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1927 in film
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Events
- January 10 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres.
- April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda .
- May 11 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was formed. The first Academy Awards (Oscars) went to films released in 1927 or 1928.
- October 6 - The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, is released. Although not the first 'talkie', The Jazz Singer is the first big hit and popularizes sound motion pictures.
- 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 .
- Italian Alberto Rabagliati wins a Rudolph Valentino look-alike contest and moves to Hollywood to start his acting career.
Top grossing films
- The Jazz Singer
Academy Awards
- Best Production: Wings
- Best Artistic Quality: Sunrise
- Best Actor: Emil Jannings for The Way of All Flesh and the 1928 movie The Last Command
- Best Actress: Janet Gaynor for Seventh Heaven and Sunrise, as well as the 1928 movie Street Angel
Movies released
Movies released in 1927 include:
- The General, starring Buster Keaton
- The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson & May McAvoy
- Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang
- Napoléon directed by Abel Gance
- The Pleasure Garden, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
- Seventh Heaven, starring starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
- Sunrise, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor, directed by F.W. Murnau
- The Way of All Flesh, starring Emil Jannings
- Wings, starring Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen and Jobyna Ralston
Births
- January 17 - Eartha Kitt, actress, singer
- February 20 - Sidney Poitier, actor
- March 20 - Cairbre (aka Leo), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's lion mascot, born in Dublin Zoo
- May 13 - Herbert Ross, director
- June 23 - Bob Fosse, director
- July 4 - Gina Lollobrigida, actress
- July 6 - Janet Leigh, actress (d. 2004)
- September 16 - Peter Falk, actor
- October 14 - Roger Moore, actor
- October 18 - George C. Scott, film and stage actor
- October 31 - Lee Grant, actress
Deaths
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