1947 in film

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The year 1947 in film involved some significant events.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1947 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1947
Rank	Title	Studio	Box-office gross rental
1	Welcome Stranger	Paramount Pictures	$6,100,000^[1]
2	The Egg and I	Universal Pictures	$5,500,000^[1]
3	Unconquered	Paramount Pictures	$5,300,000^[1]
4	Life with Father	Warner Bros.	$5,057,000^[2]
5	Forever Amber	20th Century Fox	$5,000,000^[1]
6	Till the Clouds Roll By	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$4,762,000^[3]
7	The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Road to Rio	RKO Radio Pictures Paramount Pictures	$4,500,000^[1]
8	Green Dolphin Street	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$4,384,380^[3]
9	Mother Wore Tights	20th Century Fox	$4,100,000^[4]
10	My Wild Irish Rose	Warner Bros.	$3,921,000^[2]

Events

April 19 – Monogram Pictures release their first film under their Allied Artists banner, It Happened on Fifth Avenue.
May 22 – Great Expectations is premiered in New York.
August 31 – The first Edinburgh International Film Festival opens at the Playhouse Cinema, presented by the Edinburgh Film Guild as part of the Edinburgh Festival of the Arts. Originally specialising in documentaries, it will become the world's oldest continually running film festival.^[5]
November 24 – The United States House of Representatives of the 80th Congress voted 346 to 17 to approve citations for contempt of Congress against the "Hollywood Ten".
November 25 – The Waldorf Statement is released by the executives of the United States motion picture industry that marks the beginning of the Hollywood blacklist.

Awards

Category/Organization	5th Golden Globe Awards March 10, 1948	20th Academy Awards March 20, 1948
Best Film	Gentleman's Agreement
Best Director	Elia Kazan Gentleman's Agreement
Best Actor	Ronald Colman A Double Life
Best Actress	Rosalind Russell Mourning Becomes Electra	Loretta Young The Farmer's Daughter
Best Supporting Actor	Edmund Gwenn Miracle on 34th Street
Best Supporting Actress	Celeste Holm Gentleman's Agreement
Best Screenplay, Adapted	George Seaton Miracle on 34th Street	George Seaton Miracle on 34th Street
Best Screenplay, Original	George Seaton Miracle on 34th Street	Sidney Sheldon The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Top Ten Money Making Stars

Rank	Actor/Actress
1.	Bing Crosby
2.	Betty Grable
3.	Ingrid Bergman
4.	Gary Cooper
5.	Humphrey Bogart
6.	Bob Hope
7.	Clark Gable
8.	Gregory Peck
9.	Claudette Colbert
10.	Alan Ladd

Notable films released in 1947

United States unless stated

Serials

The Black Widow, starring Bruce Edwards
Brick Bradford, starring Kane Richmond
Jack Armstrong
Jesse James Rides Again, starring Clayton Moore and Linda Stirling
The Sea Hound, starring Buster Crabbe
Son of Zorro, starring George Turner and Peggy Stewart
The Vigilante, starring Ralph Byrd

Short film series

Mickey Mouse (1928–1952)
Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
Terrytoons (1930–1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
The Three Stooges (1934–1959)
Donald Duck (1934–1956)
Andy Panda (1939–1949)
Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
The Fox and the Crow (1941–1950)
Bugs Bunny (1940–1962)
Chip and Dale (1943–1956)
Red Hot Riding Hood (1943–1949)
Popeye (1933–1957)
Tom and Jerry (1940–1958)
George and Junior (1946–1948)
Mighty Mouse (1942–1955)
Pluto (1937–1951)
Goofy (1939–1953)
Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949)
Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)

