1947 in film

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.

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

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)

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
• 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

Short film series

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

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

Deaths

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

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