1950 in film
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Events
- February 15 - Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts.
Top grossing films
- North America
- Cinderella (Disney) (#6 in year of release)
- Samson and Delilah
- Battleground
- King Solomon's Mines
- Cheaper by the Dozen
- Annie Get Your Gun
- Father of the Bride
- Best Picture: All About Eve - 20th Century-Fox
- Best Actor: José Ferrer - Cyrano de Bergerac
- Best Actress: Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
Movies released
Movies released in 1950 include:
- All About Eve, starring Bette Davis and George Sanders
- The Asphalt Jungle
- The Blue Lamp, the film that introduced Jack Warner as "Dixon of Dock Green"
- Born Yesterday
- Bright Leaf
- Cyrano de Bergerac starring Jose Ferrer
- Destination Moon, screenplay partly by Robert A. Heinlein
- Fancy Pants
- The Happiest Days of Your Life starring Alastair Sim
- Harvey starring James Stewart
- Justice is Done
- The Men, Marlon Brando's debut movie
- Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa
- John Ford's Rio Grande starring John Wayne
- Seven Days to Noon
- Sunset Boulevard
Short film series
Births
- January 16 - Debbie Allen, actress, dancer, choreographer
- January 24 - Daniel Auteuil, actor
- February 18 - Cybill Shepherd,actress
- March 16 - Kate Nelligan, actress
- March 18 - Brad Dourif, actor
- March 30 - Robbie Coltrane, actor
- April 4 - Christine Lahti, actress
- April 20 - Veronica Cartwright, actress
- April 29 - Phillip Noyce, director
- May 12 - Gabriel Byrne, actor
- July 18 - Barbara Scott, actress
- September 28 - John Sayles, director, screenwriter
- October 31 - John Candy, comedian and actor
- December 12 - Rajnikant, actor
Deaths
- January 3 - Emil Jannings, actor
- January 12 - John M. Stahl, film director and producer
- March 10 - Marguerite De La Motte, actress
- April 7 - Walter Huston, Academy Award winning actor
- October 23 - Al Jolson, actor, singer, entertainer
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