1937 in film
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The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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[edit] Events
- April 16 - Way Out West premieres in the US.
- May 7 - Shall We Dance premieres in the US.
- May 11- Captains Courageous (1937 film) premieres in the US.
December 21- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film) premieres in the US
[edit] Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Actors |
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| 1. | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Disney/RKO | |
| 2. | Saratoga | MGM | Clark Gable and Jean Harlow |
| 3. | One Hundred Men and a Girl | Universal | Deanna Durbin |
| 4. | Topper | MGM | Constance Bennett and Cary Grant |
| 5. | Wee Willie Winkie | 20th Century Fox | Shirley Temple |
| 6. | Stella Dallas | United Artists | Barbara Stanwyck |
| 7. | In Old Chicago | 20th Century Fox | Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche |
| 8. | The Prince and the Pauper | Warner Bros. | Errol Flynn |
| 9. | The Good Earth | MGM | Paul Muni and Luise Rainer |
| 10. | The Life of Emile Zola | Warner Bros. | Paul Muni |
| 11. | Lost Horizon | Columbia | Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt |
| 12. | Dead End | United Artists | Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart |
| 13. | The Hurricane | United Artists | Dorothy Lamour |
| 14. | Heidi | 20th Century Fox | Shirley Temple |
| 15. | Personal Property | MGM | Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor |
| 16. | Conquest | MGM | Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer |
[edit] Academy Awards
- Best Picture: The Life of Emile Zola - Warner Bros.
- Best Director: Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth
- Best Actor: Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous
- Best Actress: Luise Rainer - The Good Earth
[edit] Films released in 1937
U.S.A. unless stated
- Action for Slander starring Clive Brook and Ann Todd - (U.K.)
- Ali Baba Goes to Town
- Angel
- Annapolis Salute -(remake of 1933 Midshipman Jack)
- Artists and Models (Paramount)
- The Awful Truth, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant
- Bezhin Meadow, directed by Sergei Eisenstein - (U.S.S.R.)
- Big Town Girl, starring Claire Trevor and Donald Woods
- Bizarre, Bizarre, (Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure du Docteur Molyneux), a comedy directed by Marcel Carné, starring Louis Jouvet and Michel Simon - (France)
- Black Legion
- Born to the West, starring John Wayne
- Brief Ecstasy, starring Paul Lukas - (U.K.)
- Broadway Melody of 1938, starring Eleanor Powell and Judy Garland
- Captains Courageous, starring Freddie Bartholomew and Spencer Tracy
- Confession, starring Kay Francis and Basil Rathbone
- Conquest, starring Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer
- Crossroads - (China)
- A Damsel in Distress, starring Fred Astaire, George Burns and Gracie Allen
- Daughter of Shanghai, starring Anna May Wong and Philip Ahn
- A Day at the Races, starring the Marx Brothers
- Dead End, starring Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor
- Double Wedding
- Duniya Na Mane - (India)
- Easy Living, starring Jean Arthur and Edward Arnold
- The Edge of the World, directed by Michael Powell - (U.K.)
- Elephant Boy - (U.K.)
- Ever Since Eve, starring Marion Davies and Robert Montgomery
- A Family Affair Starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
- Fire Over England, starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh - (U.K.)
- The Firefly, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones
- Gangway, starring Jessie Matthews - (U.K.)
- Girls Can Play, starring Julie Bishop
- The Good Earth, starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer (Academy Award for Best Actress)
- Good Morning, Boys, starring Will Hay - (U.K.)
- Grand Illusion, directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Dita Parlo - (France)
- The Great Garrick, starring Brian Aherne and Olivia de Havilland
- The Great O'Malley
- Green Fields - a Yiddish language film
- Head Over Heels, starring Jessie Matthews - (U.K.)
- Heidi, starring Shirley Temple
- High, Wide, and Handsome
- History is Made at Night, starring Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur
- Humanity and Paper Balloons (人情紙風船) - (Japan)
- The Hurricane, starring Dorothy Lamour
- In Old Chicago, starring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche
- It's Love I'm After
- Kid Galahad
- Knight Without Armour, starring Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat - (U.K.)
- Lancashire Luck, film debut of Wendy Hiller - (U.K.)
- The Last Gangster, starring Edward G. Robinson and James Stewart
- The Life of Emile Zola, starring Paul Muni
- Lost Horizon, directed by Frank Capra, starring Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt
- Love Is on the Air, starring Ronald Reagan and June Travis; directed by Nick Grinde
- Madame X
- Maid of Salem, starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray
- Make Way for Tomorrow, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi
- The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war) - (Germany)
- Marked Woman
- Maytime, starring Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy
- Night Must Fall, starring Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell
- Nothing Sacred, starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March
- Oh, Mr Porter!, starring Will Hay - (U.K.)
