1952 in film

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The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• January 10 - Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
• February 20 - The film The African Queen opens (Capitol Theater in New York City).
• March 27 - The MGM musical Singin' in the Rain premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
• September 30 - The Cinerama widescreen system, invented by Fred Waller, debuts with the film This Is Cinerama.
• November 27 - Bwana Devil, the first American, feature-length, color 3-D movie, is released, and begins the demand for 3-D films that lasts for the next two years.
• May Britt debuts in Jolanda la Figlia Del Corsaro Nero (Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair)

Top grossing films (U.S.)

source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1952.shtml

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Greatest Show on Earth - DeMille, Paramount

Best Director: John Ford - The Quiet Man

Best Actor: Gary Cooper - High Noon

Best Actress: Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba

Best Supporting Actor: Anthony Quinn - Viva Zapata!

Best Supporting Actress: Gloria Grahame - The Bad and the Beautiful

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Greatest Show on Earth

Best Actor: Gary Cooper - High Noon

Best Actress: Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: With a Song in My Heart

Best Actor: Donald O'Connor - Singin' in the Rain

Best Actress: Susan Hayward - With a Song in My Heart

Other

Best Director: Cecil B. DeMille - The Greatest Show on Earth

Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival):

The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice, directed by Orson Welles, United States

Two Cents Worth of Hope (Due soldi di speranza), directed by Renato Castellani, Italy

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits), directed by René Clément, France

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Hon dansade en sommar (One Summer of Happiness), directed by Arne Mattsson, Sweden

Films released in 1952

• 5 Fingers, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Above and Beyond
• Affair in Trinidad, starring Rita Hayworth
• Against All Flags
• Alraune
• Androcles and the Lion
• Angel Face, starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons
• April 1, 2000
• The Atomic City, a thriller starring Gene Barry and Lydia Clarke
• The Bad and the Beautiful, starring Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan and Gloria Grahame
• Because You're Mine
• Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla starring Bela Lugosi
• The Belle of New York
• Bend of the River
• The Big Sky
• The Big Trees
• The Black Castle starring Stephen McNally, Boris Karloff, and Lon Chaney Jr.
• Brandy for the Parson
• Brave Warrior
• Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
• Captive Women
• The Card
• Carrie, starring Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones and Miriam Hopkins
• Carson City
• Clash by Night, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan and Marilyn Monroe
• Come Back, Little Sheba, starring Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth
• The Crimson Pirate
• Don't Bother to Knock, starring Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe
• Down Among the Z Men
• Forbidden Games
• The Greatest Show on Earth, starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Gloria Grahame, Dorothy Lamour and James Stewart
• Hangman's Knot
• Hans Christian Andersen, starring Danny Kaye and Farley Granger
• Has Anybody Seen My Gal?, starring Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson and Charles Coburn
• Hiawatha
• High Noon, starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly
• Ikiru
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Invasion U.S.A.
• Ivanhoe, starring Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine and Elizabeth Taylor
• The Jazz Singer
• Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits)
• Jack and the Beanstalk, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Japanese War Bride
• Jolanda la Figlia Del Corsaro Nero
• Jumping Jacks, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• Kansas City Confidential
• The Life of Oharu (Saikaku ichidai onna)
• Limelight, starring Charlie Chaplin
• Lost in Alaska, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• The Medium
• The Member of the Wedding, starring Julie Harris
• The Merry Widow, starring Lana Turner
• Million Dollar Mermaid, starring Esther Williams and Victor Mature
• The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
• Monkey Business, starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn and Marilyn Monroe
• Montana Belle, starring Jane Russell
• Moulin Rouge, starring Jose Ferrer and Zsa Zsa Gabor
• My Cousin Rachel, starring Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton
• My Six Convicts
• My Son John, starring Robert Walker and Van Heflin
• The Narrow Margin
• On Dangerous Ground
• Othello (aka The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice), written and directed by, and starring, Orson Welles
• Pat and Mike, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
• Pepe el Toro, starring Pedro Infante
• The Pride of St. Louis
• The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara
• Rancho Notorious, starring Marlene Dietrich
• Red Ball Express
• Red Planet Mars
• Sailor Beware, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• The Savage, starring Charlton Heston
• Scaramouche, starring Errol Flynn
• Singin' in the Rain, starring Gene Kelly
• The Sniper
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro, starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner
• Son of Paleface
• The Sound Barrier, directed by David Lean
• The Star, starring Bette Davis
• The Stooge, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• Sudden Fear, starring Joan Crawford, Jack Palance and Gloria Grahame
• This is Cinerama
• The Thief
• The Titfield Thunderbolt
• Two Cents Worth of Hope (Due soldi di speranza)
• Umberto D.
• La villa Santo-Sospir, short film directed by Jean Cocteau
• Viva Zapata!, starring Marlon Brando and Jean Peters
• We're Not Married!, starring Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Eve Arden, Paul Douglas, Eddie Bracken, Mitzi Gaynor, Louis Calhern and Zsa Zsa Gabor
• With a Song in My Heart, starring Susan Hayward
• The World in His Arms

Serials

• Blackhawk, starring Kirk Alyn
• King of the Congo, starring Buster Crabbe
• Radar Men from the Moon, starring George D. Wallace and Aline Towne
• Son of Geronimo starring Clayton Moore
• Zombies of the Stratosphere, starring Judd Holdren

Short film series

• Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Terrytoons (1930-1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Popeye (1933-1957)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)
• Donald Duck (1936)-(1956)
• Goofy (1939-1953)
• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)
• Bugs Bunny (1940-1962)
• Mighty Mouse (1942-1955)
• Chip and Dale (1943-1956)
• Droopy (1943-1958)
• Yosemite Sam (1945-1963)

Births

• March 19 - Harvey Weinstein producer
• May 14 - Robert Zemeckis, American director
• June 7 - Liam Neeson, actor
• June 18 - Isabella Rossellini, actress
• July 1 - Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor & comedian
• July 20 - Adrian Biddle, cinematographer (d. 2005)
• August 18 - Patrick Swayze, American actor & dancer (d. 2009)
• September 24 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004)
• October 22 - Jeff Goldblum, American actor

Deaths

• January 18 - Curly Howard, comedian, of The Three Stooges
• April 21 - Leslie Banks, actor
• May 8 - Walter Fox, US movie producer
• May 21 - John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913)
• October 23 - Susan Peters, actress
• October 26 - Hattie McDaniel, African-American actress best known as Mammy in Gone with the Wind

Film Debuts

• Anne Bancroft
• Julie Harris
• Leonard Nimoy

See also

• Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson