Overview of the events of 1927 in film
The following is an overview of1927 in film , including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
[ edit ] 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]
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January 10 –Fritz Lang 's science-fiction fantasyMetropolis March 11 – World's largest movie theatre, theRoxy Theatre , opens in New York City. April 7 –Abel Gance 'sNapoleon Polyvision . May 11 – TheAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded inLos Angeles byDouglas Fairbanks . The1st Academy Awards (Oscars) will be awarded to films which are released in 1927 or 1928. August 12 – Paramount's dramatic filmWings 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 ofLoews Inc. following the death ofMarcus Loew . September 7 –Oswald the Lucky Rabbit debuts inTrolley Troubles September 23 –Fox Films acquires the rights to theTri-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 – Thesilent 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 forBritish films to be shown in British cinemas.ItalianAlberto Rabagliati wins aRudolph Valentino look-alike contest and moves toHollywood to start his acting career. The Three Tramps , the first Filipino comedy film featuring theSilos brothers , is released in the Philippines.[ 13] Notable films released in 1927 [ edit ] For the complete list of US film releases for the year, seeUnited States films of 1927 [ 14]
Bed and Sofa (Tretya meshchanskaya)Abram Room – (U.S.S.R. )The Beloved Rogue Alan Crosland , starringJohn Barrymore ,Conrad Veidt andMarceline Day Belphégor , directed byHenri Desfontaines – (France )Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt)Walter Ruttmann – (Germany )Bigamy (Bigamie)Jaap Speyer , starringHeinrich George – (Germany)Blighty Adrian Brunel , starringEllaline Terriss andLillian Hall-Davis – (GB )The Bugle Call Edward Sedgwick , starringJackie Coogan The Cat and the Canary Paul Leni , starringLaura La Plante andCreighton Hale , based on the 1922stage play byJohn Willard [ 15] Chicago Frank Urson , starringPhyllis Haver Children of Divorce Frank Lloyd , starringClara Bow ,Esther Ralston andGary Cooper The Chinese Parrot Paul Leni The Club of the Big Deed (Soyuz velikogo dela)Grigori Kozintsev andLeonid Trauberg – (U.S.S.R. )College James W. Horne and Buster Keaton, starringBuster Keaton Confetti Graham Cutts , starringJack Buchanan andAnnette Benson – (GB )Her Wild Oat Marshall Neilan , starringColleen Moore His First Flame Harry Edwards , starringHarry Langdon His Greatest Bluff (Sein größter Bluff)Henrik Galeen andHarry Piel – (Germany )The Honorable Mr. Buggs Fred Jackman , starringMatt Moore ,Anna May Wong andOliver Hardy Hot Kisses , directed byJosé Nepomuceno – (Philippines )Hula Victor Fleming , starringClara Bow Husband Hunters John G. Adolfi , starringMae Busch ,Jean Arthur andMildred Harris The Lady in Ermine James Flood , starringCorinne Griffith Laila Aziza Amir , starring Aziza Amir andStephan Rosti – (Egypt )The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog Alfred Hitchcock , starringIvor Novello , based on thenovel byMarie Belloc Lowndes – (GB )London After Midnight Tod Browning , starringLon Chaney ,Marceline Day andConrad Nagel Long Pants Frank Capra , starringHarry Langdon The Love of Jeanne Ney (Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney)G.W. Pabst – (Germany )The Love of Sunya Albert Parker , starringGloria Swanson The Loves of Carmen Raoul Walsh , starringDolores del Río andVictor McLaglen Madame Pompadour Herbert Wilcox , starringDorothy Gish andAntonio 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 byAlfred Machin andHenry Wulschleger , starringRomuald Joubé [ 17] France )Mata Hari Friedrich Feher , starringMagda Sonja – (Germany )Metropolis Fritz Lang , starringAlfred Abel – (Germany )Mockery Benjamin Christensen , starringLon Chaney andRicardo Cortez The Mountain Eagle Alfred Hitchcock , starringNita Naldi – (GB /Germany )My Best Girl Sam Taylor , starringMary Pickford andCharles "Buddy" Rogers The Scar of Shame Shooting Stars Anthony Asquith andA.V. Bramble – (GB )The Show Tod Browning , starringJohn Gilbert ,Renée Adorée andLionel Barrymore , based on the 1910 novelThe Day of Souls by Charles Tenney JacksonSinged John Griffith Wray , starringBlanche Sweet andWarner Baxter Slide, Kelly, Slide Edward Sedgwick , starringWilliam Haines ,Sally O'Neil andHarry Carey Sorrell and Son Herbert Brenon , starringH. B. Warner andAnna Q. Nilsson – (GB )Spring Fever Edward Sedgwick , starringWilliam Haines ,Joan Crawford andGeorge K. Arthur The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg Ernst Lubitsch , starringRamón Novarro andNorma Shearer Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans F. W. Murnau , starringJanet Gaynor andGeorge O'Brien Svengali Gennaro Righelli , starringPaul Wegener , based on the 1894 novelTrilby byGeorge du Maurier – (Germany )The Way of All Flesh Victor Fleming , starringEmil Jannings West Point Edward Sedgwick , starringWilliam Haines andJoan Crawford When a Man Loves Alan Crosland , starringJohn Barrymore ,Dolores Costello andWarner Oland Why Girls Love Sailors Fred Guiol , starringStan Laurel andOliver Hardy Wings William A. Wellman , starringClara Bow ,Charles 'Buddy' Rogers ,Richard Arlen andGary Cooper The Wizard Richard Rosson , starringEdmund Lowe andLeila Hyams , based on the 1911 novelBalaoo byGaston Leroux Animated short film series [ edit ] 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 15 -Harvey Korman , American actor and comedian (died 2008) 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 -bornMetro-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 2Rita 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 11Bernard 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 (died1959 ) 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 (died2005 ) July 6 –Janet Leigh , American actress (died 2004) July 9 July 15 July 27 -Henry O , Chinese-American actor July 30 August 9 –Robert Shaw , British actor and novelist (died 1978) August 14 –Roger Carel (Bancharel), French voice actor (died 2020) August 19 –L. Q. Jones , American actor (died 2022) August 20 -Yootha Joyce , English actress (died 1980) 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 13 -Genevieve Page , French actress (died 2025) 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) 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) ^ Birchard, Robert S. 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