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Overview of the events of 1927 in film
The following is an overview of 1927 in film , including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
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The top ten 1927 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1927
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1 The King of Kings Pathé Exchange
$2,641,687[1]
2 The Jazz Singer Warner Bros.
$1,974,000[2]
3 7th Heaven Fox Film
$1,750,000[3]
4 The Gaucho United Artists
$1,400,000[4]
5 The Patent Leather Kid Jesse James First National Paramount
$1,200,000[3] [5]
6 Wings Paramount
$1,100,000[6]
7 My Best Girl United Artists
$1,027,757[7]
8 Love MGM
$946,000[8]
9 The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg $894,000[8]
10 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans Fox Film
$818,000[9]
Events
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January 10 – Fritz Lang 's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis
March 11 – World's largest movie theatre, the Roxy Theatre , opens in New York City.
April 7 – Abel Gance 's Napoleon Polyvision .
May 11 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded in Los Angeles by Douglas Fairbanks . The 1st Academy Awards (Oscars) will be awarded to films which are released in 1927 or 1928.
August 12 – Paramount's dramatic film Wings Academy Award for Best Picture , opens at the Criterion Theater in New York City, with an unheard-of roadshow admission price of $2.00 per ticket.
September 5 – Nicholas Schenck becomes president of Loews Inc. following the death of Marcus Loew .
September 7 – Oswald the Lucky Rabbit debuts in Trolley Troubles
September 23 – 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.
October 6 – The Jazz Singer Al Jolson , premieres at the Warner Theater in New York City. Although not the first 'talkie' , The Jazz Singer becomes the first box-office hit and popularizes sound motion pictures. It is the highest-grossing movie up to this time.[citation needed
December 3 – The silent short Putting Pants on Philip Laurel and Hardy , is released in the United States.
Ang Manananggal , the first Filipino horror film, is released in the Philippines.[12]
Cinematograph Films Act sets a minimum quota for British films to be shown in British cinemas.
Italian Alberto Rabagliati wins a Rudolph Valentino look-alike contest and moves to Hollywood to start his acting career.
The Three Tramps , the first Filipino comedy film featuring the Silos brothers , is released in the Philippines.[13]
Academy Awards
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Notable films released in 1927
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For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see United States films of 1927 [14]
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Bed and Sofa (Tretya meshchanskaya)Abram Room – (U.S.S.R. )
The Beloved Rogue Alan Crosland , starring John Barrymore , Conrad Veidt and Marceline Day
Belphégor , directed by Henri Desfontaines – (France )
Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt)Walter Ruttmann – (Germany )
Bigamy (Bigamie)Jaap Speyer , starring Heinrich George – (Germany)
Blighty Adrian Brunel , starring Ellaline Terriss and Lillian Hall-Davis – (GB
The Bugle Call Edward Sedgwick , starring Jackie Coogan
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The Cat and the Canary Paul Leni , starring Laura La Plante and Creighton Hale , based on the 1922 stage play by John Willard [15]
Chicago Frank Urson , starring Phyllis Haver
Children of Divorce Frank Lloyd , starring Clara Bow , Esther Ralston and Gary Cooper
The Chinese Parrot Paul Leni
The Club of the Big Deed (Soyuz velikogo dela)Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg – (U.S.S.R. )
College James W. Horne and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton
Confetti Graham Cutts , starring Jack Buchanan and Annette Benson – (GB
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Her Wild Oat Marshall Neilan , starring Colleen Moore
His First Flame Harry Edwards , starring Harry Langdon
His Greatest Bluff (Sein größter Bluff)Henrik Galeen and Harry Piel – (Germany )
The Honorable Mr. Buggs Fred Jackman , starring Matt Moore , Anna May Wong and Oliver Hardy
Hot Kisses , directed by José Nepomuceno – (Philippines )
Hula Victor Fleming , starring Clara Bow
Husband Hunters John G. Adolfi , starring Mae Busch , Jean Arthur and Mildred Harris
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The Lady in Ermine James Flood , starring Corinne Griffith
Laila Aziza Amir , starring Aziza Amir and Stephan Rosti – (Egypt )
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog Alfred Hitchcock , starring Ivor Novello , based on the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes – (GB
London After Midnight Tod Browning , starring Lon Chaney , Marceline Day and Conrad Nagel
Long Pants Frank Capra , starring Harry Langdon
The Love of Jeanne Ney (Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney)G.W. Pabst – (Germany )
The Love of Sunya Albert Parker , starring Gloria Swanson
The Loves of Carmen Raoul Walsh , starring Dolores del Río and Victor McLaglen
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Madame Pompadour Herbert Wilcox , starring Dorothy Gish and Antonio Moreno – (GB
Man from the Restaurant (Chelovek iz restorana)Yakov Protazanov – (U.S.S.R. )
The Manor House of Fear (Le Manoir de la Peur) , directed by Alfred Machin and Henry Wulschleger , starring Romuald Joubé [17] France )
