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The Thing from Another World was released in April 1951. [3] By the end of that year, the film had accrued $1,950,000 in distributors' domestic (U.S. and Canada) rentals, making it the year's 46th biggest earner, beating all other science fiction films released that year, including The Day the Earth Stood Still and When Worlds Collide .
The 9th Golden Globe Awards also honored the best films of 1951. That year's Golden Globes also marked the first time that the Best Picture category was split into Musical or Comedy , or Drama . A Place in the Sun won Best Motion Picture - Drama, while An American in Paris won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy.
Margaret Elizabeth Sheridan (October 29, 1926 – May 1, 1982) was an American actress of the early 1950s, and protégée of director Howard Hawks.She is best remembered for her role as Nikki Nicholson opposite Kenneth Tobey in the 1951 science fiction classic The Thing from Another World.
Sally Creighton was an American actress, best known for her roles as Mrs Patricia Gregory on Magic Island, and Mrs Chapman in Howard Hawks' 1951 film, The Thing from Another World. Creighton worked as a dialogue director for films and as a dramatic coach before she became a film actress. [1]
James Arness portrays the Thing, which in this version is a humanoid plant-based organism that feeds on animal blood. The Thing was portrayed in a costume. In 1982's The Thing by John Carpenter, $200,000 of the budget were originally dedicated to creature effects, which at the time was more than Universal Pictures had ever allocated to a ...
Christian Nyby (September 1, 1913 – September 17, 1993) was an American television and film director and editor. As an editor, he had seventeen feature film credits from 1943 to 1952, including The Big Sleep (1946) and Red River (1948).
"The Thing" is a novelty song by Charles Randolph Grean released in 1950. The song received heavy airplay, spending 14 weeks on the Billboard charts. The melody is derived from the English bawdy folk song "The Chandler's Wife", which itself derived its melody from the earlier English folk song " The Lincolnshire Poacher ".
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 Deluxe color American drama-romance film in CinemaScope.Set in 1949–50 in Hong Kong, it tells the story of a married, but separated, American reporter Mark Elliot (played by William Holden), who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from China, Han Suyin (played by Jennifer Jones), only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong ...