Movies - 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

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Gentleman's Agreement
  - 20th Century-Fox
• Best Actor
  : Ronald Colman
  - A Double Life
• Best Actress
  : Loretta Young
  - The Farmer's Daughter
• Academy Award for Best Cinematography: Black Narcissus

Other films released

• Black Narcissus
• Brighton Rock
• Call Northside 777
  , with James Stewart
• The Captive Heart
  , the first Prisoner of War film from World War II
• Crossfire
• Desert Fury
• Fame is the Spur, with Michael Redgrave
• 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
• Odd Man Out
  , directed by Carol Reed
• Out of the Past
• Quai des Orfèvres
• Road to Rio
  , starring Bob Hope
  and Bing Crosby
• The Shocking Miss Pilgrim from Frederica Sagor Maas
• Vivere in pace

Short film series

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

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