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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

Academy Awards

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
John Ford's Rio Grande starring John Wayne
Seven Days to Noon
Sunset Boulevard

Short film series

Popeye
(1933
-1957
)
The Three Stooges (1934
-1959
)
Tom and Jerry (1940
-1958
)

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

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