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1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Academy Awards
4 Films released in 1927
5 Short film series
6 Animated short film series
7 Births
8 Deaths
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[edit] 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.
August 12 - Paramount's Wings, which would go on to win the first "Best Picture" Academy Award, opens at the Criterion Theater in New York City, with an unheard-of roadshow admission price of $2.00 per ticket.
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.
[edit] Top grossing films
The Jazz Singer
[edit] 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
[edit] Films released in 1927
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (documentary)
The Cat and the Canary
College, starring Buster Keaton
The General, starring Buster Keaton
Hula, starring Clara Bow
Huntingtower, by George Pearson (John Buchan novel)
It, starring Clara Bow and Antonio Moreno
The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy
The Kid Brother, a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
The Lodger
London After Midnight, starring Lon Chaney, Sr., Conrad Nagel and Marceline Day, directed by Tod Browning
Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang
Napoléon directed by Abel Gance
October: Ten Days That Shook the World
The Private Life of Helen of Troy
The Scar of Shame, a race movie starring Harry Henderson and Lucia Lynn Moses
Seventh Heaven, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, starring Ramón Novarro and Norma Shearer, directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Sunrise, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor, directed by F.W. Murnau
Underworld
The Unknown
The Way of All Flesh, starring Emil Jannings
Wings, starring Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen and Jobyna Ralston
[edit] Short film series
Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
Our Gang (1922-1944)
Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)
[edit] Animated short film series
Felix the Cat (1919-1930)
Aesop's Film Fables (1921-1933)
Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes (1924-1927)
Alice Comedies (1924-1927)
Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
Un-Natural History (1925-1927)
Pete the Pup (1926-1927)
Inkwell Imps (1927-1929)
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927-1938)
Newslaffs (1927-1928)
[edit] Births
January 17 - Eartha Kitt, actress, singer
February 7 - Juliette Greco singer, actress
February 20 - Sidney Poitier, actor
March 1 - Harry Belafonte actor, singer
March 20 - Cairbre (also known as Leo), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's lion mascot, born in Dublin Zoo
May 13 - Herbert Ross, director (d. 2001)
June 23 - Bob Fosse, director (d. 1987)
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 (d. 1999)
October 31 - Lee Grant, actress
November 14 - McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. February 15, 1996)
[edit] Deaths
June 3 - Einar Hanson, Swedish actor
June 4 - Robert McKim, actor (the villain in Fairbanks' "Mark of Zorro")
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