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1947 Hollywood Highest Grossing Movies

1947 Hollywood Highest Grossing Movies:
Highest-grossing films of 1947
RankTitleStudioBox-office gross rental
1Welcome StrangerParamount Pictures$6,100,000[1]
2The Egg and IUniversal Pictures$5,500,000[1]
3UnconqueredParamount Pictures$5,300,000[1]
4Life with FatherWarner Bros.$5,057,000[2]
5Forever Amber20th Century Fox$5,000,000[1]
6The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Road to Rio
RKO Radio Pictures
Paramount Pictures
$4,500,000[1]
7Green Dolphin StreetMetro-Goldwyn Mayer$4,384,380[3]
8Mother Wore Tights20th Century Fox$4,100,000[4]
9Cass TimberlaneMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer$3,983,000[3]
10California
Gentleman's Agreement
Paramount Pictures
20th Century Fox
$3,900,000[5][6]

1) Welcome Stranger

Welcome Stranger
Welcome stranger -- poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byElliott Nugent
Produced bySol C. Siegel
Written byN. Richard Nash
Arthur Sheekman (adaptation) Arthur Sheekman (screenplay)
Story byFrank Butler
StarringBing Crosby
Barry Fitzgerald
Music byRobert Emmett Dolan
CinematographyLionel Lindon
Edited byEverett Douglas
Production
company
Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • June 13, 1947
Running time
107 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$6.1 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[1][2]

2) The Egg and I

The Egg and I
Theegg&i.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byChester Erskine
Produced byChester Erskine
Fred F. Finklehoffe
Leonard Goldstein (associate producer)
Written byBetty MacDonald (novel)
Chester Erskine
Fred F. Finklehoffe
StarringClaudette Colbert
Fred MacMurray
Marjorie Main
Music byHughie Prince
Frank Skinner
CinematographyMilton R. Krasner
Edited byRussell F. Schoengarth
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • March 21, 1947 (Los Angeles, premiere)
  • April 24, 1947 (New York City)
  • May 1947 (U.S.)
  • July 3, 1954 (re-release)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,900,000[1]
Box office$5,750,000 (est. US/ Canada rentals)[2][3]

3) Unconquered

Unconquered
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Directed byCecil B. DeMille
Produced byCecil B. DeMille
Written byCharles Bennett
Fredric M. Frank
Jesse Lasky Jr.
Jeanie Macpherson (uncredited)
StarringGary Cooper
Paulette Goddard
Narrated byCecil B. DeMille
Music byVictor Young
CinematographyRay Rennahan
Edited byAnne Bauchens
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • October 3, 1947
Running time
146 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4.3 million[1]
Box office$5,250,000 (est. US/ Canada rentals)[2][

4) Life with Father

Life with Father
Life with Father - Film Poster.jpg
Theatrical Film Poster
Directed byMichael Curtiz
Produced byRobert Buckner
Screenplay byDonald Ogden Stewart
Based onLife with Father
1935 autobiography
by Clarence Day
1939 play by Howard Lindsay
Russel Crouse
StarringWilliam Powell
Irene Dunne
Music byMax Steiner
CinematographyWilliam V. Skall
J. Peverell Marley
Edited byGeorge Amy
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • August 14, 1947 (U.S.)
Running time
118 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4,710,000
Box office$6,455,000

5) Forever Amber

Forever Amber
Foreveramberposter.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byOtto Preminger
John M. Stahl (uncredited)
Produced byWilliam Perlberg
Screenplay byPhilip Dunne
Ring Lardner Jr.
Story byJerome Cady
Based onForever Amber
by Kathleen Winsor
StarringLinda Darnell
Cornel Wilde
Richard Greene
George Sanders
Music byDavid Raksin
CinematographyLeon Shamroy
Edited byLouis R. Loeffler
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • October 22, 1947
Running time
138 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$6.4 million
Box office$5 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[1][2] or $6 million[3]
3,918,690 admissions (France)[4]

