1947 in film
overview of the events of 1947 in film
The year 1947 in film involved some significant events.
Events
February 23 – Ealing Studios release the film Hue and Cry, regarded as the first of the UK's famous Ealing Comedies.
April 19 – Monogram Pictures release their first film under their Allied Artists banner, It Happened on Fifth Avenue.
May 22 – Great Expectations is premiered in New York.
August 31 – The first Edinburgh International Film Festival opens at the Playhouse Cinema, presented by the Edinburgh Film Guild as part of the Edinburgh Festival of the Arts. Originally specialising in documentaries, it will become the world's oldest continually running film festival.
November 24 – The United States House of Representatives of the 80th Congress votes 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, marking the beginning of the Hollywood blacklist.
Awards
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1947 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Notable films released in 1947
United States unless stated
#
13 Rue Madeleine, starring James Cagney
A
Admiral Nakhimov – (USSR)
Along the Songhua River (Songhua-jiang shang) – (China)
Angel and the Badman, starring John Wayne and Gail Russell
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
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
The Egg and I, starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray
Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon (Ba qian li lu yun he yue) – (China)
Escape Me Never, starring Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker, Errol Flynn
The Exile, directed by Max Ophuls, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Maria Montez
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!
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