The year 1941 in film involved some significant events.

Events

Citizen Kane, consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, was released in 1941.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: How Green Was My Valley - 20th Century-Fox
• Best Actor: Gary Cooper - Sergeant York
• Best Actress: Joan Fontaine - Suspicion
• Best Supporting Actor: Donald Crisp - How Green Was My Valley
• Best Supporting Actress: Mary Astor - The Great Lie
• Best Director: John Ford - How Green Was My Valley

Films released in 1941

U.S.A. unless stated

• The 47 Ronin (Genroku chushingura), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi - (Japan)
• 49th Parallel, directed by Michael Powell, starring Leslie Howard and Laurence Olivier - (U.K.)
• Adam Had Four Sons
• All Through the Night, starring Humphrey Bogart
• Among the Living
• Andy Hardy's Private Secretary, starring Mickey Rooney
• Babes on Broadway, directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
• Back Street
• Ball of Fire, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck
• Blood and Sand, starring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth
• Blossoms in the Dust, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon
• Bowery Blitzkrieg
• The Bride Came C.O.D.
• Broadway Limited, starring Victor McLaglen, Marjorie Woodworth, Dennis O'Keefe, Patsy Kelly
• Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family, directed by Yasujir Ozu - (Japan)
• Buck Privates, starring Abbott and Costello
• Caught in the Draft
• Charlie Chan in Rio
• The Chocolate Soldier
• Citizen Kane, directed by and starring Orson Welles with Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane
• The Corsican Brothers
• Cottage to Let directed by Anthony Asquith (U.K.)
• The Devil and Daniel Webster (aka All That Money Can Buy), starring Walter Huston and Edward Arnold
• The Devil and Miss Jones, starring Jean Arthur and Robert Cummings
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman
• Dumbo
• The Face Behind the Mask, starring Peter Lorre
• Flying Wild
• Freedom Radio directed by Anthony Asquith (U.K.)
• The Gang's All Here starring Frankie Darro and Mantan Moreland
• The Great Lie, starring Mary Astor and Bette Davis
• H.M. Pulham, Esq., starring Hedy Lamarr and Robert Young
• Hatter's Castle, starring Robert Newton and Deborah Kerr - (U.K.)
• Hellzapoppin', starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan, starring Robert Montgomery
• High Sierra, starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart in his first starring role
• Hit the Road
• Hold Back the Dawn, starring Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland and Paulette Goddard
• Hold That Ghost
• Honky Tonk, starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner
• How Green Was My Valley, directed by John Ford, starring Walter Pidgeon and Maureen O'Hara - winner of 5 Academy Awards
• I Wake Up Screaming, starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis
• I Wanted Wings, starring Ray Milland, William Holden, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy
• In the Navy, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• It Started with Eve
• Kathleen
• Keep 'Em Flying, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Kipps, directed by Carol Reed, starring Michael Redgrave - (U.K.)
• Ladies in Retirement
• Lady Be Good
• The Lady Eve, directed by Preston Sturges, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda
• Life Begins for Andy Hardy starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
• The Little Foxes, directed by William Wyler, starring Bette Davis
• Look Who's Laughing, starring Edgar Bergen, Fibber McGee and Molly
• Louisiana Purchase
• Love on the Dole, starring Deborah Kerr - (U.K.)
• Major Barbara, directed by Gabriel Pascal, starring Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison - (U.K.)
• The Maltese Falcon, directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre
• Man Hunt, starring Walter Pidgeon and Joan Bennett
• Man Made Monster, starring Lon Chaney Jr. and Lionel Atwill
• Manpower, starring Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich and George Raft
• Meet John Doe, starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck
• Mob Town
• Moon Over Miami, starring Betty Grable
• Mr. Bug Goes to Town
• Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, starring W. C. Fields
• Nice Girl?
• One Foot in Heaven, starring Fredric March and Martha Scott
• Penn of Pennsylvania, starring Clifford Evans and Deborah Kerr - (U.K.)
• Penny Serenade, starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant
• Pimpernel Smith - (U.K.)
• A Place to Live
• Pride of the Bowery
• Princess Iron Fan - (China)
• Quiet Wedding directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Margaret Lockwood (U.K.)
• Rage in Heaven
• Red River Valley, directed by Joseph Kane
• The Reluctant Dragon
• Road to Zanzibar, starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby
• The Sea Wolf, starring Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield
• Sergeant York, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Gary Cooper
• Shadow of the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
• The Shanghai Gesture, starring Gene Tierney
• The Shepherd of the Hills
• Shining Victory, starring James Stephenson and Geraldine Fitzgerald
• Skylark
• Spellbound - (U.K.)
• Spooks Run Wild, starring East Side Kids and Bela Lugosi
• Stormy Waters (Remorques), starring Jean Gabin and Mich le Morgan - (France)
• The Strawberry Blonde
• Sullivan's Travels, directed by Preston Sturges, starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake
• Sun Valley Serenade
• Suspicion, starring Joan Fontaine and Cary Grant
• Suvorov - (U.S.S.R.)
• Swamp Water
• Tank Patrol
• Target for Tonight - (U.K.)
• Tarzan's Secret Treasure
• That Hamilton Woman (aka Lady Hamilton), starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier - (U.K.)
• That Night in Rio
• They Died with Their Boots On, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
• Tobacco Road, starring Gene Tierney
• Turned Out Nice Again, starring George Formby - (U.K.)
• Unexpected Uncle, starring Anne Shirley, James Craig, and Charles Coburn
• War Front
• Western Union, starring Randolph Scott
• The Wolf Man
• A Woman's Face, starring Joan Crawford and Melvyn Douglas
• A Yank in the RAF, starring Tyrone Power and Betty Grable
• You Belong to Me
• You'll Never Get Rich, starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth
• Ziegfeld Girl, starring Judy Garland

