1947 in film explained
The year 1947 in film involved some significant events.
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| Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
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| 1 | Welcome Stranger | | $6,100,000[1] |
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| 2 | The Egg and I | Universal | $5,500,000 |
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| 3 | Life with Father | Warner Bros. | $5,057,000[2] |
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| 4 | Forever Amber | 20th Century Fox | $5,000,000 |
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| 5 | Unconquered | Paramount | $4,633,486 |
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| 6 | Road to Rio | $4,500,000 |
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| 7 | Green Dolphin Street | MGM | $4,384,380[3] |
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| 8 | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | RKO | $4,200,000[4] |
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| 9 | Mother Wore Tights | 20th Century Fox | $4,100,000[5] |
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| 10 | Cass Timberlane | MGM | $3,983,000 | |
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Events
Awards
Top Ten Money Making Stars
Notable films released in 1947
United States unless stated
A
B
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, starring Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, Myrna Loy
- Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, starring Hildegard Knef – (Germany)
- The Big Fix, starring Sheila Ryan
- The Bishop's Wife, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
- Black Narcissus, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, Jean Simmons – (GB)
- Body and Soul, directed by Robert Rossen, starring John Garfield and Lilli Palmer
- Boomerang, starring Dana Andrews
- Born to Kill, starring Claire Trevor and Lawrence Tierney
- The Brasher Doubloon, starring George Montgomery
- Brighton Rock, a Boulting Brothers film, starring Richard Attenborough – (GB)
- Brute Force, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Burt Lancaster
- Buck Privates Come Home, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
- Bury Me Dead, starring June Lockhart and Hugh Beaumont
C
- Captain Boycott, directed by Frank Launder, starring Stewart Granger – (GB)
- Captain from Castile, starring Tyrone Power
- Carnegie Hall, starring Marsha Hunt
- Cass Timberlane, starring Spencer Tracy and Lana Turner
- Cinderella (Zolushka) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Copacabana, starring Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda
- Crossfire, starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
- Cynthia (film), starring Elizabeth Taylor and George Murphy
D
- Daisy Kenyon, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
- Dancing with Crime, starring Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim – (GB)
- Dark Passage, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall'
- Dead Reckoning, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott
- Deep Valley, directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Ida Lupino
- Desert Fury, starring John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott
- Desperate, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Steve Brodie and Raymond Burr
- Devil in the Flesh (Diable au corps) – (France)
- The Devil Thumbs a Ride, starring Lawrence Tierney
- Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, starring Boris Karloff and Ralph Byrd
- Driftwood, starring Walter Brennan and Natalie Wood
- A Double Life, starring Ronald Colman and Shelley Winters
- Down to Earth, starring Rita Hayworth and Larry Parks
- Dreams That Money Can Buy, directed by Hans Richter
E
F
- Fame is the Spur, a Boulting Brothers film, with Michael Redgrave – (GB)
- Far Away Love, directed by Chen Liting, starring Zhao Dan and Qin Yi – (China)
- The Farmer's Daughter, starring Loretta Young
- Fear in the Night, starring DeForest Kelley
- Fireworks, directed by Kenneth Anger
- The Flame, starring Vera Ralston and Broderick Crawford
- Flesh Will Surrender (Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo), starring Aldo Fabrizi – (Italy)
- Forever Amber, starring Linda Darnell
- The Foxes of Harrow, starring Rex Harrison and Maureen O'Hara – (GB/U.S.)
- Framed, starring Glenn Ford
- Frieda, directed by Basil Dearden, starring David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling – (GB)
- The Fugitive, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Dolores del Río
- Fun and Fancy Free, an animated film from Disney and RKO
G
- The Garcias Return! (¡Vuelven los Garcia!), starring Pedro Infante – (Mexico)
- Gentleman's Agreement, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, Celeste Holm, John Garfield
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison
- Golden Earrings, starring Ray Milland and Marlene Dietrich
- Good News, starring June Allyson and Peter Lawford
- Green Dolphin Street, starring Lana Turner and Donna Reed
- The Guilt of Janet Ames, starring Rosalind Russell
- The Guilty, starring Bonita Granville
H
I
- An Ideal Husband, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Michael Wilding and Paulette Goddard – (GB)
- If Winter Comes, starring Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Angela Lansbury
- The Imperfect Lady, starring Ray Milland and Teresa Wright
- In Those Days (In jenen Tagen) – (Germany)
- It Always Rains on Sunday, starring Googie Withers and Jack Warner – (GB)
- It Happened in Brooklyn, starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, and Jimmy Durante
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue, starring Victor Moore, Don DeFore, Gale Storm, Charlie Ruggles
J
K
L
- The Lady from Shanghai, directed by and starring Orson Welles, with Rita Hayworth
- Lady in the Lake, directed by and starring Robert Montgomery
- Last of the Redskins, starring Michael O'Shea
- The Last Stage (Ostatni etap) – (Poland)
- The Late George Apley, starring Ronald Colman
- Law of the Lash, starring Lash LaRue
- Life with Father, starring William Powell and Elizabeth Taylor
- A Likely Story, starring Barbara Hale and Bill Williams
- Living in a Big Way, starring Gene Kelly and Marie McDonald
- The Long Night, starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Bel Geddes
- Lost Honeymoon, starring Franchot Tone and Ann Richards
- The Lost Moment, starring Robert Cummings and Susan Hayward
- Lost Youth (Gioventù perduta), directed by Pietro Germi – (Italy)
M
- The Macomber Affair, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett
- The Man I Love, starring Ida Lupino and Robert Alda
- The Mark of Cain, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst (GB)
- Marriage in the Shadows (Ehe im Schatten) – (East Germany)
- Mine Own Executioner, starring Burgess Meredith – (GB)
- Miracle on 34th Street, starring Edmund Gwenn, John Payne, Maureen O'Hara
- Monsieur Verdoux, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin
- Monsieur Vincent, starring Pierre Fresnay – (France)
- Moss Rose, starring Peggy Cummins and Victor Mature
- Mother Wore Tights, starring Betty Grable
- Mourning Becomes Electra, starring Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave
- My Favourite Brunette, starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour
- My Wild Irish Rose, a biopic starring Dennis Morgan (as Chauncey Olcott)
N
O
P
- The Paradine Case, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Ann Todd, Louis Jourdan, Charles Laughton
- The Pearl (La Perla), directed by Emilio Fernández, starring Pedro Armendáriz – (Mexico)
- The Perils of Pauline, starring Betty Hutton
- Pirates of Monterey, starring Rod Cameron and Maria Montez
- Possessed, starring Joan Crawford and Van Heflin
- Pursued, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright
Q
R
- Railroaded!, directed by Anthony Mann, starring John Ireland and Hugh Beaumont
- Ramrod, starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake
- The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Nagaya shinshiroku), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
- The Red House, starring Edward G. Robinson and Judith Anderson
- Repeat Performance, starring Louis Hayward and Joan Leslie
- Ride the Pink Horse, directed by and starring Robert Montgomery
- Riffraff, starring Pat O'Brien and Anne Jeffreys
- Road to Rio, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope
- The Romance of Rosy Ridge, starring Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh
- The Root of All Evil, starring Phyllis Calvert and Michael Rennie – (GB)
- Roses Are Red, starring Peggy Knudsen
S
- Scared to Death, starring Bela Lugosi and George Zucco
- School for Postmen (L'École des facteurs), a comedy short directed by and starring Jacques Tati – (France)
- The Sea of Grass, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
- Secret Agent (Podvig razvedchika), directed by Boris Barnet – (U.S.S.R.)
