* 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.

The UCLA Film Archive, in association with Turner Entertainment and with funding provided by Hugh Hefner, the original film was restored and released in comparison with the 1946 version in 1996.

* Symphony No. 2 ( 1946 ) – revised version of Adagio

Titles included in this library are S. O. B., the 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( WB also owns the 1946 MGM version through Turner ), The Sea Wolves, and Escape to Victory ( a. k. a. Victory ).

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

The new login prompt from the final version made its first appearance in Beta 3 build 1946 ( the first build of Beta 3 ).

British author Stuart Gilbert first translated L ’ Étranger to English in 1946 ; for more than thirty years his version was read as the standard English translation.

* Chipmunk T. 1, a Canadian-built de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk version made in 1946

For its fiftieth anniversary, Fantasia returned to 550 theaters nationwide on October 5, 1990 in its traditional 1946 version including the live action scenes with Taylor and the original Stokowski score.

* The ominous, four-note introduction to the brass and tympani theme music ( titled " Danger Ahead ") is instantly recognizable ( though its origins date back to Miklós Rózsa's score for the 1946 film version of The Killers ).

In July 1946, James Monroe Smith, scandal-plagued former president of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, accepted the position as head of academic studies at Burritt Preparatory School for Boys, a down-graded version of Burritt College.

Christopher John " Chris " Tarrant, OBE ( born 10 October 1946 ) is an English radio and television broadcaster, now best known for hosting the first version of the television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

The diary was first published in 1946 in English in New York in an incomplete version.

In 1946, Granville and Brownie McGhee collaborated and modified the song into a clean cut version for Harlem Records.

Over the course of her career, Russell earned four Academy Award nominations for Best Actress: My Sister Eileen ( 1942 ); Sister Kenny ( 1946 ); Mourning Becomes Electra ( 1947 ); and the movie version of Auntie Mame ( 1958 ).

Her success in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday as " Billie Dawn " led to her being cast in the 1950 film version, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Soundies were an early version of the music video: three-minute musical films, produced in New York City, Chicago, and Hollywood between 1940 and 1946, often including short dance sequences.

By 1946, he had developed a significantly abbreviated 37-move version of Yang's traditional form.

Prior to moving to Hollywood, she played the young Estella in David Lean's version of Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet ( 1948 ), for which she received her first Oscar nomination.

Krupa was featured in the 1946 Warner Bros. cartoon Book Revue in which a rotoscoped version of Krupa's drumming is used in an impromptu jam session.

Reissues of color Looney Tunes originally released in September 1948 or later would have the 1946 ending version of " The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down " playing over the closing rings, and 1945 opening music playing over the opening ( again those of the given reissue season ), revealing the fact that the cartoon was originally a Looney Tunes short.

* Nat King Cole and the Nat King Cole Trio – " The Christmas Song " ( 1946 version with strings ) ( scenes 20, 35 )

* A French version entitled La Belle et la Bête was made in 1946, directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais as the Beast and Josette Day as the Beauty.

*" Rip Van Winkle ", audio version from 1946.

However the precise lines which characterize most of his work, is firmly in place from early on ( e. g.: The colored version of The Blue Lotus ( released in 1946 ) is based on the original black and white news paper version from 1934-35 and not redrawn ).

Neorealism exploded soon after the war, with unforgettable works such as Rossellini's trilogy Rome, Open City ( 1945 ), Paisà ( 1946 ), and Germany, Year Zero ( 1948 ), and with extraordinary actors such as Anna Magnani, as an attempt to describe the difficult economic and moral conditions of Italy and the changes in public mentality in everyday life.

Leigh was well enough to resume acting in 1946, in a successful London production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth ; but her films of this period, Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ) and Anna Karenina ( 1948 ), were not great successes.

* Anna and the King of Siam ( film ), 1946 American film directed by John Cromwell

In 1945 he married Eleonora Chiavarelli ( 1915 – 2010 ), with whom he had four children: Maria Fida ( born 1946 ), Agnese ( 1952 ), Anna and Giovanni ( 1958 ).

* Anna Lee Walters ( b. 1946 ), Otoe-Missouria-Pawnee author and educator

Meetings with Anna Akhmatova in Leningrad in November 1945 and January 1946 had a powerful effect on both of them, and serious repercussions for Akhmatova ( who immortalised the meetings in her poetry ).

For example, the remake of a pre-code film dealing with prostitution, Anna Christie was cancelled by MGM in 1940 and 1946 because the character of Anna was not allowed to be portrayed as a prostitute.

Other notable roles include Julie Gardiner Adams in Penny Serenade ( 1941 ) ( once again opposite Grant ), Anna Leonowens in Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ), Lavinia Day in Life with Father ( 1947 ), and Martha Hanson in I Remember Mama ( 1948 ).

* Anna Pfeffer ( born 1946 ), Olympic medalist sprint canoer

Outside of Thailand, he is best known as the King in the 1951 play and 1956 film The King and I, based on the 1946 film Anna and the King of Siamin turn based on the 1944 novel about Anna Leonowens ' years at his court, from 1862 to 1867.

* Anna Franchi ( 1946 ).

Berezovsky was born in 1946 in Moscow to Abram Markovich Berezovsky, a Jewish civil engineer in construction works, and his wife Anna Gelman.

* Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 )

In 1946, Darnell filmed two pictures simultaneously, the expensively budgeted Anna and the King of Siam and Preminger's Centennial Summer.

His first action ( in December 1946 ) was to censor Russian writers such as Anna Akhmatova and Mikhail Zoshchenko.

She was nominated for a second Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) but by the end of the decade her film appearances were fewer.

She received a second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the King's principal wife in Anna and the King of Siam in 1946.

Anna and the King of Siam is a 1946 drama film directed by John Cromwell.

There is a definite animosity between Tuptim and Anna in the 1946 film.

fr: Anna et le Roi de Siam ( film, 1946 )

hu: Anna és a sziámi király ( film, 1946 )