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Events

• January 10 - Cecil B. DeMille
  Cecil B. DeMille
  
  Cecil Blount DeMille was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies....
  's circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth
  The Greatest Show on Earth
  
  The Greatest Show on Earth is a List of American films of 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B....
  , premieres at Radio City Music Hall
  Radio City Music Hall
  
  Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city....
   in New York City
  New York City
  
  The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
  .
• February 20 - The film 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....
   opens (Capitol Theater in New York City
  New York City
  
  The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
  ).
• March 27 - The MGM musical Singin' in the Rain
  Singin' in the Rain (film)
  
  Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 in film comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography....
   premieres at Radio City Music Hall
  Radio City Music Hall
  
  Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city....
   in New York City
  New York City
  
  The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
  .
• September 30 - The Cinerama
  Cinerama
  
  Cinerama is the trademarked name for a widescreen process which works by simultaneously projecting images from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply-curved screen, subtending 146? of arc....
   widescreen system, invented by Fred Waller, debuts with the film This Is Cinerama
  This is Cinerama
  
  This is Cinerama is a 1952 full-length film designed to introduce the then-new widescreen process Cinerama, which broadens the aspect ratio so the viewer's peripheral vision is involved....
  .
• November 27 - Bwana Devil
  Bwana Devil
  
  Bwana Devil is a 1952 drama film based on the true story of the Tsavo maneaters. It was written, directed, and produced by Arch Oboler, and is considered the first color, American 3-D film....
  , the first American, feature-length, color 3-D movie
  3-D film
  
  In film, the term 3-D is used to describe any visual presentation system that attempts to maintain or recreate moving images of the third dimension, the optical illusion of depth as seen by the viewer....
  , 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.)

Awards

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....
: The Greatest Show on Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth is a List of American films of 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B....
- DeMille, Paramount

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....
: John Ford

John Ford

John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
 - The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man is a United States Romantic film drama film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald....

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....
: Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper

Frank James ?Gary? Cooper was an Cinema of the United States film actor and iconic star. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Western movie he made....
 - High Noon

High Noon

High Noon is an Cinema of the United States 1952 in film western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. The film tells the story of a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself....

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....
: Shirley Booth

Shirley Booth

Shirley Booth was an American actress.Primarily a theatre actress, Booth's Broadway theatre career began in 1925. Her most significant success was as Lola Delaney, in the drama Come Back, Little Sheba , for which she received a Tony Award in 1950....
 - Come Back, Little Sheba

Come Back, Little Sheba (1952 film)

Come Back, Little Sheba is a 1952 in film drama film made by Paramount Pictures which tells the story of a loveless marriage that is rocked when a young woman rents a room in the couple's house....

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....
: Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn was a two-time Academy Awards-winning Mexican-American actor, as well as a Painting and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek , Lawrence of Arabia , and Federico Fellini's La strada....
 - Viva Zapata!

Viva Zapata!

Viva Zapata! is a 1952 in film biographical film directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using as a guide Edgcomb Pinchon's book, 'Zapata the Unconquerable', a fact that is not credited in the titles of the film....

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....
: Gloria Grahame

Gloria Grahame

Gloria Grahame was an Academy Awards-winning United States film actor....
 - The Bad and the Beautiful

The Bad and the Beautiful

The Bad and the Beautiful is a MGM melodramatic film which tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him. It stars Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan , and Gloria Grahame....

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....
: The Greatest Show on Earth

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....
: Gary Cooper - High Noon

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....
: Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba

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....
: With a Song in My Heart

With a Song in My Heart (film)

With a Song in My Heart is a 1952 biographical film which tells the story of actress and singer Jane Froman, who was crippled by an airplane crash on February 22, 1943, when the Boeing 314 Pan American Clipper flying boat she was on suffered a crash landing in the Tagus River near Lisbon, Portugal, but entertained the troops in World War...

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....
: Donald O'Connor

Donald O'Connor

Donald David Dixon Ronald O?Connor was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule....
 - Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain (film)

Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 in film comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography....

