* 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.

In the 1946 film Dressed to Kill, Adler is mentioned early in the film when Holmes and Watson discuss the events of " A Scandal in Bohemia ".

The 1946 film Dressed to Kill with Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson is a very loose adaptation of the The Adventure of the Gloria Scott.

The house figures prominently in the 1946 Sherlock Holmes film Dressed to Kill.

She also played the villainess in the final installments of Universal's Sherlock Holmes series and MGM's Thin Man series — respectively, Dressed to Kill ( 1946 ), starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, and Song of the Thin Man ( 1947 ), starring William Powell and Myrna Loy.

* We Kill People, 1946

Other notable roles included Wilmer the " gunsel " in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), a henchman ( Marty Waterman ) of the murderous title character in Born to Kill, the doomed informant Harry Jones in The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), the pugnacious ex-Confederate soldier " Stonewall " Torrey in Shane ( 1953 ), and George Peatty, the crooked hen-pecked husband to Marie Windsor, in Stanley Kubrick's The Killing ( 1956 ).

In the mid-20th century, Roberto Rossellini filmed some of his films here: Paisà ( 1946 ); " Il Miracolo " (" The Miracle "), the second episode of the movie L ' Amore ( Ways of Love, 1948 ); La macchina ammazzacattivi ( Machine to Kill Bad People, 1952 ); and Il viaggio in Italia ( Journey to Italy, 1953 ).

The musical Show Boat ( from 1927 until 1946 ) features the word and " nigger " as originally integral to the lyrics of " Ol ' Man River " and " Cotton Blossom "; although deleted from the cinema versions, it is included in the 1988 EMI recording of the original score.

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.

Storm acted and sang in Monogram Pictures ' popular Frankie Darro series, and played ingénue roles in other Monogram features with the East Side Kids, Edgar Kennedy and The Three Stooges, most notably in the film Swing Parade of 1946.

Bright April, a 1946 book written and illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli, features scenes of Germantown of the 1940s while addressing the divisive issue of racial prejudice experienced by African Americans, a daring topic for a children's book of that time.

The single's cover features a skeletal figure inspired by a poster for the 1946 film serial The Crimson Ghost.

Live-action and animation were later combined to successful effect in features such as The Three Caballeros ( 1944 ), Anchors Aweigh ( 1945 ), Song of the South ( 1946 ), Mary Poppins ( 1964 ), Bedknobs and Broomsticks ( 1971 ), Heavy Traffic ( 1973 ), Coonskin ( 1975 ) Pete's Dragon ( 1977 ), Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), Rock-a-Doodle ( 1992 ), Cool World ( 1992 ), The Pagemaster ( 1994 ) Space Jam ( 1996 ), and Looney Tunes: Back In Action ( 2003 ).

Steel Panthers: World War 2 ( WinSPWW2 ) features battles from 1930 through 1946, with an extreme vast array of OOB ( Order of battle ).

Schumacher had heavily agitated against the 1946 merger of the SPD and the Communist Party ( KPD ) in the Soviet occupation zone and had turned the party's course away from the working class advocacy group of the Weimar Republic towards a left-wing big tent party with distinct patriotic features.

* Stephen Butcher ( director ) ( born 1946 ), English television director who has directed scores of TV features and episodes of Eastenders

He soon graduated to features, including The Harvey Girls ( 1946 ), The Three Musketeers ( 1948 ), Annie Get Your Gun ( 1950 ), Kiss Me Kate ( 1953 ), Pal Joey ( 1957 ), and Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas ( 1964 ).

D. F. M. Strauss ( born 1946, Bloemfontein ) is a South-African philosopher and the world's leading expert on the theory of modal aspects, one of the core features of the thought of the Dutch philosopher, Herman Dooyeweerd, and the movement for Reformational philosophy.

George Redburn Young ( born 6 November 1946, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland ) is a Scottish rock musician, songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Australian 1960s band The Easybeats, the co-writer of the international hits, " Friday on My Mind " and " Love Is in the Air ", and for his production of the hard rock band, AC / DC, which features his younger brothers Malcolm and Angus Young.

Republic had already tried to present off-beat features, including Gustav Machaty's Jealousy ( 1945 ) and Ben Hecht's Specter of the Rose ( 1946 ), so having a creative artist of Welles ’ stature was considered an artistic coup.

As a film actor, von Zell appeared in at least 28 features and in his own series of slapstick comedy shorts for Columbia Pictures ( 1946 – 50 ).

It features her famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and is set in 1946.

One hundred all-Leyland PD2 / 12s were ordered for 1952 – 53 delivery by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company, better known by its informal title Midland Red, these were to have four-leaf electrically powered platform doors and other new features, the most important of these cosmetically was that they were to conform to BMMO's own-build double decks since 1946 ( and most of Birmingham Corporation's since 1949 ) in having a full width engine-bonnet concealing the radiator: at the time, following the press attention to couturier Christian Dior, such a structure, also used by Foden on its bus chassis from 1946 was called a " new look " front ; tradition-minded enthusiasts for buses more derisively dubbed such a structure the tin front.

