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Overview of the events of 1947 in film
Overview of the events of 1947 in film
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
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
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
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 , 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 , 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 )
Love from a Stranger , starring
John Hodiak
Lured , starring
George Sanders and
Lucille Ball
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), 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 , 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 Senator Was Indiscreet , starring
William Powell
A Ship to India (Skepp till India land), directed by
Ingmar Bergman – (
Sweden )
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim , starring
Betty Grable
Sinbad the Sailor
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) – (
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 18
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
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 acto (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
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 , 41, 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
References
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a
b
c
d Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press. pp.
356–357 .
ISBN
978-1-903364-66-6 .
^ 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
^
a
b The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .
^ Jewel, Richard. "RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951" in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television , Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p55
^ Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press. pp.
358–359 .
ISBN
978-1-903364-66-6 .
^
"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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