1952 in film

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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 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.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross
1.	The Greatest Show on Earth	Paramount	Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Gloria Grahame	$14,000,000
2.	The Bad and the Beautiful	MGM	Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Dick Powell, Gloria Grahame	$8,500,000
3.	The Snows of Kilimanjaro	Fox	Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner	$6,700,000
4.	Ivanhoe	MGM	Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine, Elizabeth Taylor	$6,258,000
5.	Singin' in the Rain	MGM	Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen	$6,000,000
6.	Sailor Beware	Paramount	Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis	$4,300,000
7.	Moulin Rouge	United Artists	José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor	$4,252,000
8.	Hans Christian Andersen	RKO	Danny Kaye, Farley Granger	$4,100,000
9.	Affair in Trinidad	Columbia	Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford	$4,000,000
10.	Monkey Business	Fox	Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe	$3,800,000

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

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 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

Notable films released in 1952

U.S.A. unless stated

Serials

Short film series

Births

January 22 - Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (died 2007)
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