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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

1. The Greatest Show on Earth, starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Lawrence Tierney, and Gloria Grahame
2. Quo Vadis
3. Ivanhoe, starring Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, and George Sanders
4. The Snows of Kilimanjaro, starring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, and Ava Gardner
5. Sailor Beware
6. tie The African Queen and Jumping Jacks
7. tie High Noon and Son of Paleface
8. 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

Other films released

• Hans Christian Andersen, starring Danny Kaye and Farley Granger
• Ikiru
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Invasion U.S.A.
• Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games)
• Moulin Rouge
• My Six Convicts
• Othello, directed by Orson Welles
• The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford
• The Sound Barrier, directed by David Lean
• This Is Cinerama
• Umberto D.
• The World in His Arms

Short film series

• Donald Duck (1936)-(1956)
• Popeye (1933-1957)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)
• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)

Births

• June 7 - Liam Neeson, actor
• June 18 - Isabella Rossellini, actress
• July 20 - Adrian Biddle, cinematographer (d. 2005)

Deaths

• January 18 - Curly Howard, comedian, of The Three Stooges
• 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

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