1952 in film

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The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.

Top-grossing films

United States

The top ten 1952 released films by box office gross in the United States are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1952
Rank	Title	Studio	Box-office gross rental
1	The Greatest Show on Earth	Paramount Pictures	$12,800,000^[1]
2	This Is Cinerama	Cinerama Releasing Corporation	$12,500,000^[1]
3	The Snows of Kilimanjaro	20th Century Fox	$6,500,000^[1]
4	Hans Christian Andersen	RKO Radio Pictures/Samuel Goldwyn Productions	$6,000,000^[1]
5	Ivanhoe	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$5,810,000^[2]
6	Sailor Beware	Paramount Pictures	$4,300,000^[1]
7	Moulin Rouge	United Artists	$4,252,000^[3]
8	Jumping Jacks	Paramount Pictures	$4,000,000^[1]
9	Come Back, Little Sheba The Stooge	Paramount Pictures	$3,500,000^[4]
10	Son of Paleface High Noon	Paramount Pictures United Artists	$3,400,000^[5]

International

Country	Title	Director	Studio(s)	Gross	Ref
France	Little World of Don Camillo	Julien Duvivier	Cineriz, Francinex	12,791,168 admissions	^[6]
India	Aan	Mehboob Khan	Mehboob Productions	$5,880,000	^[b]
Italy	Little World of Don Camillo	Julien Duvivier	Cineriz, Francinex	13,215,653 admissions	^[9]
Japan	Himeyuri no Tō	Tadashi Imai	Toei Company	¥176,590,000	^[10]
Soviet Union	Tarzan the Ape Man	W. S. Van Dyke	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	42,900,000 admissions	^[11]
United Kingdom	The Greatest Show on Earth	Cecil B. DeMille	Paramount Pictures	13,000,000 admissions	^[12]

Events

January 10 – Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
March 27 – The MGM musical Singin' in the Rain premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
May 26 – Decision reached in Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson determining that certain provisions of the New York Education Law allowing a censor to forbid the commercial showing of any non-licensed motion picture film, or revoke or deny the license of a film deemed to be "sacrilegious," was a "restraint on freedom of speech" and thereby a violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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.

Awards

Category/Organization	10th Golden Globe Awards February 26, 1953		25th Academy Awards March 19, 1953
Category/Organization	Drama	Comedy or Musical	25th Academy Awards March 19, 1953
Best Film	The Greatest Show on Earth	With a Song in My Heart	The Greatest Show on Earth
Best Director	Cecil B. DeMille The Greatest Show on Earth		John Ford The Quiet Man
Best Actor	Gary Cooper High Noon	Donald O'Connor Singin' in the Rain	Gary Cooper High Noon
Best Actress	Shirley Booth Come Back, Little Sheba	Susan Hayward With a Song in My Heart	Shirley Booth Come Back, Little Sheba
Best Supporting Actor	Millard Mitchell My Six Convicts		Anthony Quinn Viva Zapata!
Best Supporting Actress	Katy Jurado High Noon		Gloria Grahame The Bad and the Beautiful
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Michael Wilson 5 Fingers		Charles Schnee The Bad and the Beautiful
Best Screenplay, Original	Michael Wilson 5 Fingers		T. E. B. Clarke The Lavender Hill Mob

Notable films released in 1952

United States unless stated

Film releases

January–March

February 7 - Viva Zapata!
February 13 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (re-release)
February 22
- 5 Fingers
- One Big Affair

April–June

May 2 - The Narrow Margin
May 15 - Outcast of the Islands
June 13 - No Room for the Groom
June 26 - The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

July–September

July 21 - One Minute to Zero
July 23 - Untamed Frontier
September 18 - O. Henry's Full House

October–December

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

Births

January 22 – Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (died 2007)
February 4 – Lisa Eichhorn, American actress
February 12 – Simon MacCorkindale, English actor (died 2010)
March 19 – Harvey Weinstein, American producer
March 27 – Kalju Orro, Estonian actor
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 2 – Christine Baranski, American actress
May 6 – Gregg Henry, American actor & musician
May 11 – Frances Fisher, British-born American actress
May 14 – Robert Zemeckis, American director
May 15 – Chazz Palminteri, American actor
June 7 – Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor
June 18
- Carol Kane, American actress
- Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
June 20 – John Goodman, American actor
July 1 – Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor & comedian
July 11 – Stephen Lang, American actor
July 15 – Terry O'Quinn, American actor
July 24 – Gus Van Sant, American director
August 10
- Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
- Diane Venora, American actress
August 18 – Patrick Swayze, American actor & dancer (died 2009)
August 26 – Michael Jeter, American actor (died 2003)
September 4 – Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor (died 2020)
September 24 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (died 2004)
October 22 – Jeff Goldblum, American actor
October 27 – Roberto Benigni, Italian actor
October 28 – Annie Potts, American actress
November 3
- Roseanne Barr, American actress and stand-up comedian
- Jim Cummings, American voice actor
November 8 – Alfre Woodard, American actress
November 24 – Ulrich Seidl, Austrian director
December 12 – Sarah Douglas, English actress
December 20 – Jenny Agutter, English actress
December 29 – Külliki Saldre, Estonian actress

Deaths

Curly Howard in *Disorder in the Court*.

January 18 – Curly Howard, comedian (born 1903), The Three Stooges
January 25 – Polly Moran, actress (born 1883), Chasing Rainbows, Adam's Rib
March 1 – Gregory La Cava, director (born 1892), My Man Godfrey, Stage Door
March 26 – J. P. McGowan, director (born 1880), Where the West Begins, Tarzan and the Golden Lion
April 21 – Leslie Banks, actor (born 1890), The Most Dangerous Game, Jamaica Inn
May 21 – John Garfield, actor (born 1913), Body and Soul, Nobody Lives Forever, Gentleman's Agreement
May 8 – William Fox, movie executive (born 1879), 7th Heaven
May 26 – Richard Rober, actor (born 1910), The Well, The File on Thelma Jordon
June 27 – Elmo Lincoln, actor (born 1889), Tarzan of the Apes, The Adventures of Tarzan
July 6 – Gertrud Wolle, actress (born 1891), The Hound of the Baskervilles
August 18 – Ralph Byrd, actor (born 1909), Dick Tracy's Dilemma, The Vigilante
August 28 – Lamar Trotti, screenwriter (born 1900), The Ox-Bow Incident, Cheaper by the Dozen
September 7 – Gertrude Lawrence, actress (born 1898), Rembrandt, The Glass Menagerie
October 11 – Jack Conway, director (born 1888), Boom Town, Libeled Lady, Viva Villa!
October 17 – Julia Dean, stage and screen actress (born 1878), A Society Exile, The Curse of the Cat People
October 20 – Basil Radford, actor (born 1887), actor, Crook's Tour, The Galloping Major
October 23 – Susan Peters, actress (born 1921), Song of Russia, Random Harvest
October 26 – Hattie McDaniel, actress (born 1895), Gone with the Wind, Saratoga
November 1 – Dixie Lee, actress (born 1912), Manhattan Love Song, Love in Bloom
November 6 – George H. Reed, actor, (born 1866), Huckleberry Finn, Green Pastures

Film Debuts

Anne Bancroft – Don't Bother to Knock
Brigitte Bardot – Crazy for Love
Geraldine Chaplin – Limelight
George Hamilton – Lone Star
Earl Holliman – Pony Soldier
Julie Harris – The Member of the Wedding
Carolyn Jones – The Turning Point

Notes

^ 4.76 Indian rupees per US dollar from 1951 to 1965^[8]
^ ₹28 million^[7] ($5.88 million)^[a]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^ Top 20 Films of 1952 by Domestic Revenue
^ "Top Grossers of 1953". Variety. January 13, 1954. p. 10. Retrieved October 8, 2019 – via Archive.org.
^ "Top Grossers of 1952". Variety. January 7, 1953. p. 61. Retrieved May 12, 2020 – via Archive.org. {{cite magazine}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
^ "Bilan Annuel France – 1952". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
^ "Box Office 1952". Box Office India. 22 September 2012.
^ "Pacific Exchange Rate Service" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business. University of British Columbia. p. 3. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
^ "Bilan Annuel Italie – 1952". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
^ キネマ旬報ベスト・テン85回全史 1924–2011. Kinema Junposha. May 2012. p. 96. ISBN 978-4873767550. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
^ Sergey Kudryavtsev (4 July 2006). "Зарубежные фильмы в советском кинопрокате".
^ "The Greatest Show on Earth". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.

[Exchange-9] 4.76 Indian rupees per US dollar from 1951 to 1965^[8]

[10] ₹28 million^[7] ($5.88 million)^[a]

[Finler-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[Mannix-2] The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

[1952DomesticRevenue-3] Top 20 Films of 1952 by Domestic Revenue

[Var53-4] "Top Grossers of 1953". Variety. January 13, 1954. p. 10. Retrieved October 8, 2019 – via Archive.org.

[Var52-5] "Top Grossers of 1952". Variety. January 7, 1953. p. 61. Retrieved May 12, 2020 – via Archive.org. {{cite magazine}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

[6] "Bilan Annuel France – 1952". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 10 December 2018.

[boi52-7] "Box Office 1952". Box Office India. 22 September 2012.

[sauder-8] "Pacific Exchange Rate Service" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business. University of British Columbia. p. 3. Retrieved 21 November 2017.

[11] "Bilan Annuel Italie – 1952". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 10 December 2018.

[12] キネマ旬報ベスト・テン85回全史 1924–2011. Kinema Junposha. May 2012. p. 96. ISBN 978-4873767550. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)

[foreign-13] Sergey Kudryavtsev (4 July 2006). "Зарубежные фильмы в советском кинопрокате".

[14] "The Greatest Show on Earth". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.

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