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....
: Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward was an American actress.After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 in the hope of playing the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind ....
 - With a Song in My Heart

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....
: Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies....
 - The Greatest Show on Earth

The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice

Othello (1952 film)

Othello is a 1952 drama film based on the Othello, made by Mercury Productions Inc. and Les Films Marceau and distributed by United Artists ....
, directed by Orson Welles

Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
, United States

Two Cents Worth of Hope

Two Cents Worth of Hope

Two Cents Worth of Hope is a 1952 film directed by Renato Castellani.It shared the Grand Prix prize with the film Othello at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival....
(Due soldi di speranza), directed by Renato Castellani

Renato Castellani

Renato Castellani was an Italian film director and screenwriter....
, Italy

Forbidden Games

Forbidden Games

Forbidden Games , is a 1952 French language film directed by Ren? Cl?ment and based on Fran?ois Boyer's novel, Jeux interdits ....
(Jeux interdits), directed by René Clément

René Clément

Ren? Cl?ment was a film director and screenwriter.Cl?ment studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest that led to the pursuit of a career in filmmaking....
, France

Hon dansade en sommar (One Summer of Happiness), directed by Arne Mattsson

Arne Mattsson

Arne Mattsson was a Sweden film director, born in Uppsala.His early movies were mostly Comedy. His biggest success was Hon dansade en sommar , which earned him a nomination for the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1952 and caused some controversy at the time because it containined nudity....
, Sweden

Films released in 1952

• 5 Fingers
  5 Fingers
  
  5 Fingers, known also as Five Fingers, is a 1952 in film 20th Century Fox spy film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Otto Lang ....
  , directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  
  Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an United States Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer....
  
• Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
  Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
  
  Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd is a 1952 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, along with Charles Laughton, who reprised his role as the infamous pirate from the 1945 in film film Captain Kidd ....
  , starring Bud Abbott
  Bud Abbott
  
  William Alexander ?Bud? Abbott was an United States actor, Film producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the Double act of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello....
   and Lou Costello
  Lou Costello
  
  Lou Costello , was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades....
  
• Above and Beyond
  Above and Beyond (film)
  
  Above and Beyond is a 1952 in film film about Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. It starred Robert Taylor as Tibbets and Eleanor Parker as his wife....
  
• Against All Flags
  Against All Flags
  
  Against All Flags is a 1952 action film starring Errol Flynn as Brian Hawke, Maureen O'Hara as Prudence "Spitfire" Stevens and Anthony Quinn as Roche Braziliano....
  
• Alraune
  Alraune (1952 film)
  
  Alraune is a 1952 in film science fiction Horror film film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Hildegard Knef in which a scientist creates a woman who is beautiful and yet soulless, lacking any sense of morality....
  
• Androcles and the Lion
• April 1, 2000
• The Atomic City
  The Atomic City
  
  The Atomic City is a 1952 in film drama film directed by Jerry Hopper, starring Gene Barry, Lydia Clarke. At Los Alamos, New Mexico, a nuclear physicist lives and works....
  , a thriller starring Gene Barry
  Gene Barry
  
  Gene Barry is an United States actor....
   and Lydia Clarke
  Lydia Clarke
  
  Lydia Marie Clarke is an United States actress and the widow of Academy Award-winning actor Charlton Heston.She was born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin....
  
• The Bad and the Beautiful
  The Bad and the Beautiful
  
  The Bad and the Beautiful is a MGM melodramatic film which tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him. It stars Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan , and Gloria Grahame....
  
• Because You're Mine
  Because You're Mine
  
  Because You're Mine was Mario Lanza's fourth movie and was criticised upon its release as being artistically a step backwards for the tenor after the success of The Great Caruso the previous year....
  
• Bend of the River
  Bend of the River
  
  Bend of the River is a 1952 United States western movie directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their second collaboration....
  
• Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
  Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
  
  Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla is a 1952 comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring horror veteran Bela Lugosi and nightclub comedians Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo in roles approximating Martin and Lewis....
   starring Bela Lugosi
  Béla Lugosi
  
  B?la Lugosi was a Hungarians-born United States actor of theatre and film, well known for playing Count Dracula in the Dracula and subsequent Dracula ....
  
