1952 in film
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[edit] Events
- February 20 - The film The African Queen opens (Capitol Theater 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 feature-length color 3-D movie, is released.
- May Britt debuts in Jolanda la Figlia Del Corsaro Nero (Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair)
[edit] Top grossing films
- North America
- The Greatest Show on Earth, starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Lawrence Tierney, and Gloria Grahame
- Quo Vadis
- Ivanhoe, starring Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, and George Sanders
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro, starring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, and Ava Gardner
- Sailor Beware
- tie The African Queen and Jumping Jacks
- tie High Noon and Son of Paleface
- Singin' in the Rain
[edit] 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 Greatest Show on Earth
- Drama:
- Best Picture: The Greatest Show on Earth
- Best Actor: Gary Cooper - High Noon
- Best Actress: Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba
- <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
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