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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.

January 10 – 's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany. The film receives its American premiere in New York City on March 6.

Fritz Lang

March 11 – World's largest movie theatre, the , opens in New York City.

Roxy Theatre

April 7 – '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.

Abel Gance

May 11 – The 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.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

August 12 – Paramount's dramatic film , 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.

Wings

September 5 – becomes president of Loews Inc. following the death of Marcus Loew.

Nicholas Schenck

September 7 – debuts in Trolley Troubles.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

September 23 – 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.

Fox Films

October 6 – , 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.

The Jazz Singer

December 3 – The short Putting Pants on Philip, the first official billing of comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, is released in the United States.

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the first Filipino horror film, is released in the Philippines.[9]

Ang Manananggal

sets a minimum quota for British films to be shown in British cinemas.

Cinematograph Films Act

Italian wins a Rudolph Valentino look-alike contest and moves to Hollywood to start his acting career.

Alberto Rabagliati

The Three Tramps, the first Filipino comedy film featuring the , is released in the Philippines.[10]

Silos brothers

: Wings

Best Production

: Sunrise

Best Artistic Quality

: Emil Jannings for The Way of All Flesh and the 1928 movie The Last Command

Best Actor

: Janet Gaynor for Seventh Heaven and Sunrise, as well as the 1928 movie Street Angel

Best Actress

: Frank Borzage for Seventh Heaven

Best Director

, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell

7th Heaven

(1913–1938)

Harold Lloyd

(1917–1944)

Buster Keaton

(1922–1944)

Our Gang

(1924–1936)

Harry Langdon

(1921–1945)

Laurel and Hardy

(19191962)

Felix the Cat

(19211933)

Aesop's Film Fables

(1924-1927)

Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes

Alice Comedies

(19251940)

Krazy Kat

Un-Natural History (-1927)

1925

(1926-1927)

Pete the Pup

(1927–1929)

Inkwell Imps

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Newslaffs (1927–)

1928

January 4 – , American actress (died 2024)

Barbara Rush

January 10 – , American actor (died 1999)

Lee Philips

January 15 – , American actress (died 2023)

Phyllis Coates

January 17 – , American actress and singer (died 2008)

Eartha Kitt

January 22 – , English actor (died 2000)

Walter Sparrow

January 28 – , Japanese director (died 2001)[16][17]

Hiroshi Teshigahara

January 29 – , American actor, voice director and writer (died 2010)

Peter Fernandez

January 31 – , American actress (died 2000)

Jean Speegle Howard

February 3 – , American underground experimental filmmaker and actor (died 2023)

Kenneth Anger

February 7 – , French singer and actress (died 2020)

Juliette Gréco

Eric Mason

February 14 – , Canadian actress (died 2007)

Lois Maxwell

February 16 – , English actress (died 2022)[18]

June Brown

February 20 – , American actor (died 2022)

Sidney Poitier

March 1 – , American singer and actor (died 2023)

Harry Belafonte

March 4 - , American actor (died 1978)

Thayer David

March 7 – , American actor and director (died 1982)

James Broderick

March 18 - , American actor (died 2003)

George Plimpton

March 20 – Cairbre (also known as Leo), -born Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion mascot

Dublin Zoo

March 21 – , American actress (died 1968)

Virginia Weidler

March 25 – , Belgian-American actress (died 2020)

Monique van Vooren

March 31 – , American actor

William Daniels

April 1 – , Portuguese actress (died 2016)

Maria Eugénia

Rita Gam

April 3 - , American actor, stuntman and director (died 2010)

Robert Hoy

April 5 – , Shanxi-born actor (died 2010)

Chao-Li Chi

April 13 – , French film actor, director and writer (died 1983)

Maurice Ronet

April 16 – , American actor (died 2021)

Peter Mark Richman

April 19 – , American former child actress

Cora Sue Collins

April 30 – , Estonian actress (died 2011)

Ellen Alaküla

May 5 – , American actress (died 2022)

Pat Carroll

May 6 – , Italian actor (died 1979)

Ettore Manni

Bernard Fox

May 13 – , American film director, producer and choreographer (died 2001)

Herbert Ross

May 20 – , American actor (died 2019)

David Hedison

May 21 – , English actress, comedienne (died 1959)

Kay Kendall

May 22 – , Greek American actor (died 2021)

Michael Constantine

May 30 – , American actor (died 2018)

Clint Walker

May 31 – , Malaysian-Japanese screenwriter, director (died 2002)

Koreyoshi Kurahara

June 2 – , Indian-born American character actor (died 2009)

Thomas Hill

June 8 – , American actor and comedian (died 2020)

Jerry Stiller

June 15 – , Hungarian animator (died 2012)

Ottó Foky

June 23 – , American dancer, musical theatre choreographer, screenwriter and director (died 1987)