• The Big Sky
  The Big Sky (film)
  
  The Big Sky is a 1952 in film Western directed by Howard Hawks, based on the novel of The Big Sky. The cast includes Kirk Douglas, Arthur Hunnicutt, Dewey Martin and Elizabeth Threatt....
  
• The Big Trees
  The Big Trees
  
  The Big Trees is a 1952 in film film starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Felix E. Feist.This was Kirk Douglas's final contracted film with Warner Brothers after a long period of rough relationships between him and the company....
  
• The Black Castle
  The Black Castle
  
  The Black Castle is a mystery film, released by Universal Pictures in 1952 in film. It was produced by William Alland, who would have better success two years later with Creature from the Black Lagoon....
   starring Stephen McNally
  Stephen McNally
  
  Stephen McNally was an United States actor remembered mostly for his appearances in many westerns and action films. He was an Lawyer in the late 1930s before pursuing a career in acting....
  , Boris Karloff
  Boris Karloff
  
  Boris Karloff was an Cinema of the United Kingdom who emigrated to Canada in the 1910s. He is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein , 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein and 1939 film Son of Frankenstein....
  , and Lon Chaney Jr.
• Brandy for the Parson
  Brandy for the Parson
  
  Brandy for the Parson is a 1952 British comedy film, starring Kenneth More, Charles Hawtrey , James Donald and Jean Lodge. In it, a young couple get mixed up in a smuggling ring....
  
• Captive Women
  Captive Women
  
  Captive Woman is an American Sci-Fi film from 1952 in film. The movie is fairly short, only 64 minutes and is in black-and-white. It was re-released by the name 1000 Years from Now....
  
• The Card
  The Card
  
  The Card is a short comedic novel written by Arnold Bennett in 1911. It was later made into a 1952 in film movie starring Alec Guinness and Petula Clark....
  
• Carrie
  Carrie (1952 film)
  
  Carrie is a 1952 feature film based on the novel Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser.Directed by William Wyler, the film stars Jennifer Jones in the title role and Laurence Olivier as Hurstwood....
  
• Clash by Night
  Clash by Night
  
  Clash by Night is a black-and-white film noir drama directed by Fritz Lang and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas , Marilyn Monroe and Robert Ryan....
  
• Come Back, Little Sheba
  Come Back, Little Sheba (1952 film)
  
  Come Back, Little Sheba is a 1952 in film drama film made by Paramount Pictures which tells the story of a loveless marriage that is rocked when a young woman rents a room in the couple's house....
  
• The Crimson Pirate
  The Crimson Pirate
  
  The Crimson Pirate is a 1952 in film adventure film directed by Robert Siodmak. It stars Burt Lancaster as Captain Vallo, the eponymous pirate and is set in the Caribbean late in the 18th century on the fictional islands of Cobra and San Pero....
  
• Don't Bother to Knock
  Don't Bother to Knock
  
  Don't Bother to Knock is a 1952 in film film. The thriller stars Marilyn Monroe as Nell Forbes, a disturbed babysitter watching a child at the same New York hotel where pilot Jed Towers is staying....
  
• Down Among the Z Men
  Down Among the Z Men
  
  Down Among the Z Men is a 1952 in film United Kingdom comedy film starring The Goons; Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Michael Bentine and Harry Secombe....
  
• Forbidden Games
  Forbidden Games
  
  Forbidden Games , is a 1952 French language film directed by Ren? Cl?ment and based on Fran?ois Boyer's novel, Jeux interdits ....
  
• The Greatest Show on Earth
  The Greatest Show on Earth
  
  The Greatest Show on Earth is a List of American films of 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B....
  
