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Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis (1951 film)

Quo Vadis is an epic 1951 film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S....
 MGM $11,902,000
2.Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)

Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and originally premiered in London, England on July 26, 1951 by RKO Pictures....
*		 Disney/RKO $7,196,000
3.Show Boat
Show Boat (1951 film)

Show Boat is a film based on the Show Boat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II and the novel by Edna Ferber.Filmed previously in 1936, the Kern-Hammerstein musical was remake in 1951 in film by MGM in Technicolor, starring Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, and Howard Keel, with Joe E....
 MGM $5,533,000
4. A Streetcar Named Desire Warner Brothers $4,800,000
5. David and Bathsheba
David and Bathsheba

David and Bathsheba is a 1951 in film historical film epic film about King David made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Henry King, produced by Darryl F....
 20th Century Fox $4,720,000
6.The Great Caruso
The Great Caruso

The Great Caruso is a 1951 in film biographical film made by MGM. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Joe Pasternak with Jesse L....
 MGM $4,531,000
7. The African Queen
The African Queen

The African Queen is an Cinema of the United States drama film directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel from the 1935 in literature novel by C....
 United Artists $4,300,000
8. An American in Paris
An American in Paris (film)

An American in Paris is a MGM musical film inspired by the An American in Paris by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, and Oscar Levant, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner....
 MGM $4,213,000
9. That's My Boy Paramount $3,800,000
10. A Place in the Sun
A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun is a film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play of the same name adapted from it by Patrick Kearney....

Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train (film)

Strangers on a Train is a film released in 1951 by Warner Bros. It was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film stars Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Hudson Walker, Leo G....
 Paramount
Warner Brothers		 $3,500,000


(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)







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The year 1951 in film involved some significant events.

Events

  • Sweden
    Sweden

    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
     - May Britt is scouted by Italian film-makers Carlo Ponti
    Carlo Ponti

    Carlo Ponti was an Italy film producer with over 140 production credits, and the husband of Italian actress Sophia Loren....
     and Mario Soldati
    Mario Soldati

    Mario Soldati was an Italy writer, film director....


Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis (1951 film)

Quo Vadis is an epic 1951 film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S....
 MGM $11,902,000
2.Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)

Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and originally premiered in London, England on July 26, 1951 by RKO Pictures....
*		 Disney/RKO $7,196,000
3.Show Boat
Show Boat (1951 film)

Show Boat is a film based on the Show Boat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II and the novel by Edna Ferber.Filmed previously in 1936, the Kern-Hammerstein musical was remake in 1951 in film by MGM in Technicolor, starring Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, and Howard Keel, with Joe E....
 MGM $5,533,000
4. A Streetcar Named Desire Warner Brothers $4,800,000
5. David and Bathsheba
David and Bathsheba

David and Bathsheba is a 1951 in film historical film epic film about King David made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Henry King, produced by Darryl F....
 20th Century Fox $4,720,000
6.The Great Caruso
The Great Caruso

The Great Caruso is a 1951 in film biographical film made by MGM. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Joe Pasternak with Jesse L....
 MGM $4,531,000
7. The African Queen
The African Queen

The African Queen is an Cinema of the United States drama film directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel from the 1935 in literature novel by C....
 United Artists $4,300,000
8. An American in Paris
An American in Paris (film)

An American in Paris is a MGM musical film inspired by the An American in Paris by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, and Oscar Levant, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner....
 MGM $4,213,000
9. That's My Boy Paramount $3,800,000
10. A Place in the Sun
A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun is a film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play of the same name adapted from it by Patrick Kearney....

Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train (film)

Strangers on a Train is a film released in 1951 by Warner Bros. It was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film stars Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Hudson Walker, Leo G....
 Paramount
Warner Brothers		 $3,500,000


(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
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Awards


Academy Awards
24th Academy Awards

The 24th Academy Awards is an event that honored the Greatest Films of 1951.The single film which came out with the largest number of honors was An American in Paris , which scoops six Oscars, including Best Picture....
:

Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
: An American in Paris
An American in Paris (film)

An American in Paris is a MGM musical film inspired by the An American in Paris by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, and Oscar Levant, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner....
 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Best Director
Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing is one of the Academy Award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Film directors working in the film industry....
: George Stevens
George Stevens

