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Events

January 10 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres.
April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx
marries Marion Benda.
May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was formed. The first Academy Awards (Oscars) went to films released in 1927 or 1928.
October 6 - The Jazz Singer
, starring Al Jolson
and May McAvoy
, is released. Although not the first 'talkie', The Jazz Singer is the first big hit and popularizes sound motion pictures.
FOX Films acquires the rights to the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film technology, which had been developed in 1919 by three German inventors, Josef Engl, Hans Vogt, and Joseph Massole.
Italian Alberto Rabagliati
wins a Rudolph Valentino
look-alike contest and moves to Hollywood to start his acting career.

Top grossing films

# The Jazz Singer

Academy Awards

Best Production: Wings
Best Artistic Quality: Sunrise
Best Actor
: Emil Jannings for The Way of All Flesh and the 1928 movie The Last Command
Best Actress
: Janet Gaynor for Seventh Heaven and Sunrise, as well as the 1928 movie Street Angel

Movies released

Movies released in 1927 include:

The General
, starring Buster Keaton
It
, starring Clara Bow
and Antonio Moreno
The Jazz Singer
, starring Al Jolson
& May McAvoy
Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang
Napoléon directed by Abel Gance
The Pleasure Garden, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Nita Naldi
and Virginia Valli
Seventh Heaven
, starring Janet Gaynor
and Charles Farrell
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
, starring Ramón Novarro
and Norma Shearer
, directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Sunrise, starring George O'Brien
and Janet Gaynor
, directed by F.W. Murnau
The Way of All Flesh, starring Emil Jannings
Wings, starring Clara Bow
, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen
and Jobyna Ralston

Short film series

Buster Keaton
(1917-1941)
Our Gang
(1922
-1944
)
Laurel and Hardy
(1926-1940
)

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