1937 IN FILM

The year '1937 in film' involved some significant events.

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Academy Awards

Films released in 1937

Serials

Short film series

Animated short film series

Births

Deaths

Events

★ April 16 - ''Way Out West'' premieres in the US.

★ May 7 - ''Shall We Dance'' premieres in the US.

Top grossing films

:North America
#''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''
#''Conquest''
#''Damaged Lives''
#''Parnell''
#''La Grande Illusion''
#''Annapolis Salute''
#''Pépé le Moko''
#''Green Fields''

Academy Awards

★ Best Picture: ''The Life of Emile Zola'' - Warner Bros.

★ Best Actor: Spencer Tracy - ''Captains Courageous''

★ Best Actress: Luise Rainer - ''The Good Earth''

Films released in 1937

★ ''Annapolis Salute'' -(remake of 1933 ''Midshipman Jack'')

★ ''Artists and Models'' (Paramount)

★ ''The Awful Truth'', starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant

★ ''Bizarre, Bizarre''

★ ''Broadway Melody of 1938'', starring Eleanor Powell and Judy Garland

★ ''Captains Courageous'', starring Spencer Tracy

★ ''Conquest'', starring Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer

★ ''A Day at the Races'', starring the Marx Brothers

★ ''Dead End'', starring Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea and Humphrey Bogart

★ ''Dick Tracy'', starring Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes and Smiley Burnette (see Dick Tracy)

★ ''Ever Since Eve'', screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley ''et al''. (film mentioned in article)

★ ''The Firefly'', starring Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones

★ ''The Good Earth'', starring Luise Rainer and Paul Muni

★ ''Good Morning, Boys'', starring Will Hay

★ ''Grand Illusion'', starring Jean Gabin and Dita Parlo; directed by Jean Renoir

★ ''Green Fields''

★ ''The Hurricane'', starring Dorothy Lamour

★ ''The Life of Emile Zola''

★ ''Lost Horizon'', starring Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt; directed by Frank Capra

★ ''Maytime'', starring Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy

★ ''Nothing Sacred'', starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March

★ ''Oh, Mr Porter!'', starring Will Hay

★ ''One Hundred Men and a Girl, starring Deanna Durbin

★ ''Parnell'', starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy

★ ''Pépé le Moko'', starring Jean Gabin

★ ''The Perfect Specimen'', starring Errol Flynn, screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley ''et al''. (film mentioned in article)

★ ''The Prisoner of Zenda'', starring Ronald Colman

★ ''Shall We Dance'', starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

★ ''Slim'', starring Henry Fonda

★ ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', first American feature-length animated movie (Walt Disney Productions)

★ ''Stage Door'', starring Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers

★ ''A Star Is Born'', starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March

★ ''Stella Dallas'', starring Barbara Stanwyck

★ ''Topper'', starring Cary Grant, and Constance Bennett

★ ''Tovarich'', starring Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer

★ ''Way Out West'', starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

★ ''You Only Live Once'', starring Henry Fonda

★ ''Young and Innocent'', directed by Alfred Hitchcock

★ ''Something to Sing About'', directed by Victor Schertzinger

Serials

★ ''Blake of Scotland Yard'', starring Ralph Byrd and Herbert Rawlinson

★ ''Dick Tracy'', starring Ralph Byrd

★ ''Jungle Jim

★ ''Jungle Menace'', starring Frank Hardy

★ ''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

Short film series

★ ''Buster Keaton'' (1917-1941)

★ ''Laurel and Hardy'' (1921-1943)

★ ''Our Gang'' (1922-1944)

★ ''Charley Chase'' (1924-1940)

★ ''The Three Stooges'' (1934-1959)

Animated short film series

★ ''Krazy Kat'' (1925-1940)

★ ''Oswald the Lucky Rabbit'' (1927-1938)

★ ''Mickey Mouse'' (1928-1953)

★ ''Silly Symphonies'' (1929-1939)

★ ''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 17 - Troy Donahue, American actor

★ January 30 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress

★ February 27 - Barbara Babcock, American actress

★ June 1 - Morgan Freeman, actor

★ August 8 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor

★ August 18 - Robert Redford, American actor

★ September 4 - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor

★ November 21 - Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actressactress

★ December 9 - Darwin Joston, American actor

★ December 21 - Jane Fonda, American actress

Deaths

★ January 2 - Ross Alexander, American actor

★ January 23 - Marie Prevost, Canadian-born American actress

★ May 1 - Snitz Edwards, Austro-Hungarian-born American actor

★ June 7 - Jean Harlow, American actress