• Hans Christian Andersen
  Hans Christian Andersen (film)
  
  Hans Christian Andersen is a 1952 in film Hollywood musical film directed by Charles Vidor, with words and music by Frank Loesser. It is a fictionalised, romanticised story revolving around the life of the Denmark poet and story-teller Hans Christian Andersen....
  , starring Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye
  
  Danny Kaye was an American award-winning actor, singer and comedian....
   and Farley Granger
  Farley Granger
  
  Farley Earle Granger II is an American actor. In a career that has spanned over several decades, Granger is perhaps most closely identified with his film work of the 1950s, particularly his performance in the 1951 Alfred Hitchcock film Strangers on a Train ....
  
• High Noon
  High Noon
  
  High Noon is an Cinema of the United States 1952 in film western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. The film tells the story of a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself....
  
• Ikiru
  Ikiru
  
  is a 1952 in film Cinema of Japan written and Film director by the acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. The film examines the struggles of a Tokyo bureaucrat and his final quest for meaning....
  
• The Importance of Being Earnest
  The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film)
  
  The Importance of Being Earnest is a United Kingdom film adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde. It was directed by Anthony Asquith, who also adapted the screenplay, and was produced by Teddy Baird....
  
• Invasion U.S.A.
  Invasion U.S.A. (1952 film)
  
  Invasion U.S.A. is a 1952 in film motion picture set during the Cold War and portraying the invasion of the United States by an unnamed Communist enemy meant to be taken as the Soviet Union....
  
• Ivanhoe
  Ivanhoe (film)
  
  The films Ivanhoe are based on the Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. The novel has been made into a movie several times, the first filmatisation was done as early as 1913....
  
• The Jazz Singer
  The Jazz Singer (1952 film)
  
  The Jazz Singer is the remake of the famous 1927 talking picture, The Jazz Singer . It starred Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, and Eduard Franz and was nominated for an Oscar in 1953....
  
• Forbidden Games
  Forbidden Games
  
  Forbidden Games , is a 1952 French language film directed by Ren? Cl?ment and based on Fran?ois Boyer's novel, Jeux interdits ....
   (Jeux interdits)
• Jack and the Beanstalk
  Jack and the Beanstalk (1952 film)
  
  Jack and the Beanstalk is a 1952 family film comedy film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. It is a comic revision of the classic Jack and the Beanstalk....
  , starring Bud Abbott
  Bud Abbott
  
  William Alexander ?Bud? Abbott was an United States actor, Film producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the Double act of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello....
   and Lou Costello
  Lou Costello
  
  Lou Costello , was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades....
  
• Japanese War Bride
  Japanese War Bride
  
  Japanese War Bride is a 1952 in film motion picture drama directed by King Vidor. The film marked the American debut of Shirley Yamaguchi in the title role....
  
• Jolanda la Figlia Del Corsaro Nero
• Jumping Jacks
  Jumping Jacks
  
  Jumping Jacks is a 1952 in film film starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. The movie was released by Paramount Pictures....
  , starring Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  
  Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
   and Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
  
• Kansas City Confidential
• The Life of Oharu
  The Life of Oharu
  
  is a 1952 in film historical fiction black and white film by Film director Kenji Mizoguchi starring Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu, a one-time concubine of a daimyo who struggles to escape the stigma of having been sold into prostitution by her father....
   (Saikaku ichidai onna)
• Limelight
  Limelight (film)
  
  Limelight is a 1952 in film comedy film-drama film film written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, co-starring Claire Bloom, with an appearance by Buster Keaton....
  , starring Charlie Chaplin
  Charlie Chaplin
  
  Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
  
• Lost in Alaska
  Lost in Alaska
  
  Lost in Alaska is a 1952 in film film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello....
  , starring Bud Abbott
  Bud Abbott
  
  William Alexander ?Bud? Abbott was an United States actor, Film producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the Double act of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello....
   and Lou Costello
  Lou Costello
  
  Lou Costello , was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades....
  
• The Medium
  The Medium
  
  The Medium is a short two-act dramatic opera with words and music by Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by Columbia University, its first performance was there on 8 May 1946....
  
• The Member of the Wedding
  The Member of the Wedding
  
  The Member of the Wedding is a 1946 novel by Southern United States writer Carson McCullers. It took McCullers five years to complete -- though she interrupted the work for a few months to write the short novel The Ballad of the Sad Cafe....
  
