1947 in film

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The year 1947 in film involved some significant events.

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.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross
1.	Unconquered	Paramount	Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard	$6,100,000
2.	The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer The Egg and I	RKO Universal	Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray	$5,500,000
3.	Mother Wore Tights	20th Century Fox	Betty Grable	$5,250,000
4.	Life With Father	Warner Bros.	William Powell, Irene Dunne and Elizabeth Taylor	$5,057,000
5.	Green Dolphin Street	MGM	Lana Turner	$5,000,000
6.	Road to Rio	Paramount	Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope	$4,500,000
7.	Forever Amber	20th Century Fox	Linda Darnell and Cornel Wilde	$4,384,000
8.	Gentleman's Agreement	20th Century Fox	Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and John Garfield	$4,100,000
9.	Cass Timberlane	MGM	Spencer Tracy and Lana Turner	$3,983,000
10.	The Ghost and Mrs. Muir	20th Century Fox	Gene Tierney and Natalie Wood	$3,750,000
11.	The Bishop's Wife	RKO	Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven	$3,527,000
12.	Body and Soul	United Artists	John Garfield and Lilli Palmer	$3,305,000
13.	Miracle on 34th Street	20th Century Fox	Maureen O'Hara and John Payne and Natalie Wood	$3,150,000
14.	Possessed	Warner Bros.	Joan Crawford and Van Heflin	$3,133,000
15.	The Farmer's Daughter	RKO	Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten	$3,100,000
16.	The Shocking Miss Pilgrim	20th Century Fox	Betty Grable	$3,000,000
17.	Crossfire	RKO	Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan and Gloria Grahame	$2,756,000
18.	Dark Passage	Warner Bros.	Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall	$2,430,000
19.	Down to Earth	Columbia	Rita Hayworth and Larry Parks	$2,390,000
20.	Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman	Universal	Susan Hayward	$2,101,000