George Stevens was an United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and cinematographer....
 - A Place in the Sun
A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun is a film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play of the same name adapted from it by Patrick Kearney....
Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an United_States_of_America actor and cultural icon. In 1997, Entertainment Weekly magazine named him the number one movie legend of all time....
 - The African Queen
The African Queen

The African Queen is an Cinema of the United States drama film directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel from the 1935 in literature novel by C....
Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier , was an English actress. She won two Academy Awards for playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire , a role she had also played on stage in London's West End Theatre....
 - A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Karl Malden
Karl Malden

Mladen George Sekulovich is an American actor, known for his expansive manner. In a career that spanned over seven decades, he was featured in classic films such as A Streetcar Named Desire , On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks, with Marlon Brando, and also starred in the blockbuster movie, Patton ....
 - A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Kim Hunter
Kim Hunter

Kim Hunter was an United States film, television, and stage actress....
 - A Streetcar Named Desire


Golden Globe Awards
9th Golden Globe Awards

The 9th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1951 in film films, were held on February 21, 1952....
:

Drama:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: A Place in the Sun
A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun is a film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play of the same name adapted from it by Patrick Kearney....
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Fredric March - Death of a Salesman
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Jane Wyman
Jane Wyman

Jane Wyman was an American actor. She began her film career in the 1930s, and was a prolific performer for two decades. She received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Johnny Belinda , and later achieved success during the 1980s for her leading role in the television series Falcon Crest....
 - The Blue Veil
The Blue Veil

The Blue Veil is a drama film made by Jerry Wald/Norman Krasna Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It tells the story of a child torn between the competing claims of his birth mother and his adoptive mother....


Musical or comedy:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: An American in Paris
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye was an American award-winning actor, singer and comedian....
 - On the Riviera
On the Riviera

On the Riviera is a 1951 in film comedy musical film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Walter Lang, produced by Sol C. Siegel from a screenplay by Valentine Davies and Phoebe and Henry Ephron, based on the play The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler....
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: June Allyson - Too Young to Kiss


Other
Best Director
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: Laslo Benedek - Death of a Salesman


Grand Prix
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 (Cannes Film Festival):
Miss Julie
Miss Julie (1951 film)

Miss Julie is a 1951 in film Sweden film directed by Alf Sj?berg based on the Miss Julie by August Strindberg. The film won the Grand Prize at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival....
 (Fröken Julie), directed by Alf Sjöberg
Alf Sjöberg

Alf Sj?berg was a Sweden theatre and film director. He won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival twice: in 1946 for Torment , and in 1951 for his film Miss Julie ....
, Sweden
Miracle in Milan
Miracle in Milan

Miracle in Milan is an Italy film directed by Vittorio de Sica. The screenplay was co-written by Cesare Zavattini, based on his novel Tot? il Buono. The picture stars Francesco Golisano, Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, and Guglielmo Barnab?....
 (Miracolo a Milano), directed by Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio de Sica

Vittorio De Sica was a critically acclaimed Italy Italian neorealism film director and actor....
, Italy


Golden Lion
Golden Lion

The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes....
 (Venice Film Festival)
Rashômon
Rashomon

Rashomon may refer to* Rashomon, the former main city gate in two Japanese capital cities, Heijokyo andHeiankyo * Rashomon , a short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa first published in 1915...
, directed by Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa

was a prominent Japanese people filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and film editing. His first credited film as director, , was released in 1943, his last as director, , in 1993....
, Japan


Films released in 1951

  • Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
    Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man

    Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man is a 1951 in film comedy horror film Film director by Charles Lamont and starring the team of Abbott and Costello alongside Nancy Guild....
  • Ace in the Hole
    Ace in the Hole (1951 film)

    'Ace in the Hole' is a 1951 in film United States drama film. It marked a series of firsts for Auteur theory Billy Wilder: it was the first time he was involved in a project as a writer, producer, and director; his first film following his breakup with long-time writing partner Charles Brackett, with whom he had collaborated on The Lost W...
  • The African Queen
    The African Queen

    The African Queen is an Cinema of the United States drama film directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel from the 1935 in literature novel by C....
  • Alice in Wonderland
    Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)

    Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and originally premiered in London, England on July 26, 1951 by RKO Pictures....
  • An American in Paris
    An American in Paris (film)

    An American in Paris is a MGM musical film inspired by the An American in Paris by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, and Oscar Levant, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner....
  • Angels in the Outfield
    Angels in the Outfield (1951 film)

    Angels in the Outfield is a 1951 in film black-and-white film starring Paul Douglas and Janet Leigh, directed by Clarence Brown, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
  • Bedtime for Bonzo
    Bedtime for Bonzo

    Bedtime for Bonzo is a 1951 in film comedy film directed by Frederick de Cordova. It revolves around the attempts of the central character, Professor Peter Boyd , to teach human morals to a chimpanzee, hoping to solve the "nature versus nurture" question....
  • The Blue Veil
    The Blue Veil

    The Blue Veil is a drama film made by Jerry Wald/Norman Krasna Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It tells the story of a child torn between the competing claims of his birth mother and his adoptive mother....
  • Bright Victory
    Bright Victory

    Bright Victory is a 1951 film, adapted by Robert Buckner from Baynard Kendrick's novel Lights Out. It was directed by Mark Robson, and it stars Arthur Kennedy , Peggy Dow, Julie Adams, James Edwards, Will Geer, Nana Bryant, Jim Backus, and Rock Hudson....
  • The Browning Version
    The Browning Version (1951 film)

    The Browning Version is a 1951 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom based on the The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan. It was directed by Anthony Asquith....
  • Bullfighter and the Lady
  • Captain Horatio Hornblower
    Captain Horatio Hornblower

    Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. is a 1951 in film naval adventure film. It was directed by Raoul Walsh and stars Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, and Robert Beatty....
  • Cause for Alarm!
  • A Christmas Carol
    Scrooge (1951 film)

    Scrooge , released as A Christmas Carol in the United States, is one of the best-known feature film adaptations of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol....
  • Come Fill the Cup
    Come Fill the Cup

    Come Fill the Cup is a 1951 film starring James Cagney and Gig Young. Cagney plays an alcoholic newspaperman. Cagney has the memorable line, "Don't you see? I am home," which he says in response to the query, "Why don't you go home?": once near the beginning when he's drinking; once at the end when he's just working hard....
  • Comin' Round The Mountain
    Comin' Round the Mountain

    Comin' Round The Mountain is a 1951 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello....
  • Cry, the Beloved Country
    Cry, the Beloved Country (1951 film)

    Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1951 in film drama film directed by Zoltan Korda. Based on the Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton, it stars Canada Lee and Charles Carson....
  • David and Bathsheba
    David and Bathsheba

    David and Bathsheba is a 1951 in film historical film epic film about King David made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Henry King, produced by Darryl F....
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still
  • Decision Before Dawn
    Decision Before Dawn

    Decision Before Dawn is a 1951 war film which tells the story of the American Army using potentially unreliable German prisoners of war to gather intelligence in the closing days of World War II....
  • The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
    The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

    The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel is a 1951 film with James Mason as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Also in the cast are Jessica Tandy and Leo G....
  • Detective Story
    Detective Story

    Detective Story is a film noir which tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. It features Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, Lee Grant, among others....
  • Diary of a Country Priest
    Diary of a Country Priest

    Diary of a Country Priest is a novel by Georges Bernanos. Published in 1937, the novel received the Grand prix du roman de l'Acad?mie fran?aise....
  • Early Summer
    Early Summer

    is a 1951 in film by Yasujiro Ozu. Like most Ozu films, Early Summer deals with many issues ranging from communication problems between generations and the rising role of women in post-war Japan....
  • Flying Leathernecks
    Flying Leathernecks

    Flying Leathernecks is a 1951 in film Action movie film directed by Nicholas Ray and starring John Wayne. The movie details the exploits and personal battles of United States Marine Corps United States Marine Corps Aviation during World War II....
  • Fourteen Hours
    Fourteen Hours

    Fourteen Hours is a 1951 in film film about the efforts of a New York City police officer to stop a despondent man from jumping from a building ledge....
  • The Frogmen
    The Frogmen (film)

