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.

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

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors
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

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

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.)

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

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)

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)

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

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

Debuts

• Glenn Ford
• Ronald Reagan
• Lana Turner