1947 in film
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The year 1947 in film involved some significant events.
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Events []
- May 22 - Great Expectations is premiered in New York.
- 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.
Top grossing films (U.S.) []
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
- 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)
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 []
U.S.A. unless stated
- 13 Rue Madeleine, starring James Cagney
ABC
- Admiral Nakhimov - (USSR)
- Along the Sungari River (Songhua-jiang shang) - (China)
- Angel and the Badman, starring John Wayne and Gail Russell
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, starring Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, Myrna Loy
- Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, starring Hildegard Knef - (Germany)
- The Bishop's Wife, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
- Black Narcissus, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, Jean Simmons - (GB)
- Body and Soul, directed by Robert Rossen, starring John Garfield and Lilli Palmer
- Boomerang, starring Dana Andrews
- Born to Kill, starring Claire Trevor and Lawrence Tierney
- The Brasher Doubloon, starring George Montgomery
- Brighton Rock, a Boulting Brothers film, starring Richard Attenborough - (GB)
- Brute Force, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Burt Lancaster
- Buck Privates Come Home, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Bury Me Dead, starring June Lockhart and Hugh Beaumont
- Captain Boycott, directed by Frank Launder, starring Stewart Granger - (GB)
- Captain from Castile, starring Tyrone Power
- Cinderella (Zolushka) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Crossfire, starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
DEF
- Daisy Kenyon, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
- Dancing with Crime, starring Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim - (GB)
- Dark Passage, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall`
- Dead Reckoning, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott
- Deep Valley, directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Ida Lupino
- Desert Fury, starring John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott
- Desperate, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Steve Brodie and Raymond Burr
- Devil in the Flesh (Diable au corps) - (France)
- The Devil Thumbs a Ride, starring Lawrence Tierney
- Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, starring Boris Karloff and Ralph Byrd
- A Double Life, starring Ronald Colman and Shelley Winters
- Down to Earth, starring Rita Hayworth and Larry Parks
- Dreams That Money Can Buy, directed by Hans Richter
- The Egg and I, starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray
- Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon (Ba qian li lu yun he yue) - (China)
- Escape Me Never, starring Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker, Errol Flynn
- The Exile, directed by Max Ophuls, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Maria Montez
- Fame is the Spur, a Boulting Brothers film, with Michael Redgrave - (GB)
- The Farmer's Daughter, starring Loretta Young
- Fear in the Night, starring DeForest Kelley
- Fireworks, directed by Kenneth Anger
- Flesh Will Surrender (Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo), starring Aldo Fabrizi - (Italy)
- Forever Amber, starring Linda Darnell
- The Foxes of Harrow, starring Rex Harrison and Maureen O'Hara - (GB/U.S.)
- Framed, starring Glenn Ford
- Frieda, directed by Basil Dearden, starring David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling - (GB)
- The Fugitive, starring Henry Fonda and Dolores del Río
- Fun and Fancy Free, an animated film from Disney and RKO
GHIJ
- The Garcias Return! (¡Vuelven los Garcia!), starring Pedro Infante - (Mexico)
- Gentleman's Agreement, starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, Celeste Holm, John Garfield
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison
- Golden Earrings, starring Ray Milland and Marlene Dietrich
- Good News, starring June Allyson and Peter Lawford
- Green Dolphin Street, starring Lana Turner and Donna Reed
- The Guilt of Janet Ames, starring Rosalind Russell
- The Guilty, starring Bonita Granville
- Hi-De-Ho, starring Cab Calloway
- High Wall, starring Robert Taylor
- Honeymoon, starring Shirley Temple
- The Hucksters, starring Clark Gable and Deborah Kerr
- Hue and Cry, the first Ealing comedy, directed by Charles Crichton - (GB)
- The Humpbacked Horse (Konyok Gorbunok) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Hungry Hill, starring Margaret Lockwood and Dennis Price - (GB)
- An Ideal Husband, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Michael Wilding and Paulette Goddard - (GB)
- If Winter Comes, starring Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Angela Lansbury
- In Those Days (In jenen Tagen) - (Germany)
- It Always Rains on Sunday, starring Googie Withers and Jack Warner - (GB)
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue, starring Victor Moore, Don DeFore, Gale Storm, Charlie Ruggles
- Jenny and the Soldier (Soldaten og Jenny) - (Denmark)
- Johnny O'Clock, starring Dick Powell
KLM
- Killer Dill, starring Stuart Erwin and Anne Gwynne
- Kiss of Death, starring Victor Mature and Richard Widmark
- The Lady from Shanghai, directed by and starring Orson Welles, with Rita Hayworth
- Lady in the Lake, directed by and starring Robert Montgomery
- The Last Stage (Ostatni etap) - (Poland)
- Law of the Lash, starring Lash LaRue
- Life with Father, starring William Powell and Elizabeth Taylor
- A Likely Story, starring Barbara Hale and Bill Williams
- Living in a Big Way, starring Gene Kelly and Marie McDonald
- The Long Night, starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Bel Geddes
- The Lost Moment, starring Robert Cummings and Susan Hayward
- Lost Youth (Gioventù perduta), directed by Pietro Germi - (Italy)
- Lured, starring George Sanders and Lucille Ball
- The Macomber Affair, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett
- The Man I Love, starring Ida Lupino and Robert Alda
- Marriage in the Shadows (Ehe im Schatten) - (East Germany)
- Mine Own Executioner, starring Burgess Meredith - (GB)
- Miracle on 34th Street, starring Edmund Gwenn, John Payne, Maureen O'Hara
- Monsieur Verdoux, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin
- Monsieur Vincent, starring Pierre Fresnay - (France)
- Moss Rose, starring Peggy Cummins and Victor Mature
- Mother Wore Tights, starring Betty Grable
- Mourning Becomes Electra, starring Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave
- My Favourite Brunette, starring Bob Hope
- My Wild Irish Rose, a biopic starring Dennis Morgan (as Chancellor Olcott)
NOP
- Nicholas Nickleby, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Stanley Holloway - (GB)
- Nightmare Alley, starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell
- Nora Prentiss, starring Ann Sheridane
- The October Man, starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood - (GB)
- Odd Man Out, directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason and Robert Newton - (GB)
- One Wonderful Sunday (Subarashiki Nichiyōbi), directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)
- L'onorevole Angelina (Parliamentarian Angelina), directed by Luigi Zampa, starring Anna Magnani - (Italy)
- Out of the Past, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas
- The Paradine Case, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Ann Todd, Louis Jourdan, Charles Laughton
- The Pearl (La Perla), starring Pedro Armendáriz - (Mexico)
- The Perils of Pauline, starring Betty Hutton
- Pirates of Monterey, starring Rod Cameron and Maria Montez
- Possessed, starring Joan Crawford and Van Heflin
- Pursued, starring Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright
QRS
- Quai des Orfèvres, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Louis Jouvet - (France)
- Railroaded!, directed by Anthony Mann, starring John Ireland and Hugh Beaumont
- Ramrod, starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake
- The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Nagaya shinshiroku), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
- The Red House, starring Edward G. Robinson and Judith Anderson
- Ride the Pink Horse, directed by and starring Robert Montgomery
- Riffraff, starring Pat O'Brien and Anne Jeffreys
- Road to Rio, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope
- The Romance of Rosy Ridge, starring Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh
- The Root of All Evil, starring Phyllis Calvert and Michael Rennie - (GB)
- School for Postmen (L'École des facteurs), a comedy short directed by and starring Jacques Tati - (France)
- The Sea of Grass, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
- Secret Agent (Podvig razvedchika), directed by Boris Barnet - (U.S.S.R.)
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo
- A Ship to India (Skepp till India land), directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
- The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, starring Betty Grable
- Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, starring Susan Hayward
- Snow Trail (Ginrei no hate), starring Toshiro Mifune - (Japan)
- So Well Remembered, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring John Mills and Martha Scott - (GB)
- Song of Scheherazade, starring Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Brian Donlevy
- Song of the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
- The Spring River Flows East (Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu) - (China)
- Story of a Bad Woman (Historia de una mala mujer) - (Argentina)
TUV
- T-Men, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Dennis O'Keefe
- Temptation Harbour, starring Robert Newton and Simone Simon - (GB)
- They Made Me a Fugitive, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Trevor Howard - (GB)
- They Won't Believe Me, starring Robert Young and Susan Hayward
- This Time for Keeps, starring Esther Williams and Jimmy Durante
- The Three Garcias (Los tres García), starring Pedro Infante - (Mexico)
- To Live in Peace (Vivere in pace) - (Italy)
- The Two Mrs. Carrolls, starring Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
- Uncle Silas, starring Jean Simmons - (GB)
- Unconquered, starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard
- The Unfaithful, starring Ann Sheridan and Lew Ayres
- The Unsuspected, starring Claude Rains and Joan Caulfield
- The Voice of the Turtle, starring Ronald Reagan
WXYZ
- The Web, starring Ella Raines and Edmond O'Brien
- Whispering City, starring Paul Lukas
- The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- The Woman on the Beach, starring Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan
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)
- Blackie the Sheep (1947-1949)
- Mighty Mouse (1942–1955)
- Pluto (1937–1951)
- Goofy (1939–1953)
- Woody Woodpecker (1941–1949)
- Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
Births []
- February 2 - Farrah Fawcett, American actress (died 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 11 - Brigitte Fossey, French actress
- March 19 - Glenn Close, American actress
- April 15 - Lois Chiles, American actress
- April 18 - James Woods, American actor
- April 23 - Blair Brown, American actress
- May 4 - Richard Jenkins, American actor
- June 1 - Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor
- June 6 - Robert Englund, American actor
- June 20 - Candy Clark, American actress
- July 22 - Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian and director
- July 30 - William Atherton, American actor
- July 30 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder and 38th Governor of California
- July 31 - Richard Griffiths, English actor (died 2013)
- August 27 - Barbara Bach, American actress
- October 1 - Stephen Collins, American actor
- October 17 - Michael McKean, American actor and comedian
- October 24 - Kevin Kline, American actor
- October 29 - Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
- September 14 - Sam Neill, New Zealand actor
- September 21 - Stephen King, American author
- November 30 - Stuart Baird, English editor, producer and director
- December 11 - Teri Garr, American actress and comedienne
- December 16 - Ben Cross, English actor
- December 31 - Tim Matheson, American actor, director and producer
Deaths []
- January 26 - Grace Moore, American opera singer and actress
- March 8 - Victor Potel, American actor and comedian
- May 31 - Adrienne Ames, American actress
- June 1 - Anna Hoffman-Uddgren, Swedish director, actress
- June 5 - Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor, director
- August 30 - Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director
- September 21 - Harry Carey, American actor