1951 in film

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The year 1951 in film involved some significant events.

Top-grossing films

United States

The top ten 1951 released films by box office gross in the United States are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1951
Rank	Title	Studio	Box-office gross rental
1	Quo Vadis	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$11,143,000[1]
2	Show Boat	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$5,293,000[1]
3	David and Bathsheba	20th Century Fox	$4,720,000[2]
4	The Great Caruso	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$4,309,000[1]
5	A Streetcar Named Desire	Warner Bros.	$4,250,000[3]
6	The African Queen	United Artists	$4,100,000[3]
7	That's My Boy	Paramount Pictures	$3,800,000[4]
8	An American in Paris	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$3,750,000[1]
9	A Place in the Sun	Paramount Pictures	$3,500,000[4]
10	Father's Little Dividend	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$3,122,000[1]

International

The highest-grossing 1951 films in countries outside of North America.

Country	Title	Studio	Gross	Ref
France	Samson and Delilah	Paramount Pictures	7,116,442 admissions	[5]
India	Awaara	R. K. Films	$4,830,000	[n 2] </ref>
Italy	Anna	Lux Film	8,965,624 admissions	[7]
Japan	The Tale of Genji	Daiei Kyoto	¥141,050,000	[8]
Soviet Union	In Peaceful Time	Dovzhenko Film Studios	$1,470,000	[n 4]</ref>
United Kingdom	The Great Caruso	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	12,400,000 admissions	[11]

Worldwide gross

The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1951. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1951. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases.

Title	Worldwide gross	Country	Ref
Awaara	$30,660,000	India	[n 6] ($9.72 million)[n 7] China – CN¥14.8 million ($8.86 million) Initial release – CN¥2.8 million[14] ($1.14 million)[15] Re-release – CN¥12 million[16][17] ($7.72 million)[15] </ref>
Quo Vadis	$30,028,513	United States	[18]

Events

February 15 – new management takes over at United Artists with Arthur B. Krim, Robert Benjamin and Matty Fox now in charge.
April – French magazine Cahiers du cinéma is first published.
July 26 – Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland premieres; while a disappointment at first and hardly released in theaters, it would later become one of the biggest cult classics in the animation medium as well as make millions in television viewings and subsequent releases on home video.
September 10 – Rashomon wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, bringing worldwide attention to Japanese film.
September – The House Un-American Activities Committee investigation into Communism in the film industry starts to wind up after four years. They report in February 1952 that Hollywood has not done enough against Communist employees and hearings and blacklisting continues.
December 29 – The Wilhelm scream, one of the most frequently-used stock sound effects, makes its first use in the film Distant Drums. The scream would not get its name until The Charge at Feather River in 1953.

Awards

Category/Organization	9th Golden Globe Awards February 21, 1952		24th Academy Awards March 20, 1952
Category/Organization	Drama	Comedy or Musical	24th Academy Awards March 20, 1952
Best Film	A Place in the Sun	An American in Paris
Best Director	László Benedek Death of a Salesman		George Stevens A Place in the Sun
Best Actor	Fredric March Death of a Salesman	Danny Kaye On the Riviera	Humphrey Bogart The African Queen
Best Actress	Jane Wyman The Blue Veil	June Allyson Too Young to Kiss	Vivien Leigh A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Supporting Actor	Peter Ustinov Quo Vadis		Karl Malden A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Supporting Actress	Kim Hunter A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Robert Buckner Bright Victory		Michael Wilson and Harry Brown A Place in the Sun
Best Screenplay, Original	Robert Buckner Bright Victory		Alan Jay Lerner An American in Paris

Top ten money making stars

The Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll was published by Quigley Publishing Company based on a poll of U.S. movie theater owners who were asked to name who they felt were the previous year's top 10 moneymaking stars.[19]

Rank	Actor/Actress
1.	John Wayne
2.	Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
3.	Betty Grable
4.	Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
5.	Bing Crosby
6.	Bob Hope
7.	Randolph Scott
8.	Gary Cooper
9.	Doris Day
10.	Spencer Tracy

They also published a Western stars poll which Roy Rogers topped for the ninth year running.[19]

Rank	Actor/Actress
1.	Roy Rogers
2.	Gene Autry
3.	Tim Holt
4.	Charles Starrett
5.	Rex Allen
6.	Wild Bill Elliott
7.	Smiley Burnette
8.	Allan Lane
9.	Dale Evans
10.	Gabby Hayes

Notable films released in 1951

United States release unless stated

Serials

Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere, starring Judd Holdren
Don Daredevil Rides Again, starring Ken Curtis and Aline Towne
Government Agents vs Phantom Legion, starring Walter Reed
Mysterious Island, starring Richard Crane
Roar of the Iron Horse, starring Buster Crabbe

Short film series

Births

January 1 – Nana Patekar, Indian actor, screenwriter, and film director
January 8 – John McTiernan, American director
January 12 – Kirstie Alley, American actress
January 15 – Charo, Spanish American actress, singer and comedian
February 13 – David Naughton, American actor & singer
February 15 – Jane Seymour, English actress
February 16 – William Katt, American actor
February 22 – Ellen Greene, American singer and actress
March 17 – Kurt Russell, American actor
April 6 – Rita Raave, Estonian actress
April 12 – Tom Noonan, American actor
April 17 – Olivia Hussey, Argentine-born English actress
April 21 – Tony Danza, American actor and boxer
May 30 – Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
June 9 – James Newton Howard, American film composer
July 4 – Vincent Marzello, American-born actor (died 2020)
July 6 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
July 8 – Anjelica Huston, American actress
July 9 – Chris Cooper, American actor
July 10 – Phyllis Smith, American actress
July 12 – Cheryl Ladd, American actress
July 21 – Robin Williams, American actor & comedian (died 2014)
July 24 – Lynda Carter, American actress & singer
August 6 – Catherine Hicks, American actress
August 14 – Carl Lumbly, American actor
August 30 – Timothy Bottoms, American actor
September 5 – Michael Keaton, American actor
September 12 – Joe Pantoliano, American actor
September 17 – Cassandra Peterson, American actress
September 25 – Mark Hamill, American actor
October 30 – Harry Hamlin, American actor
November 9 – Lou Ferrigno, American actor
November 15 – Beverly D'Angelo, American actress
November 20 – Rodger Bumpass, American actor & voice actor
November 27 – Kathryn Bigelow, American director
December 1 – Treat Williams, American actor

Deaths

The Oscar winner Warner Baxter publicity photo.

January 11 – Charles W. Goddard, American playwright, screenwriter (born 1879), The Exploits of Elaine
January 18 – Jack Holt, American actor (born 1888), Flight, San Francisco
March 6 – Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, singer, composer (born 1893), The Lodger, I Lived with You
March 14 – Val Lewton, Russian-American director (born 1904), Cat People, The Body Snatcher
March 25 – Oscar Micheaux, American director, author (born 1884), The Girl From Chicago
April 4 – Al Christie, Canadian-born director, producer (born 1881), Charley's Aunt
April 22 – Stanley Ridges, British actor (born 1890), To Be or Not to Be, Sergeant York
May 2 – Edwin L. Marin, American director (born 1899), Fort Worth, Maisie
May 2 – Paul L. Stein, Austrian director (born 1892), Red Wagon, The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
May 7 – Warner Baxter, American actor (born 1882), 42nd Street, Crime Doctor
May 17 – S. Sylvan Simon, American director (born 1910), The Fuller Brush Man, I Love Trouble
May 29 – Fanny Brice, American entertainer and actress, My Man, Everybody Sing
June 2 – Ernst Pittschau, German actor (born 1883), The Picture of Dorian Gray
June 6 – Olive Tell, American actress (born 1894), The Trap
June 9 – Mayo Methot, American actress (born 1904), Marked Woman
July 23 – Robert J. Flaherty, American documentary filmmaker (born 1884), Nanook of the North
August 28 – Robert Walker, American actor (born 1918), Strangers on a Train, The Clock
August 30 – Konstantin Märska, Estonian cinematographer (born 1896)
September 7 – Maria Montez, Dominican-born actress (born 1912), Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
October 12 – Leon Errol, Australian-born actor (born 1881), Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, Joe Palooka
October 22 – Phil Rosen, Polish-American director (born 1876), Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat, Roar of the Press
November 3 – Richard Wallace, American director (born 1894), Tycoon, Framed

Film Debuts

Ernest Borgnine – China Corsair
Jeff Bridges – The Company She Keeps
Charles Bronson – You're in the Navy Now
Leslie Caron – An American in Paris
John Cassavetes – Fourteen Hours
Scatman Crothers – Yes Sir, Mr. Bones
James Dean – Fixed Bayonets!
Mamie Van Doren – Footlight Varieties
Lee Grant – Detective Story
Jeffrey Hunter – Fourteen Hours
Grace Kelly – Fourteen Hours
Harvey Lembeck – You're in the Navy Now
Lee Marvin – You're in the Navy Now
Patty McCormack – Two Gals and a Guy
Leonard Nimoy – Queen for a Day
William Shatner – The Butler's Night Off
Robert Shaw – The Lavender Hill Mob
Rod Steiger – Teresa
Jack Warden – You're in the Navy Now
Joseph Wiseman – Detective Story

Notes

4.7619 Indian rupees per US dollar from 1950 to 1965<ref name='sauder'>"Pacific Exchange Rate Service" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business. University of British Columbia. p. 3. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
₹23 million[6] ($4.83 million)[n 1]
4 Soviet rubles per US dollar from 1950 to 1960<ref name='SUR-USD'>"Archive". Central Bank of Russia. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
5.875 million SUR (23.5 million Soviet tickets sold,[9] average ticket price of 25 kopecks),[10] 4 SUR per USD[n 3]
35 million re-run admissions up until 1964-1966,<ref name='boi-soviet'>"You Asked It - Padmaavat Is Bigger Than Mughal E Azam?". Box Office India. 8 March 2018.
Awaara:
- India – $4.83 million[n 2]
- Soviet Union – 37.75 million руб ($16.97 million)
  - Initial run – 29 million руб[12] ($7.25 million)[n 3]
  - Re-runs – 8.75 million руб[n 5] average Soviet ticket price of 25 kopecks[10]
0.9 SUR per US$ from 1961 to 1971[13]

References

The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
Top 20 Films of 1951 by Domestic Revenue
"All-Time Top Grossers". Variety. January 13, 1954. p. 10. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
"The Top Box Office Hits of 1951". Variety. January 2, 1952. p. 70. Retrieved May 12, 2020 – via Archive.org.
"Bilan Annuel France – 1951". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
"Boxofficeindia.com". archive.org. 22 September 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
"Bilan Annuel Italie – 1951". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
キネマ旬報ベスト・テン85回全史 1924–2011. Kinema Junpo. Kinema Junposha. May 2012. p. 88. ISBN 978-4873767550.
"Prokat2". Kinokultura.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011
"The Great Caruso". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
Rajagopalan, Sudha (2005). Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas: The Culture of Movie-going After Stalin. Indiana University Press. p. 86. ISBN 9780253220998. The purchase of Shree 420 (Mr 420/Gospodin 420) followed a letter from a Soveksportfil'm representative in Bombay to officials in Moscow in which the former wrote: We are in a delicate situation with Raj Kapoor. He feels he is not being offered enough for Mr 420 despite the fact that 'The Vagabond' raised 29 million roubles for the Soviet state.
"《流浪者》《大篷车》中国内地票房". Sina Corp. 9 February 2019. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
"Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average)". World Bank. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
"异域音乐风 ——印度音乐（三至六）". CCTV.com. China Central Television. 4 July 2007. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
Link, Perry (2000). The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System. Princeton University Press. p. 204. ISBN 9780691001982.
"Quo Vadis? (1951) – Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
"Exhibitors Pick Money Making Stars". Motion Picture Herald. December 28, 1951. p. 1.