    The Frogmen is a 1951 movie made by Twentieth Century Fox. It is based on some United States frogman operations against the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II....
  • Gerald McBoing-Boing
    Gerald McBoing-Boing

    Gerald McBoing-Boing is an animated short film produced by United Productions of America and given wide release by Columbia Pictures on January 25, 1951....
  • Go for Broke!
    Go for Broke! (1951 film)

    Go for Broke! is a war film released in 1951. It was directed by Robert Pirosh, produced by Dore Schary and starred Van Johnson, several veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Henry Nakamura....
  • The Great Caruso
    The Great Caruso

    The Great Caruso is a 1951 in film biographical film made by MGM. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Joe Pasternak with Jesse L....
  • He Ran All the Way
    He Ran All the Way

    He Ran All the Way is a 1951 in film Crime Drama, considered a film noir, starring John Garfield and Shelley Winters. The film was Garfield's last as heart problems forced him to end his career....
  • Here Comes the Groom
    Here Comes the Groom

    Here Comes the Groom is a 1951 Musical film romantic comedy film starring Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman. Directed and produced by Frank Capra, the film was released by Paramount Pictures....
  • His Kind of Woman
    His Kind of Woman

    His Kind of Woman is a black-and-white 1951 in film comedy drama film noir starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell. The film features supporting roles by Vincent Price, Raymond Burr, and Charles McGraw....
  • The House on Telegraph Hill
    The House on Telegraph Hill

    The House on Telegraph Hill is a film noir starring Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, and William Lundigan, directed by Robert Wise, and released by Twentieth Century Fox....
  • The Idiot
  • Lambert the Sheepish Lion
    Lambert the Sheepish Lion

    Lambert the Sheepish Lion is a Walt Disney Company cartoon short film released in 1951. The 8-minute film focuses on Lambert, a lion that is mistakenly left with a flock of sheep by a stork....
  • Laughter in Paradise
    Laughter in Paradise

    Laughter in Paradise is the title of a noted United Kingdom comedy film with a stellar cast released in 1951 in film. The film stars Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, George Cole, and Guy Middleton....
  • The Lavender Hill Mob
    The Lavender Hill Mob

    The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 in film comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T.E.B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton and starring Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway and Sid James as gold thieves....
  • Let's Go Crazy
    Let's Go Crazy (film)

    Let's Go Crazy is a 1951 in film comedy film marking an early appearance of Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers playing multiple roles....
  • The Magic Box
    The Magic Box (film)

    The Magic Box is a British film released in 1951 in film....
  • The Man in the White Suit
    The Man in the White Suit

    The Man In The White Suit is a satire comedy film made in 1951 in film by Ealing Studios. It starred Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, and Cecil Parker, and was directed by Alexander Mackendrick....
  • The Mating Season
    The Mating Season (film)

    The Mating Season is a 1951 in film classic farce with elements of screwball comedy film made by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Mitchell Leisen and produced by Charles Brackett from a screenplay by Charles Brackett, Richard Breen and Walter Reisch, based on the play Maggie by Caesar Dunn....
  • Miracle in Milan
    Miracle in Milan

    Miracle in Milan is an Italy film directed by Vittorio de Sica. The screenplay was co-written by Cesare Zavattini, based on his novel Tot? il Buono. The picture stars Francesco Golisano, Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, and Guglielmo Barnab?....
     (Miracolo a Milano)
  • Miss Julie
    Miss Julie (1951 film)

    Miss Julie is a 1951 in film Sweden film directed by Alf Sj?berg based on the Miss Julie by August Strindberg. The film won the Grand Prize at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival....
     (Fröken Julie)
  • No Highway in the Sky
    No Highway in the Sky

    No Highway in the Sky is a 1951 in film United Kingdom disaster film directed by Henry Koster and starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich....
  • Olivia
    Olivia (film)

    Olivia is a 1951 in film France film directed by Jacqueline Audry. It is based on the 1950 semi-autobiography novel by Dorothy Bussy. It has been called a "landmark of lesbian representation"....
  • On the Riviera
    On the Riviera

    On the Riviera is a 1951 in film comedy musical film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Walter Lang, produced by Sol C. Siegel from a screenplay by Valentine Davies and Phoebe and Henry Ephron, based on the play The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler....
  • Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
    Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

    Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a 1951 in film drama film made by Romulus Films and released by MGM. It was directed by Albert Lewin and produced by Joe Kaufmann and Albert Lewin from his own screenplay, based on the legend of The Flying Dutchman....
  • Penny Points to Paradise
    Penny Points to Paradise

    Penny Points to Paradise is a 1951 in film comedy feature film. The film is notable as the feature film debut of the stars of The Goon Show, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers....
  • People Will Talk
    People Will Talk

    People Will Talk is a 20th Century Fox comedy film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck from a screenplay by Mankiewicz, based on the German play by Curt Goetz, which had been made into a movie in Germany ....
  • A Place in the Sun
    A Place in the Sun

    A Place in the Sun is a film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play of the same name adapted from it by Patrick Kearney....
  • The Racket
    The Racket (1951 film)

    The Racket is a remake of the The Racket. This film noir-style black-and-white film was directed by John Cromwell with uncredited directing help from Nicholas Ray and Mel Ferrer....
  • Quo Vadis
    Quo Vadis (1951 film)

    Quo Vadis is an epic 1951 film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S....
  • Rawhide
    Rawhide (1951 film)

    Rawhide is a 1951 in film western film made by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Samuel G....
  • The Red Badge of Courage
    The Red Badge of Courage (film)

    The Red Badge of Courage is a 1951 in film war film made by MGM. It was directed by John Huston and produced by Gottfried Reinhardt with Dore Schary as executive producer....
  • Rich, Young and Pretty
    Rich, Young and Pretty

    Rich, Young and Pretty is a 1951 in film musical film produced by Joe Pasternak for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Norman Taurog. It was written by Dorothy Cooper and Sidney Sheldon, starred Jane Powell, Danielle Darrieux, Wendell Corey, and Fernando Lamas, and introduced Vic Damone....
  • The River
    The River (1951 film)

    The River is a 1951 in film directed by Jean Renoir. It was filmed in India and was seminal to the launching of the careers of Satyajit Ray, who assisted on the film, and Subrata Mitra, Ray's cinematographer whom he met during the filming of The River....
     (Le Fleuve)
  • Royal Wedding
    Royal Wedding

    Royal Wedding is a 1951 Hollywood musical film comedy film set in London in 1947 at the time of the wedding of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Phillip, and stars Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah Tuchet-Jesson, Baroness Audley and Keenan Wynn, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner....
  • Show Boat
    Show Boat (1951 film)

    Show Boat is a film based on the Show Boat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II and the novel by Edna Ferber.Filmed previously in 1936, the Kern-Hammerstein musical was remake in 1951 in film by MGM in Technicolor, starring Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, and Howard Keel, with Joe E....
  • The Steel Helmet
    The Steel Helmet

    The Steel Helmet is a war films directed by Samuel Fuller and produced by Lippert Studios during the Korean War. It was the first film about that anti-communist war, and the first of several war films by producer-director-writer Fuller....
  • Strangers on a Train
    Strangers on a Train (film)

    Strangers on a Train is a film released in 1951 by Warner Bros. It was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film stars Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Hudson Walker, Leo G....
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • The Tales of Hoffmann
    The Tales of Hoffmann (film)

    The Tales of Hoffmann is a Cinema of the United Kingdom adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann, written, produced and directed by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger working under the umbrella of their production company, Powell and Pressburger....
  • That's My Boy
    That's My Boy (film)

    This article is about the film. For the British sitcom, see That's My Boy.That's My Boy is a 1951 film starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis and marked the first film where they actually had 'roles', as opposed to their previous efforts in which they played an extension of their nightclub act....
  • The Thing from Another World
    The Thing from Another World

    The Thing from Another World , is a science fiction film that tells the story of an Air Force crew and scientists at a remote Arctic research outpost who fight a malevolent plant-based alien being....
  • The 13th Letter
    The 13th Letter

    The 13th Letter is a 1951 in film film directed by Otto Preminger....
  • Vengeance Valley
    Vengeance Valley

