1947 in film

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Years in film:	1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
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Years:	1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1947 5 Serials 6 Short film series 7 Births 8 Deaths

[edit] Events

• May 22 - Great Expectations is premiered in New York.
• November 24 : The United States House of Representatives of the 80th Congress voted 346 to 17 to approve citations for contempt of Congress against the "Hollywood Ten."
• November 25 : The Waldorf Statement is released by the executives of the United States motion picture industry that marks the beginning of the Hollywood blacklist.

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

1. The Best Years of Our Lives
2. Duel in the Sun
3. tie The Jolson Story, Forever Amber
4. Unconquered

[edit] Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Gentleman's Agreement - 20th Century-Fox

Best Director: Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement

Best Actor: Ronald Colman - A Double Life

Best Actress: Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter

Best Supporting Actor: Edmund Gwenn - Miracle on 34th Street

Best Supporting Actress: Celeste Holm - Gentleman's Agreement

Golden Globe Awards:

Best Picture: Gentleman's Agreement

Best Director: Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement

Best Actor: Ronald Colman - A Double Life

Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - Mourning Becomes Electra

Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival): not awarded

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival)

Siréna, directed by Karel Stekly (Czechoslovakia)

[edit] Films released in 1947

• Black Narcissus
• Brighton Rock
• Buck Privates Come Home, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• Crossfire
• Desert Fury
• A Double Life
• Fame is the Spur, with Michael Redgrave
• The Farmer's Daughter
• Forever Amber
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Hue and Cry, the first Ealing comedy
• It Always Rains on Sunday
• The Last Stage
• Life with Father
• Mine Own Executioner
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Mourning Becomes Electra
• Nightmare Alley
• Odd Man Out, directed by Carol Reed
• Out of the Past
• The Pirate
• Quai des Orfèvres
• Road to Rio, starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby
• The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, from Frederica Sagor Maas
• Unconquered
• Vivere in pace
• The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

[edit] Serials

• Son of Zorro, starring George Turner and Peggy Stewart
• Jesse James Rides Again, starring Clayton Moore and Linda Stirling
• The Black Widow, starring Bruce Edwards
• Jack Armstrong
• The Sea Hound
• Brick Bradford

[edit] Short film series

• Donald Duck (1936-1956)
• Popeye (1933-1957)
• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)

[edit] Births

• February 7 - Wayne Allwine, voiceover actor
• March 6 - Rob Reiner, actor, comedian, movie producer
• March 26 – Dar Robinson, film stuntman (+ 1986)
• April 12 - David Letterman - US entertainer
• April 15 - Lois Chiles - US actress
• October 15 - Lynn Lowry - US actress
• September 21 - Stephen King, author

[edit] Deaths

• May 31 - Adrienne Ames, 39, actress, from cancer.