1954 in film - Definition and Overview

Events

• May 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces wife Marion Benda. The two were married in 1927.

Top grossing films

North America

1. White Christmas, starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney
2. The Caine Mutiny, starring Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray and Lee Marvin
3. The Glenn Miller Story, starring James Stewart and June Allyson
4. The Egyptian in CinemaScope
5. Rear Window, starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey and Raymond Burr

Academy Awardss

• Best Picture: On the Waterfront - Horizon-American, Columbia
• Best Actor: Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
• Best Actress: Grace Kelly - The Country Girl

Births

• January 1 - Helen Wellington-Lloyd,actress
• January 6 - Anthony Minghella, director
• February 17 - Rene Russo, actress
• March 4 - Catherine O'Hara, actress
• June 19 - Kathleen Turner, actress
• June 22 - Freddie Prinze, actor/comedian
• October 3 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, songwriter

Deaths

• January 18 - Sydney Greenstreet, actor
• February 12 - Dziga Vertov, filmmaker
• November 15 - Lionel Barrymore, actor
• December 8 - Gladys George, actress

Other movies released

• A Star Is Born
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Casanova's Big Night starrig Bob Hope
• Dial M for Murder
• King Richard and the Crusaders
• Monster from the Ocean Floor
• On the Waterfront
• Sabrina
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• Shichinin no Samurai (Seven Samurai)
• Three Coins in the Fountain
• The Long, Long Trailer
• Dragnet
• Sansho the Bailiff
• The High and the Mighty
• Brigadoon
• Hobson's Choice
• Ikura
• Gate of Hell