The year 1947 in film involved some significant events. [edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) | Rank | Title | Studio | Gross | | 1. | Welcome Stranger | Paramount | $6,100,000 | | 2. | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
The Egg and I | RKO
Universal | $5,500,000 | | 3. | Unconquered | Paramount | $5,250,000 | | 4. | Life With Father | Warner Brothers | $5,057,000 | | 5. | Forever Amber | 20th Century Fox | $5,000,000 | | 6. | Road to Rio | Paramount | $4,500,000 | | 7. | Green Dolphin Street | MGM | $4,384,000 | | 8. | Mother Wore Tights | 20th Century Fox | $4,100,000 | | 9. | Cass Timberlane | MGM | $3,983,000 | source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1947.shtml [edit] 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)
[edit] Films released in 1947 - An Ideal Husband
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, starring Cary Grant, Shirley Temple and Myrna Loy
- The Bishop's Wife, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven
- Black Narcissus, written and directed by Powell and Pressburger, starring Deborah Kerr
- Brighton Rock
- Body and Soul, starring John Garfield and Lilli Palmer
- Boomerang
- Born to Kill
- Buck Privates Come Home, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Captain from Castile
- Crossfire, starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan and Gloria Grahame
- Daisy Kenyon, starring Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews
- Dark Passage, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
- Desert Fury, starring John Hodiak
- A Double Life, starring Ronald Colman and Shelley Winters
- Down to Earth
- The Egg and I, starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray
- Fame is the Spur, with Michael Redgrave
- The Farmer's Daughter, starring Loretta Young
- Forever Amber, starring Linda Darnell
- The Foxes of Harrow
- Framed
- Fun and Fancy Free
- Gentleman's Agreement, starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and John Garfield
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, starring Gene Tierney
- Good News
- Great Expectations (U.S. release)
- Green Dolphin Street, starring Lana Turner
- 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, starring Victor Mature and Richard Widmark
- Lady in the Lake
- The Last Stage
- Life with Father
- Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
- The Long Night
- Lured, starring Lucille Ball
- Mine Own Executioner
- Miracle on 34th Street, starring Maureen O'Hara
- Monsieur Verdoux
- Moss Rose
- Mother Wore Tights, starring Betty Grable
- Mourning Becomes Electra, starring Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave
- 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, starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer
- The Paradine Case, starring Gregory Peck
- The Perils of Pauline
- Possessed, starring Joan Crawford
- Quai des Orfèvres
- Ramrod, starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake
- Ride the Pink Horse
- Road to Rio, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope
- T-Men
- The Sea of Grass
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
- The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, starring Betty Grable
- Shoeshine (U.S. release)
- Song of Scheherazade, starring Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Brian Donlevy
- Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, starring Susan Hayward
- Unconquered
- Vivere in pace
- The Voice of the Turtle
- The Web
- The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
[edit] Serials [edit] Short film series [edit] Births - February 7 - Wayne Allwine, voiceover actor (d. 2009)
- March 6 - Rob Reiner, actor, comedian, movie producer
- March 11 - Brigitte Fossey, French actress
- March 19 - Glenn Close, American actress
- March 26 – Dar Robinson, film stuntman (d. 1986)
- April 12 - David Letterman - US entertainer
- April 15 - Lois Chiles - US actress
- April 23 - Blair Brown, actress
- May 4 - Richard Jenkins, actor
- October 15 - Lynn Lowry - US actress
- September 21 - Stephen King, author
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