- The Old Mill, a Silly Symphonies cartoon
- On the Avenue, starring Dick Powell and Madeleine Carroll with songs by Irving Berlin
- One Hundred Men and a Girl, starring Deanna Durbin
- Parnell, starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy
- Pépé le Moko, starring Jean Gabin - (France)
- The Perfect Specimen, starring Errol Flynn, screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley et al. (film mentioned in article)
- The Prince and the Pauper
- The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll
- The Road Back
- Saratoga, starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in her last film
- Shall We Dance, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
- Sidewalks of London, starring Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison - (U.K.)
- Il signor Max, starring Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
- Slim, starring Henry Fonda
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, first American feature-length animated movie
- Something to Sing About, starring James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley; directed by Victor Schertzinger
- Song at Midnight - (China)
- Souls at Sea, starring Gary Cooper and George Raft
- Stage Door, starring Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers
- A Star Is Born, starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March
- Stella Dallas, starring Barbara Stanwyck
- Street Angel - (China)
- That Certain Woman, starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda
- They Won't Forget
- Topper, starring Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young
- Tovarich, starring Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer
- True Confession, starring Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore
- Victoria the Great, starring Anna Neagle and Anton Walbrook - (U.K.)
- Way Out West, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- Wee Willie Winkie, starring Shirley Temple
- Without Dowry - (U.S.S.R.)
- Woman Chases Man, starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea
- The Woman I Love, starring Paul Muni and Miriam Hopkins
- You Only Live Once, starring Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney
- You're Only Young Once, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
- Young and Innocent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock - (U.K.)
[edit] Serials
- Blake of Scotland Yard, starring Ralph Byrd and Herbert Rawlinson
- Dick Tracy, starring Ralph Byrd
- Jungle Jim
- Jungle Menace, starring Frank Buck
- The Mysterious Pilot, starring Frank Hawks
- The Painted Stallion, starring Ray Corrigan
- Radio Patrol
- Secret Agent X-9, starring Scott Kolk
- S.O.S. Coast Guard, starring Ralph Byrd and Bela Lugosi
- Tim Tyler's Luck, starring Frankie Thomas
- Wild West Days
- Zorro Rides Again, starring John Carroll
[edit] Comedy film series
- Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
- Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
- Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
- Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
- Laurel and Hardy (1921-1945)
- Our Gang (1922–1944)
- Wheeler and Woolsey (1929-1937)
- The Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
- The Three Stooges (1933–1962)
[edit] Animated short film series
- Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
- Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–1938)
- Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
- Silly Symphonies
- Woodland Café
- Little Hiawatha
- The Old Mill
- Screen Songs (1929–1938)
- Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
- Terrytoons (1930–1964)
- Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
- Scrappy (1931–1941)
- Betty Boop (1932–1939)
- Popeye (1933–1957)
- Happy Harmonies (1934–1938)
- Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
- Meany, Miny, and Moe (1936-1937)
- Donald Duck (1937-1956)
[edit] Births
- January 4 - Dyan Cannon, American actress
- January 15 - Margaret O'Brien, American actress
- January 30 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
- January 31 - Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (died 2008)
- February 25 - Tom Courtenay, English actor
- March 30 - Warren Beatty, American actor and director
- April 6 - Billy Dee Williams, American actor
- April 22 - Jack Nicholson, American actor
- April 27 - Sandy Dennis, American actress (died 1992)
- May 16 - Yvonne Craig, American actress
- June 1 - Morgan Freeman, American actor and director
- June 2 - Sally Kellerman, American actress and singer
- June 10 - Luciana Paluzzi, Italian actress
- July 6 - Ned Beatty, American actor
- August 8 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
- September 5 - William Devane, American actor
- September 7 - John Phillip Law, American actor (died 2008)
- November 5 - Harris Yulin, American actor
- November 21 - Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (died 2010)
- December 7 - Kenneth Colley, English actor
- December 9 - Darwin Joston, American actor (died 1998)
- December 21 - Jane Fonda, American actress
- December 29 - Barbara Steele, English actress
- December 31 - Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor
[edit] Deaths
- January 2 - Ross Alexander, American actor
- January 23 - Marie Prevost, Canadian-born American actress
- February 3 - Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress
- May 1 - Snitz Edwards, Austro-Hungarian-born American actor
- June 7 - Jean Harlow, American actress
- November 13 - Mrs. Leslie Carter, stage & screen actress
[edit] Debuts
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