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The following is an overview of 1927 in film , including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Overview of the events of 1927 in film
Top-grossing films (Worldwide)
Rank
Title
Gross
1.
The Jazz Singer $7,630,000
2.
Wings $3,600,000
3.
Blake of Scotland Yard $3,500,000
4.
7th Heaven $2,500,000[1]
5.
Love $1,677,000
6.
Tell it to the Marines $1,658,000
7.
Metropolis $1,236,166
8.
Jesse James $1,200,000
9.
Mr. Wu $1,068,000
10.
When a Man Loves $1,037,000[2]
Events [3] [4]
January 10 - Fritz Lang 's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis
March 11 - World's largest movie theatre, the Roxy Theatre , opens in New York City.
April 7 - Abel Gance 's Napoleon Polyvision . It will be more than three decades before films with a widescreen format would again be attempted.
May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded in Los Angeles by Douglas Fairbanks . The 1st Academy Awards (Oscars) will be awarded to films which are released in 1927 or 1928.
August 12 - Paramount's dramatic film Wings Academy Award for Best Picture , opens at the Criterion Theater in New York City, with an unheard-of roadshow admission price of $2.00 per ticket.
September 5 - Nicholas Schenck becomes president of Loews Inc. following the death of Marcus Loew .
September 7 - Oswald the Lucky Rabbit debuts in Trolley Troubles
September 23 - Fox Films acquires the rights to the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film technology, which had been developed in 1919 by three German inventors, Josef Engl , Hans Vogt , and Joseph Massole.
October 6 - The Jazz Singer Al Jolson , premieres at the Warner Theater in New York City. Although not the first 'talkie' , The Jazz Singer becomes the first box-office hit and popularizes sound motion pictures. It is the highest-grossing movie up to this time.[citation needed
December 3 - The silent short Putting Pants on Philip Laurel and Hardy , is released in the United States.
Cinematograph Films Act sets a minimum quota for British films to be shown in British cinemas.Italian Alberto Rabagliati wins a Rudolph Valentino look-alike contest and moves to Hollywood to start his acting career. Academy Awards Notable films released in 1927 U.S.A. unless stated
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Annie Laurie Lillian Gish Bed and Sofa U.S.S.R. )The Beloved Rogue Alan Crosland , starring John Barrymore , Marceline Day Berlin: Symphony of a Great City Germany )Bigamie Heinrich George - (Germany)Blighty Adrian Brunel ; starring Ellaline Terriss and Lillian Hall-Davis - (Britain )The Bugle Call 'The Cat and the Canary Paul Leni Chicago Frank Urson Children of Divorce Clara Bow , Gary Cooper and Esther Ralston The Chinese Parrot Paul Leni The Club of the Big Deed U.S.S.R. )College Buster Keaton Confetti Graham Cutts , starring Jack Buchanan and Annette Benson - (GB )The Dove Roland West , starring Norma Talmadge , Gilbert Roland and Noah Beery Downhill Alfred Hitchcock , starring Ivor Novello and Isabel Jeans - (GB )The Drop Kick Millard Webb , starring Richard Barthelmess Education of a Prince France )The End of St. Petersburg U.S.S.R. )The Fair Co-Ed Sam Wood ; starring Marion Davies and Johnny Mack Brown The First Auto Roy Del Ruth , starring Barney Oldfield , Patsy Ruth Miller , Charles Emmett Mack , Russell Simpson , Gibson Gowland The Forty-First U.S.S.R. )The Gaucho F. Richard Jones , starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Vélez Ghost Train Géza von Bolváry , starring Guy Newall - (GB /Germany )Her Wild Oat Marshall Neilan , starring Colleen Moore His First Flame Harry Edwards , starring Harry Langdon His Greatest Bluff Germany )The Honorable Mr. Buggs Anna May Wong Hula Victor Fleming , starring Clara Bow Huntingtower George Pearson , starring Harry Lauder - (Britain )Husband Hunters John G. Adolfi starring Mae Busch , Jean Arthur and Mildred Harris It Clara Bow The Jazz Singer Alan Crosland , starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy Johnny Get Your Hair Cut B. Reeves Eason and Archie Mayo starring Harry Carey The Kid Brother Harold Lloyd The King of Kings Cecil B. DeMille , starring H. B. Warner , Dorothy Cumming and Joseph Schildkraut The Lady in Ermine James Flood , starring Corinne Griffith The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog Alfred Hitchcock , starring June and Ivor Novello - (GB )London After Midnight Tod Browning , starring Lon Chaney, Sr. , Conrad Nagel and Marceline Day Long Pants Frank Capra , starring Harry Langdon The Love of Jeanne Ney G.W. Pabst - (Germany )The Love of Sunya Albert Parker starring Gloria Swanson The Loves of Carmen Raoul Walsh , starring Dolores del Río Madame Pompadour Herbert Wilcox and starring Dorothy Gish - (GB)Man from the Restaurant U.S.S.R. )Mata Hari Magda Sonja - (Germany)Metropolis Fritz Lang , starring Alfred Abel - (Germany )Mockery Benjamin Christensen starring Lon Chaney The Mountain Eagle Alfred Hitchcock , starring Nita Naldi - (GB /Germany )My Best