1947 in film

The year 1947 in film involved some significant events.

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Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1947 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1947
RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
1 Welcome Stranger Paramount $6,100,000[1]
2 The Egg and I Universal $5,500,000[1]
3 Life with Father Warner Bros. $5,057,000[2]
4 Forever Amber 20th Century Fox $5,000,000[1]
5 Unconquered Paramount $4,633,486[3]
6 Road to Rio $4,500,000[1]
7 Green Dolphin Street MGM $4,384,380[4]
8 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer RKO $4,200,000[5]
9 Mother Wore Tights 20th Century Fox $4,100,000[6]
10 Cass Timberlane MGM $3,983,000[4]

Events

Awards

Category/Organization5th Golden Globe Awards
March 10, 1948
20th Academy Awards
March 20, 1948
Best FilmGentleman's Agreement
Best DirectorElia Kazan
Gentleman's Agreement
Best ActorRonald Colman
A Double Life
Best ActressRosalind Russell
Mourning Becomes Electra
Loretta Young
The Farmer's Daughter
Best Supporting ActorEdmund Gwenn
Miracle on 34th Street
Best Supporting ActressCeleste Holm
Gentleman's Agreement
Best Screenplay, AdaptedGeorge Seaton
Miracle on 34th Street
George Seaton
Miracle on 34th Street
Best Screenplay, OriginalSidney Sheldon
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Top Ten Money Making Stars

Rank Actor/Actress
1. Bing Crosby
2. Betty Grable
3. Ingrid Bergman
4. Gary Cooper
5. Humphrey Bogart
6. Bob Hope
7. Clark Gable
8. Gregory Peck
9. Claudette Colbert
10. Alan Ladd

Notable films released in 1947

United States unless stated

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  • Jenny and the Soldier (Soldaten og Jenny) – (Denmark)
  • Johnny O'Clock, starring Dick Powell

