1927 in film

List of years in film (table)
… 1917 ^. 1918 ^. 1919 ^. 1920 ^. 1921 ^. 1922 ^. 1923 … 1924 1925 1926 -1927- 1928 1929 1930 … 1931 ^. 1932 ^. 1933 ^. 1934 ^. 1935 ^. 1936 ^. 1937 … In television: 1924 1925 1926 -1927- 1928 1929 1930 In radio: 1924 1925 1926 -1927- 1928 1929 1930
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Years in film

1870s
1880s
1890s
1890 • 1891 • 1892 • 1893 • 1894 1895 • 1896 • 1897 • 1898 • 1899
1900s
1900 • 1901 • 1902 • 1903 • 1904 1905 • 1906 • 1907 • 1908 • 1909
1910s
1910 • 1911 • 1912 • 1913 • 1914 1915 • 1916 • 1917 • 1918 • 1919
1920s
1920 • 1921 • 1922 • 1923 • 1924 1925 • 1926 • 1927 • 1928 • 1929
1930s
1930 • 1931 • 1932 • 1933 • 1934 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1939
1940s
1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 •1949
1950s
1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959
1960s
1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969
1970s
1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979
1980s
1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989
1990s
1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999
2000s
2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009
2010s
2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014

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1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Academy Awards
4 Films released in 1927
5 Short film series
6 Animated short film series
7 Births
8 Film Debuts

Events

January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.
April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda.
May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded in Los Angeles, California by Douglas Fairbanks. The 1st Academy Awards (Oscars) went on to films, which are released in 1927 or 1928.
August 12 - Paramount's dramatic film Wings, which would go on to win the first Academy Award for Best Picture, opens at the Criterion Theater in New York City, with an unheard-of roadshow admission price of $2.00 per ticket.
September 23 - FOX Films acquires the rights to the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film technology, which had been developed in 1919 by three German inventors, Josef Engl, Hans Vogt, and Joseph Massole.
October 6 - The Jazz Singer, (starring Al Jolson), premieres at the Warner Theater in New York City. Although not the first 'talkie', The Jazz Singer becomes the first box-office hit and popularizes sound motion pictures. It was the highest-grossing movie of all-time.
Italian Alberto Rabagliati wins a Rudolph Valentino look-alike contest and moves to Hollywood to start his acting career.

Top grossing films

Academy Awards

Best Production: Wings
Best Artistic Quality: Sunrise
Best Actor: Emil Jannings for The Way of All Flesh and the 1928 movie The Last Command
Best Actress: Janet Gaynor for Seventh Heaven and Sunrise, as well as the 1928 movie Street Angel
Best Director: Frank Borzage for Seventh Heaven

Films released in 1927

Annie Laurie
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (documentary)
The Cat and the Canary
The Chinese Parrot
College, starring Buster Keaton
The General, starring Buster Keaton
Her Wild Oat, starring Colleen Moore
The Honorable Mr. Buggs
Hula, starring Clara Bow
Huntingtower, by George Pearson (John Buchan novel)
It, starring Clara Bow and Antonio Moreno
The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy
The Kid Brother, a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
The Lodger
London After Midnight, starring Lon Chaney, Sr., Conrad Nagel and Marceline Day, directed by Tod Browning
Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang
Mockery, starring Lon Chaney
Napoléon directed by Abel Gance
October: Ten Days That Shook the World
The Private Life of Helen of Troy
The Scar of Shame, a race movie starring Harry Henderson and Lucia Lynn Moses
Seventh Heaven, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, starring Ramón Novarro and Norma Shearer, directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Sunrise, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor, directed by F.W. Murnau
Underworld
The Unknown, starring Lon Chaney Sr., Norman Kerry, and Joan Crawford
The Way of All Flesh, starring Emil Jannings
Why Girls Love Sailors
Wings, starring Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen and Jobyna Ralston

Short film series

Animated short film series

Births

January 17 - Eartha Kitt, actress, singer
February 7 - Juliette Greco singer, actress
February 20 - Sidney Poitier, actor
March 1 - Harry Belafonte actor, singer
March 20 - Cairbre (also known as Leo), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's lion mascot, born in Dublin Zoo
April 13- Maurice Ronet actor, director, writer
May 13 - Herbert Ross, director (d. 2001)
June 23 - Bob Fosse, director (d. 1987)
July 4 - Gina Lollobrigida, actress
July 6 - Janet Leigh, actress (d. 2004)
September 16 - Peter Falk, actor
October 14 - Roger Moore, actor
October 18 - George C. Scott, film and stage actor (d. 1999)
October 31 - Lee Grant, actress
November 14 - McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. February 15, 1996)

Film Debuts

January 13 - Arnold Daly, stage & film actor
March 17 - Charles Emmett Mack, actor age 26
April 25 - Earle Williams, American silent screen actor
May 7 - Bruce McRae, stage & screen actor
June 3 - Einar Hanson, Swedish actor
June 4 - Robert McKim, actor (the villain in Fairbanks' "Mark of Zorro")
September 5 - Marcus Loew, theater chain executive & founder of Loews Theaters
October 5 - Sam Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers studios
October 13 - Hughie Mack, rotund American silent film actor
November 4 - Valli Valli, stage & film actress
December 15 - Romaine Fielding, silent film actor and director

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