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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 multiple-projection widescreen system, invented by Fred Waller, debuts in New York with the film This Is Cinerama.
November 27 - 3-D film
, is released, and begins the demand for 3-D films that lasts for the next two years.

Jolanda la figlia del corsaro nero
(Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair)

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross
1.	The Greatest Show on Earth	Paramount	Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Gloria Grahame	$14,000,000
2.	The Bad and the Beautiful	MGM	Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Dick Powell, Gloria Grahame	$8,500,000
3.	The Snows of Kilimanjaro	Fox	Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner	$6,700,000
4.	Ivanhoe	MGM	Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine, Elizabeth Taylor	$6,258,000
5.	Singin' in the Rain	MGM	Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen	$6,000,000
6.	Sailor Beware	Paramount	Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis	$4,300,000
7.	Moulin Rouge	United Artists	José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor	$4,252,000
8.	Hans Christian Andersen	RKO	Danny Kaye, Farley Granger	$4,100,000
9.	Affair in Trinidad	Columbia	Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford	$4,000,000
10.	Monkey Business	Fox	Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe	$3,800,000

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

Supporting Role:

Best Supporting Actor: Millard Mitchell – My Six Convicts

Best Supporting Actress: Katy Jurado – High Noon

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

Notable films released in 1952

U.S.A.

unless stated

#

Austria
)

5 Fingers, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring James Mason

A

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

Above and Beyond, starring Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker

Affair in Trinidad, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford

Against All Flags, starring Errol Flynn and Maureen O'Hara

West Germany
)

Norway
)

Androcles and the Lion, starring Jean Simmons and Victor Mature

Angel Face, starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons

GB
)

India
)
At Sword's Point, starring Maureen O'Hara and Cornel Wilde

The Atomic City, starring Gene Barry and Lydia Clarke

B

Babes in Bagdad, starring Paulette Goddard and Gypsy Rose Lee

Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame

India
)
The Beast Must Die (La Bestia debe morir) - (Argentina
)

Because of You, starring Loretta Young

Because You're Mine, starring Mario Lanza

The Belle of New York, starring Fred Astaire and Vera-Ellen

France
)

Belles on Their Toes, starring Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Debra Paget

Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson

Beware, My Lovely, starring Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan

Big Jim McLain, starring John Wayne and James Arness

The Big Sky, starring Kirk Douglas

The Big Trees, starring Kirk Douglas

Lon Chaney, Jr.

Blackbeard the Pirate, starring Robert Newton

GB
)

Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory, starring Clayton Moore

John Ireland and Lawrence Tierney

C

California Conquest, starring Cornel Wilde and Teresa Wright

Captive Women, starring Robert Clarke

Carbine Williams, starring James Stewart and Jean Hagen

GB
)

Carrie, starring Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins

Carson City, starring Randolph Scott

France
)

Japan
)
Ciguli Miguli - (Yugoslavia)

Italy
)

Clash by Night, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe

Come Back, Little Sheba, starring Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth

The Crimson Pirate, starring Burt Lancaster

D

Dark River (Las aguas bajan turbias) - (Argentina)

Deadline - U.S.A., directed by Richard Brooks, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Jim Backus, Martin Gabel

Denver and Rio Grande, starring Edmond O'Brien and Sterling Hayden

Britain
)

Desperate Search, starring Howard Keel and Jane Greer

The Devil Makes Three, starring Gene Kelly

Diplomatic Courier, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Tyrone Power

Don't Bother to Knock, starring Richard Widmark, Anne Bancroft, Marilyn Monroe

GB
)

Dreamboat, starring Ginger Rogers, Clifton Webb, Elsa Lanchester, Anne Francis

E-F

U.K.
)

Italy
)

Spain
)

Face to Face, starring James Mason and Robert Preston

France
)

Flaming Feather, starring Sterling Hayden

Japan
)

Flesh and Fury, starring Tony Curtis and Jan Sterling

Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits), directed by René Clément - winner of Oscar for best foreign language film - (France)

G-H

A Girl in Every Port, starring Groucho Marx, William Bendix, Marie Wilson, Dee Hartford

Italy
)

The Greatest Show on Earth, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Gloria Grahame, Dorothy Lamour, James Stewart

Hangman's Knot, starring Randolph Scott, Donna Reed, Lee Marvin

Hans Christian Andersen, starring Danny Kaye and Farley Granger

GB
)

The Happy Time, starring Charles Boyer and Bobby Driscoll

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?, starring Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn

Heidi, directed by Luigi Comencini - (Switzerland)

Hellgate, starring Sterling Hayden

Hiawatha, starring Vince Edwards

High Noon, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Gary Cooper (Oscar for best actor) and Grace Kelly

Mexico
)

Holiday for Sinners, starring Gig Young and Janice Rule

The Holly and the Ivy, starring Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson - (GB)

Home at Seven, directed by and starring Ralph Richardson - (GB)

Horizons West, starring Robert Ryan, Rock Hudson, Raymond Burr

GB
)

I

The I Don't Care Girl, starring Mitzi Gaynor and Oscar Levant

Japan
)

GB
)

Indian Uprising, starring George Montgomery

It Grows on Trees, starring Irene Dunne

Ivanhoe, starring Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine, Elizabeth Taylor

J

India
)

Jack and the Beanstalk, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

Don Taylor

The Jazz Singer, starring Danny Thomas and Peggy Lee

Italy
)

Jumping Jacks, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

Just This Once, starring Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford

K-L

Kangaroo, starring Maureen O'Hara, Peter Lawford

Kansas City Confidential, starring John Payne and Coleen Gray

Kid Monk Baroni, starring Leonard Nimoy

Lambert the Sheepish Lion

GB
)

Japan
)

Lightning (Inazuma), directed by Mikio Naruse - (Japan)

Limelight, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, with Claire Bloom

Lone Star, starring Clark Gable and Ava Gardner

Lost in Alaska, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

Lovely to Look At, starring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Red Skelton

Lure of the Wilderness, starring Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Walter Brennan

The Lusty Men, starring Robert Mitchum

M

Macao, starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell

GB
)

The Marrying Kind, starring Judy Holliday

Meet Danny Wilson, starring Frank Sinatra

Julie Harris

The Merry Widow, starring Lana Turner

Mexico
)

Million Dollar Mermaid, starring Esther Williams and Victor Mature

The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima, starring Gilbert Roland

Les Misérables, starring Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, Debra Paget

Monkey Business, starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe

Monsoon, starring Diana Douglas and Ursula Thiess

Montana Belle, starring Jane Russell

GB
)

My Cousin Rachel, starring Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton

My Pal Gus, starring Richard Widmark and George Winslow

My Six Convicts, starring Gilbert Roland

My Son John, starring Robert Walker and Van Heflin

N

The Narrow Margin, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Charles McGraw

Neighbours - (Canada)

GB
)

No Room for the Groom, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie

O

O. Henry's Full House, an anthology film starring Charles Laughton, David Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter, Jeanne Crain

One Big Affair, starring Evelyn Keyes

One Minute to Zero, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Robert Mitchum and Ann Blyth

Othello (aka The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice), written, directed by and starring Orson Welles

GB
)

Italy
)

P-Q
Pahit-Pahit Manis, starring Titien Sumarni and Chatir Harro [id] (Indonesia)

Pat and Mike, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn

Phone Call from a Stranger, starring Shelley Winters and Gary Merrill

GB
)

France
)

GB
)

Pony Soldier, starring Tyrone Power

The Pride of St. Louis, starring Dan Dailey

The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Jane Greer

The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara

R

Rancho Notorious, starring Marlene Dietrich

Jeff Chandler

Peter Graves

Retreat, Hell!, starring Frank Lovejoy

Return of the Texan, starring Dale Robertson and Joanne Dru

Road to Bali, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope

Italy
)

Ruby Gentry, starring Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston and Karl Malden

S

Sailor Beware, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

India
)

GB
)

The Savage, starring Charlton Heston and Susan Morrow

Scandal Sheet, starring Broderick Crawford and Donna Reed

Scaramouche, starring Stewart Granger and Janet Leigh

U.S.S.R.
)

Sea Tiger, starring Marguerite Chapman

Sweden
)

Mexico
)

Singin' in the Rain, starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Donald O'Connor

The Sniper, directed by Edward Dmytryk

U.S.S.R.
)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro, starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner

U.K.
)

Something to Live For, directed by George Stevens, starring Joan Fontaine and Teresa Wright

Son of Paleface, directed by Frank Tashlin, starring Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers

Brazil
)

GB
)

Springfield Rifle, starring Gary Cooper and Phyllis Thaxter

The Star, starring Bette Davis and Sterling Hayden

Steel Town, starring Ann Sheridan and John Lund

The Steel Trap, starring Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright

The Stooge, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

Stop, You're Killing Me, starring Broderick Crawford and Claire Trevor

Will Rogers, Jr. and Jane Wyman

Sudden Fear, starring Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame

T

The Hour of 13, starring Peter Lawford

The Thief, starring Ray Milland

This is Cinerama, directed by Merian C. Cooper

Thunderbirds, starring John Derek

Brazil
)

Italy
)

West Germany
)

GB
)

The Turning Point, starring William Holden, Alexis Smith, Edmond O'Brien

Italy
)

U-V

Umberto D., directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)

Untamed Frontier, starring Joseph Cotten and Shelley Winters

France
)

Viva Zapata!, starring Marlon Brando and Jean Peters

W-Z

We're Not Married!, starring Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Eve Arden, Paul Douglas, Eddie Bracken, Mitzi Gaynor

Finland
)

Italy
)

GB
)

Wide Boy, starring Sydney Tafler and Susan Shaw - (GB)

The Wild North, starring Stewart Granger and Cyd Charisse

GB
)

Finland
)

With a Song in My Heart, starring Susan Hayward

Mexico
)

The World in His Arms, starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Ann Blyth

You for Me, starring Peter Lawford, Jane Greer, Gig Young

Young Man with Ideas, starring Glenn Ford and Ruth Roman

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 and Leonard Nimoy

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

January 22 - Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (died 2007)

February 12 - Simon MacCorkindale, English actor (died 2010)

March 19 - Harvey Weinstein, American producer

April 1 - Annette O'Toole, American actress

April 6 - Marilu Henner, American actress

April 10 - Steven Seagal, American actor & martial artist

April 15 - Glenn Shadix, American actor (died 2010)

April 28 - Mary McDonnell, American actress

May 6 - Gregg Henry, American actor & musician

May 11 - Frances Fisher, British-born American actress

May 14 - Robert Zemeckis, American director

June 7 - Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor

June 18 - Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress

June 20 - John Goodman, American actor

July 1 - Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor & comedian

July 15 - Terry O'Quinn, American actor

July 24 - Gus Van Sant, American director

August 10 - Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor

August 18 - Patrick Swayze, American actor & dancer (died 2009)

August 26 - Michael Jeter, American actor (died 2003)

September 24 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (died 2004)

October 22 - Jeff Goldblum, American actor

October 28 - Annie Potts, American actress

November 3
Jim Cummings, American voice actor

Roseanne Barr, American actress and stand-up comedian

November 8 - Alfre Woodard, American actress

November 24 - Ulrich Seidl, Austrian director

December 12 - Sarah Douglas, English actress

December 20 - Jenny Agutter, English actress

Deaths

January 18 - Curly Howard, comedian, The Three Stooges (born 1903)

March 1 - Gregory La Cava, director (born 1892), My Man Godfrey

April 21 - Leslie Banks, actor (born 1890)

May 21 -
Nobody Lives Forever, Gentleman's Agreement

July 6 - Gertrud Wolle, actress (born 1891)

October 17 - Julia Dean, stage and screen actress (born 1878)

October 23 - Susan Peters, actress (born 1921), Random Harvest

October 26 -
African American actress best known as Mammy in Gone with the Wind
(born 1895)

November 6 - George H. Reed, African American character actor, (b. 1866)

Film Debuts

Anne Bancroft - Don't Bother to Knock

Brigitte Bardot - Crazy for Love

The Member of the Wedding

See also

Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson

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