1952 in film

<u>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

<u>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

[edit] Films released in 1952

• Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Alraune
• 5 Fingers, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Androcles and the Lion
• April 1, 2000
• Come Back, Little Sheba
• Down Among the Z Men
• The Greatest Show on Earth
• Hans Christian Andersen, starring Danny Kaye and Farley Granger
• High Noon
• Ikiru
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Invasion U.S.A.
• Ivanhoe
• The Jazz Singer
• Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits)
• Jack and the Beanstalk, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Jolanda la Figlia Del Corsaro Nero
• Jumping Jacks
• The Life of Oharu (Saikaku ichidai onna)
• Lost in Alaska, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Moulin Rouge
• My Six Convicts
• Othello (aka The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice), directed by Orson Welles
• The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford
• Sailor Beware
• Singin' in the Rain
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro -(film only mentioned in article)
• Son of Paleface
• The Sound Barrier, directed by David Lean
• This is Cinerama
• 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!
• With a Song in My Heart
• The World in His Arms

[edit] Short film series

• Donald Duck (1936)-(1956)
• Popeye (1933-1957)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)
• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)

[edit] Births

• March 19 - Harvey Weinstein producer
• June 7 - Liam Neeson, actor
• June 18 - Isabella Rossellini, actress
• July 20 - Adrian Biddle, cinematographer (d. 2005)

[edit] Deaths

• January 18 - Curly Howard, comedian, of The Three Stooges
• April 21 - Leslie Banks, actor
• May 8 - Walter Fox, US movie producer
• October 23 - Susan Peters, actress
• October 26 - Hattie McDaniel, African-American actress best known as Mammy in Gone with the Windde:Filmjahr 1952