It is not an import problem. You simply call .dropDuplicates() on a wrong object. While class of sqlContext.createDataFrame(rdd1, ...) is pyspark.sql.dataframe.DataFrame, after you apply .collect() it is a plain Python list, and lists don't provide dropDuplicates method. What you want is something like this:
(df1 = sqlContext
.createDataFrame(rdd1, ['column1', 'column2', 'column3', 'column4'])
.dropDuplicates())
df1.collect()