Births

January 8 – David Bowie, English singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2016)
January 15 – Andrea Martin, Canadian-American actress
January 18 – Takeshi Kitano, Japanese writer-director, actor, comedian, author and video game creator
January 31 – Jonathan Banks, American actor
February 2 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (d. 2009)
February 7 – Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (d. 2009)
February 24 – Edward James Olmos, American actor
February 28 – Stephanie Beacham, English actress
March 6 – Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, producer and director
March 19
- Glenn Close, American actress
- Dermot Crowley, Irish stage, film and television actor
March 23 – Kim Hee-ra, South Korean movie actor
March 26 – John Morton, American movie actor, stuntman and writer
April 6 – John Ratzenberger, American actor
April 11 – Meshach Taylor, American actor (d. 2014)
April 15 – Lois Chiles, American actress
April 18 – James Woods, American actor
May 4 – Richard Jenkins, American actor
May 25 – Jacki Weaver, Australian actress
June 1 – Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor
June 6 – Robert Englund, American actor
June 19 – Youn Yuh-jung, South-Korean actress
June 20 – Candy Clark, American actress
June 22 - David Lander, American character actor, comedian, musician and baseball scout (d. 2020)
June 24 – Peter Weller, American actor
June 30 - Tõnis Rätsep, Estonian actor
July 9 – O. J. Simpson, American football player and actor
July 22 – Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian and director
July 30
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder and 38th Governor of California
- William Atherton, American actor
July 31 – Richard Griffiths, English actor (d. 2013)
August 22 – Cindy Williams, American actress
August 24 – Anne Archer, American actress
August 27 – Barbara Bach, American actress
September 6
- Jane Curtin – American actress and comedian
- Keone Young, American actor and voice actor
September 14 – Sam Neill, New Zealand actor
September 21 – Stephen King, American author
September 27 – Denis Lawson, Scottish actor and director
October 1 – Stephen Collins, American actor
October 17
- Simi Garewal, Indian actress and talk show host
- Michael McKean, American actor and comedian
October 24 – Kevin Kline, American actor
October 26 – Ene Järvis, Estonian actress
October 29 – Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
November 13 – Joe Mantegna, American actor
November 24 – Dwight Schultz, American actor and voice actor
December 4 – Tõnu Kark, Estonian actor
December 8 – Bruce Kimmel, American actor, director, writer
December 11 – Teri Garr, American actress and comedian
December 16 – Ben Cross, English actor (d. 2020)
December 17 - Wes Studi, Cherokee American actor and film producer
December 29 – Ted Danson, American actor
December 31 – Tim Matheson, American actor, director and producer

Deaths

January 26 – Grace Moore, 48, American opera singer and actress, One Night of Love, The King Steps Out, When You're in Love
February 12 – Sidney Toler, 72, American actor, Charlie Chan in the Secret Service, The Chinese Cat, Black Magic, The Jade Mask
March 8 – Victor Potel, 57, American actor and comedian, Sullivan's Travels, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Palm Beach Story, The Egg and I
May 31 – Adrienne Ames, 39, American actress, The Death Kiss, You're Telling Me!, Slander House, Gigolette
June 1 – Anna Hofman-Uddgren, 79, Swedish director, actress
June 5 – Nils Olaf Chrisander, 63, Swedish actor, director
August 30 – Gunnar Sommerfeldt, 56, Danish actor and director
September 21 – Harry Carey, 69, American actor, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Angel and the Badman, Red River, Beyond Tomorrow
October 1 – Olive Borden, 41, American actress, 3 Bad Men, Half Marriage, Leave It to Me
October 17 – John Halliday, 67, American actor, The Philadelphia Story, Intermezzo
October 24 – Dudley Digges, 68, Irish actor, The Maltese Falcon, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Fight for Life
December 21 – Mark Hellinger, 47, American producer, High Sierra, They Drive By Night, The Two Mrs. Carrolls

Film debuts

Anouk Aimée – La maison sous la mer
George Chakiris – Song of Love
Arlene Dahl – My Wild Irish Rose
Mel Ferrer – The Fugitive
DeForest Kelley – Fear in the Night
Janet Leigh – The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Toshiro Mifune – Snow Trail
Marilyn Monroe – The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Sidney Poitier – Sepia Cinderella
Denver Pyle – The Guilt of Janet Ames
Richard Widmark – Kiss of Death

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
^ ^a ^b Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 28 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
^ ^a ^b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^ Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
^ "Scotland Hosts the World's Longest Running Film Festival". Scotland.com. Retrieved 2014-07-18.

[Finler-1] Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[warners-2] Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 28 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551

[Mannix-3] The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

[Finler2-4] Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[5] "Scotland Hosts the World's Longest Running Film Festival". Scotland.com. Retrieved 2014-07-18.

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