1947 in film

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Events

• 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 Ten Money Making Stars

Notable films released in 1947

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• 13 Rue Madeleine, starring James Cagney

  A

• Admiral Nakhimov –
• Along the Songhua River –
• 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 –
• 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 –
• 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 –
• Captain from Castile, starring Tyrone Power
• Carnegie Hall, starring Marsha Hunt
• Cass Timberlane, starring Spencer Tracy and Lana Turner
• Cinderella –
• Copacabana, starring Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda
• Crossfire, starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
• Cynthia, 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 –
• 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 –
• 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 –
• 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 –
• Far Away Love, directed by Chen Liting, starring Zhao Dan and Qin Yi –
• 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, starring Aldo Fabrizi –
• Forever Amber, starring Linda Darnell
• The Foxes of Harrow, starring Rex Harrison and Maureen O'Hara –
• Framed, starring Glenn Ford
• Frieda, directed by Basil Dearden, starring David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling –
• 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!, starring Pedro Infante –
• 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 –
• The Humpbacked Horse –
• Hungry Hill, starring Margaret Lockwood and Dennis Price –

  I

• An Ideal Husband, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Michael Wilding and Paulette Goddard –
• If Winter Comes, starring Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Angela Lansbury
• The Imperfect Lady, starring Ray Milland and Teresa Wright
• In Those Days –
• It Always Rains on Sunday, starring Googie Withers and Jack Warner –
• 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 –
• 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 –
• 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, directed by Pietro Germi –
• 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
• Marriage in the Shadows –
• Mine Own Executioner, starring Burgess Meredith –
• 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 –
• 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

  N

• Neel Kamal '', first film of Madhubala and Raj Kapoor in adult roles –
• Nicholas Nickleby, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, starring Stanley Holloway –
• Nightmare Alley, starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell
• Nora Prentiss, starring Ann Sheridan
• The October Man, starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood –