1952 in film

Top-grossing films

United States

The top ten 1952 released films by box office gross in the United States are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1952
RankTitleStudioBox-office gross rental
1 The Greatest Show on Earth Paramount Pictures $12,800,000[1]
2 This Is Cinerama Cinerama Releasing Corporation $12,500,000[1]
3 The Snows of Kilimanjaro 20th Century Fox $6,500,000[1]
4 Hans Christian Andersen RKO Radio Pictures/Samuel Goldwyn Productions $6,000,000[1]
5 Ivanhoe Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $5,810,000[2]
6 Sailor Beware Paramount Pictures $4,300,000[1]
7 Moulin Rouge United Artists $4,252,000[3]
8 Jumping Jacks Paramount Pictures $4,000,000[1]
9 The Quiet Man Republic Pictures $3,800,000[3]
10 Come Back, Little Sheba
The Stooge		 Paramount Pictures $3,500,000[4]

International
CountryTitleDirectorStudio(s)GrossRef
France Little World of Don Camillo Julien Duvivier Cineriz, Francinex 12,791,168 admissions [5]
India Aan Mehboob Khan Mehboob Productions $5,880,000 [lower-alpha 2] </ref>
Italy Little World of Don Camillo Julien Duvivier Cineriz, Francinex 13,215,653 admissions [7]
Japan Himeyuri no Tō Tadashi Imai Toei Company ¥176,590,000 [8]
Soviet Union Tarzan the Ape Man W. S. Van Dyke Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 42,900,000 admissions [9]
United Kingdom The Greatest Show on Earth Cecil B. DeMille Paramount Pictures 13,000,000 admissions [10]

Events

Awards
Category/Organization10th Golden Globe Awards
February 26, 1953		25th Academy Awards
March 19, 1953
DramaComedy or Musical
Best FilmThe Greatest Show on EarthWith a Song in My HeartThe Greatest Show on Earth
Best DirectorCecil B. DeMille
The Greatest Show on Earth		John Ford
The Quiet Man
Best ActorGary Cooper
High Noon		Donald O'Connor
Singin' in the Rain		Gary Cooper
High Noon
Best ActressShirley Booth
Come Back, Little Sheba		Susan Hayward
With a Song in My Heart		Shirley Booth
Come Back, Little Sheba
Best Supporting ActorMillard Mitchell
My Six Convicts		Anthony Quinn
Viva Zapata!
Best Supporting ActressKaty Jurado
High Noon		Gloria Grahame
The Bad and the Beautiful
Best Screenplay, AdaptedMichael Wilson
5 Fingers		Charles Schnee
The Bad and the Beautiful
Best Screenplay, OriginalT. E. B. Clarke
The Lavender Hill Mob

Notable films released in 1952

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Births

Deaths
Curly Howard in Disorder in the Court.

Film Debuts

Notes
  1. 4.76 Indian rupees per US dollar from 1951 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.
  2. ₹28 million[6] ($5.88 million)[lower-alpha 1]

References
  1. Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  2. The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  3. Top 20 Films of 1952 by Domestic Revenue
  4. "Top Grossers of 1953". Variety. January 13, 1954. p. 10. Retrieved October 8, 2019 – via Archive.org.
  5. "Bilan Annuel France – 1952". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  6. "Box Office 1952". Box Office India. 22 September 2012.
  7. "Bilan Annuel Italie – 1952". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  8. キネマ旬報ベスト・テン85回全史 1924–2011. Kinema Junpo. Kinema Junposha. May 2012. p. 96. ISBN 978-4873767550.
  9. Sergey Kudryavtsev (4 July 2006). "Зарубежные фильмы в советском кинопрокате".
  10. "The Greatest Show on Earth". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
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