Serials

• The Adventures of Captain Marvel, starring Tom Tyler, directed by William Witney and John English
• Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc, starring Ralph Byrd, directed by William Witney and John English
• The Green Hornet, starring Gordon Jones
• Holt of the Secret Service, directed by James W. Horne
• The Iron Claw, directed by James W. Horne
• Jungle Girl, starring Frances Gifford, directed by William Witney and John English
• King of the Texas Rangers, directed by William Witney and John English
• Riders of Death Valley, directed by Ray Taylor and Ford Beebe
• Sea Raiders, directed by Ray Taylor and Ford Beebe
• Sky Raiders, directed by Ray Taylor and Ford Beebe
• The Spider Returns, starring Warren Hull, directed by James W. Horne
• White Eagle, directed by James W. Horne

Comedy film series

• Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1945)
• Our Gang (1922–1944)
• The Marx Brothers (1929 1946)
• The Three Stooges (1933–1962)

Animated short film series

• Mickey Mouse (1928–1942, 1947–1953)
• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
  • Bugs Bunny (1941-1964)
  • Daffy Duck (1938–1968)
  • Porky Pig (1936–1946, 1948–1951)
  • Sniffles (1939–1946)
  • Inki (1939–1950)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Scrappy (1931-1941)
• Popeye (1933–1957)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
• Donald Duck (1937–1956)
• Walter Lantz Cartunes (also known as New Universal Cartoons or Cartune Comedies) (1938–1942)
• Goofy (1939–1955)
• Andy Panda (1939–1949)
• Tom and Jerry (1940–1958, 1961–1967)
• Woody Woodpecker (1941-1949,1951–1972)
• Swing Symphonies (1941-1945)
• The Fox and the Crow (1941-1950)
• Superman (1941-1943)

Births

• January 14 - Faye Dunaway, actress
• January 26 - Scott Glenn, actor
  • Henry Jaglom, English-born director and playwright
• January 31 - Jessica Walter, actress
• February 8 - Nick Nolte, actor, comedian and producer
• February 10 - Michael Apted, English director, producer and screenwriter
• March 4 - Adrian Lyne, English director and producer
• March 14 - Wolfgang Petersen, German director, producer and screenwriter
• April 14 - Julie Christie, English actress and sex symbol
• April 20 - Ryan O'Neal, actor
• April 28 - Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress, dancer and singer
• May 13 - Senta Berger, Austrian actress and producer
• June 2 - Stacy Keach, American actor
• June 5 - Spalding Gray, actor and screenwriter (died 2004)
• June 21 - Joe Flaherty, Canadian-American actor and comedian
• June 22 - Michael Lerner, actor
• June 25 - Denys Arcand, Canadian director and screenwriter
• July 29 - David Warner, English actor
• September 26 - Martine Beswick, English actress and model
• October 10 - Peter Coyote, actor
• October 19 = Simon Ward, English actor
• October 31 - Sally Kirkland, actress
• November 1 - Robert Foxworth, actor
• November 18 - David Hemmings, English actor, director and producer (died 2003)
• November 23 - Franco Nero, Italian actor
• December 9 - Beau Bridges, actor

Deaths

• January 4 - Henri Bergson, writer
• January 10 - Joe Penner, comedian, actor
• May 12 - Ruth Stonehouse, actress, film director
• May 22 - Ida Waterman, veteran stage and screen actress

Film Debuts

• Ava Gardner
• Charlton Heston
• Deborah Kerr
• Bruce Lee

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