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[RupeeUSD-7] 4.7619 Indian rupees per US dollar from 1950 to 1965<ref name='sauder'>"Pacific Exchange Rate Service" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business. University of British Columbia. p. 3. Retrieved 21 November 2017.

[Awaara-8] ₹23 million[6] ($4.83 million)[n 1]

[RubleUSD-13] 4 Soviet rubles per US dollar from 1950 to 1960<ref name='SUR-USD'>"Archive". Central Bank of Russia. Retrieved 29 December 2009.

[14] 5.875 million SUR (23.5 million Soviet tickets sold,[9] average ticket price of 25 kopecks),[10] 4 SUR per USD[n 3]

[17] 35 million re-run admissions up until 1964-1966,<ref name='boi-soviet'>"You Asked It - Padmaavat Is Bigger Than Mughal E Azam?". Box Office India. 8 March 2018.

[18] Awaara:
India – $4.83 million[n 2]

Soviet Union – 37.75 million руб ($16.97 million)
Initial run – 29 million руб[12] ($7.25 million)[n 3]

Re-runs – 8.75 million руб[n 5] average Soviet ticket price of 25 kopecks[10]

[7] India – $4.83 million[n 2]

[8] Soviet Union – 37.75 million руб ($16.97 million)
Initial run – 29 million руб[12] ($7.25 million)[n 3]

Re-runs – 8.75 million руб[n 5] average Soviet ticket price of 25 kopecks[10]

[9] Initial run – 29 million руб[12] ($7.25 million)[n 3]

[10] Re-runs – 8.75 million руб[n 5] average Soviet ticket price of 25 kopecks[10]

[20] 0.9 SUR per US$ from 1961 to 1971[13]

[Mannix-1] The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

[1951DomesticRevenue-2] Top 20 Films of 1951 by Domestic Revenue

[1954AllTime-3] "All-Time Top Grossers". Variety. January 13, 1954. p. 10. Retrieved February 27, 2018.

[1951TopBoxOfficeHits-4] "The Top Box Office Hits of 1951". Variety. January 2, 1952. p. 70. Retrieved May 12, 2020 – via Archive.org.

[5] "Bilan Annuel France – 1951". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 10 December 2018.

[boi51-6] "Boxofficeindia.com". archive.org. 22 September 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2018.

[9] "Bilan Annuel Italie – 1951". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 10 December 2018.

[10] キネマ旬報ベスト・テン85回全史 1924–2011. Kinema Junpo. Kinema Junposha. May 2012. p. 88. ISBN 978-4873767550.

[11] "Prokat2". Kinokultura.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-10-09.

[moscow7-12] Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011

[15] "The Great Caruso". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.

[soviet211-16] Rajagopalan, Sudha (2005). Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas: The Culture of Movie-going After Stalin. Indiana University Press. p. 86. ISBN 9780253220998. The purchase of Shree 420 (Mr 420/Gospodin 420) followed a letter from a Soveksportfil'm representative in Bombay to officials in Moscow in which the former wrote: We are in a delicate situation with Raj Kapoor. He feels he is not being offered enough for Mr 420 despite the fact that 'The Vagabond' raised 29 million roubles for the Soviet state.

[sina-21] "《流浪者》《大篷车》中国内地票房". Sina Corp. 9 February 2019. Retrieved 2018-11-03.

[worldbank-22] "Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average)". World Bank. Retrieved 7 February 2019.

[cctv-23] "异域音乐风 ——印度音乐（三至六）". CCTV.com. China Central Television. 4 July 2007. Retrieved 7 February 2019.

[24] Link, Perry (2000). The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System. Princeton University Press. p. 204. ISBN 9780691001982.

[25] "Quo Vadis? (1951) – Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 6 January 2019.

[1951Poll-26] "Exhibitors Pick Money Making Stars". Motion Picture Herald. December 28, 1951. p. 1.