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

U.S.A. unless stated

• 13 Rue Madeleine
• Along the Sungari River (Songhua-jiang shang) - (China)
• Angel and the Badman
• 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 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu and Jean Simmons - (U.K.)
• Body and Soul, directed by Robert Rossen, starring John Garfield and Lilli Palmer
• Boomerang
• Born to Kill
• The Brasher Doubloon, starring George Montgomery
• Brighton Rock, a Boulting Brothers film, starring Richard Attenborough - (U.K.)
• Brute Force, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Burt Lancaster
• Buck Privates Come Home, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Captain Boycott, directed by Frank Launder, starring Stewart Granger - (U.K.)
• Captain from Castile, starring Tyrone Power
• Cinderella (Zolushka) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Crossfire, starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan and Gloria Grahame
• Daisy Kenyon, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews
• Dark Passage, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall`
• Dead Reckoning
• Desert Fury, starring John Hodiak
• Desperate
• Devil in the Flesh (Diable au corps) - (France)
• The Devil Thumbs a Ride, starring Lawrence Tierney
• Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
• A Double Life, starring Ronald Colman and Shelley Winters
• Down to Earth
• The Egg and I, starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray
• Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon (China)
• Fame is the Spur, a Boulting Brothers film, with Michael Redgrave - (U.K.)
• The Farmer's Daughter, starring Loretta Young
• Fear in the Night
• Fireworks, directed by Kenneth Anger
• Flesh Will Surrender (Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo) - (Italy)
• Forever Amber, starring Linda Darnell
• The Foxes of Harrow - (U.K./U.S.)
• Framed
• Frieda, directed by Basil Dearden, starring David Farrar, Glynis Johns and Mai Zetterling - (U.K.)
• The Fugitive, starring Henry Fonda and Dolores del Río
• Fun and Fancy Free
• Gentleman's Agreement, starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and John Garfield
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison
• Good News
• Great Expectations (U.S. release)
• Green Dolphin Street, starring Lana Turner
• Hi-De-Ho, starring Cab Calloway
• High Wall
• Honeymoon
• Hue and Cry, the first Ealing comedy, directed by Charles Crichton - (U.K.)
• The Humpbacked Horse - (U.S.S.R.)
• An Ideal Husband, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Michael Wilding and Paulette Goddard - (U.K.)
• Ima Hitotabi no - (Japan)
• It Always Rains on Sunday, starring Googie Withers and Jack Warner - (U.K.)
• It Happened on Fifth Avenue, starring Victor Moore, Don DeFore, Gale Storm and Charlie Ruggles
• Ivan the Terrible (U.S. release)\
• Johnny O'Clock, starring Dick Powell
• Killer Dill
• 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 La Rue
• Life with Father, starring William Powell and Elizabeth Taylor
• The Long Night
• The Lost Moment
• Lured, starring Lucille Ball
• The Macomber Affair
• Mine Own Executioner - (U.K.)
• Miracle on 34th Street, starring Edmund Gwenn and Maureen O'Hara
• Monsieur Verdoux, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin
• Monsieur Vincent, starring Pierre Fresnay - (France)
• Moss Rose
• Mother Wore Tights, starring Betty Grable
• Mourning Becomes Electra, starring Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave
• My Favourite Brunette
• My Wild Irish Rose, a biography starring Dennis Morgan as Chancellor Olcott
• Nicholas Nickleby, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Stanley Holloway - (U.K.)
• Nightmare Alley, starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell
• Nora Prentiss
• Odd Man Out, directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason and Robert Newton - (U.K.)
• One Wonderful Sunday, directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)
• L'onorevole Angelina, directed by Luigi Zampa, starring Anna Magnani - (Italy)
• Out of the Past, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer
• The Paradine Case, starring Gregory Peck
• The Pearl (La Perla) (international release), starring Pedro Armendáriz - (Mexico)
• The Perils of Pauline
• Possessed, starring Joan Crawford
• Pursued, starring Robert Mitchum
• Quai des Orfèvres, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Louis Jouvet - (France)
• Ramrod, starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake
• The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Nagaya shinshiroku), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
• Ride the Pink Horse
• Road to Rio, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope
• The Romance of Rosy Ridge, starring Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell and Janet Leigh
• The Sea of Grass
• Secret Agent, directed by Boris Barnet - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo
• A Ship to India - (Sweden)
• The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, starring Betty Grable
• Shoeshine (U.S. release)
• Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, starring Susan Hayward
• Snow Trail (Ginrei no hate) - (Japan)
• Song of Scheherazade, starring Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Brian Donlevy
• The Spring River Flows East (China)
• T-Men
• They Made Me a Fugitive - (U.K.)
• They Won't Believe Me
• To Live in Peace (Vivere in pace) - (Italy)
• Uncle Silas, starring Jean Simmons - (U.K.)
• Unconquered
• The Unsuspected, starring Claude Rains and Joan Caulfield
• The Voice of the Turtle
• The Web
• While the Sun Shines - (U.K.)
• 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 2 - Farrah Fawcett, actress (died 2009)
• February 24 - Edward James Olmos, Mexican-American actor
• February 28 - Stephanie Beacham, English actress
• March 6 - Rob Reiner, actor, comedian, producer and director
• March 11 - Brigitte Fossey, French actress
• March 19 - Glenn Close, actress
• April 15 - Lois Chiles, actress
• April 18 - James Woods, actor
• April 23 - Blair Brown, actress
• May 4 - Richard Jenkins, actor
• June 1 - Jonathan Pryce, Welch actor
• June 6 - Robert Englund, actor
• June 20 - Candy Clark, actress
• July 22 - Albert Brooks, actor, comedian and director
• July 30 - William Atherton, actor
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born actor, bodybuilder and 38th Governor of California
• July 31 - Richard Griffiths, English actor
• August 27 - Barbara Bach, actress
• October 1 - Stephen Collins, actor
• October 17 - Michael McKean, actor and comedian
• October 24 - Kevin Kline, actor
• October 29 - Richard Dreyfuss, actor
• September 14 - Sam Neill, New Zealand actor
• September 21 - Stephen King, horror author
• November 30 - Stuart Baird, English editor, producer and director
• December 11 - Teri Garr, actress and comedienne
• December 16 - Ben Cross, English actor
• December 31 - Tim Matheson, actor, director and producer

Deaths

• January 26 - Grace Moore, singer (opera) & actress
• March 8 - Victor Potel, comedian of silent & sound eras
• May 31 - Adrienne Ames, actress
• June 1 - Anna Hoffman-Uddgren, director, actress
• June 5 - Nils Olaf Chrisander, actor, director
• September 21 - Harry Carey, actor

Film debuts

• Anouk Aimée
• Pedro Armendáriz
• Dirk Bogarde
• Janet Leigh
• Toshiro Mifune
• Marilyn Monroe
• Jacques Tati
• Richard Widmark