* 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.

His memoir of the first days of World War II, Strange Defeat, written in 1940 but not published until 1946, blamed the French military establishment, along with her social and political culture, for the sudden total military defeat and helped after the war to neutralize the traumatic memory of France's failure and to build a new French identity.

*" The Strange Case of the Demon Barber " ( 8 January 1946 ), an adaptation of the Sweeney Todd story featured in an episode of the radio drama The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

* The Strange Woman ( 1946 ) ( download or play it )

* The Strange Love of Martha Ivers ( 1946 )

A second pulp, titled simply Strange Tales, was a British science-fiction magazine cover-dated April to October 1946.

Among his other notable film credits are Presenting Lily Mars ( 1943 ), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers ( 1946 ), Possessed ( 1947 ), Green Dolphin Street ( 1947 ), Act of Violence ( 1948 ), The Three Musketeers ( 1948 ), The Prowler ( 1951 ) and 3: 10 to Yuma ( 1957 ).

* The Strange Love of Martha Ivers ( 1946 )

* The Strange Woman ( 1946 )

The subheading on the cover read " Strange Adventures on Other Worlds – The Universe of Future Centuries " until the end of 1946.

* The Strange Woman ( 1946 )

Ulmer did get a chance to direct two films with substantial budgets, The Strange Woman ( 1946 ) and Ruthless ( 1948 ).

* The Strange Woman ( 1946 )

Van Heflin's character Sam performs this manipulation throughout the 1946 film The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.

Scott's smoky sensuality and husky voice lent itself to the film noir genre and, beginning with The Strange Love of Martha Ivers ( 1946 ) starring Barbara Stanwyck and Van Heflin, the studio cast her in a series of noir thrillers.

Among these, she played scientist Nora Goodrich in the grade-B 1946 cult classic Strange Impersonation.

* The Strange Woman ( 1946 )

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a black-and-white film noir released in the United States in 1946, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott and Kirk Douglas in his film debut.

In 1946 he played the young Sam Masterson in the Barbara Stanwyck vehicle The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.

* The Strange Woman ( 1946 )

She became a film producer in 1944 with Phantom Lady, and produced such films as The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry ( 1945 ), Nocturne ( 1946 ), Ride the Pink Horse ( 1947 ), and They Won't Believe Me ( 1947 ).

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.

As a historian, Mary Beard's research interests lay in feminism and the labor union movement ( Woman as a Force in History, 1946 ).

* St. Louis Woman ( 1946 ) – musical – composer

Wrangler conceived the idea of a ballet based on Mercer's 1946 musical St. Louis Woman, which was performed by the Dance Theater of Harlem in 2003.

The opening guitar riff on " Johnny B. Goode " is essentially a note-for-note copy of the opening single-note solo on Louis Jordan's " Ain't That Just Like a Woman " ( 1946 ), played by guitarist Carl Hogan.

Capitol recorded St. Louis Woman in 1946, and RCA Victor recorded Brigadoon in 1947.

Capitol recorded St. Louis Woman in 1946, mainly because lyricist Johnny Mercer was one of the label's founders.

He wrote the play St. Louis Woman ( 1946 ) with Countee Cullen.

Their producer Milt Gabler went on to produce Bill Haley's hits, and Jordan's guitarist Carl Hogan, on such songs as " Ain't That Just Like A Woman " ( also 1946 ), was also a direct influence on Chuck Berry's guitar style.

* " Find the Woman " ( June 1946, EQMM )

Lynne Marie Stewart ( born December 14, 1946 ) is an American film and television actress, best known for her performance as Miss Yvonne, the Most Beautiful Woman in Puppet Land.

* Woman to Woman ( 1946 )

He was in the original cast of Haiti ( 1938 ), Cabin in the Sky ( 1940 ), and St. Louis Woman ( 1946 ).

The term first was applied to American films in French film magazines in 1946, the year when The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Laura ( 1944 ), Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ), and The Woman in the Window were released in France.

* The Woman in the Window on Theater of Romance: March 26, 1946

Cowell was the voice of ' the Woman ' on the soundtrack of Paul Rotha's documentary Land of Promise ( 1946 ).

He made his West End debut in The Guinea Pig at the Criterion Theatre in 1946, before parts in plays such as the comedy Ring Round the Moon, The Mortimer Touch, A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde at the Savoy Theatre in 1953 and Charley's Aunt.