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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

Awards

Category/Organization 9th Golden Globe Awards
February 21, 1952		 24th Academy Awards
March 20, 1952
DramaComedy or Musical
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 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. [22]

RankActor/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]

RankActor/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

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The Oscar winner Warner Baxter publicity photo.

Film Debuts

Notes

  1. ↑ 4.7619 Indian rupees per US dollar from 1950 to 1965 [8]
  2. 1 2 ₹23 million [7] ($4.83 million) [n 1]
  3. 1 2 4 Rbls per US dollar from 1950 to 1960 [13]
  4. ↑ 5.875 million  Rbls (23.5 million Soviet tickets sold, [11] average ticket price of 25 kopecks), [12] 4 SUR per USD [n 3]
  5. ↑ 35 million re-run admissions up until 1964-1966, [16] average Soviet ticket price of 25 kopecks [12]
  6. ↑ 0.9 SUR per US$ 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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  12. 1 2 Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011
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  15. ↑ 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.
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  19. ↑ "异域音乐风 ——印度音乐（三至六）". CCTV.com . China Central Television. 4 July 2007. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
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  21. ↑ "Quo Vadis? (1951) – Financial Information". The Numbers . Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  22. 1 2 "Exhibitors Pick Money Making Stars". Motion Picture Herald. December 28, 1951. p. 1.
  23. ↑ (in Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1951/ca000310.htm accessed 25 May 2009
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