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo
- The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, starring Betty Grable
- Sinbad the Sailor, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Maureen O'Hara
- Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, starring Susan Hayward
- Snow Trail (Ginrei no hate), starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)
- So Well Remembered, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring John Mills and Martha Scott – (GB)
- Something in the Wind, starring Deanna Durbin and Donald O'Connor
- Song of Scheherazade, starring Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Brian Donlevy
- Song of the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
- The Spring River Flows East (Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu) – (China)
- Story of a Bad Woman (Historia de una mala mujer), starring Dolores del Río – (Argentina)
T
- T-Men, directed by Anthony Mann, starring Dennis O'Keefe
- Temptation Harbour, starring Robert Newton and Simone Simon – (GB)
- They Made Me a Fugitive, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Trevor Howard – (GB)
- They Won't Believe Me, starring Robert Young and Susan Hayward
- This Time for Keeps, starring Esther Williams and Jimmy Durante
- The Three Garcias (Los tres García), starring Pedro Infante – (Mexico)
- To Live in Peace (Vivere in pace) – (Italy)
- The Two Mrs. Carrolls, starring Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
- Trail Street, starring Randolph Scott
U
V
W
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
- January 15 – Andrea Martin, Canadian-American actress
- January 17
- 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 12 - Rupert Frazer, British actor
- March 18
- March 19
- Glenn Close, American actress
- Dermot Crowley, Irish stage, film and television actor
- 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 24 - Alan Sugar, British television personality
- 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 18 - Hanns Zischler, German actor
- 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
- 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 8 - Kim Darby, American actress
- 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
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder and 38th Governor of California
- William Atherton, American actor
- 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 16 - David Zucker, American director, producer and screenwriter
- 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
- Stuart Baird, English editor, producer and director
- Jude Ciccolella, American actor and singer
- David Mamet, American filmmaker and screenwriter
- 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
- 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
- January 26 – Grace Moore, 48, American opera singer and actress, One Night of Love, The King Steps Out, When You're in Love
- February 12 – Sidney Toler, 72, American actor, Charlie Chan in the Secret Service, The Chinese Cat, Black Magic, The Jade Mask
- March 8 – Victor Potel, 57, American actor and comedian, Sullivan's Travels, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Palm Beach Story, The Egg and I
- May 18 - Lucile Gleason, 59, American actress, I Like It That Way, A Successful Failure, Should Husbands Work?, The Clock
- May 31 – Adrienne Ames, 39, American actress, The Death Kiss, You're Telling Me!, Slander House, Gigolette
- June 1 – Anna Hofman-Uddgren, 79, Swedish director and actress
- June 5 – Nils Olaf Chrisander, 63, Swedish actor and director
- July 15 – Henry Kolker, 72, American actor and director, Baby Face, Holiday, The Great Swindle, The Parson of Panamint
- July 28 – Robert Homans, 69, American actor, Suicide Squad, The Grapes of Wrath, Night Monster, The Scarlet Clue
- August 30 – Gunnar Sommerfeldt, 56, Danish actor and director
- September 21 – Harry Carey, 69, American actor, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Angel and the Badman, Red River, Beyond Tomorrow
- October 1 – Olive Borden, 40, American actress, 3 Bad Men, Half Marriage, Leave It to Me
- October 13 – LeRoy Mason, 44, American actor, The Painted Stallion, Silver Stallion
- October 17 – John Halliday, 67, American actor, The Philadelphia Story, Intermezzo
- October 18 – Harry C. Bradley, 78, American actor, Beyond the Law, Sing While You're Able
- October 24 – Dudley Digges, 68, Irish actor, The Maltese Falcon, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Fight for Life
- November 10 – Jack Rockwell, 57, American actor
- November 26 – Ernie Adams, 62, American actor The Pride of the Yankees, Invisible Ghost
- December 21 – Mark Hellinger, 47, American producer, High Sierra, They Drive By Night, The Two Mrs. Carrolls
- December 26 – Urban Gad, 68, Danish director and screenwriter, The Abyss, Little Angel, The Island of the Lost
Film debuts
Bibliography
- Book: Birchard, Robert S. . Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood . University Press of Kentucky . 2004 . 978-0813123240.
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Finler, Joel Waldo . 2003 . The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press . 978-1-903364-66-6 . 356–357.
- Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 28 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
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- Jewel, Richard. "RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951" in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p55
- Book: Finler, Joel Waldo . 2003 . The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press . 978-1-903364-66-6 . 358–359.
- News: Scotland Hosts the World's Longest Running Film Festival. Scotland.com. 2014-07-18.