Mata Hari Friedrich Feher , starring Magda Sonja – (Germany )
Metropolis Fritz Lang , starring Alfred Abel – (Germany )
Mockery Benjamin Christensen , starring Lon Chaney and Ricardo Cortez
The Mountain Eagle Alfred Hitchcock , starring Nita Naldi – (GB Germany )
My Best Girl Sam Taylor , starring Mary Pickford and Charles "Buddy" Rogers
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The Scar of Shame
Shooting Stars Anthony Asquith and A.V. Bramble – (GB
The Show Tod Browning , starring John Gilbert , Renée Adorée and Lionel Barrymore , based on the 1910 novel The Day of Souls by Charles Tenney Jackson
Singed John Griffith Wray , starring Blanche Sweet and Warner Baxter
Slide, Kelly, Slide Edward Sedgwick , starring William Haines , Sally O'Neil and Harry Carey
Sorrell and Son Herbert Brenon , starring H. B. Warner and Anna Q. Nilsson – (GB
Spring Fever Edward Sedgwick , starring William Haines , Joan Crawford and George K. Arthur
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg Ernst Lubitsch , starring Ramón Novarro and Norma Shearer
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans F. W. Murnau , starring Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien
Svengali Gennaro Righelli , starring Paul Wegener , based on the 1894 novel Trilby by George du Maurier – (Germany )
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The Way of All Flesh Victor Fleming , starring Emil Jannings
West Point Edward Sedgwick , starring William Haines and Joan Crawford
When a Man Loves Alan Crosland , starring John Barrymore , Dolores Costello and Warner Oland
Why Girls Love Sailors Fred Guiol , starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Wings William A. Wellman , starring Clara Bow , Charles 'Buddy' Rogers , Richard Arlen and Gary Cooper
The Wizard Richard Rosson , starring Edmund Lowe and Leila Hyams , based on the 1911 novel Balaoo by Gaston Leroux
Comedy film series
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Animated short film series
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Births
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January 4 – Barbara Rush , American actress (died 2024)
January 10 – Lee Philips , American actor (died 1999)
January 15 – Phyllis Coates , American actress (died 2023)
January 17 – Eartha Kitt , American actress and singer (died 2008)
January 22 – Walter Sparrow , English actor (died 2000)
January 28 – Hiroshi Teshigahara , Japanese director (died 2001)[19] [20]
January 29 – Peter Fernandez , American actor, voice director and writer (died 2010)
January 31 – Jean Speegle Howard , American actress (died 2000)
February 3 – Kenneth Anger , American underground experimental filmmaker and actor (died 2023)
February 7 – Juliette Gréco , French singer and actress (died 2020)
February 12
February 14 – Lois Maxwell , Canadian actress (died 2007)
February 16 – June Brown , English actress (died 2022)[21]
February 20 – Sidney Poitier , American actor (died 2022)
March 1 – Harry Belafonte , American singer and actor (died 2023)
March 4 - Thayer David , American actor (died 1978)
March 7 – James Broderick , American actor and director (died 1982)
March 18 - George Plimpton , American actor (died 2003)
March 20 – Cairbre (also known as Leo), Dublin Zoo -born Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion mascot
March 21 – Virginia Weidler , American actress (died 1968)
March 25 – Monique van Vooren , Belgian-American actress (died 2020)
March 31 – William Daniels , American actor
April 1 – Maria Eugénia , Portuguese actress (died 2016)
April 2
Rita Gam , American actress (died 2016)
Ken Sansom , American actor and voice actor (died 2012)
April 3 - Robert Hoy , American actor, stuntman and director (died 2010)
April 5 – Chao-Li Chi , Shanxi-born actor (died 2010)
April 13 – Maurice Ronet , French film actor, director and writer (died 1983)
April 16 – Peter Mark Richman , American actor (died 2021)
April 19 – Cora Sue Collins , American former child actress
April 30 – Ellen Alaküla , Estonian actress (died 2011)
May 5 – Pat Carroll , American actress (died 2022)
May 6 – Ettore Manni , Italian actor (died 1979)
May 11
Bernard Fox , Welsh actor (died 2016)
Mort Sahl , Canadian-born American comedian and actor (died 2021)
May 13 – Herbert Ross , American film director, producer and choreographer (died 2001)
May 20 – David Hedison , American actor (died 2019)
May 21 – Kay Kendall , English actress, comedienne (died 1959 )
May 22 – Michael Constantine , Greek American actor (died 2021)
May 30 – Clint Walker , American actor (died 2018)
May 31 – Koreyoshi Kurahara , Malaysian-Japanese screenwriter, director (died 2002)
June 2 – Thomas Hill , Indian-born American character actor (died 2009)
June 8 – Jerry Stiller , American actor and comedian (died 2020)
June 15 – Ottó Foky , Hungarian animator (died 2012)
June 23 – Bob Fosse , American dancer, musical theatre choreographer, screenwriter and director (died 1987)
June 24 - Bette Ford , American retired actress
June 27 – Geoffrey Palmer , British actor (died 2020)
June 30
July 2 - Brock Peters , American actor and singer (died 2005)
July 3 - Tim O'Connor , American character actor (died 2018)
July 4
July 5 – Beverly Tyler , American actress, singer (died 2005 )
July 6 – Janet Leigh , American actress (died 2004)
July 7 – Henry O , Chinese-American actor
July 9
July 15
July 30
August 9 – Robert Shaw , British actor and novelist (died 1978)
August 14 – Roger Carel (Bancharel), French voice actor (died 2020)
August 18 - Rosalynn Carter , First Lady of the United States (died 2023)
August 19 – L. Q. Jones , American actor (died 2022)
