However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

William Dwight Schultz ( born November 24, 1947 ) is an American stage, television, film actor, and voice artist.

During World War II, he worked in an animation department of the United States Army, where he wrote Design for Death, a film that later won the 1947 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).

The Edinburgh International Film Festival in the UK was established in 1947 and is the longest continually running film festival in the world.

No writer's published work provided the basis for more film noirs of the classic period than Woolrich's: thirteen in all, including Black Angel ( 1946 ), Deadline at Dawn ( 1946 ), and Fear in the Night ( 1947 ).

Orson Welles had notorious problems with financing, but his three film noirs were well budgeted: The Lady from Shanghai ( 1947 ) received top-level, " prestige " backing, while both The Stranger, his most conventional film, and Touch of Evil, an unmistakably personal work, were funded at levels lower but still commensurate with headlining releases.

* 1884 – Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor, film director ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – Frank P. Tomasulo, American film professor and critic

Bogart and Bacall in Dark Passage ( film ) | Dark Passage ( 1947 ), the third of four films they made together

In 1961 the second Tintin film was made: Tintin and the Golden Fleece, starring Jean-Pierre Talbot as Tintin ( an earlier stop motion-animated film was made in 1947 called The Crab with the Golden Claws, but it was screened publicly only once ).

A film, Albéniz, based on his life, was made in 1947.

" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).

* 1878 – Harry Carey, American silent film actor ( d. 1947 )

She made one British film as well, the 1947 film version of Uncle Silas, starring Jean Simmons.

Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 – 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.

* 1947 – Edgar Burcksen, Dutch film editor

* 1947 – Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer

In 1943, the Soviet film Nasreddin in Bukhara was directed by Yakov Protazanov based on Solovyov's book, followed in 1947 by a film called The Adventures of Nasreddin, directed by Nabi Ganiyev and also set in the Uzbekistan SSR.

In 1947, British rule in the South Asia was replaced by the sovereign, independent nations of India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh, resulting in the migration of millions people and significant loss of life and property.

The story follows the main events of Scrooge's life between 1877 and 1947, including almost all references found in Carl Barks stories about Scrooge's life until 1947 but leaving some room for Rosa and other creators to add more details later.

Other films include The Hucksters ( 1947 ) with Clark Gable, Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ) with Gregory Peck, Lone Star ( 1952 ) with Clark Gable, Mogambo ( 1953 ) with Clark Gable and Grace Kelly, 1954's The Barefoot Contessa with Humphrey Bogart ( which some consider to be Gardner's " signature film " since it mirrored her real life custom of going barefoot ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), The Sun Also Rises with Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn ( in which she played party-girl Brett Ashley ) ( 1957 ), and the film version of Nevil Shute's best-selling On the Beach with Peck and Fred Astaire.

But cultural life was also soon back on track: in 1947 Mozart festival weeks were held in the Opera House, from which the Franconian Festival Weeks developed.

In 1947, Holdridge improved on these schemes, by defining biotemperature: the mean annual temperature, where all temperatures below are treated as ( because it makes no difference to plant life, being dormant ).

Centering on Hughes ' life from the late 1920s to 1947, DiCaprio initially developed the project with Michael Mann, who decided against directing it after back-to-back film biographies in Ali and The Insider.

* The Financier ( 1912 ), The Titan ( 1914 ), and The Stoic ( 1947 ), Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, based on the life of the notorious transit mogul Charles Tyson Yerkes

Between 1947 and 1988, 13 severe cyclones hit Bangladesh, causing enormous loss of life and property.

General Clay, the American military governor, felt, in 1948, that Ilse Koch had been unjustly sentenced to a life term in 1947 by the international American military court.

He retired there when he left the White House in 1845 and spent the rest of his life there with his second wife and some of his children-he had eight with his first wife, seven with his second wife, and the last of them died in 1947.

Among his other films were Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), The Gunfighter ( 1950 ), Moby Dick ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), which brought to life the terrors of global nuclear war, The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), and Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), with Audrey Hepburn in her Oscar-winning role.

Thomas Mann's 1947 Doktor Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde adapts the Faust legend to a 20th-century context, documenting the life of fictional composer Adrian Leverkühn as analog and embodiment of the early 20th-century history of Germany and of Europe.

The film was inspired by the Judges ' Trial before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal in 1947, where four of the defendants were sentenced to life in prison.

Arthur Machen ( 1863 – 1947 ), the author of many supernatural and fantastic fictions, lived at 23 Clarendon Road, Notting Hill Gate, in the 1880s ; he writes of his life here in his memoirs, Far Off Things ( 1922 ) and Things Near and Far ( 1923 ).

* Poet and writer, Richard Rowley ( 1877 – 1947 ), lived in Newcastle in later life.

The ensuing investigation resulted in Trevor-Roper's most famous book, The Last Days of Hitler ( 1947, with revised editions as late as 1995 ), in which he described the last ten days of Hitler's life, and the fates of some of the higher-ranking members of the inner circle as well of those lesser figures whose evidence was important for reconstructing this penultimate chapter of the war.

( Other possible precursors are Monmouthshire-born Arthur Machen ( 1863 – 1947 ), and Joseph Keating ( 1871 – 1934 ), who began his working life as a South Wales miner.

For most of his life Gerchunoff espoused assimilationism for the Jews of Argentina, though altered his stance with the rise of Hitler, eventually advocating for the establishment of the state of Israel before the United Nations in 1947 He is said to have collaborated with Wilhelm Reich on a version of his orgone box designed to preserve the core of Jewish cultural memories, many of which were collected by him as oral histories and published under the title Héroes de los Intersticios in 1948.

The minister issued a statement in June 1947 that Travancore would remain as an independent country instead of joining the Indian Union, and subsequently, an attempt was made on the life of Sir C. P.

After the war, Johnson concentrated on her family life, which included two daughters born in 1946 and 1947 and her occasional acting work was secondary for the following decade.

The narrative is therefore complex, jumping back and forth in time among Stingo's description of the summer of 1947 and his relationship with Sophie and Nathan, his own earlier life in Virginia, and Sophie's experiences.

George Chauncey Sparks ( October 8, 1884 – November 6, 1968 ), known as Chauncey Sparks, was a Democratic American politician who was 41st Governor of Alabama from 1943 to 1947.