1927 in film

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Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Academy Awards 4 Films released in 1927 5 Short film series 6 Animated short film series 7 Births 8 Deaths

[edit] Events

• January 10 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres.
• April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda.
• May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was formed. The first Academy Awards (Oscars) went to films released in 1927 or 1928.
• October 6 - The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, is released. Although not the first 'talkie', The Jazz Singer is the first big hit and popularizes sound motion pictures.
• 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.
• Italian Alberto Rabagliati wins a Rudolph Valentino look-alike contest and moves to Hollywood to start his acting career.

[edit] Top grossing films

1. The Jazz Singer

[edit] Academy Awards

• Best Production: Wings
• Best Artistic Quality: Sunrise
• Best Actor: Emil Jannings for The Way of All Flesh and the 1928 movie The Last Command
• Best Actress: Janet Gaynor for Seventh Heaven and Sunrise, as well as the 1928 movie Street Angel

[edit] Films released in 1927

• Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (documentary)
• The Cat and the Canary
• The General, starring Buster Keaton
• Huntingtower, by George Pearson (John Buchan novel)
• It, starring Clara Bow and Antonio Moreno
• The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson & May McAvoy
• The Kid Brother, a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
• The Lodger
• London After Midnight, starring Lon Chaney, Sr., Conrad Nagel and Marceline Day, directed by Tod Browning
• Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang
• Napoléon directed by Abel Gance
• October: Ten Days That Shook the World
• The Private Life of Helen of Troy
• The Scar of Shame, a race movie starring Harry Henderson and Lucia Lynn Moses
• Seventh Heaven, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
• The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, starring Ramón Novarro and Norma Shearer, directed by Ernst Lubitsch
• Sunrise, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor, directed by F.W. Murnau
• Underworld
• The Unknown
• The Way of All Flesh, starring Emil Jannings
• Wings, starring Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen and Jobyna Ralston

[edit] Short film series

• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1926-1940)

[edit] Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919-1930)
• Aesop's Film Fables (1921-1933)
• Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes (1924-1927)
• Alice Comedies (1924-1927)
• Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
• Un-Natural History (1925-1927)
• Pete the Pup (1926-1927)
• Inkwell Imps (1927-1929)
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927-1938)
• Newslaffs (1927-1928)

[edit] Births

• January 17 - Eartha Kitt, actress, singer
• February 7 - Juliette Greco singer, actress
• February 20 - Sidney Poitier, actor
• March 1 - Harry Belafonte actor, singer
• March 20 - Cairbre (also known as Leo), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's lion mascot, born in Dublin Zoo
• May 13 - Herbert Ross, director
• June 23 - Bob Fosse, director
• July 4 - Gina Lollobrigida, actress
• July 6 - Janet Leigh, actress (d. 2004)
• September 16 - Peter Falk, actor
• October 14 - Roger Moore, actor
• October 18 - George C. Scott, film and stage actor (d. 1999)
• October 31 - Lee Grant, actress

[edit] Deaths