion of an American Wife ( 1953 ), Beat the Devil ( 1953 ), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing ( 1955 ), Good Morning Miss Dove ( also 1955 ), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit ( 1956 ) starring opposite Gregory Peck and A Farewell to Arms ( 1957 ).

* The Big Sleep, a 1946 film starring Humphrey Bogart

Jenny Seagrove and Nigel Havers rehearsingBrief Encounter was adapted as a radio play on the 20 November 1946 episode of Academy Award Theater, starring Greer Garson.

* Petrus starring Pierre Brasseur, Simone Simon directed by Marc Allégret ( 1946 )

It was adapted again on the October 2, 1946 episode of Academy Award Theater, again starring William Powell.

Hold Back the Dawn was adapted as a radio play on the November 10, 1941 episode of Lux Radio Theater with Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard and Susan Hayward, again on the February 8, 1943 episode of The Screen Guild Theater with Charles Boyer and Susan Hayward, the July 31, 1946 episode of Academy Award Theater starring Olivia de Havilland and Jean Pierre Aumont, the May 31, 1948 episode of Screen Guild Theater with Charles Boyer and Ida Lupino, the May 14, 1949 episode of Screen Director's Playhouse with Boyer and Vanessa Brown, the May 4, 1950 episode of Screen Guild Theater with de Havilland and Boyer and the June 15, 1952 Screen Guild Theater with Barbara Stanwyck and Jean Pierre Aumont.

The book was twice adapted into film, first in 1946 starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney, and Herbert Marshall as Maugham, and then a 1984 adaptation starring Bill Murray.

Born Yesterday is a play written by Garson Kanin which premiered on Broadway in 1946, starring Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn.

* 1946: An adaptation by playwright Ronald Gow became a triumph on the West End starring Wendy Hiller.

* Captain from Castile ( 1946 ) ( 1947 film starring Tyrone Power, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb )

Low-budget motion picture studio Monogram Pictures produced a trio of quickie Shadow B-movie features in 1946 starring Kane Richmond: The Shadow Returns, Behind the Mask and The Missing Lady.

The 1946 film The Strange Woman starring Hedy Lamarr, and based on the novel by Ben Ames Williams is set in early 19th century Bangor.

In his film career, he played the grandfather in The Red Pony ( 1949 ), adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck and starring Robert Mitchum, and the spy boss of Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic Notorious ( 1946 ).

* Sorry, Wrong Number was made into a television play broadcast on station WCBW-TV ( now WCBS-TV ) in New York on January 30, 1946, starring Mildred Natwick and G. Swayne Gordon.