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Serials

Short film series

Births

  • January 4 – Tim Rooney, American actor (d. 2006)
  • January 8 – David Bowie, English singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2016)
  • January 11
    • William Caskey Swaim, American actor
    • Vinny Vella, American actor, talk show host and comedian (d. 2019)
  • January 15 – Andrea Martin, Canadian-American actress
  • January 17
    • Jane Elliot, American actress
    • Peter Werner, American director (d. 2023)
  • January 18 – Takeshi Kitano, Japanese writer-director, actor, comedian, author and video game creator
  • January 23 – Joel Douglas, American producer
  • January 26 – Richard Portnow, American actor
  • January 27 – Peter Burroughs, British actor
  • January 29 – Ernie Lively, American actor and acting coach (d. 2021)
  • January 31
  • February 2 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (d. 2009)
  • February 3
  • February 5 – David Ladd, American producer, actor
  • February 7 – Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (d. 2009)
  • February 11 – Brian Capron, English actor
  • February 24 – Edward James Olmos, American actor
  • February 28 – Stephanie Beacham, English actress
  • March 1 – Alan Thicke, Canadian-American actor (d. 2016)
  • March 4 – Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor (d. 2015)
  • March 6 – Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, producer and director
  • March 10 – Colin Stinton, Canadian actor
  • March 18
    • Patrick Barlow, English actor, comedian and playwright
    • Aleksander Krupa, Polish actor
  • March 19
  • March 20 – Anthony Peck, American actor (d. 1996)
  • March 22 – Tony Pope, American voice actor (d. 2004)
  • March 23 – Kim Hee-ra, South Korean movie actor
  • March 25 – Elton John, English singer and songwriter
  • March 26 – John Morton, American movie actor, stuntman and writer
  • April 2
  • April 6 – John Ratzenberger, American actor
  • April 11
  • April 15 – Lois Chiles, American actress
  • April 18
  • April 19 – Gillian Jones, Australian actress
  • April 25 – Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
  • April 26 – Ron McLarty, American actor and playwright (d. 2020)
  • April 30 – Elizabeth Hawthorne, New Zealand actress
  • May 4 – Richard Jenkins, American actor
  • May 6 – Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
  • May 8
  • May 9 – Anthony Higgins, English actor
  • May 13 – Charles Gordon, American producer (d. 2020)
  • May 14 – Hans Strydom, South African actor and writer
  • May 16 – Bill Smitrovich, American actor
  • May 18 – Hugh Keays-Byrne, British-Australian actor and director (d. 2020)
  • May 25 – Jacki Weaver, Australian actress
  • May 31 – Steven Kampmann, American actor, writer and director
  • June 1 – Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor
  • June 6 – Robert Englund, American actor
  • June 10 – Fred Asparagus, American comedian and actor (d. 1998)
  • June 19 – Youn Yuh-jung, South-Korean actress
  • June 20 – Candy Clark, American actress
  • June 22 – David Lander, American character actor, comedian, musician and baseball scout (d. 2020)
  • June 23
    • Bryan Brown, Australian actor
    • Kerry Rossall, American stunt coordinator, stuntman, actor and producer
  • June 24 – Peter Weller, American actor
  • June 25 – Jimmie Walker, American actor and comedian
  • June 30 – Tõnis Rätsep, Estonian actor
  • July 6 – Richard Beckinsale, English actor (d. 1979)
  • July 9 – O. J. Simpson, American football player and actor (d. 2024)
  • July 22 – Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian and director
  • July 29 – Dennis Cleveland Stewart, American actor and dancer (d. 1994)
  • July 30
  • July 31 – Richard Griffiths, English actor (d. 2013)
  • August 3 – John Wesley, American actor (d. 2019)
  • August 5 – Angry Anderson, Australian singer-songwriter, television personality and actor
  • August 15 – Jenny Hanley, English actress
  • August 19 - Gerald McRaney, American actor
  • August 20 - Ray Wise, American actor
  • August 22 – Cindy Williams, American actress (d. 2023)
  • August 24 – Anne Archer, American actress
  • August 27 – Barbara Bach, American actress
  • August 31 – Mona Marshall, American voice actress
  • September 6
  • September 7 – David McGillivray, British screenwriter
  • September 12 – Bjørn Floberg, Norwegian actor
  • September 14 – Sam Neill, New Zealand actor
  • September 15 – Sandra Prinsloo, South African actress
  • September 21 – Stephen King, American author
  • September 23
  • September 27 – Denis Lawson, Scottish actor and director
  • September 29 – Martin Ferrero, American actor
  • October 1
  • October 13 – Susan Blommaert, American actress
  • October 17
  • October 18 – Joe Morton, American actor
  • October 23 – Frank DiLeo, American actor (d. 2011)
  • October 24 – Kevin Kline, American actor
  • October 26 – Ene Järvis, Estonian actress
  • October 29 – Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
  • November 13 – Joe Mantegna, American actor
  • November 21 – Tiny Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2019)
  • November 24 – Dwight Schultz, American actor and voice actor
  • November 25
  • November 30
  • December 4 – Tõnu Kark, Estonian actor
  • December 5 – JoBe Cerny, American actor
  • December 8 – Bruce Kimmel, American actor, director, writer
  • December 10 – Kathy Lamkin, American actress (d. 2022)
  • December 11 – Teri Garr, American actress and comedian
  • December 16 – Ben Cross, English actor (d. 2020)
  • December 17 – Wes Studi, Cherokee American actor and film producer
  • December 25 – Twink Caplan, American actress, comedian and producer
  • December 26 – Trina Parks, American actress
  • December 28 – Peter MacGregor-Scott, British producer (d. 2017)
  • December 29 – Ted Danson, American actor
  • December 31 – Tim Matheson, American actor, director and producer

Deaths

Film debuts

References

  1. Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  2. Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 28 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  3. Birchard 2004, p. 329.
  4. The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  5. Jewel, Richard. "RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951" in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p55
  6. Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  7. "Scotland Hosts the World's Longest Running Film Festival". Scotland.com. Retrieved 2014-07-18.

Bibliography

  • Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0813123240.


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