1951 in film

The year 1951 in film involved some significant events.

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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
RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
1 Quo Vadis MGM $11,143,000[1]
2 Show Boat $5,293,000[1]
3 David and Bathsheba 20th Century Fox $4,720,000[2]
4 The Great Caruso MGM $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 $3,800,000[4]
8 An American in Paris MGM $3,750,000[1]
9 A Place in the Sun Paramount $3,500,000[4]
10 At War with the Army $3,300,000[5]

International

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

CountryTitleStudioGrossRef
France Samson and Delilah Paramount Pictures 7,116,442 admissions [6]
India Awaara R. K. Films $4,830,000 [n 2]
Italy Anna Lux Film 8,965,624 admissions [9]
Japan The Tale of Genji Daiei Kyoto ¥141,050,000 [10]
Soviet Union In Peaceful Time Dovzhenko Film Studios $1,470,000 [n 4]
United Kingdom The Great Caruso Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 12,400,000 admissions [14]

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.

TitleWorldwide grossCountryRef
Awaara $30,660,000 India [n 7]
Quo Vadis $30,028,513 United States [21]

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 14Raj Kapoor's first blockbuster movie, Awaara is released in India.
  • 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/Organization9th Golden Globe Awards
February 21, 1952
24th Academy Awards
March 20, 1952
DramaComedy or Musical
Best FilmA Place in the SunAn American in Paris
Best DirectorLászló Benedek
Death of a Salesman
George Stevens
A Place in the Sun
Best ActorFredric March
Death of a Salesman
Danny Kaye
On the Riviera
Humphrey Bogart
The African Queen
Best ActressJane Wyman
The Blue Veil
June Allyson
Too Young to Kiss
Vivien Leigh
A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Supporting ActorPeter Ustinov
Quo Vadis
Karl Malden
A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Supporting ActressKim Hunter
A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Screenplay, AdaptedRobert Buckner
Bright Victory
Michael Wilson and Harry Brown
A Place in the Sun
Best Screenplay, OriginalAlan 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.[22]

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.[22]