    Vengeance Valley is a Western film starring Burt Lancaster, based on the novel by Luke Short. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer failed to renew the copyright on this film in 1978, so it is now in public domain....
  • The Well
    The Well (1951 film)

    The Well is a 1951 in film United States film noir which tackled the issue of Racism and collective behavior. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and Academy Award for Film Editing....
  • When Worlds Collide
    When Worlds Collide (film)

    When Worlds Collide is a 1951 in film science fiction film based on the 1932 When Worlds Collide co-written by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer....
  • Young Wives' Tale
    Young Wives' Tale

    Young Wives' Tale is a 1951 United Kingdom film directed by Henry Cass. It features one of Audrey Hepburn's earliest film roles, albeit a minor one, as Eve Lester....
  • You're in the Navy Now
    You're in the Navy Now

    You're in the Navy Now is a Hollywood film released in 1951 in film by Twentieth Century Fox about the United States Navy in the first months of World War II....


Serials

  • Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere
    Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere

    Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere is a 15-chapter Serial released by Columbia Pictures in 1951 in film. It wasdirected by Spencer Gordon Bennet and Wallace A....
    , starring Judd Holdren
    Judd Holdren

    Judd Holdren was an United States film actor best known for his starring roles in the serials Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere, Zombies of the Stratosphere, The Lost Planet and the semi-serial Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe during 1951 - 1953....
  • Don Daredevil Rides Again
    Don Daredevil Rides Again

    Don Daredevil Rides Again is a Republic Pictures Movie serial. It makes heavy use of stock footage from Republic Pictures previous Zorro serials....
    , starring Ken Curtis
    Ken Curtis

    Ken Curtis was an American singer and actor best known for his role as Festus Haggen on the long-running CBS western drama, Gunsmoke....
     and Aline Towne
    Aline Towne

    Aline Towne born Fern Aline Eggen, also known as Fern Aline Waller, was an United States film and television actress, best remembered for her lead roles in 1950s Republic Pictures Serial ....
  • Government Agents vs Phantom Legion
    Government Agents vs Phantom Legion

    Government Agents vs Phantom Legion is a 12-chapter USA black and white Movie serial produced and distributed by Republic Pictures in 1951 in film....
    , starring Walter Reed
    Walter Reed (actor)

    Walter Reed was an American stage, film and television actor. Following a stint as a Broadway actor, Reed broke into films in the early 1940s....
  • Mysterious Island
    Mysterious Island (serial)

    Mysterious Island was the 46th serial released by Columbia Pictures. It is an adaptation of the 1874 novel by Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island ....
    , starring Richard Crane
    Richard Crane

    Richard Crane was a veteran character actor whose career spanned three decades in films and television. His early career included many uncredited performances in feature films....
  • Roar of the Iron Horse
    Roar of the Iron Horse

    Roar of the Iron Horse was the 45th serial released by Columbia Pictures....
    , starring Buster Crabbe
    Buster Crabbe

    Buster Crabbe was an American athlete and actor, who starred in a number of popular Serial in the 1930s and 1940s....


Short film series

  • Mickey Mouse
    Mickey Mouse

    Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney....
     (1928
    1928 in film

    EventsAlthough some movies released in 1928 had Sound film, most were still silent film.* July 31 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mascot Leo the Lion roars for the very first time, creating one of the most popular American film logos....
    -1953
    1953 in film

    The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Looney Tunes
    Looney Tunes

    Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and is Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series....
     (1930
    1930 in film

    Events...
    -1969
    1969 in film

    The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Merrie Melodies
    Merrie Melodies

    Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animation distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969. The sister series to Warner's Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies were originally one-shot musical film cartoon shorts before gradually featuring recurring characters....
     (1931
    1931 in film

    Events...
    -1969
    1969 in film

    The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Popeye
    Popeye

    File:Thimbletheat.jpgPopeye the Sailor is a fictional hero famous for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous TV shows....
     (1933
    1933 in film

    Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
    -1957
    1957 in film

    The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Three Stooges (1934
    1934 in film

    Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
    -1959
    1959 in film

    The year 1959 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Donald Duck
    Donald Duck

    Donald Duck is a cartoon fictional character from The Walt Disney Company. Donald is a white anthropomorphism duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet....
     (1936
    1936 in film

