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 Category/Organization 5th Golden Globe AwardsMarch 10, 1948 20th Academy Awards March 20, 1948 Best Film Gentleman's Agreement Best Director Elia KazanGentleman's Agreement Best Actor Ronald ColmanA Double Life Best Actress Rosalind RussellMourning Becomes Electra Loretta YoungThe Farmer's Daughter Best Supporting Actor Edmund GwennMiracle on 34th Street Best Supporting Actress Celeste HolmGentleman's Agreement Best Screenplay, Adapted George SeatonMiracle on 34th Street George SeatonMiracle on 34th Street Best Screenplay, Original Sidney SheldonThe Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
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 2 The Egg and I Universal $5,500,000 3 Life with Father Warner Bros. $5,057,000Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1–31 p 28 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551 4 Forever Amber 20th Century Fox $5,000,000 5 UnconqueredParamount $4,633,486 6 Road to Rio $4,500,000 7 Green Dolphin Street MGM $4,384,380. 8 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer RKO $4,200,000Jewel, Richard. "RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951" in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p55 9 Mother Wore Tights 20th Century Fox $4,100,000 10 Cass Timberlane MGM $3,983,000
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! (¡Vuelven los Garcia!), starring Pedro Infante – (Mexico) Gentleman's Agreement, directed by Elia Kazan, 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 Heaven Only Knows, starring Robert Cummings Hi-De-Ho, starring Cab Calloway High Barbaree, starring Van Johnson and June Allyson High Wall, starring Robert Taylor Honeymoon, starring Shirley Temple The Hucksters, starring Clark Gable and Deborah Kerr Hue and Cry, the first Ealing comedy, directed by Charles Crichton – (GB) The Humpbacked Horse (Konyok Gorbunok) – (U.S.S.R.) Hungry Hill, starring Margaret Lockwood and Dennis Price – (GB)
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 Jenny and the Soldier (Soldaten og Jenny) – (Denmark) Johnny O'Clock, starring Dick Powell
K Killer Dill, starring Stuart Erwin and Anne Gwynne Kiss of Death, starring Victor Mature and Richard Widmark
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 Neel Kamal (Blue Lotus), first film of Madhubala and Raj Kapoor in adult roles – (India) Nicholas Nickleby, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Stanley Holloway – (GB) Nightmare Alley, starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell Nora Prentiss, starring Ann Sheridan The October Man, starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood – (GB)
O Odd Man Out, directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason and Robert Newton – (GB) One Wonderful Sunday (Subarashiki Nichiyōbi), directed by Akira Kurosawa – (Japan) L'onorevole Angelina (Parliamentarian Angelina), directed by Luigi Zampa, starring Anna Magnani – (Italy) Out of the Blue, starring Virginia Mayo and George Brent Out of the Past, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas
P The Paradine Case, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Ann Todd, Louis Jourdan, Charles Laughton The Pearl (La Perla), directed by Emilio Fernández, 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, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright
Q Quai des Orfèvres, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Louis Jouvet – (France)
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, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Maureen O'Hara Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, starring Susan Hayward Snow Trail (Ginrei no hate), starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)