A list of American films released in 1942 . Bob Hope hosted the 15th Academy Awards ceremony at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The winner of the Outstanding Motion Picture (later: Best Picture) category was MGM's Mrs. Miniver.
The other nine nominated pictures were 49th Parallel ; Kings Row ; The Magnificent Ambersons ; The Pied Piper ; The Pride of the Yankees ; Random Harvest ; The Talk of the Town ; Wake Island ; and Yankee Doodle Dandy .
Casablanca was released in 1942, but won its three Oscars in 1944.
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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The Battle of Midway | John Ford | Propaganda | Academy Award | |
December 7th: The Movie | John Ford, Gregg Toland | Walter Huston, Dana Andrews | Propaganda film | Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject |
The News Parade of the Year 1942 | Eugene W. Castle | Short documentary | ||
Prelude to War | Frank Capra | Documentary | The first of Capra's Why We Fight film series | |
Sex Hygiene | Otto Brower, John Ford | George Reeves, Richard Derr | Docudrama | |
We Are the Marines | Louis de Rochemont | War documentary | 20th Century Fox | |
Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical drama film about George M. Cohan, known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway". It stars James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, and Richard Whorf, and features Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp, Jeanne Cagney, and Vera Lewis. Joan Leslie's singing voice was partially dubbed by Sally Sweetland.
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The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 American sports drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, directed by Sam Wood, and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Walter Brennan. It is a tribute to the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, who died a year before its release, at age 37, from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which later became known to the lay public as "Lou Gehrig's disease".
The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 American biographical film adapted by Emmet Lavery from his 1946 play of the same title, which was in turn adapted from the 1942 book Mr. Justice Holmes by Francis Biddle. The story examines the life of United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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