    The year 1936 in film involved some significant events....
    -1956
    1956 in film

    The year 1956 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Pluto
    Pluto

    Pluto , Minor planet names Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun....
     (1937
    1937 in film

    The year 1937 in film involved some significant events....
    -1951)
  • Goofy
    Goofy

    Goofy is an animated cartoon character from the Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse universe. He is an anthropomorphic dog and is one of Mickey Mouse's best friends....
     (1939
    1939 in film

    The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
    -1953
    1953 in film

    The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Tom and Jerry
    Tom and Jerry (MGM)

    Tom and Jerry is a series of animated theatrical short subject created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that centered on a never-ending rivalry between a housecat and a mouse whose chases and battles often involved comic violence....
     (1940
    1940 in film

    The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
    -1958
    1958 in film

    The year 1958 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Bugs Bunny
    Bugs Bunny

    Bugs Bunny is a fictional rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animation films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which became Warner Bros....
     (1940
    1940 in film

    The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
    -1962
    1962 in film

    The year 1962 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Mighty Mouse
    Mighty Mouse

    Mighty Mouse is an animation superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox....
     (1942
    1942 in film

    The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the Films considered the greatest ever, Casablanca .....
    -1955
    1955 in film

    The year 1955 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Chip and Dale (1943
    1943 in film

    The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
    -1956
    1956 in film

    The year 1956 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Yosemite Sam
    Yosemite Sam

    Yosemite Sam is an animation fictional character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation....
     (1945
    1945 in film

    The year 1945 in film involved some significant events....
    -1963
    1963 in film

    The year 1963 in film involved some significant events....
    )


Births

  • March 13 - Charo
    Charo

    Mar?a Rosario Pilar Mart?nez Molina Moquiere de les Esperades Santa Ana Romanguera y de la Najosa Rasten , better known as Charo, is a Spanish and American chick....
    , Spanish-American singer & actress
  • March 14 - Season Hubley
    Season Hubley

    Season Hubley is an United States actress....
    , American actress
  • July 13 - Didi Conn
    Didi Conn

    Didi Conn is an United States film, stage and television actress.Conn was born Edith Bernstein in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of a clinical psychologist;....
    , American actress
  • July 24 - Lynda Carter
    Lynda Carter

    Lynda Carter is an United States actor and singer. She is best known for the Amazons title role in the fantasy-adventure television series Wonder Woman which aired from 1975 to 1979....
    , American actress
  • August 6 - Catherine Hicks
    Catherine Hicks

    Catherine Mary Hicks is an United States actress....
    , American actress


Deaths

  • January 11 – Charles W. Goddard
    Charles W. Goddard

    Charles William Goddard was a playwright and screenwriter.Goddard began writing Broadway theatre plays before turning to film, adapting a number of his stage works to film....
    , American playwright & screenwriter (b. 1879)
  • March 25 - Oscar Micheaux
    Oscar Micheaux

    Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was an American author and film director. Although predated by the short lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company that put out smaller films, he is regarded as the first African-American feature filmmaker, and the most prominent producer of race films....
    , African American pioneer filmmaker & author (b. 1884)
  • April 4 - Al Christie
    Al Christie

    Al Christie was a Canada-born film Film director, film producer and screenwriter....
    , Canadian-born early Hollywood director/producer (b. 1881)
  • June 6 - Olive Tell
    Olive Tell

    Olive Tell was a stage and screenactress from New York City.She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1915.Tell's sister, Alma, was also a stage actress....
    , American actress (b. 1894)
  • June 9 - Mayo Methot, American actress (b. 1904)
  • July 23 - Robert J. Flaherty
    Robert J. Flaherty

    Robert Joseph Flaherty was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film in 1922....
    , American pioneer documentary filmmaker (b. 1884)
  • August 28 - Robert Walker, American actor (b. 1918)
  • August 30 - Konstantin Märska
    Konstantin Märska

    Konstantin M?rska was an Estonian cinematographer.External links...
    , Estonian cinematographer (b. 1896)
  • September 7 - Maria Montez
    María Montez

    Mar?a Montez was a Dominican Republic-born motion picture actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s as an exotic beauty starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure film....
    , Dominican-born actress (b. 1912)