August 20 - Yootha Joyce , English actress (died 1980)
August 21 – Tony Steedman , English character actor (died 2001)
August 30 – Bill Daily , American actor (died 2018)
September 9 – Penelope Houston , English critic (died 2015)
September 12
September 13 - Beverly Polcyn , American actress (died 2018)
September 16 – Peter Falk , American actor (died 2011)
September 19
September 20 - Rachel Roberts , Welsh actress (died 1980)
September 21 - Joan Hotchkis , American actress and writer (died 2022)
September 24 – Arthur Malet , English actor (died 2013)
September 26 - Patrick O'Neal , American actor (died 1994)
October 1 – Tom Bosley , American actor (died 2010)
October 7 - Al Martino , American singer and actor (died 2009)
October 14 – Roger Moore , English actor (died 2017)
October 15 – Jeannette Charles , British actress (died 2024)
October 16 – Eileen Ryan , American actress (died 2022)
October 18 – George C. Scott , American film and stage actor (died 1999)
October 21 - Howard Zieff , American director and producer (died 2009)
October 27 – Silvia Laidla , Estonian actress (died 2012)
November 1 – Marcel Ophuls , German documentary maker
November 3 - Florence Paterson , Canadian actress (died 1995)
November 12 – John Hollis , British screen actor (died 2005)
November 17
November 14 – McLean Stevenson , American actor (died 1996)
November 20 – Estelle Parsons , American actress
November 23 – Sybil Jason , American actress (died 2011)
November 30 – Robert Guillaume , American actor and singer (died 2017)
December 26 - Chuck Hicks , American actor and stuntman (died 2021)
December 29 – Giorgio Capitani , Italian film director and screenwriter (died 2017)
December 30 – Bernard Barrow , American Actor (died 1993)
Deaths
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January 13 – Arnold Daly , American actor, playwright and producer (born 1875)
March 17 – Charles Emmett Mack , American actor (born 1900)
April 25 – Earle Williams , American actor (born 1880)
May 7 – Bruce McRae , American stage and screen actor (born 1867)
May 16 – Sam Bernard , English stage and screen actor (born 1863)
May 20 – Oscar Stribolt , Danish actor (born 1873)
June 3 – Einar Hanson , Swedish stage and screen actor (born 1897)
June 4 – Robert McKim , American actor (born 1877)
July 26 – June Mathis , American screenwriter (born 1887)
September 5 – Marcus Loew , American theatre chain executive & founder of Loews Theatres (born 1870)
October 5 – Sam Warner , American co-founder of Warner Brothers studios (born 1887)
October 13 – Hughie Mack , American actor (born 1884)
November 4 – Valli Valli , German stage and film actress (born 1882)
December 6 – Kate Toncray , American actress (born 1867)
December 16 – Romaine Fielding , American actor and director (born 1868)
December 24 – Julia Bruns , American stage & film actress (born 1895)
Film debuts
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See also
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References
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^ Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood . University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813123240
^ Glancy, H Mark (1995). "Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television . 15
^ a b Jones, Lon (March 4, 1944). "Which Cinema Films Have Earned the Most Money Since 1914?" . The Argus The Argus Weekend magazine. Retrieved August 6, 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Balio, Tino (2009). United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars . Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press . p. 93.
^ Karen R. Jones, American West: Competing Visions , Edinburgh University Press, 2009, pp. 250-251
^ Reid, John Howard (2008). Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide . pp. 303 . ISBN 978-1-4357-1073-3
^ Eyman, Scott (1990). Mary Pickford, America's Sweetheart . ISBN 1-55611-147-9 The film had the solid success it deserved; in its premiere New York engagement, at the Rialto,My Best Girl grossed $81,000 in its three week run, recouping a sixth of its production cost of $483,103 at just one theater. It's total domestic gross amounted to $1,027,757.
^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study
^ Eyman, Scott (1997). The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930 . ISBN 0-684-81162-6 Sunrise ended up amassing domestic rentals of $818,000.
^ "Time After Time: Movies from 1927" . Archived from the original on 2014-09-05. Retrieved 2013-07-13 .
^ "Timeline of Greatest Film Milestones and Turning Points in Film History" .
^ "Ang Manananggal (1927)" . imdb.com .
^ "The Three Tramps (1927)" . imdb.com .
^ "Most Popular Feature Films Released In 1927" . IMDb
^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 311. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2 .
^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 313. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2 .
^ a b c Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 317. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2 .
^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 318. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2 .
^ Bergan, Ronald (2001-04-26). "Obituary: Hiroshi Teshigahara" . The Guardian . ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-07-20 .
^ "Hiroshi Teshigahara's Multimedia Tradition" . Retrieved 2019-07-20 .
^ Whitmore, Greg (4 April 2022). "June Brown: a life in pictures" . The Guardian . Retrieved 4 April 2022 .
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