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
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
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, 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
Serials
Short film series
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
Deaths
Film Debuts