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
• Against All Flags
• Alraune
• Androcles and the Lion
• April 1, 2000
• The Atomic City, a thriller starring Gene Barry and Lydia Clarke
• The Bad and the Beautiful
• Because You're Mine
• Bend of the River
• Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla starring Bela Lugosi
• The Big Sky
• The Big Trees
• The Black Castle starring Stephen McNally, Boris Karloff, and Lon Chaney Jr.
• Brandy for the Parson
• Captive Women
• The Card
• Carrie
• Clash by Night
• Come Back, Little Sheba
• The Crimson Pirate
• Don't Bother to Knock
• Down Among the Z Men
• Forbidden Games
• 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
• 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
• The Merry Widow
• Million Dollar Mermaid, starring Esther Williams and Victor Mature
• The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
• Monkey Business
• Moulin Rouge
• My Cousin Rachel
• My Six Convicts
• My Son John, starring 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
• The Pride of St. Louis
• The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford
• Red Planet Mars
• Sailor Beware, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• Scaramouche
• Singin' in the Rain
• The Sniper
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro
• Son of Paleface
• The Sound Barrier, directed by David Lean
• The Star
• The Stooge, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• Sudden Fear
• 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!
• We're Not Married!
• With a Song in My Heart
• 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
• June 7 - Liam Neeson, actor
• June 18 - Isabella Rossellini, actress
• July 20 - Adrian Biddle, cinematographer (d. 2005)

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 Wind

See also

• Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson

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