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

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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 (died 2022)
  • January 15
    • Charo, Spanish American actress, singer and comedian
    • Basil Wallace, Jamaican-born American actor
  • January 22 - Steve J. Spears, Australian actor, writer and singer (died 2007)
  • January 23 - David Patrick Kelly, American actor and musician
  • January 29 - Maria Klenskaja, Estonian actress (died 2022)
  • January 30
  • February 4 - Patrick Bergin, Irish actor and singer
  • February 5 - Robin Sachs, English actor (died 2013)
  • February 13 – David Naughton, American actor & singer
  • February 15
    • Paul Kandel, American actor and singer
    • Jane Seymour, English actress
  • February 16 – William Katt, American actor
  • February 20 - Eva Rueber-Staier, Austrian actress, television host and model
  • February 22 – Ellen Greene, American singer and actress
  • February 24 – Helen Shaver, Canadian actress and film and television director
  • March 17 – Kurt Russell, American actor
  • April 6 – Rita Raave, Estonian actress
  • April 11
    • Gerry Becker, American actor (died 2019)
    • Jay Benedict, American actor (died 2020)
  • April 12 – Tom Noonan, American actor
  • April 13
    • John Furey, American actor
    • Brent Jennings, American actor
  • April 17 – Olivia Hussey, Argentine-born English actress
  • April 21 – Tony Danza, American actor and boxer
  • April 22 - Robin Bartlett, American actress
  • May 4 - Gérard Jugnot, French actor, director, screenwriter and producer
  • May 8 - Cooper Huckabee, American actor
  • May 19 - Robert Harper, American actor (died 2020)
  • May 29 - Michael O'Neill, American actor
  • May 30 – Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
  • June 1 - Lena Farugia, American-born South African actress, screenwriter, director and producer (died 2019)
  • June 2 - Frank C. Turner, Canadian actor
  • June 5 - Mark Harelik, American actor and playwright
  • June 9 – James Newton Howard, American film composer
  • June 13 - Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
  • June 16 - John Salthouse, British actor and producer
  • June 20 - Tress MacNeille, American voice actress, and singer
  • June 23 - Jim Metzler, retired American actor
  • June 26 – Robert Davi, American actor, singer, writer and director
  • June 27 - Julia Duffy, American actress
  • June 28
    • David Gautreaux, American actor
    • Ellis E. Williams, American actor and comedian
  • July 1 - Trevor Eve, English actor
  • July 4 – Vincent Marzello, American-born actor (died 2020)
  • July 6 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
  • July 7 - Roz Ryan, American actress, singer, voice actress and comedian
  • 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 13 - Didi Conn, American actress
  • July 15 - Jesse Ventura, American actor and pro wrestler
  • July 18 - Margo Martindale, American character actress
  • July 20 - Jeff Rawle, English actor
  • July 21
  • July 24
    • Lynda Carter, American actress & singer
    • Fiona Reid, English-born Canadian actress
  • July 29
  • August 2 - Marcel Iureș, Romanian actor
  • August 6 – Catherine Hicks, American actress
  • August 8 - Martin Brest, American director, screenwriter and producer
  • August 14 – Carl Lumbly, American actor
  • August 18 - Teri McMinn, American actress and model
  • August 21 - Randy Thom, American sound designer
  • August 22 - Gordon Liu, Chinese martial arts actor
  • August 30 – Timothy Bottoms, American actor
  • September 2
    • Michael Gray, American actor
    • Mark Harmon, American actor
  • September 4 - Judith Ivey, American actress
  • September 5 – Michael Keaton, American actor
  • September 9 - Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
  • September 10 - Harry Groener, German-born American actor
  • September 12 – Joe Pantoliano, American actor
  • September 13 - Jean Smart, American actress
  • September 17 – Cassandra Peterson, American actress
  • September 22 – Amanda Mackey, American casting director (died 2022)
  • September 25 – Mark Hamill, American actor
  • October 4 - James Rankin, Canadian actor and voice actor
  • October 5 - Karen Allen, American actress
  • October 14 - John Sumner, English character actor
  • October 16
    • Daniel Gerroll, English actor
    • Morgan Stevens, American actor (died 2022)
  • October 22 - Marshall Napier, New Zealand character actor (died 2022)
  • October 24 - Antoñito Ruiz, Spanish former child actor and stuntman
  • October 28 - Renato Cecchetto, Italian actor and voice actor (died 2022)
  • October 30 – Harry Hamlin, American actor
  • November 6 - Nigel Havers, English actor and presenter
  • November 9 – Lou Ferrigno, American actor
  • November 11 - Bill Moseley, American actor and musician
  • November 15 – Beverly D'Angelo, American actress
  • November 16 - Miguel Sandoval, American actor
  • November 17
    • Francis Guinan, American actor
    • Stephen Root, American actor and voice actor
  • November 20 – Rodger Bumpass, American actor & voice actor
  • November 27 – Kathryn Bigelow, American director
  • December 1
  • December 14 - Celia Weston, American character actress
  • December 16
    • Bill Johnson, American actor
    • David Schofield, English actor
  • December 22 - Dan Martin, American actor
  • December 26 - Steve Bisley, Australian writer and 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 16 – Louis Jouvet, French actor (born 1887), Hôtel du Nord
  • 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

Notes

  1. 4.7619 Indian rupees per US dollar from 1950 to 1965[8]
  2. ₹23 million[7] ($4.83 million)[n 1]
  3. 4 Rbls per US dollar from 1950 to 1960[13]
  4. 5.875 million Rbls (23.5 million Soviet tickets sold,[11] average ticket price of 25 kopecks),[12] 4 SUR per USD[n 3]
  5. 35 million re-run admissions up until 1964-1966,[16] average Soviet ticket price of 25 kopecks[12]
  6. 0.9 SUR per US$ from 1961 to 1971[13]
  7. Awaara:
    • India – $4.83 million[n 2]
    • Soviet Union – 37.75 million руб ($16.97 million)
      • Initial run – 29 million руб[15] ($7.25 million)[n 3]
      • Re-runs – 8.75 million руб[n 5] ($9.72 million)[n 6]
    • China – CN¥14.8 million ($8.86 million)
      • Initial release – CN¥2.8 million[17] ($1.14 million)[18]
      • Re-release – CN¥12 million[19][20] ($7.72) million[18]

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