Overview of the events of 1927 in film
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.
Top-grossing films (U.S.) [ 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 First National $1,200,000[3] 6 Wings Paramount $1,100,000[5] 7 Love MGM $946,000[6] 8 The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg $894,000[6] 9 When a Man Loves Warner Bros. $732,000[2] 10 London After Midnight MGM $721,000[6]
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January 10 – Fritz Lang 's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany. The film receives its American premiere in New York City on March 6. March 11 – World's largest movie theatre, the Roxy Theatre , opens in New York City. April 7 – Abel Gance 's Napoleon often considered his best known and greatest masterpiece, premieres (in a shortened version) at the Paris Opéra and demonstrates techniques and equipment that will not be revived for years to come, such as hand-held cameras, and what is often considered the first widescreen projection format 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 , which will go on to win the first 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 , starring 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 , the first official billing of comedy duo Laurel and Hardy , is released in the United States. Ang Manananggal , the first Filipino horror film, is released in the Philippines.[9] 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.[10] Academy Awards [ edit ] Notable films released in 1927 [ edit ] For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see United States films of 1927 [11]
Bed and Sofa (Tretya meshchanskaya) , directed by Abram Room – (U.S.S.R. ) The Beloved Rogue , directed by 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) , directed by Walter Ruttmann – (Germany ) Bigamy (Bigamie) , directed by Jaap Speyer , starring Heinrich George – (Germany) Blighty , directed by Adrian Brunel , starring Ellaline Terriss and Lillian Hall-Davis – (GB ) The Bugle Call (lost), directed by Edward Sedgwick , starring Jackie Coogan The Cat and the Canary , directed by Paul Leni , starring Laura La Plante and Creighton Hale , based on the 1922 stage play by John Willard [12] Chicago , directed by Frank Urson , starring Phyllis Haver Children of Divorce , directed by Frank Lloyd , starring Clara Bow , Esther Ralston and Gary Cooper The Chinese Parrot (lost), directed by Paul Leni The Club of the Big Deed (Soyuz velikogo dela) , directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg – (U.S.S.R. ) College , directed by James W. Horne and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton Confetti , directed by Graham Cutts , starring Jack Buchanan and Annette Benson – (GB ) Her Wild Oat , directed by Marshall Neilan , starring Colleen Moore His First Flame , directed by Harry Edwards , starring Harry Langdon His Greatest Bluff (Sein größter Bluff) , directed by Henrik Galeen and Harry Piel – (Germany ) The Honorable Mr. Buggs , directed by Fred Jackman , starring Matt Moore , Anna May Wong and Oliver Hardy Hot Kisses , directed by José Nepomuceno – (Philippines ) Hula , directed by Victor Fleming , starring Clara Bow Husband Hunters , directed by John G. Adolfi , starring Mae Busch , Jean Arthur and Mildred Harris The Lady in Ermine (lost), directed by James Flood , starring Corinne Griffith Laila , directed by Aziza Amir , starring Aziza Amir and Stephan Rosti – (Egypt ) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog , directed by Alfred Hitchcock , starring Ivor Novello , based on the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes – (GB ) London After Midnight (lost), written and directed by Tod Browning , starring Lon Chaney , Marceline Day and Conrad Nagel Long Pants , directed by Frank Capra , starring Harry Langdon The Love of Jeanne Ney (Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney) , directed by G.W. Pabst – (Germany ) The Love of Sunya , directed by Albert Parker , starring Gloria Swanson The Loves of Carmen , directed by Raoul Walsh , starring Dolores del Río and Victor McLaglen Madame Pompadour , directed by Herbert Wilcox , starring Dorothy Gish and Antonio Moreno – (GB ) Man from the Restaurant (Chelovek iz restorana) , directed by 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 [14] – (France ) Mata Hari , directed by Friedrich Feher , starring Magda Sonja – (Germany ) Metropolis , directed by Fritz Lang , starring Alfred Abel – (Germany ) Mockery , directed by Benjamin Christensen , starring Lon Chaney and Ricardo Cortez The Mountain Eagle (lost), directed by Alfred Hitchcock , starring Nita Naldi – (GB /Germany ) My Best Girl , directed by Sam Taylor , starring Mary Pickford and Charles "Buddy" Rogers The Scar of Shame , directed by Frank Peregini Shooting Stars , directed by Anthony Asquith and A.V. Bramble – (GB ) The Show , directed by Tod Browning , starring John Gilbert , Renée Adorée and Lionel Barrymore , based on the 1910 novel The Day of Souls by Charles Tenney Jackson Singed , directed by John Griffith Wray , starring Blanche Sweet and Warner Baxter Slide, Kelly, Slide , directed by Edward Sedgwick , starring William Haines , Sally O'Neil and Harry Carey Sorrell and Son , directed by Herbert Brenon , starring H. B. Warner and Anna Q. Nilsson – (GB ) Spring Fever , directed by Edward Sedgwick , starring William Haines , Joan Crawford and George K. Arthur The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg , directed by Ernst Lubitsch , starring Ramón Novarro and Norma Shearer Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans , directed by F. W. Murnau , starring Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien Svengali , directed by Gennaro Righelli , starring Paul Wegener , based on the 1894 novel Trilby by George du Maurier – (Germany ) The Way of All Flesh (lost), directed by Victor Fleming , starring Emil Jannings West Point , directed by Edward Sedgwick , starring William Haines and Joan Crawford When a Man Loves , directed by Alan Crosland , starring John Barrymore , Dolores Costello and Warner Oland Why Girls Love Sailors , directed by Fred Guiol , starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy Wings , directed by William A. Wellman , starring Clara Bow , Charles 'Buddy' Rogers , Richard Arlen and Gary Cooper The Wizard (lost), directed by Richard Rosson , starring Edmund Lowe and Leila Hyams , based on the 1911 novel Balaoo by Gaston Leroux Comedy film series [ edit ] 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)[16] [17] 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)[18] 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 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 19 – L. Q. Jones , American actor (died 2022) 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 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 , retired British actress 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) 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 1886) July 26 – June Mathis , American screenwriter (born 1889) 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 [ edit ] See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ Birchard, Robert S. 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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 . External links [ edit ]