Domestic Release Schedule for 1946

This chart lists all movies that had a release in theaters in the United States and/or Canada in 1946.

See also: Top 1946 Worldwide - Most Popular 1946

Current Release Schedule 1947 →
Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date		Trailer
January, 1946
January 7 Lightning Raiders (Limited)    
 
January 18 Because of Him (Limited) Universal    
The Harvey Girls (Limited) $4,100,000  
February, 1946
February 1 Terror By Night (Limited) Universal    
 
February 6 The Spiral Staircase (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures    
 
February 17 Ambush Trail (Limited)    
 
February 21 The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (Wide) Sony Pictures $3,000,000  
 
February 27 Road to Utopia (Limited) Paramount Pictures    
March, 1946
March 14 Gilda (Limited) $10,000,000  
 
March 20 Romance of the West (Limited)    
 
March 27 Gentlemen With Guns (Limited) Producers Releasing Corporation    
 
March 29 House of Horrors (Limited)    
April, 1946
April 12 Thunder Town (Limited)    
 
April 16 The Blue Dahlia (Limited) Paramount Pictures    
 
April 23 Lost City of the Jungle (Limited) Universal    
May, 1946
May 2 The Postman Always Rings Twice (Limited) $12,000,000  
 
May 3 Her Kind of Man (Limited) Warner Bros.    
 
May 13 Without Reservations (Wide) $3,000,000  
 
May 26 O.S.S. (Limited) Paramount Pictures    
June, 1946
June 1 Cluny Brown (Limited) 20th Century Fox    
 
June 5 Ghost Of Hidden Valley (Limited) Producers Releasing Corporation    
 
June 6 Two Sisters from Boston (Limited) $3,600,000  
 
June 14 Janie Gets Married (Limited) Warner Bros.    
 
June 28 Dead of Night (Limited) Universal    
 
June 30 Colorado Serenade (Limited) Producers Releasing Corporation    
July, 1946
July 2 Night and Day (Limited) $7,500,000  
 
July 10 Tumbleweed Trail (Limited)    
 
July 11 Easy to Wed (Limited) $4,100,000  
 
July 17 Canyon Passage (Limited) Universal    
Prairie Badmen (Limited)    
 
July 24 Courage of Lassie (Limited)    
August, 1946
August 2 Black Angel (Limited) Universal    
 
August 10 A Night in Casablanca (Limited) United Artists    
 
August 15 Make Mine Music (Wide)    
Down Missouri Way (Limited)    
Holiday in Mexico (Limited) $3,700,000  
Notorious (Limited) $24,464,742  
 
August 21 Overland Riders (Limited)    
 
August 23 Step by Step (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures    
 
August 30 The Killers (Limited)    
 
August 31 The Big Sleep (Limited)    
September, 1946
September 22 Outlaws Of The Plains (Limited) Producers Releasing Corporation    
October, 1946
October 1 Driftin’ River (Limited) Producers Releasing Corporation    
 
October 10 The Jolson Story (Wide) $19,000,000  
So Dark the Night (Limited) Columbia    
 
October 11 Bath Day (Limited)    
 
October 16 Blue Skies (Wide) Paramount Pictures $14,300,000  
Margie (Limited) $10,000,000  
 
October 17 My Darling Clementine (Limited)    
 
October 24 The Cockeyed Miracle (Limited) MGM    
November, 1946
November 5 Don Ricardo Returns (Limited)    
 
November 12 Song of the South (Wide) Walt Disney $65,000,000  
 
November 15 Les Enfants du Paradis (Limited) $36,986  
 
November 16 The Chase (Limited)    
 
November 18 Stars Over Texas (Limited)    
 
November 21 The Best Years of Our Lives (Wide) RKO Radio Pictures $23,600,000  
December, 1946
December 1 Wild West (Limited)    
 
December 18 The Yearling (Wide) $5,200,000  
 
December 20 It's a Wonderful Life (Limited) $12,241,691  
 
December 25 The Beast with Five Fingers (Limited)    
A Matter of Life and Death (Limited) Universal    
 
December 31 Duel in the Sun (Wide) $20,400,000