Events in Film & TV
- Jan 1 1st feature-length foreign movie "African Journey", shown on TV, NYC
- Feb 5 "Captain American" serial film premieres starring Dick Purcell, first appearance of a Marvel superhero outside a comic
- Feb 7 Bing Crosby records "Swinging on a Star" for Decca Records (Academy Award Best Original Song)
- Feb 20 Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
- Feb 21 "War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (NYC only)
- Mar 2 16th Academy Awards: "Casablanca", Jennifer Jones & Paul Lukas win
- Mar 22 American movie star Jimmy Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin
- Apr 18 Leonard Bernstein & Jerome Robbins' ballet "Fancy Free" premieres in NYC
- May 2 WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in NYC (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcast
- May 3 "Going My Way", directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby premieres in New York (Academy Award for Best Picture, 1945)
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Film & TV Awards in 1944
- Mar 2 16th Academy Awards: "Casablanca", Jennifer Jones & Paul Lukas win
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Danny DeVitoWeddings in Film & TV
- Jan 26 Actor Ralph Richardson (41) weds actress Meriel Forbes (30)
- Mar 17 American actor Charlton Heston (20) weds American actress and photographer Lydia Clarke (20)
- May 21 Actor Burgess Meredith (36) weds actress Paulette Goddard (33) at David O Selznick's Beverly Hills home
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Actors and Actresses Who Died in 1944
- Feb 4 Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress, dies at 79
- Mar 18 Benjamin Delmonte, theater director and actor (Black Haired Whore), dies at 79
- May 16 George Ade, American playwright, writer and humorist (Counsel Widow, Fables in Slang), dies at 78
- May 30 Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at 79
- Jul 1 Carl Mayer, Austrian-Jewish actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise), dies of cancer at 49
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