Bob Fosse

June 24 - , American retired actress

Bette Ford

June 27 – , British actor (died 2020)

Geoffrey Palmer

Mario Lanfranchi

July 2 - , American actor and singer (died 2005)

Brock Peters

July 3 - , American character actor (died 2018)

Tim O'Connor

Gina Lollobrigida

July 5 – , American actress, singer (died 2005)

Beverly Tyler

July 6 – , American actress (died 2004)

Janet Leigh

July 7 – , Chinese-American actor

Henry O

Ed Ames

Nan Martin

Richard Johnson

August 9 – , British actor and novelist (died 1978)

Robert Shaw

August 14 – (Bancharel), French voice actor (died 2020)

Roger Carel

August 18 - , First Lady of the United States (died 2023)

Rosalynn Carter

August 19 – , American actor (died 2022)

L. Q. Jones

August 20 - , English actress (died 1980)

Yootha Joyce

August 21 – , English character actor (died 2001)

Tony Steedman

August 30 – , American actor (died 2018)

Bill Daily

September 9 – , English critic (died 2015)

Penelope Houston

Freddie Jones

September 13 - , American actress (died 2018)

Beverly Polcyn

September 16 – , American actor (died 2011)

Peter Falk

Rosemary Harris

September 20 - , Welsh actress (died 1980)

Rachel Roberts

September 21 - , American actress and writer (died 2022)

Joan Hotchkis

September 24 – , English actor (died 2013)

Arthur Malet

September 26 - , American actor (died 1994)

Patrick O'Neal

October 1 – , American actor (died 2010)

Tom Bosley

October 7 - , American singer and actor (died 2009)

Al Martino

October 14 – , English actor (died 2017)

Roger Moore

October 15 – , British actress (died 2024)

Jeannette Charles

October 16 – , American actress (died 2022)

Eileen Ryan

October 18 – , American film and stage actor (died 1999)

George C. Scott

October 21 - , American director and producer (died 2009)

Howard Zieff

October 27 – , Estonian actress (died 2012)

Silvia Laidla

November 1 – , German documentary maker

Marcel Ophuls

November 3 - , Canadian actress (died 1995)

Florence Paterson

November 12 – , British screen actor (died 2005)

John Hollis

Fenella Fielding

November 14 – , American actor (died 1996)

McLean Stevenson

November 20 – , American actress

Estelle Parsons

November 23 – , American actress (died 2011)

Sybil Jason

November 30 – , American actor and singer (died 2017)

Robert Guillaume

December 26 - , American actor and stuntman (died 2021)

Chuck Hicks

December 29 – , Italian film director and screenwriter (died 2017)

Giorgio Capitani

December 30 – , American Actor (died 1993)

Bernard Barrow

January 13 – , American actor, playwright and producer (born 1875)

Arnold Daly

March 17 – , American actor (born 1900)

Charles Emmett Mack

April 25 – , American actor (born 1880)

Earle Williams

May 7 – , American stage and screen actor (born 1867)

Bruce McRae

May 16 – , English stage and screen actor (born 1863)

Sam Bernard

May 20 – , Danish actor (born 1873)

Oscar Stribolt

June 3 – , Swedish stage and screen actor (born 1897)

Einar Hanson

June 4 – , American actor (born 1877)

Robert McKim

July 26 – , American screenwriter (born 1887)

June Mathis

September 5 – , American theatre chain executive & founder of Loews Theatres (born 1870)

Marcus Loew

October 5 – , American co-founder of Warner Brothers studios (born 1887)

Sam Warner

October 13 – , American actor (born 1884)

Hughie Mack

November 4 – , German stage and film actress (born 1882)

Valli Valli

December 6 – , American actress (born 1867)

Kate Toncray

December 16 – , American actor and director (born 1868)

Romaine Fielding

December 24 – , American stage & film actress (born 1895)

Julia Bruns

The Main Event

Robert Armstrong

A Daughter in Revolt

Hermione Baddeley

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Louise Beavers

The Bugle Call

Johnny Mack Brown

Ladies Must Dress

Nancy Carroll

For the Love of Mike

Claudette Colbert

Broadway Nights

June Collyer

Rubber Heels

Ruth Donnelly

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Virginia Grey

One of the Best

Elsa Lanchester

The Beloved Rogue

Dickie Moore

Babe Comes Home

Helen Parrish

Orchids and Ermine

Mickey Rooney

The Beloved Rogue

Angelo Rossitto

Broadway Nights

Ann Sothern

Broadway Nights

Barbara Stanwyck

Out of the Mist

Frederick Valk

The Gaucho

Lupe Vélez

List of American films of 1927

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List of 1927 films

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List of 1927 deaths

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List of 1927 births