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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 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

North America

1. The Greatest Show on Earth, starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Lawrence Tierney, and Gloria Grahame
2. Quo Vadis
3. Ivanhoe, starring Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, and George Sanders
4. The Snows of Kilimanjaro, starring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, and Ava Gardner
5. Sailor Beware
6. tie The African Queen and Jumping Jacks
7. tie High Noon and Son of Paleface
8. Singin\' in the Rain, starring Gene Kelly, Donald O\'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, and Jean Hagen.
9. The World in His Arms, starring Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth and Anthony Quinn
10. Invasion U.S.A., starring Dan O\'Herlihy

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 Greatest Show on Earth

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
• Alraune
• Androcles and the Lion
• April 1, 2000
• Bend of the River
• Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla starring Bela Lugosi
• The Big Trees
• The Black Castle starring Stephen McNally, Boris Karloff, and Lon Chaney Jr.
• Captive Women
• The Card
• Come Back, Little Sheba
• Down Among the Z Men
• 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
• Jolanda la Figlia Del Corsaro Nero
• Jumping Jacks, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• The Life of Oharu (Saikaku ichidai onna)
• Limelight, starring Charlie Chaplin
• Lost in Alaska, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Million Dollar Mermaid, starring Esther Williams and Victor Mature
• The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
• Moulin Rouge
• My Six Convicts
• Othello (aka The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice), directed by Orson Welles
• Pat and Mike
• The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford
• Red Planet Mars
• Sailor Beware, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• Singin\' in the Rain
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro
• Son of Paleface
• The Sound Barrier, directed by David Lean
• The Stooge, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
• This is Cinerama
• 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!
• 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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