1952 in film
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Events
- February 20 – The film The African Queen opens (Capitol Theater in New York City).
- September 30 – The Cinerama widescreen system, invented by Fred Waller, debuts with the film This Is Cinerama.
- November 27 – Bwana Devil, the first feature-length color 3-D movie, is released.
- May Britt debuts in Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair
Top grossing films
- North America
- The Greatest Show on Earth, starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Lawrence Tierney, and Gloria Grahame
- Quo Vadis
- Ivanhoe, starring Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, and George Sanders
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro, starring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, and Ava Gardner
- Sailor Beware
- tie The African Queen and Jumping Jacks
- tie High Noon and Son of Paleface
- Singin' in the Rain
Academy Awards
- Best Picture: The Greatest Show on Earth – DeMille, Paramount
- Best Actor: Gary Cooper – High Noon
- Best Actress: Shirley Booth – Come Back, Little Sheba
Births
- June 7 – Liam Neeson, actor
- June 18 – Isabella Rossellini, actress
- September 12 – Neil Peart, drummer/songwriter
Deaths
- April 21 – Leslie Banks, actor
- May 8 – Walter Fox, US movie producer
- October 23 – Susan Peters, actress
- October 26 – Hattie McDaniel, African-American actress best known as Mammy in Gone With the Wind
Other movies released
- Ikiru
- Moulin Rouge
- Invasion USA
- Umberto D.
- The World in His Arms
- This Is Cinerama
- Hans Christian Andersen, starring Danny Kaye and Farley Granger
- The Quiet Man by John Ford
- Breaking the Sound Barrier
- Othello by Orson Wells
- Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games)
- My Six Convicts
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