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Budget. nearly $1 million [1] Pitfall is a 1948 American film noir crime film directed by André de Toth. The film is based on the novel The Pitfall by Jay Dratler and stars Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, and Jane Wyatt, and features Raymond Burr .
The Pirate. (1948 film) The Pirate is a 1948 American musical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. With songs by Cole Porter, it stars Judy Garland and Gene Kelly with costars Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen, The Nicholas Brothers, and George Zucco .
Easter Parade. (film) Easter Parade is a 1948 American Technicolor musical film directed by Charles Walters, written by Sidney Sheldon, Frances Goodrich, and Albert Hackett from a story by Goodrich and Hackett, and starring Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, and Ann Miller. The film contains some of Astaire's and Garland's best-known ...
English. Box office. $2 million (US rentals) [1] The Iron Curtain is a 1948 American thriller film starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, directed by William A. Wellman. It was the first film on the Cold War. [2] The film was based on the memoirs of Igor Gouzenko. [3] Principal photography was done on location in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada by ...
4 – Daniel François Malan is elected the 4th Prime Minister of South Africa. 12 – The first Rembrandt cigarettes are manufactured. September. 8 – A group of 83 German children, orphaned by the war, arrives in Table Bay. 10 – The German orphans reach Pretoria to settle in South Africa.
Road House. (1948 film) Road House is a 1948 American film noir drama film directed by Jean Negulesco, with cinematography by Joseph LaShelle. The picture features Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm and Richard Widmark. [2] The drama tells the story of Lily Stevens (Lupino) who takes a job as a singer at a roadhouse—complete with a ...
The 1948 World Chess Championship was a quintuple round-robin tournament played to determine the new World Chess Champion following the death of the previous champion Alexander Alekhine in 1946. The tournament marked the passing of control of the championship title to FIDE, the International Chess Federation which had been formed in 1924.
