1952 in film

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 - 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 â€" High Noon

Best Actress: Shirley Booth â€" Come Back, Little Sheba

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: With a Song in My Heart

Best Actor: Donald O'Connor â€" Singin' in the Rain

Best Actress: Susan Hayward â€" With a Song in My Heart

Supporting Role:

Best Supporting Actor: Millard Mitchell â€" My Six Convicts

Best Supporting Actress: Katy Jurado â€" High Noon

Other

Best Director: Cecil B. DeMille â€" 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

• 1st of April, 2000 - (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
• Alraune, starring Hildegard Knef and Erich von Stroheim - (West Germany)
• Andrine og Kjell - (Norway)
• Androcles and the Lion, starring Jean Simmons and Victor Mature
• Angel Face, starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons
• Angels One Five, starring Jack Hawkins - (GB)
• Anhonee, starring Raj Kapoor and Nargis - (India)
• At Sword's Point, starring Maureen O'Hara and Cornel Wilde
• The Atomic City, starring Gene Barry and Lydia Clarke

B

• The Bad and the Beautiful, starring Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame
• Baiju Bawra, starring Meena Kumari - (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
• Les Belles de nuit (Beauties of the Night), directed by René Clair - (France)
• Belles on Their Toes, starring Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Debra Paget
• Bend of the River, directed by Anthony Mann, starring James Stewart, 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
• The Black Castle, starring Stephen McNally, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr.
• Blackbeard the Pirate, starring Robert Newton
• Brandy for the Parson, starring James Donald and Kenneth More - (GB)
• Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory, starring Clayton Moore
• The Bushwackers, starring John Ireland and Lawrence Tierney

C-D

• California Conquest, starring Cornel Wilde and Teresa Wright
• Captive Women, starring Robert Clarke
• Carbine Williams, starring James Stewart and Jean Hagen
• The Card, starring Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Petula Clark - (GB)
• Carrie, starring Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins
• Carson City, starring Randolph Scott
• Casque d'or (Golden Helmet), directed by Jacques Becker, starring Simone Signoret - (France)
• Children of Hiroshima (Gembaku no ko) - (Japan)
• Ciguli Miguli - (Yugoslavia)
• The City Stands Trial (Processo alla città), directed by Luigi Zampa - (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
• 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
• Derby Day, starring Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding - (Britain)
• Desperate Search, starring Howard Keel and Jane Greer
• Diplomatic Courier, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Tyrone Power
• Don't Bother to Knock, starring Richard Widmark, Anne Bancroft, Marilyn Monroe
• Down Among the Z Men, starring The Goons - (GB)
• Dreamboat, starring Ginger Rogers, Clifton Webb, Elsa Lanchester, Anne Francis

E-F

• Emergency Call, directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Jack Warner, Anthony Steel, Joy Shelton and Freddie Mills - (U.K.)
• Europa '51, directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Ingrid Bergman - (Italy)
• The Eyes Leave Tracks (Los ojos dejan huella), starring Raf Vallone - (Spain)
• Face to Face, starring James Mason and Robert Preston
• Fanfan la Tulipe (aka Fearless Little Soldier), starring Gérard Philipe and Gina Lollobrigida - (France)
• Flaming Feather, starring Sterling Hayden
• Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice ( Ochazuke no aji), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (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
• The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d'or), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Anna Magnani - (France/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
• The Happy Family, directed by Muriel Box, starring Stanley Holloway and Kathleen Harrison - (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
• Los hijos de María Morales (The Children of Maria Morales), starring Pedro Infante - (Mexico)
• 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
• Hunted, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Dirk Bogarde and Jon Whiteley - (GB)

I-J

• The I Don't Care Girl, starring Mitzi Gaynor and Oscar Levant
• 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 - (GB)
• Indian Uprising, starring George Montgomery
• It Grows on Trees, starring Irene Dunne
• Ivanhoe, starring Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine, Elizabeth Taylor
• Jaal (Net), starring Dev Anand - (India)
• Jack and the Beanstalk, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Japanese War Bride, starring Shirley Yamaguchi and Don Taylor
• The Jazz Singer, starring Danny Thomas and Peggy Lee
• Jolanda la figlia del corsaro nero (Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair) - (Italy)
• Jumping Jacks, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

K-L

• Kansas City Confidential, starring John Payne and Coleen Gray
• Kid Monk Baroni, starring Leonard Nimoy
• Lambert the Sheepish Lion
• The Last Page, aka Man Bait, starring George Brent and Diana Dors - (GB)
• The Life of Oharu (Saikaku ichidai onna), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi - (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
• Mandy, starring Phyllis Calvert and Jack Hawkins - (GB)
• The Marrying Kind, starring Judy Holliday
• Meet Danny Wilson, starring Frank Sinatra
• The Member of the Wedding, starring Julie Harris
• The Merry Widow, starring Lana Turner
• Mexican Bus Ride (Subida al cielo), directed by Luis Buñuel - (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
• Montana Belle, starring Jane Russell
• Moulin Rouge, starring José Ferrer and Zsa Zsa Gabor - (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-O