6) The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Road to Rio


The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
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Theatrical release poster
Directed byIrving Reis
Produced byDore Schary
Screenplay bySidney Sheldon
StarringCary Grant
Myrna Loy
Shirley Temple
Music byLeigh Harline
CinematographyNicholas Musuraca
Robert De Grasse
Edited byFrederic Knudtson
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • July 24, 1947 (Premiere-NYC)[1]
  • September 1, 1947 (USA)[1]
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$4.5 million (US rentals)[2] or $5,550,000[3]

Road to Rio
Road to Rio 1947 Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNorman McLeod
Produced byDaniel Dare
Written by
Screenplay byBarney Dean
Starring
Music byRobert Emmett Dolan
CinematographyErnest Laszlo
Edited byEllsworth Hoagland
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • December 25, 1947 (USA)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.4 million[1]
Box office$4.5 million (US/ Canada rentals) [2][3]
7) Green Dolphin Street

Green Dolphin Street
Green Dolphin Street.jpg
Directed byVictor Saville
Produced byCarey Wilson
Written bySamson Raphaelson
Carey Wilson
Based onGreen Dolphin Street
1944 novel
by Elizabeth Goudge
StarringLana Turner
Van Heflin
Donna Reed
Richard Hart
Music byBronislaw Kaper
CinematographyGeorge J. Folsey
Edited byGeorge White
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
5 November 1947
Running time
142 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4,391,000[1][2]
Box office$7,173,000[1]

8) Mother Wore Tights

Mother Wore Tights
Mother-Wore-Tights-Poster.jpg
Theatrical poster
Directed byWalter Lang
Produced byLamar Trotti
Written byLamar Trotti (screenplay)
Based onMother Wore Tights
1944 novel
by Miriam Young
StarringBetty Grable
Dan Dailey
Mona Freeman
Narrated byAnne Baxter
Music byFrank Burt
David Buttolph
CinematographyHarry Jackson
Edited byJ. Watson Webb Jr.
Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release date
September 1947
Running time
107 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$4,150,000 (US/ Canada rentals)[1][2][3]

9) Cass Timberlane

Cass Timberlane
Cass Timberlane poster.jpg
Theatrical poster
Directed byGeorge Sidney
Produced byArthur Hornblow, Jr.
Written bySinclair Lewis (Novel)
Donald Ogden Stewart (Adaptation)
Sonya Levien (Adaptation)
StarringSpencer Tracy
Lana Turner
Zachary Scott
Music byRoy Webb
CinematographyRobert Planck
Edited byJohn Dunning
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • November 6, 1947
Running time
119 mins.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2,733,000[1]
Box office$5,186,000[1]

10) California
Gentleman's Agreement


California
California 1946 poster small.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Farrow
Produced byJohn Farrow
Seton I. Miller
Screenplay byFrank Butler
Theodore Strauss
Seton I. Miller (uncredited)
Story byBoris Ingster
StarringRay Milland
Barbara Stanwyck
Barry Fitzgerald
Music byVictor Young
CinematographyRay Rennahan
Edited byEda Warren
Production
company
Paramount Pictures
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • January 14, 1947
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$3.9 million (US rentals)[1]
Gentleman's Agreement
Gentleman's Agreement (1947 poster).jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byElia Kazan
Produced byDarryl F. Zanuck
Screenplay byMoss Hart
Elia Kazan
Based onGentleman's Agreement
1947 novel
by Laura Z. Hobson
StarringGregory Peck
Dorothy McGuire
John Garfield
Celeste Holm
June Havoc
Anne Revere
Dean Stockwell
Music byAlfred Newman
CinematographyArthur C. Miller
Edited byHarmon Jones
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • November 11, 1947 (New York City)
Running time
118 minutes
CountryUnited States
Budget$1,985,000[1][2]
Box office$7,800,000[3]

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