• The Merry Widow
  The Merry Widow (1952 film)
  
  The Merry Widow is a 1952 in film film adaptation of the The Merry Widow by Franz Leh?r. It starred Lana Turner and Fernando Lamas.The film received two Academy Award nominations: for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Color and Best Costume Design, Color....
  
• Million Dollar Mermaid
  Million Dollar Mermaid
  
  Million Dollar Mermaid is a 1952 in film MGM biographical film musical film of the life of Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr....
  , starring Esther Williams
  Esther Williams
  
  Esther Jane Williams is a retired United States competitive swimmer and legendary MGM feature film movie star, famous for her musical films that featured elaborate performances with swimming and diving....
   and Victor Mature
  Victor Mature
  
  Victor Mature was an United States film actor....
  
• The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
  The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
  
  The Miracle Of Our Lady Of Fatima is a feature film made in 1952.It was promoted as a fact-based treatment of the events surrounding the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917....
  
• Monkey Business
  Monkey Business (1952 film)
  
  Monkey Business is a 1952 in film screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, and Hugh Marlowe....
  
• Moulin Rouge
  Moulin Rouge (1952 film)
  
  Moulin Rouge is a film directed by John Huston, produced by Sir John Woolf and James Woolf of Romulus Films and released by United Artists....
  
• My Cousin Rachel
• My Six Convicts
  My Six Convicts
  
  My Six Convicts is a 1952 comedy drama film adapted from the autobiography book written by Donald Powell Wilson. The film was adapted for the screen by screenwriter Michael Blankfort and directed by Hugo Fregonese who was nominated for the Directors Guild of America....
  
• My Son John, starring Van Heflin
  Van Heflin
  
  Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin, Jr. was an Academy Award-winning United States film and theater actor. By his own acknowledgment not a classically handsome actor, he played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man....
  
• The Narrow Margin
  The Narrow Margin
  
  The Narrow Margin is an United States film noir directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Earl Belton, based on an unpublished story written by Martin Goldsmith and Jack Leonard....
  
• On Dangerous Ground
  On Dangerous Ground
  
  On Dangerous Ground is a film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and produced by John Houseman. The screenplay was written by A. I. Bezzerides based on the novel Mad with Much Heart, by Gerald Butler....
  
• Othello
  Othello (1952 film)
  
  Othello is a 1952 drama film based on the Othello, made by Mercury Productions Inc. and Les Films Marceau and distributed by United Artists ....
   (aka The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice), written and directed by, and starring, Orson Welles
  Orson Welles
  
  George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
  
• Pat and Mike
  Pat and Mike
  
  Pat and Mike is a 1952 comedy starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. The movie was directed by George Cukor, who also directed The Philadelphia Story and Adam's Rib....
  
• The Pride of St. Louis
  The Pride of St. Louis
  
  The Pride of St. Louis is a 1952 in film biographical film of the life of Major League Baseball National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum pitcher Dizzy Dean....
  
• The Quiet Man
  The Quiet Man
  
  The Quiet Man is a United States Romantic film drama film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald....
  , directed by John Ford
  John Ford
  
  John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
  
• Red Planet Mars
  Red Planet Mars
  
  Red Planet Mars is a 1952 science fiction film released by United Artists. It starred Peter Graves and Andrea King....
  
• Sailor Beware
  Sailor Beware
  
  Sailor Beware is a 1951 film starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis and is an adaption of a 1933 play of the same name. It was released on February 9, 1952 in film by Paramount Pictures....
  , starring Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  
  Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
   and Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
  
• Scaramouche
  Scaramouche (1952 film)
  
  Scaramouche is a 1952 in film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer romantic adventure film based on the 1921 novel Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini as well as the Scaramouche starring Ram?n Novarro....
  
• Singin' in the Rain
  Singin' in the Rain (film)
  
  Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 in film comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography....
  