• The Narrow Margin, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Charles McGraw
• Neighbours - (Canada)
• Never Look Back directed by Francis Searle, starring Rosamund John - (GB)
• No Room for the Groom, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie
• O. Henry's Full House, an anthology film starring Charles Laughton, David Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter, Jeanne Crain
• 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
• Outcast of the Islands, directed by Carol Reed, starring Ralph Richardson and Trevor Howard - (GB)
• The Overcoat (Il Cappotto) - (Italy)

P-Q

• Pat and Mike, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
• Phone Call from a Stranger, starring Shelley Winters and Gary Merrill
• The Pickwick Papers, starring James Hayter and James Donald - (GB)
• Le Plaisir (aka House of Pleasure), directed by Max Ophüls, starring Claude Dauphin - (France)
• The Planter's Wife, directed by Ken Annakin, starring Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins & Anthony Steel - (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
• Red Ball Express, starring Jeff Chandler
• Red Planet Mars, starring 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
• Rome 11:00 - (Italy)
• Ruby Gentry, starring Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston and Karl Malden

S

• Sailor Beware, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• Sangdil, starring Dilip Kumar and Madhubala - (India)
• Saturday Island, starring Linda Darnell and Tab Hunter - (GB)
• The Savage, starring Charlton Heston and Susan Morrow
• Scandal Sheet, starring Broderick Crawford and Donna Reed
• Scaramouche, starring Stewart Granger and Janet Leigh
• The Scarlet Flower (Alenkiy tsvetochek) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Secrets of Women (Kvinnors väntan), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Eva Dahlbeck - (Sweden)
• Siempre tuya (Forever Yours) - (Mexico)
• Singin' in the Rain, starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Donald O'Connor
• The Sniper, directed by Edward Dmytryk
• The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka) - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro, starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner
• Something Money Can't Buy, directed by Pat Jackson, starring Patricia Roc, Anthony Steel, Moira Lister & A.E. Matthews - (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
• Song of the Sea (O canto do mar), directed by Alberto Cavalcanti - (Brazil)
• The Sound Barrier, directed by David Lean, starring Ralph Richardson - (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
• The Story of Will Rogers, starring Will Rogers, Jr. and Jane Wyman
• Sudden Fear, starring Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame

T-V

• The Thief, starring Ray Milland
• This is Cinerama, directed by Merian C. Cooper
• Thunderbirds, starring John Derek
• Tico-Tico no Fubá, directed by Adolfo Celi - (Brazil)
• Toto in Colour (Totò a colori), starring Totò - (Italy)
• Toxi, directed by Robert A. Stemmle (West Germany)
• Trent's Last Case, starring Orson Welles and Michael Wilding - (GB)
• The Turning Point, starring William Holden, Alexis Smith, Edmond O'Brien
• Two Cents Worth of Hope (Due soldi di speranza) - (Italy)
• Umberto D., directed by Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
• Untamed Frontier, starring Joseph Cotten and Shelley Winters
• 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
• The White Reindeer (Valkoinen peura) - (Finland)
• The White Sheik (Lo sceicco bianco), directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy)
• Who Goes There!, starring Nigel Patrick and Valerie Hobson - (GB)
• Wide Boy, starring Sydney Tafler and Susan Shaw - (GB)
• The Wild North, starring Stewart Granger and Cyd Charisse
• Wings of Danger, directed by Terence Fisher, starring Zachary Scott - (GB)
• The Witch (Noita palaa elämään) - (Finland)
• With a Song in My Heart, starring Susan Hayward
• A Woman Without Love (Una mujer sin amor), directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico)
• The World in His Arms, starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Ann Blyth
• 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 (1928â€"1953)
• Looney Tunes (1930â€"1969)
• Terrytoons (1930â€"1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931â€"1969)
• Popeye (1933â€"1957)
• The Three Stooges (1934â€"1959)
• Donald Duck (1936)-(1956)
• Goofy (1939â€"1953)
• Tom and Jerry (1940â€"1958)
• Bugs Bunny (1940â€"1962)
• Mighty Mouse (1942â€"1955)
• Chip and Dale (1943â€"1956)
• Droopy (1943â€"1958)
• Yosemite Sam (1945â€"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 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 comedienne
• 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 - John Garfield, actor (born 1913), Body and Soul, 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 - Hattie McDaniel, 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
• Julie Harris - The Member of the Wedding

See also

• Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson