1947 Top Grossing Movies

This movie page looks at 1947 Top Box Office Movies.  Finding box office information for movies made in the 1930s and 1940s is extremely difficult.   For somebody looking for box office information on 1947 it is very very frustrating.  Over the years, we have researched and collected information on over 33,000 movies.  So we figured we would show all the 1947 movies in our database.

To make this list a movie had to be made in 1947.  Obviously many movies made in 1946 earned box office dollars in 1947.  On the other side many movies made in 1947 made money in 1948 and later.  This page will looks at 152 1947 Top Box Office Movies.  The movies are listed in a massive table that lets you rank the movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.

The following massive table only includes the movies made in 1947 that are in our database.  Since we are constantly adding new movies to our database….this page will quickly become obsolete.  We will try and update this page on a regular basis.

Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum in 1947’s Out Of The Past

Our UMR Top 50 of 1947

1947 Top Box Office Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort 1947 Top Box Office Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
  • Sort 1947 Top Box Office Movies by domestic actual box office grosses (in millions)
  • Sort 1947 Top Box Office Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort 1947 Top Box Office Movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each 1947 Top Box Office Movies received.
  • Sort 1947 Top Box Office Movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking Score (UMR).  Our UMR score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Richard Widmark and Victor Mature in 1947’s Kiss Of Death

My Main Sources

Source 1: Eddie Mannix MGM Ledgers

Source 2: C.J. Tevlin RKO Ledgers

Source 3: Variety Magazines –

Source 4: Year In Review Variety Editions

Source 5: Grand Design: Hollywood As A Modern Business Enterprise 1930-1942 by Tino Balio

Source 6: Twentieth Century-Fox A Corporate and Financial History by Aubrey Solomon

Source 7:  Wikipedia

Source 8:  IMDb.com

Source 9:  “Revenue sharing and the coming of sound” by H. Mark Glancy

Source 10: Hollywood Power Stats by Christopher Reynolds

1947 Box Office Grosses – Adjusted World Wide

 UMR Yearly Reviews

 

49 thoughts on “1947 Top Grossing Movies”

  2. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

    Here 5 additional movies to review for adding to the year 1947.

    1947 Song of Scheherazade $2.1 million (US rentals) wikipedia-source- “Top Grossers of 1947″, Variety, 7 January 1948 p 63

    1947 To Live in Peace $2,200,000 (USA) wikipedia
    $2,200,000 (USA) IMDB

    1947 Undercover Maisie $1,024,000 WIKIPEDIA-SOURCE-The Eddie Mannix Ledger

    1947 Thunder Mountain $351,000 WIKIPEDIA-source-Tim Holt and the B Western”.

    1947 It Always Rains on Sunday $1.6 million wikipedia-source-Variety May 1948 p 20

    Thx

    Mike

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  3. “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now” was a June Haver musical with Mark Stevens. 20th
    “The Exile” was a Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. swash-buckler. Universal
    “Adventure Island” paired Rory Calhoun with Rhonda Fleming. Paramount
    “Riff-Raff” paired Pat O’Brien with Walter Slezak. RKO
    “The Arnelo Affair” starred John Hodiak and George Murphy. MGM
    “Captain Boycott” was a British picture featuring Stewart Granger and Kathleen Ryan. Rank
    “Northwest Outpost” paired Nelson Eddy with Illona Massey. Republic
    “It Happened on Fifth Avenue” starred Don DeFore and Ann Harding. It was the first movie from the new Allied Artists division of Monogram Pictures.

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    1. Hey Anonymous….thanks for the UMR co-star suggestions….used lots of them to fill out every movie on this page….now that column is 100% filled out. Also added in a 1947 adjusted worldwide box office table. Thanks again.

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  4. “The Sin of Harold Diddlebock”, directed by Preston Sturges, was a return to the screen by Harold Lloyd. It was re-titled “Mad Wednesday” after its initial engagements were disappointing. RKO

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  5. Watched Ida Lupino’s The Man I Love Recently. Supposed to have come out Jan. 47. Didn’t see it on the list, nor have I read anywhere else about how it did… Just curious!
    Thanks, Rick

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    1. Hey Richard …..I have just added The Man I Love to the table….it is currently being downloaded to our 1947 page as I type this comment…..I had the grosses sitting in my Warner Brothers ledgers notes. So you requested information is arriving soon. Thanks for the visit and the comment.

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