• The Sniper
  The Sniper (1952 film)
  
  The Sniper is a black-and-white film noir, directed by Edward Dmytryk, written by Harry Brown , and based on a story by Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt....
  
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro
  The Snows of Kilimanjaro (film)
  
  The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a 1952 film based on the short story of the The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway. The film version of the short story was directed by Henry King , and starred Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Susan Hayward....
  
• Son of Paleface
  Son of Paleface
  
  Son of Paleface , is a Western comedy film and sequel to The Paleface , directed by Frank Tashlin and written by Tashlin, Joseph Quillan and Robert L....
  
• The Sound Barrier
  The Sound Barrier (film)
  
  The Sound Barrier is a United Kingdom 1952 in film film directed by David Lean. It is a fictional story about attempts by aircraft designers and test pilots to break the sound barrier....
  , directed by David Lean
  David Lean
  
  Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....
  
• The Star
  The Star (film)
  
  The Star is a 1952 film which tells the story of a washed up actress who tries anything to restart her career, even at the risk of alienating her husband and daughter....
  
• The Stooge
  The Stooge
  
  The Stooge is a comedy film starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. The film was released on December 31, 1952 in film by Paramount Pictures....
  , starring Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  
  Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
   and Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
  
• Sudden Fear
  Sudden Fear
  
  Sudden Fear is an RKO Radio Pictures feature film starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance in a film noir tale about a successful woman who marries a murderous man....
  
• This is Cinerama
  This is Cinerama
  
  This is Cinerama is a 1952 full-length film designed to introduce the then-new widescreen process Cinerama, which broadens the aspect ratio so the viewer's peripheral vision is involved....
  
• The Thief
  The Thief (1952 film)
  
  The Thief is a 1952 in film black-and white Cold War spy film directed by Russell Rouse. The film is unusual because there is no dialog spoken throughout the film....
  
• The Titfield Thunderbolt
  The Titfield Thunderbolt
  
  The Titfield Thunderbolt is a 1953 British comedy film about a group of villagers trying to prevent British Railways from closing the fictional Titfield branch line....
  
• Two Cents Worth of Hope
  Two Cents Worth of Hope
  
  Two Cents Worth of Hope is a 1952 film directed by Renato Castellani.It shared the Grand Prix prize with the film Othello at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival....
   (Due soldi di speranza)
• Umberto D.
  Umberto D.
  
  Umberto D. is a 1952 in film Cinema of Italy Italian neorealism film, directed by Vittorio de Sica. Most of the actors were non-professional, including Carlo Battisti, who plays the title role....
  
• La villa Santo-Sospir
  La villa Santo-Sospir
  
  La Villa Santo-Sospir is a 35-minute amateur or home film directed by Jean Cocteau in which Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend's villa on the French coast ....
  , short film directed by Jean Cocteau
  Jean Cocteau
  
  Jean Maurice Eug?ne Cl?ment Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en sc?ne language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde....
  
• Viva Zapata!
  Viva Zapata!
  
  Viva Zapata! is a 1952 in film biographical film directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using as a guide Edgcomb Pinchon's book, 'Zapata the Unconquerable', a fact that is not credited in the titles of the film....
  
• We're Not Married!
  We're Not Married!
  
  We're Not Married is a 1952 in film romantic comedy film starring Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, and Marilyn Monroe....
  
• With a Song in My Heart
  With a Song in My Heart (film)
  
  With a Song in My Heart is a 1952 biographical film which tells the story of actress and singer Jane Froman, who was crippled by an airplane crash on February 22, 1943, when the Boeing 314 Pan American Clipper flying boat she was on suffered a crash landing in the Tagus River near Lisbon, Portugal, but entertained the troops in World War...
  
• The World in His Arms
  The World in His Arms
  
  The World in His Arms is a 1952 in film seafaring adventure film made by Universal International Pictures. It was directed by Raoul Walsh and produced by...
  

