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==Top-grossing films (U.S.)== The top ten 1947 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: <!-- Note: We only link the studios ONCE--> {| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;" |+ Highest-grossing films of 1947 |- ! Rank !! Title !! Distributor !! Domestic rentals |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''1''' | ''[[Welcome Stranger (1947 film)|Welcome Stranger]]'' | [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] | $6,100,000<ref name=Finler>{{cite book |last=Finler |first=Joel Waldo |year=2003 |title=The Hollywood Story |publisher=Wallflower Press |isbn=978-1-903364-66-6 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA356#v=twopage 356β357]}}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''2''' |''[[The Egg and I (film)|The Egg and I]]'' | [[Universal Pictures|Universal]] | $5,500,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''3''' | ''[[Life with Father (film)|Life with Father]]'' | [[Warner Bros.]] | $5,057,000<ref name="warners">Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1β31 p 28 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''4''' |''[[Forever Amber (film)|Forever Amber]]'' | [[20th Century Fox]] | $5,000,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''5''' |''[[Unconquered (1947 film)|Unconquered]]'' | rowspan="2"|Paramount | $4,633,486{{sfn|Birchard|2004|p=329}} |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''6''' |''[[Road to Rio]]'' | $4,500,000<ref name=Finler/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''7''' |''[[Green Dolphin Street (film)|Green Dolphin Street]]'' | [[MGM]] | $4,384,380<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}.</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''8''' |''[[The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer]]'' | [[RKO]] | $4,200,000<ref name="rko">Jewel, Richard. "RKO Film Grosses: 1931β1951" in ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'', Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p55</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''9''' |''[[Mother Wore Tights]]'' | 20th Century Fox | $4,100,000<ref name=Finler2>{{cite book |last=Finler |first=Joel Waldo |year=2003 |title=The Hollywood Story |publisher=Wallflower Press |isbn=978-1-903364-66-6 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA358#v=twopage 358β359]}}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''10''' | ''[[Cass Timberlane]]'' | MGM | $3,983,000<ref name="Mannix"/> |}
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