1947 in film
The year 1947 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Gross |
| 1. |
Welcome Stranger |
Paramount |
$6,100,000 |
| 2. |
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer |
RKO |
$5,500,000 |
| 2. |
The Egg and I |
Universal |
$5,500,000 |
| 4. |
Unconquered |
Paramount |
$5,250,000 |
| 5. |
Life With Father |
Warner Brothers |
$5,057,000 |
| 6. |
Forever Amber |
20th Century Fox |
$5,000,000 |
| 7. |
Road to Rio |
Paramount |
$4,500,000 |
| 8. |
Green Dolphin Street |
MGM |
$4,384,000 |
| 9. |
Mother Wore Tights |
20th Century Fox |
$4,100,000 |
| 10. |
Cass Timberlane |
MGM |
$3,983,000 |
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1947.shtml
Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: Gentleman's Agreement - 20th Century-Fox
- Best Director: Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement
- Best Actor: Ronald Colman - A Double Life
- Best Actress: Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter
- Best Supporting Actor: Edmund Gwenn - Miracle on 34th Street
- Best Supporting Actress: Celeste Holm - Gentleman's Agreement
Golden Globe Awards:
- Best Picture: Gentleman's Agreement
- Best Director: Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement
- Best Actor: Ronald Colman - A Double Life
- Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Mourning Becomes Electra
Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival): not awarded
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival)
- Siréna, directed by Karel Stekly (Czechoslovakia)
Films released in 1947
- An Ideal Husband
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
- The Bishop's Wife
- Black Narcissus
- Brighton Rock
- Body and Soul
- Boomerang
- Born to Kill
- Buck Privates Come Home, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Captain from Castile
- Crossfire
- Desert Fury
- A Double Life
- The Egg and I
- Fame is the Spur, with Michael Redgrave
- The Farmer's Daughter
- Forever Amber
- The Foxes of Harrow
- Framed
- Fun and Fancy Free
- Gentleman's Agreement
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- Good News
- Great Expectations (U.S. release)
- Hi-De-Ho, starring Cab Calloway
- High Wall
- Hue and Cry, the first Ealing comedy
- It Always Rains on Sunday
- Ivan the Terrible (U.S. release)
- Kiss of Death
- Lady in the Lake
- The Last Stage
- Life with Father
- Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
- The Long Night
- Mine Own Executioner
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Monsieur Verdoux
- Moss Rose
- Mother Wore Tights
- Mourning Becomes Electra
- My Wild Irish Rose, a biography starring Dennis Morgan as Chancellor Olcott
- Nightmare Alley
- Odd Man Out, directed by Carol Reed
- Out of the Past
- The Paradine Case
- The Perils of Pauline
- Possessed'
- Quai des Orfèvres
- Ride the Pink Horse
- Road to Rio, starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby
- T-Men
- The Sea of Grass
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
- The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, from Frederica Sagor Maas
- Shoeshine (U.S. release)
- Song of Scheherazade, starring Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Brian Donlevy
- Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman
- Unconquered
- Vivere in pace
- The Voice of the Turtle
- The Web
- The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Serials
Short film series
Births
Deaths
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