Girl Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers Napoléon Abel Gance , starring Albert Dieudonne - (France )October: Ten Days That Shook the World U.S.S.R. )The Only Way Herbert Wilcox , starring John Martin Harvey and Madge Stuart - (Britain )The Patent Leather Kid Richard Barthelmess The Private Life of Helen of Troy Alexander Korda Quality Street Sidney Franklin , starring Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel Quinneys Maurice Elvey and starring John Longden and Alma Taylor - (Britain )The Red Mill Fatty Arbuckle ), starring Marion Davies The Ring Alfred Hitchcock - (GB )Robinson Crusoe Romance of the Western Chamber China )The Scar of Shame race movie starring Harry Henderson and Lucia Lynn MosesSeventh Heaven Frank Borzage , starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell Shooting Stars Anthony Asquith and A.V. Bramble - (GB )Singed Blanche Sweet and Warner Baxter Slide, Kelly, Slide Harry Carey Sorrell and Son H.B. Warner and Anna Q. Nilsson - (GB )Spring Fever Joan Crawford The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg Ernst Lubitsch , starring Ramón Novarro and Norma Shearer Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans F. W. Murnau , starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor Svengali Gennaro Righelli and starring Paul Wegener - (Germany )Tillie the Toiler Hobart Henley ; starring Marion Davies and Matt Moore Topsy and Eva Del Lord ; starring Rosetta Duncan and Vivian Duncan Twelve Miles Out Jack Conway , starring John Gilbert and Joan Crawford Uncle Tom's Cabin Harry A. Pollard , starring Margarita Fischer Underworld Josef von Sternberg , starring George Bancroft , Clive Brook , Evelyn Brent The Unknown Tod Browning , starring Lon Chaney Sr. , Norman Kerry , and Joan Crawford The Way of All Flesh Emil Jannings When a Man Loves Vitaphone sound movie starring John Barrymore and Dolores Costello who would become John Barrymore's future wifeWhy Girls Love Sailors Laurel and Hardy shortWings William A. Wellman , starring Clara Bow , Charles 'Buddy' Rogers and Richard Arlen Comedy film series Animated short film series Births January 4 - Barbara Rush , American actress
January 15 - Phyllis Coates , American actress
January 17 - Eartha Kitt , American actress and singer (died 2008)
January 31 - Jean Speegle Howard (died 2000)
February 7 - Juliette Gréco , French singer and actress
February 20 - Sidney Poitier , American actor
March 1 - Harry Belafonte , American actor and singer
March 20 - Cairbre (also known as Leo), Dublin Zoo -born Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion mascot
March 21 - Virginia Weidler , American actress (died 1968)
March 31 - William Daniels , American actor
April 13 - Maurice Ronet , French film actor, director and writer (died 1983)
April 30 - Ellen Alaküla , Estonian actress (died 2011)
May 5 - Pat Carroll , American actress
May 11 - Bernard Fox , Welsh actor (died 2016)
May 13 - Herbert Ross , American film director, producer and choreographer (died 2001)
May 30 - Clint Walker , American actor (died 2018)
June 8 - Jerry Stiller , American actor and comedian
June 23 - Bob Fosse , American dancer, musical theater choreographer, director, screenwriter and director (died 1987)
June 27 - Geoffrey Palmer , British actor
July 4
July 6 - Janet Leigh , American actress (died 2004)
August 9 - Robert Shaw , British actor and novelist (died 1978)
August 30 - Bill Daily , American actor
September 16 - Peter Falk , American actor (died 2011)
September 19
October 14 - Roger Moore , English actor (died 2017)
October 18 - George C. Scott , American film and stage actor (died 1999)
October 27 - Silvia Laidla , Estonian actress (died 2012)
October 31 - Lee Grant , American actress
November 12 - John Hollis , British screen actor (died 2005)
November 17 - Fenella Fielding , English actress (died 2018)
November 14 - McLean Stevenson , American actor (died 1996)
November 20 - Estelle Parsons , American actress
November 23 - Sybil Jason , American actress (died 2011) Deaths January 13 - Arnold Daly , American actor, playwright and producer (born 1875)
March 17 - Charles Emmett Mack , American actor (born 1900)
April 25 - Earle Williams , American actor (born 1880)
May 7 - Bruce McRae , American stage and screen actor (born 1867)
May 16 - Sam Bernard , English stage and screen actor (born 1863)
May 20 - Oscar Stribolt , Danish actor (born 1873)
June 3 - Einar Hanson , Swedish stage and screen actor (born 1897)
June 4 - Robert McKim , American actor (born 1886)
July 26 - June Mathis , American screenwriter (born 1889)
September 5 - Marcus Loew , American theater chain executive & founder of Loews Theaters (born 1870)
October 5 - Sam Warner , American co-founder of Warner Brothers studios (born 1887)
October 13 - Hughie Mack , American actor (born 1884)
November 4 - Valli Valli , German stage and film actress (born 1882)
December 6 - Kate Toncray , American actress (born 1867)
December 16 - Romaine Fielding , American actor and director (born 1868) Film debuts See also References
