Top Grossing Films of the Year Sergeant York Buck Privates, starring Abbott and Costello Tobacco Road Academy Awards Best Picture: How Green Was My Valley - 20th Century-Fox Best Actor: Gary Cooper - Sergeant York Best Actress: Joan Fontaine - Suspicion Births January 3 - Van Dyke Parks, musician, composer January 4 - Henri Bergson, writer January 5 - Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese film maker January 8 - Graham Chapman, comedian January 14 - Faye Dunaway, actress February 11 - Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman. June 27 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director October 4 - Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer. Deaths January 10 - Joe Penner, comedian, actor Other Movies Released Citizen Kane, starring Orson Welles The Maltese Falcon, starring Humphrey Bogart Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner
