1954 in film
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The year 1954 in film involved some significant events and memorable ones.
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[edit] Events
- May 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces wife Marion Benda. The two were married in 1927.
- A reproduction of "America's First Movie Studio", Thomas Edison's Black Maria, is constructed
- September 29 - A Star is Born premieres and marks Judy Garland's comeback after her termination from her contract at MGM.
- November 3 - The movie Godzilla premieres in Japan. It became a huge success and became the first in series of Godzilla movies, the longest running film series in history[citation needed].
[edit] Top grossing films (U.S.)
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
[edit] Awards
- Best Picture: On the Waterfront - Horizon-American, Columbia
- Best Director: Elia Kazan - On The Waterfront
- Best Actor: Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
- Best Actress: Grace Kelly - The Country Girl
- Best Supporting Actor: Edmond O'Brien - The Barefoot Contessa
- Best Supporting Actress: Eva Marie Saint - On The Waterfront
- Drama:
- Best Picture: On the Waterfront
- Best Actor: Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
- Best Actress: Grace Kelly - The Country Girl
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Carmen Jones
- Best Actor: James Mason - A Star Is Born
- Best Actress: Judy Garland - A Star Is Born
- Other
- Best Director: Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
- Best Foreign Film: Twenty-Four Eyes (Nijushi no hitomi), Japan
- Best Foreign Film: No Way Back (Weg Ohne Umkehr), West Germany
- Best Foreign Film: The Lady of the Camellias (La Mujer de las camelias), Argentina
- Best Foreign Film: Genevieve, United Kingdom
Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival):
- Jigokumon 地獄門, (Gate of Hell), directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Romeo and Juliet (Romeo e Giulietta), directed by Renato Castellani, Italy / U.K.
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Hobson's Choice, directed by David Lean, United Kingdom
[edit] Films released in 1954
U.S.A. unless stated
- 3 Ring Circus, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, starring Kirk Douglas and James Mason
A
- The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe), directed by Luis Buñuel - (Mexico)
- Alaska Seas, starring Robert Ryan
- Animal Farm, an animated film - (U.K.)
- Apache, starring Burt Lancaster
- The Atomic Kid
- Attila, starring Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren - (France/Italy)
B
- The Barefoot Contessa, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Rossano Brazzi
- Beau Brummell, starring Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov
- Beautiful Stranger - (U.K./U.S.)
- The Belles of St Trinian's, starring Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell and George Cole - (U.K.)
- Betrayed, fourth and final film co-starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner
- The Black Knight - (U.K./U.S.)
- The Black Shield of Falworth, starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
- Black Tuesday
- Black Widow, starring Ginger Rogers and Gene Tierney
- Boot Polish - (India)
- Bread, Love and Dreams (U.S. release)
- The Bridges at Toko-Ri, starring William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney
- Brigadoon, starring Gene Kelly and Van Johnson
- Broken Lance, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark, Katy Jurado
C
- The Caine Mutiny, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray
- Carmen Jones, starring Dorothy Dandridge (first African-American to be Oscar-nominated for Best Actress)
- Casanova's Big Night, starring Bob Hope
- The Country Girl, starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden
- Creature from the Black Lagoon
- Crime Wave, starring Sterling Hayden
- The Crucified Lovers (Chikamatsu Monogatari), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, starring Kazuo Hasegawa - (Japan)
D
- Dangerous Mission, starring Victor Mature and Piper Laurie
- Demetrius and the Gladiators, starring Victor Mature and Susan Hayward
- Désirée, starring Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons
- Dial M for Murder, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland and Grace Kelly
- Doctor in the House, starring Dirk Bogarde first of "Doctor" series - (U.K.)
E-F
- The Egyptian, starring Jean Simmons and Gene Tierney
- Elephant Walk, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Peter Finch
- Executive Suite, starring William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson, Fredric March, Louis Calhern, Walter Pidgeon
- Father Brown, starring Alec Guinness - (U.K.)
- Fear, directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Ingrid Bergman - (Germany/Italy)
- Flame and the Flesh, starring Lana Turner
- French Cancan - (France/Italy)
G-H
- Gate of Hell (American release)
- The Glenn Miller Story starring Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson
- Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
- The Gold of Naples (L'oro di Napoli), directed by Vittorio de Sica, starring Silvana Mangano and Sophia Loren - (Italy)
- The Good Die Young, directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Stanley Baker and Laurence Harvey - (U.K.)
- Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy, a Stop motion animated film
- Hell and High Water
- The High and the Mighty, starring John Wayne, Robert Stack, Laraine Day, Claire Trevor, Phil Harris
- Hobson's Choice, directed by David Lean, starring Charles Laughton and John Mills - (U.K.)
- Human Desire, starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford
I-J
- Indiscretion of an American Wife, starring Jennifer Jones and Montgomery Clift (U.S. release)
- An Inspector Calls, with Alastair Sim, based on the J.B. Priestley play - (U.K.)
- It Should Happen to You, starring Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon
- Jagriti - (India)
- Johnny Guitar, starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge
- Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia), directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders - (France/Italy)
K-L
- King Richard and the Crusaders, starring Rex Harrison and Virginia Mayo
- Knights of the Round Table, starring Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner
- Knock on Wood, starring Danny Kaye
- The Lady of the Camellias (La Mujer de las camelias) - (Argentina)
- The Last Bridge (Die Letzte Brücke), starring Maria Schell and Bernhard Wicki - (Austria)
- Late Chrysanthemums (bangiku) - (Japan)
- Letter with Feather - (China)
- Living It Up, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
- The Long, Long Trailer, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
- The Long Wait, starring Anthony Quinn
M-N
- The Maggie - (U.K.)
- Magnificent Obsession, starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson
- The Million Pound Note, starring Gregory Peck - (U.K.)
- Monster from the Ocean Floor
- Naked Alibi, starring Sterling Hayden and Gloria Grahame
- The Naked Jungle
- Night People, starring Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Buddy Ebsen
O-P
- On the Waterfront, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Marlon Brando with Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger -- winner of eight Oscars
- The Outcast
- Phffft!, starring Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Kim Novak
- Prince Valiant, starring Robert Wagner, James Mason, Janet Leigh
- Pushover, starring Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak (in her film debut)
Q-R
- Radio Cab Murder directed by Vernon Sewell, starring Jimmy Hanley and Lana Morris (U.K.)
- Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly
- Riot in Cell Block 11
- River of No Return, starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe
- Robinson Crusoe
- Rogue Cop, starring Robert Taylor and Janet Leigh
- Romeo and Juliet, starring Lawrence Harvey - (Italy/U.K.)
- La Ronde (American release)
S
- Sabrina, starring Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
- Salt of the Earth
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (Miyamoto Musashi), directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)
- Sansho the Bailiff (Sanshō Dayũ), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, starring Kinuyo Tanaka - (Japan)
- Saskatchewan, starring Alan Ladd
- The Sea Shall Not Have Them, starring Dirk Bogarde and Michael Redgrave - (U.K.)
- Senso, directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Alida Valli and Farley Granger - (Italy)
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Jane Powell and Howard Keel
- Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune and Takashi Shimura - (Japan)
- The Silver Chalice, starring Paul Newman (in his film debut)
- Silver Lode, starring Dan Duryea
- Sira` Fi al-Wadi, directed by Youssef Chahine - (Egypt)
- Sitting Bull
- Sound of the Mountain (Yama no Oto), directed by Mikio Naruse - (Japan)
- A Star Is Born, starring Judy Garland and James Mason, musical remake of 1937 film
- La strada (The Road), directed by Federico Fellini, starring Anthony Quinn - (Italy)
- Suddenly, starring Frank Sinatra and Sterling Hayden
- Susan Slept Here, starring Debbie Reynolds and Dick Powell
T-V
- Tanganyika
- Taza, Son of Cochise
- Them!, starring James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, cameos by Fess Parker and Leonard Nimoy.
- There's No Business Like Show Business, starring Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Marilyn Monroe
- They Who Dare - (U.K.)
- Three Coins in the Fountain, starring Jean Peters, Dorothy McGuire, Maggie McNamara
- Top Banana
- Touchez pas au grisbi (Hands Off the Loot), starring Jean Gabin - (France/Italy)
- Twenty-Four Eyes (Nijū-shi no Hitomi) - (Japan)
- Vera Cruz, starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster
W-Z
- White Christmas, starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger
- Woman's World
- Wyoming Renegades
- Young at Heart, starring Frank Sinatra and Doris Day
- The Young Lovers, directed by Anthony Asquith (U.K.)
[edit] Serials
- Gunfighters of the Northwest, starring Clayton Moore and Phyllis Coates
- Man with the Steel Whip, starring Dick Simmons
- Riding with Buffalo Bill
- Trader Tom of the China Seas, starring Harry Lauter and Aline Towne
[edit] Short film series
- Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
- Terrytoons (1930–1964)
- Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
- Popeye (1933–1957)
- The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
- Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
- Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
- Mighty Mouse (1942–1955)
- Chip and Dale (1943–1956)
- Droopy (1943–1958)
- Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
- Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)
- Ranger Don (1953–1956)
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Helen Wellington-Lloyd, actress
- January 6 - Anthony Minghella, director (d. 2008)
- January 22 - Chris Lemmon, actor & author
- January 29 - Oprah Winfrey (The Color Purple)
- Febrauary 2 - Christie Brinkley (National Lampoon's Vacation)
- February 17 - Rene Russo, actress
- February 18 - John Travolta, actor & dancer
- March 1 - Ron Howard, director & actor
- March 4 - Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress
- March 15 - Craig Wasson, actor
- March 17 - Lesley-Anne Down, English actress
- March 24 - Robert Carradine, actor
- April 7 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong-born actor
- April 9 - Dennis Quaid, actor
- April 16 - Ellen Barkin, actress
- May 7 - Amy Heckerling, director
- May 8 - David Keith, actor
- June 14 - Will Patton, actor
- June 15 - James Belushi, actor
- June 19 - Kathleen Turner, actress
- June 28 - Alice Krige, South African actress
- August 12 - Sam J. Jones, actor
- August 16 - James Cameron, Canadian-born director
- October 23 - Ang Lee, Taiwanese director
- November 7 - Kamal Haasan, actor/director/script-writer/producer/singer
- November 29 - Joel Coen, director, producer & screenwriter
- December 4 - Tony Todd, actor & producer
- December 28 - Denzel Washington, actor
[edit] Deaths
- January 18 - Sydney Greenstreet, actor (b. 1879)
- February 12 - Dziga Vertov, filmmaker (b. 1896)
- April 10 - Auguste Lumiere, French film pioneer (b. 1862)
- July 24 - Effie Shannon, stage and film actress (b. 1867)
- November 15 - Lionel Barrymore, actor (1878)
- December 8 - Gladys George, actress (b. 1904)
[edit] Film Debuts
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