However, later in 1946 the Bulletin bought out its evening competitor, The Philadelphia Record, and incorporated features of the Record's Sunday edition into the new Sunday Bulletin.

When Universal changed hands in 1946 and discontinued its program of serials and low-budget features, Cunard retired, at the age of 53.

With issue # 108 ( March 1946 ), all the superhero features were moved from More Fun into Adventure Comics.

It was repaired in 1946, but it was damaged several times more.

In an early " good-will " gesture that was later heavily criticised, the Attlee government allowed the Soviets access, under the terms of a 1946 UK-USSR Trade Agreement, to several Rolls-Royce Nene jet engines.

Since these first accounts, Bulgarian authorities had organized several population censuses: 1892, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1920, 1926, 1934, 1946, 1956, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1992, 2001 and 2011.

Some efficient designs for estimating several main effects simultaneously were found by Raj Chandra Bose and K. Kishen in 1940 at the Indian Statistical Institute, but remained little known until the Plackett-Burman designs were published in Biometrika in 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 the winter of 1945 to 1946 Orwell made several hopeless and unwelcome marriage proposals to younger women, including Celia Kirwan ( who was later to become Arthur Koestler's sister-in-law ), Ann Popham who happened to live in the same block of flats and Sonia Brownell, one of Connolly's coterie at the Horizon office.

* 1946 Railways and British military airfields were attacked several times.

They were exhibited in 1946 and shown all together to the public during four years ( 1950 – 1954 ) in order to allow rightful claimants to identify their properties, then stored or displayed, according to their interest, in several French museums including the Louvre.

In 1946, renouncing the violence and pessimism of his earlier work, he joined several other Belgian artists in signing the manifesto Surrealism in Full Sunlight.

AT & T made its first postwar addition in February 1946, with the completion of a cable between New York City and Washington, D. C., although a blurry demonstration broadcast showed that it would not be in regular use for several months.

In 1946 National City Lines ( NCL ), a General Motors holding company, acquired 64 % of Key System stock ; during the next several years NCL engaged in the conspiratorial dissolution of Oakland's electric streetcar system.

After gaining Philippine independence from colonial rule following World War II in 1946, the Visayas region established its community and re-formed its government, producing several notable presidents coming from the Visayas region.

At the end of the war, in 1946, jukebox production resumed and several " new " companies joined the fray.

Bachelor Mother was adapted as a radio play on several occasions, including five broadcasts of The Screen Guild Theater: the first starred Laraine Day, Henry Fonda and Charles Coburn ( February 1, 1942 ); the second starred Ann Sothern and Fred MacMurray ( November 23, 1942 ); the third starred Ginger Rogers, Francis X. Bushman and David Niven ( May 6, 1946 ); the fourth starred Lucille Ball, Joseph Cotten and Charles Coburn ( April 28, 1949 ); the fifth starred Ann Sothern and Robert Stack ( April 20, 1952 ).

A recipient of the Purple Heart and several other decorations, Laird left the Navy in April 1946.

Moshe Shertok, later Israel's second Prime Minister, and several other members of the Jewish Agency's Executive Committee, were held at Latrun for several months in 1946.

The Parliamentary Army garrisoned the town upon the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 and later established their headquarters there in June 1647 on a line from Staines to Watford, although the King passed through Uxbridge in April 1946, resting at the Red Lion public house for several hours.

* Joseph Sinagra ( born 1946 ) held a seat on the Helmetta Planning Board, was Emergency Management Coordinator, served on several committees as a Helmetta Councilman from 1989-99, also serving as Council President for seven years.

Since 1946, the town has hosted a Fourth of July celebration that has become notably large for a town of its population-running for several days and drawing visitors from many states.

In 1946, several McMinn County World War II veterans ran for local office in hopes of removing a county government deemed corrupt.

Another important poet of the late twentieth century is Tony Curtis ( born 1946 ) from Carmarthen: he is the author of several collections, most recently War Voices ( 1995 ), The Arches ( 1998 ), and Heaven's Gate ( 2001 ).

" It seems that shortly before the General's death 1946 ... a group of reporters approached the general with the request that perhaps he might give them one of several immutable economic truisms that he gathered from long years of economic study ... ' It is an immutable economic fact ,' said the general, ' that there is no such thing as a free lunch.

It was developed between 1946 and 1962 to a design by the architects Powell and Moya, replacing docks, industrial works, and several Cubitt terraces damaged in the Blitz.

It had a tremendous effect on me ...." A roommate from 1930 provided him with " bound volumes of tear-sheets of early weirds, fantastics and ' scientifictions ' from the old Argosy, All-Story and others ...." He sent a proposal for his first science fiction anthology to Crown Publishers in 1944, and the book was issued in 1946, several months ahead of the other great sf anthology of that year, Adventures in Time and Space edited by Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas.