1974 in film
EventsFebruary 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in USAMay 1 - George Lucas creates the first draft of what would eventually become Star Wars. August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of the J. Geils Band marries actress Faye DunawayNovember 1 - Technicolor ceases its legendary dye-transfer printing process.Robert Redford has three films in the Top Ten at the North American box office, the first actor to do so since Bing Crosby in 1946.
Top grossing films
:North America The Sting The Exorcist Papillon Magnum Force Herbie Rides Again Blazing Saddles, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Madeline Kahn and Harvey Korman The Trial of Billy Jack The Great Gatsby Serpico Death Wish
Best Picture: The Godfather, Part II - Coppola Company, ParamountBest Director: Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather, Part IIBest Actor: Art Carney - Harry and Tonto Best Actress: Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Best Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro - The Godfather, Part IIBest Supporting Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express
BirthsJanuary 5 - Daisy Bates, actressMarch 24 - Alyson Hannigan, actress April 28 - Penelope Cruz, actress May 21 - Fairuza Balk, actressJune 25 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actressAugust 15 - Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actressAugust 23 - Ray Park, British actorSeptember 19 - Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish actress and modelNovember 11 - Leonardo DiCaprio, actor
DeathsJanuary 31 - Samuel Goldwyn, film producerFebruary 7 - Arline Judge, actressFebruary 11 - Anna Q Nilsson, actressFebruary 23 - Florence Rice, actressFebruary 28 - Carole Lesley, actressMarch 5 - Billy De Wolfe, actressMarch 7 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actorMarch 19 - Edward Platt, actorApril 2 – Douglass Dumbrille, actorApril 10 - Patricia Collinge, actressApril 24 - Bud Abbott, actor, best known as straight man to Lou CostelloApril 30 - Agnes Moorehead, actressMay 25 - Donald Crisp, actorAugust 20 - Ilona Massey, actressSeptember 6 - Olga Baclanova, actressSeptember 18 - Edna Best, actressSeptember 21 - Walter Brennan, actorSeptember 21 - Jacqueline Susann, former actress, author of Valley Of The DollsOctober 13 - Ed Sullivan, television host, actor November 13 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director November 14 - Johnny Mack Brown, actorDecember 15 - Anatole Litvak, directorDecember 21 - Richard Long, actorDecember 26 - Jack Benny, actor
Other movies releasedBring Me the Head of Alfredo GarciaChinatown The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola, Palme d'Or winnerDeath WishThe Apprenticeship of Dudley Kravitz, Golden Bear winner Son of DraculaDreams and Nightmares - (Abe Osheroff)Lovin' MollyWinnie the Pooh and Tigger, Too (short subject)The Towering Inferno, starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, and Fred Astaire Young Frankenstein, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, and Madeline Kahn. Andy Warhol's FrankensteinEarthquake The Godfather: Part II Black Christmas Benji The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Thunderbolt and Lightfoot The Man with the Golden GunAirport 1975The Longest YardThat's EntertainmentMurder on the Orient ExpressAmarcordScenes from a Marriage by Ingmar BergmanThe Last DetailThieves Like UsSugarland ExpressWhere the Lilies BloomLacombe, LucienBarry Mckenzie Holds His OwnAlvin Purple Rides AgainPetersenThe Cars That Ate Paris''
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