Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
1951 in film
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Events
- Sweden - May Britt is scouted by Italian film-makers Carlo Ponti and Mario Soldati
Top grossing films
- North America
- David and Bathsheba
- Show Boat
- tie The Great Caruso and An American in Paris, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron
- A Streetcar named Desire
- Born Yesterday
Academy Awards
- Best Picture: An American in Paris - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart - The African Queen
- Best Actress: Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire
Other movies released
- The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn
- Calamity Jane
- Flying Leathernecks starring John Wayne
- The Thing From Another World
- No Highway
- Alice in Wonderland
- On the Riviera with Danny Kaye
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- When Worlds Collide
- Bedtime for Bonzo
- Miss Julie
- Strangers on a Train, Alfred Hitchcock
- Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa
- Miracle in Milan
- The Lavender Hill Mob
- An American in Paris
- Death of a Salesman
- Gerald McBoing-Boing
Births
- March 14 - Season Hubley , actress
- July 24 - Lynda Carter, actress
- August 6 - Catherine Hicks, US actress
Deaths
- January 11 – Charles W. Goddard, playwright and screenwriter
- March 25 - Oscar Micheaux, pioneer African American filmmaker & author
- April 4 - Al Christie, early Hollywood director/producer
- July 23 - Robert J. Flaherty, pioneer documentary filmmaker
- September 7 - Maria Montez, actress
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