--- description: The Fighting Lady (U.S. Navy, TIME, Jan. 22). A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire; TIME, Feb. 19). Colonel Blimp (Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook;... title: Cinema: Choice for 1945 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Cinema: Choice for 1945 by [TIME](/author/time/) Jan 7, 1946 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Jan 7, 1946 5:00 AM CUT The Fighting Lady (U.S. Navy, TIME, Jan. 22). A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire; TIME, Feb. 19). Colonel Blimp (Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook; TIME, April 2). The Clock (Judy Garland, Robert Walker; TIME, May 14). San Pietro (Army Pictorial Service; TIME, May 21). The Southerner (Zachary Scott, Betty Field; TIME, May 21). Anchors Aweigh (Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, José Iturbi; TIME, July 30). The True Glory (Dday to V-E day documentary; TIME, Sept. 17). The House on 92nd Street (William Eythe, Signe Hasso, Lloyd Nolan; TIME, Oct. 8). The Lost Weekend (Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry; TIME, Dec. 3). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6600117/cinema-choice-for-1945/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6600117/cinema-choice-for-1945/"},"headline":"Cinema: Choice for 1945","datePublished":"1946-01-07T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-25T03:27:04.411Z","description":"The Fighting Lady (U.S. Navy, TIME, Jan. 22). A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire; TIME, Feb. 19). Colonel Blimp (Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook;...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6600117/cinema-choice-for-1945/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6600117/cinema-choice-for-1945/","name":"Cinema: Choice for 1945"}}]}] ```