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

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

• 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 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

• January 26 - Grace Moore, singer(opera) & actress
• May 31 - Adrienne Ames, 39, actress, from cancer.
• September 21 - Harry Carey, actor

Film Debuts

• Janet Leigh
• Marilyn Monroe