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The History of American Cinema: 1951 |
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20/7 - |
Time Inc. suspends production of its weekly newsreel The March of Time, which has been produced since 1935. [ADD] |
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23/7 - |
Documentary filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty dies of cerebral thrombosis in Brattleboro, Vermont. [ADD] |
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14/8 - |
William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate upon whom Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane was based, dies in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 88..[ADD] |
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28/8 - |
Actor Robert Walker dies from a reaction to prescription drugs while filming Leo McCarey's My Son John. [ADD] |
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18/9 - |
Warner Bros. bring Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire to the screen with Actors Studio graduate Marlon Brando as the near-feral Stanley Kowalski, and Vivien Leigh as the faded Southern belle Blanche Dupois. Elia Kazan directs. [ADD] |
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28/9 - |
Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which Michael Rennie plays an alien visitor to earth, is released. [ADD] |
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4/10 - |
Vincente Minelli’s An American in Paris starring Gene Kelly is released by MGM. Leslie Caron co-stars. The film’s finale is an 18-minute ballet sequence. [ADD] |
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7/10 - |
Max Ophüls' film La Ronde is refused a licence by the New York State Censor as it is considered to be amoral and outside the boundaries set by the Production Code. [ADD] |
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18/10 - |
Cowboy star Roy Rogers.emerges victorious from a four-month battle in the State District Court with Republic Pictures to stop them from selling or licencing any of his old films for broadcast on TV on the grounds that adverts shown during the film would give the impression that he was endorsing the products. [ADD] |
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8/11 - |
MGM spectacular Technicolor epic Quo Vadis is released. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, the film took six months to shoot on location at the Cinecitta studios at a cost of almost $7 million. Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr and Peter Ustinov star. [ADD] |
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19/11 - |
Charlie Chaplin begins filming Limelight. [ADD] |
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23/12 - |
John Huston’s The African Queen, featuring an unlikely romance between tramp steamer captain Humphrey Bogart and prim missionary Katharine Hepburn in German East Africa in 1914, is released. It is the first Technicolor film for Huston and his stars. [ADD] |
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– Columbia Pictures establishes its Screen Gems television production subsidiary. [ADD] |
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– Paramount Studios establishes United Paramount Theaters to run its cinema exhibition business in accordance with the 'Paramount consent decree' imposed by the Supreme Court. [ADD] |
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– A syndicate led by lawyers Arthur B Krim and Robert Benjamin acquire a 50% share in United Artists. [ADD] |
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– Cities receiving a TV service report widespread closures of cinemas and a drop in cinema attendances. [ADD] |
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| – The Screen Actors Guild negotiates an agreement which ensures payment of royalties and residuals for the broadcast of all post-1948 films in which its members appear. [ADD] | ||||
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Top Ten US Box-Office Stars of 1951 1. John Wayne 3. Betty Grable 5. Bing Crosby 6. Bob Hope 8. Gary Cooper 9. Doris Day 10. Spencer Tracy Source: Quigley Poll |
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Other Key American Films of 1951 |
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Native Son (Pierre Chenal) [ADD] |
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The History of Cinema: 1951 |
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