Serials

• Blackhawk
  Blackhawk (serial)
  
  Blackhawk is a Columbia Pictures Serial based on the comic book Blackhawk now owned by DC Comics. The serial's subtitle was "Fearless Champion of Freedom"....
  , starring Kirk Alyn
  Kirk Alyn
  
  'Kirk Alyn' was an United States actor, best known for being the first actor to play Superman on screen, in the 1948 film Serial Superman , and its 1950 sequel Atom Man Vs....
  
• King of the Congo
  King of the Congo
  
  King of the Congo was the 48th Serial released by Columbia Pictures. It was based on the comic book character "Thun'Da, King of the Congo", created by Frank Frazetta....
  , 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....
  
• Radar Men from the Moon
  Radar Men from the Moon
  
  Radar Men from the Moon was the first Commando Cody serial, in 12 chapters, starring newcomer George D. Wallace as Cody and Aline Towne as his sidekick Joan Gilbert, with serial veteran Roy Barcroft as the evil Retik, the Ruler of the Moon....
  , starring George D. Wallace
  George D. Wallace
  
  George Dewey Wallace was an American stage and screen actor.Wallace co-starred with Mary Martin in the Broadway musical Jennie and was nominated for a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for playing the male lead in New Girl in Town opposite Gwen Verdon....
   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 ....
  
• Son of Geronimo starring Clayton Moore
  Clayton Moore
  
  Clayton Moore was an United States actor best known for playing the fictional western character The Lone Ranger....
  
• Zombies of the Stratosphere
  Zombies of the Stratosphere
  
  Zombies of the Stratosphere was intended as the second Serial featuring "new hero" Commando Cody and the third 12-chapter serial featuring the rocket-powered flying suit introduced in King of the Rocket Men ....
  , 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....
  

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....
  )
• Terrytoons
  Terrytoons
  
  Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry . The studio, located in suburban New Rochelle, New York, operated from 1928 to 1968....
   (1930
  1930 in film
  
  Events...
  -1964
  1964 in film
  
  The year 1964 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....
  )
• 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....
  )
• Droopy (1943
  1943 in film
  
  The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
  -1958
  1958 in film
  
  The year 1958 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 19 - Harvey Weinstein
  Harvey Weinstein
  
  Harvey Weinstein, Order of British Empire is an United States film film production and movie studio chairman. He is best known for his 26-year career as co-founder of Miramax Films; he and his brother Bob Weinstein have been co-chairmen of The Weinstein Company, their new film production company, since 2005....
   producer
• June 7 - Liam Neeson
  Liam Neeson
  
  William John "Liam" Neeson Order of the British Empire is an Irish people actor. He is well known for his roles as Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and as Qui-Gon Jinn in George Lucas' Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and as the Voice acting of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia film series....
  , actor
• June 18 - Isabella Rossellini
  Isabella Rossellini
  
  Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini is an Italian Actor, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model . Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lanc?me model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her....
  , actress
• July 20 - Adrian Biddle
  Adrian Biddle
  
  Adrian Biddle, B.S.C. , was an England cinematographer....
  , cinematographer (d. 2005)

Deaths

• January 18 - Curly Howard
  Curly Howard
  
  Curly Howard was an American comedian and vaudeville, best known as a member of the American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges, along with his older brothers Moe Howard and Shemp Howard, and actor Larry Fine....
  , comedian, of The Three Stooges
• April 21 - Leslie Banks
  Leslie Banks
  
  Leslie Banks, Commander of the British Empire was an England theatre and film actor, Film director and Record producer.Born in West Derby, England, a suburb of Liverpool, he made his acting debut in 1911 in regional vaudeville before moving to London to appear at the "Vaudeville Theatre" in 191]....
  , actor
• May 8 - Walter Fox, US movie producer
• October 23 - Susan Peters
  Susan Peters
  
  Susan Peters was an Academy Awards-nominated United States film actress whose promising career was cut tragically short....
  , actress
• October 26 - Hattie McDaniel
  Hattie McDaniel
  
  Hattie McDaniel was an United States actress and the first black performer to win an Academy Awards. She won the award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ....
  , African-American actress best known as Mammy in Gone with the Wind
  Gone with the Wind (film)
  
  Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
  

See also

• Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson