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The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.

1 Events
2 Top grossing films (U.S.)
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1952
5 Serials
6 Short film series
7 Births
8 Deaths
9 Film Debuts
10 See also

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.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross
1.	The Greatest Show on Earth	Paramount	Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston and Gloria Grahame	$14,000,000
2.	The Bad and the Beautiful	MGM	Lana Turner and Kirk Douglas	$8,500,000
3.	The Snows of Kilimanjaro	20th Century Fox	Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner	$6,700,000
4.	Ivanhoe	MGM	Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine and Elizabeth Taylor	$6,258,000
5.	Singin' In The Rain	MGM	Gene Kelly	$6,000,000
6.	Sailor Beware	Paramount	Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis	$4,300,000
7.	Moulin Rouge	United Artists	Jose Ferrer and Zsa Zsa Gabor	$4,252,000
8.	Hans Christian Andersen	RKO	Danny Kaye and Farley Granger	$4,100,000
9.	Affair in Trinidad	Columbia	Rita Hayworth	$4,000,000
10.	Monkey Business	20th Century Fox	Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and 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

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
Affair in Trinidad, starring Rita Hayworth
Against All Flags
Alraune
Androcles and the Lion
Angel Face, starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons
April 1, 2000
The Atomic City, a thriller starring Gene Barry and Lydia Clarke
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
Bend of the River
The Big Sky
The Big Trees
The Black Castle starring Stephen McNally, Boris Karloff, and Lon Chaney Jr.
Brandy for the Parson
Brave Warrior
Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
Captive Women
The Card
Carrie, starring Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones and Miriam Hopkins
Carson City
Clash by Night, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan and Marilyn Monroe
Come Back, Little Sheba, starring Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth
The Crimson Pirate
Don't Bother to Knock, starring Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe
Down Among the Z Men
Forbidden Games
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
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?, starring Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson and Charles Coburn
Hiawatha
High Noon, starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly
Ikiru
The Importance of Being Earnest
Indian Uprising
Invasion U.S.A.
Ivanhoe, starring Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine and Elizabeth Taylor
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, 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
Monkey Business, starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn and Marilyn Monroe
Montana Belle, starring Jane Russell
Moulin Rouge, starring Jose Ferrer and Zsa Zsa Gabor
My Cousin Rachel, starring Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton
My Six Convicts
My Son John, starring Robert Walker and 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, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
Pepe el Toro, starring Pedro Infante
The Pride of St. Louis
The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara
Rancho Notorious, starring Marlene Dietrich
Red Ball Express
Red Planet Mars
Sailor Beware, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
The Savage, starring Charlton Heston
Scaramouche, starring Errol Flynn
Singin' in the Rain, starring Gene Kelly
The Sniper
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner
Son of Paleface
The Sound Barrier, directed by David Lean
The Star, starring Bette Davis
The Stooge, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
Sudden Fear, starring Joan Crawford, Jack Palance and Gloria Grahame
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!, starring Marlon Brando and Jean Peters
We're Not Married!, starring Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Eve Arden, Paul Douglas, Eddie Bracken, Mitzi Gaynor, Louis Calhern and Zsa Zsa Gabor
With a Song in My Heart, starring Susan Hayward
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

Births

March 19 - Harvey Weinstein producer
May 14 - Robert Zemeckis, American director
June 7 - Liam Neeson, actor
June 18 - Isabella Rossellini, actress
June 20 - John Goodman, American actor
July 1 - Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor & comedian
July 20 - Adrian Biddle, cinematographer (d. 2005)
August 18 - Patrick Swayze, American actor & dancer (d. 2009)
September 24 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004)
October 22 - Jeff Goldblum, American actor

Deaths

January 18 - Curly Howard, comedian, of The Three Stooges
April 21 - Leslie Banks, actor
May 8 - Walter Fox, US movie producer
May 21 - John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913)
October 23 - Susan Peters, actress
October 26 - Hattie McDaniel, African-American actress best known as Mammy in Gone with the Wind

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