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 film, 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.)

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 Ren Cl ment, France

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

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

Films released in 1952

U.S.A. unless stated

• 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
• Affair in Trinidad, starring Rita Hayworth
• Against All Flags
• Alraune, starring Hildegard Knef and Erich von Stroheim - (Germany)
• Androcles and the Lion
• Angel Face, starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons
• Angels One Five, starring Jack Hawkins - (U.K.)
• April 1, 2000 - (Austria)
• The Atomic City, a thriller starring Gene Barry and Lydia Clarke

B

• 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, starring Fred Astaire and Vera-Ellen
• Les Belles de nuit, directed by Ren Clair - (France)
• Bend of the River, starring James Stewart
• The Big Sky
• The Big Trees, starring Kirk Douglas
• The Black Castle starring Stephen McNally, Boris Karloff, and Lon Chaney, Jr.
• Blackbeard the Pirate, starring Robert Newton
• Brandy for the Parson - (U.K.)
• Brave Warrior
• Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory

C-D

• Captive Women
• The Card - (U.K.)
• Carrie, starring Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones and Miriam Hopkins
• Carson City, starring Randolph Scott
• Casque d'or (Golden Helmet), directed by Jacques Becker, starring Simone Signoret - (France)
• Children of Hiroshima - (Japan)
• Ciguli Miguli - (Yugoslavia)
• Clash by Night, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan and Marilyn Monroe
• Come Back, Little Sheba, starring Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth
• The Crimson Pirate, starring Burt Lancaster
• Derby Day, starring Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding - (U.K.)
• Diplomatic Courier, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Tyrone Power
• Don't Bother to Knock, starring Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe
• Down Among the Z Men, starring The Goons - (U.K.)

E-F

• Europa '51, directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Ingrid Bergman - (Italy)
• Fanfan la Tulipe - (France)
• Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice ( Ochazuke no aji), directed by Yasujiro Ozu - (Japan)
• Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits), directed by Rene Clement - winner of Oscar for best foreign language film - (France)

G-H

• The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d'or), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Anna Magnani - (France/Italy)
• 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
• The Happy Family, directed by Muriel Box, starring Stanley Holloway and Kathleen Harrison - (U.K.)
• The Happy Time, starring Charles Boyer and Bobby Driscoll
• Has Anybody Seen My Gal?, starring Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson and Charles Coburn
• Hiawatha
• High Noon, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Gary Cooper (Oscar for best actor) and Grace Kelly
• Hunted, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Dirk Bogarde and Jon Whiteley - (U.K.)

I-J

• Ikiru (To Live), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Takashi Shimura - winner of Golden Bear - (Japan)
• The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Michael Redgrave - (U.K.)
• Indian Uprising
• Invasion U.S.A.
• Ivanhoe, starring Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine and Elizabeth Taylor
• Jack and the Beanstalk, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Japanese War Bride
• The Jazz Singer, starring Danny Thomas
• Jolanda la figlia del corsaro nero - (Italy)
• Jumping Jacks, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

K-L

• Kansas City Confidential
• Kid Monk Baroni, starring Leonard Nimoy
• The Life of Oharu (Saikaku ichidai onna), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi - (Japan)
• Lightning, directed by Mikio Naruse - (Japan)
• Limelight, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin with Claire Bloom
• Lost in Alaska, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• The Lusty Men, starring Robert Mitchum

M

• Mandy - (U.K.)
• The Marrying Kind, starring Judy Holliday
• 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
• Les Mis rables
• Monkey Business, starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn and Marilyn Monroe
• Montana Belle, starring Jane Russell
• Moulin Rouge, starring Jos Ferrer and Zsa Zsa Gabor - (U.K.)
• My Cousin Rachel, starring Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton
• My Six Convicts
• My Son John, starring Robert Walker and Van Heflin

N-O

• The Narrow Margin, directed by Richard Fleischer
• Never Look Back directed by Francis Searle and starring Rosamund John (U.K.)
• No Greater Love (Herz der Welt) - (Germany)
• O. Henry's Full House, an anthology film with an all-star cast
• On Dangerous Ground, starring Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan
• Othello (aka The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice), written, directed by and starring, Orson Welles
• Outcast of the Islands, directed by Carol Reed, starring Ralph Richardson and Trevor Howard - (U.K.)

P-Q

• Pat and Mike, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
• Phone Call from a Stranger
• The Pickwick Papers - (U.K.)
• Le Plaisir, directed by Max Ophuls, starring Claude Dauphin - (France)
• The Pride of St. Louis, starring Dan Dailey
• The Prisoner of Zenda
• The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara

R

• Rancho Notorious, starring Marlene Dietrich
• Red Ball Express
• Red Planet Mars
• Road to Bali, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
• Rome 11:00 - (Italy)
• Ruby Gentry

S

• Sailor Beware, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• Sangdil, starring Dilip Kumar - (India)
• The Savage, starring Charlton Heston
• Scandal Sheet, starring Broderick Crawford and Donna Reed
• Scaramouche, starring Stewart Granger and Janet Leigh
• The Scarlet Flower - (U.S.S.R.)
• Secrets of Women, starring Eva Dahlbeck - (Sweden)
• Siempre tuya (Forever Yours) - (Mexico)
• Singin' in the Rain, starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor
• The Sniper
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro, starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner
• Son of Paleface, starring Bob Hope, Jane Russell and Roy Rogers
• The Sound Barrier, directed by David Lean, starring Ralph Richardson - (U.K.)
• The Star, starring Bette Davis
• The Stooge, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• The Story of Will Rogers, starring Will Rogers Jr and Jane Wyman
• Sudden Fear, starring Joan Crawford, Jack Palance and Gloria Grahame

T-V

• The Thief, starring Ray Milland
• This is Cinerama
• Trent's Last Case, starring Orson Welles and Michael Wilding - (U.K.)
• Two Cents Worth of Hope (Due soldi di speranza) - (Italy)
• Umberto D., directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
• La villa Santo-Sospir, short film directed by Jean Cocteau - (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, Louis Calhern and Zsa Zsa Gabor
• The White Reindeer (Valkoinen peura) - (Finland)
• The White Sheik (Lo sceicco bianco), directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy)
• Who Goes There! - (U.K.)
• Wings of Danger, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Zachary Scott (U.K.)
• With a Song in My Heart, starring Susan Hayward
• A Woman Without Love (Una mujer sin amor), directed by Luis Bu uel - (Mexico)
• 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

• 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 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 16 - Mickey Rourke, American actor
• September 24 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (died 2004)
• October 22 - Jeff Goldblum, American actor
• October 28 - Annie Potts, American actress
• November 8 - Alfre Woodard, American actress
• December 12 - Sarah Douglas, English actress
• December 20 - Jenny Agutter, English actress

Deaths

• January 18 - Curly Howard, comedian, The Three Stooges (born 1903)
• April 21 - Leslie Banks, actor (born 1890)
• May 21 - John Garfield, actor (born 1913)
• July 6 - Gertrud Wolle, actress (born 1891)
• October 17 - Julia Dean, stage and screen actress (born 1878)
• October 23 - Susan Peters, actress (born 1921)
• October 26 - Hattie McDaniel, African American actress best known as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (born 1895)

Film Debuts

• Anne Bancroft
• Brigitte Bardot
• Julie Harris
• Leonard Nimoy

See also

• Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson

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