1937 in film
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The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first American 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 premieres in the US.
- July 9 – The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
- December 21 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premieres in the US.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Starring |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Disney/RKO Radio Pictures | voices of Adriana Caselotti and Lucille La Verne |
| 2. | The Good Earth | MGM | Paul Muni and Luise Rainer |
| 3. | One Hundred Men and a Girl | Universal | Deanna Durbin and Leopold Stokowski |
| 4. | Topper | MGM | Constance Bennett and Cary Grant |
| 5. | Wee Willie Winkie | 20th Century Fox | Shirley Temple |
| 6. | Stella Dallas | Goldwyn/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. | Saratoga | MGM | Clark Gable and Jean Harlow |
| 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. | Conquest | MGM | Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer |
| 16. | Personal Property | MGM | Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor |
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
Top ten money-making stars
| Rank | Actor/Actress |
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| 1. | Shirley Temple |
| 2. | Clark Gable |
| 3. | Robert Taylor |
| 4. | Bing Crosby |
| 5. | William Powell |
| 6. | Jane Withers |
| 7. (tie) | Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers |
| 8. | Sonja Henie |
| 9. | Gary Cooper |
| 10. | Myrna Loy |
Notable films released in 1937
U.S.A. unless stated.
A-B
- Action for Slander, starring Clive Brook and Ann Todd (GB)
- Ali Baba Goes to Town, starring Eddie Cantor
- Andula Won (Andula vyhrála) (Czechoslovakia)
- Angel, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Marlene Dietrich
- Annapolis Salute, starring James Ellison
- Artists and Models, starring Jack Benny and Ida Lupino
- The Awful Truth, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant
- Bezhin Meadow, directed by Sergei Eisenstein (U.S.S.R.)
- Big City, starring Luise Rainer and Spencer Tracy
- Bizarre, Bizarre (Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure du Docteur Molyneux), directed by Marcel Carné, starring Louis Jouvet and Michel Simon (France)
- Black Legion, starring Humphrey Bogart
- Born to the West, starring John Wayne
- The Bride Wore Red, directed by Dorothy Arzner, starring Joan Crawford
- Brief Ecstasy, starring Paul Lukas (GB)
- Broadway Melody of 1938, starring Eleanor Powell and Judy Garland
C-D
- Captains Courageous, starring Freddie Bartholomew and Spencer Tracy
- Charlie Chan at the Olympics, starring Warner Oland
- Confession, starring Kay Francis and Basil Rathbone
- Conquest, starring Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer
- Crossroads (Shi zi jie tou) (China)
- A Damsel in Distress, starring Fred Astaire, George Burns and Gracie Allen
- The Daughter of the Samurai (Die Tochter des Samurai / Atarashiki tsuchi), directed by Arnold Fanck and Mansaku Itami (Germany/Japan)
- Daughter of Shanghai, starring Anna May Wong and Philip Ahn
- A Day at the Races, directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers
- Dead End, directed by William Wyler, starring Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor
- Double Wedding, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
- Dreaming Lips, directed by Paul Czinner, starring Elisabeth Bergner, Raymond Massey (Britain)
- Duniya Na Mane (The Unexpected) (India)
- The Dybbuk, Yiddish language film from (Poland)
E-F
- Easy Living, starring Jean Arthur and Edward Arnold
- The Edge of the World, directed by Michael Powell (GB)
- Elephant Boy, directed by Robert J. Flaherty and Zoltan Korda, starring Sabu (GB)
- España 1936, a documentary produced and co-written by Luis Buñuel (Spain)
- 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 (GB)
- The Firefly, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones
- First Lady, starring Kay Francis and Preston Foster
G-H
- Gangway, starring Jessie Matthews (GB)
- The Good Earth, starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer (Academy Award for Best Actress)
- Good Morning, Boys, starring Will Hay (GB)
- Grand Illusion, directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Dita Parlo (France)
- The Great Barrier, starring Richard Arlen and Lilli Palmer (GB)
- The Great Garrick, starring Brian Aherne and Olivia de Havilland
- The Great O'Malley, starring Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart
- Green Fields – a Yiddish language film
- Gribouille (aka The Meddler), starring Raimu and Michèle Morgan (France)
- La Habanera, directed by Douglas Sirk (Germany)
- Head Over Heels, starring Jessie Matthews (GB)
- Heidi, starring Shirley Temple
- High, Wide, and Handsome, starring Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott
- History is Made at Night, starring Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur
- Humanity and Paper Balloons (Ninjō Kami Fūsen) (Japan)
- The Hurricane, starring Dorothy Lamour
I-K
- In Old Chicago, starring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche
- It's Love I'm After, starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland
- Jump for Glory, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Valerie Hobson (GB)
- Kid Galahad, starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart
- King Solomon's Mines, starring Cedric Hardwicke and Paul Robeson (GB)
- Knight Without Armour, starring Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat (GB)
L-M
- Lancashire Luck, film debut of Wendy Hiller (GB)
- The Last Gangster, starring Edward G. Robinson and James Stewart
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, starring Joan Crawford and William Powell
- Layla and Majnun directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta (Iran)
- The Life of Emile Zola, starring Paul Muni
- Lost Horizon, directed by Frank Capra, starring Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt
- Love from a Stranger, starring Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone (GB)
- Love Is on the Air, directed by Nick Grinde, starring Ronald Reagan and June Travis
- Madame X, starring Gladys George and Warren William
- 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, starring Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart
- Maytime, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
- Morality Above All Else (Mravnost nade vše) (Czechoslovakia)
N-P
- Nancy Steele Is Missing!, starring Victor McLaglen and Peter Lorre
- Navy Blue and Gold, starring Robert Young, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore
- Night Must Fall, starring Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell
- Nothing Sacred, directed by William Wellman, starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March
- Oh, Mr Porter!, starring Will Hay (GB)
- O-Kay for Sound, starring The Crazy Gang (GB)
- 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 and Leopold Stokowski
- Parnell, starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy
- Pépé le Moko, directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Jean Gabin (France)
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
- The Perfect Specimen, starring Errol Flynn, screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley et al.
- The Prince and the Pauper, starring Errol Flynn
- The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll
Q-S
- Quality Street, starring Katharine Hepburn and Franchot Tone
- The Road Back, directed by James Whale
- Saratoga, starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in her last film
- Seventh Heaven, starring James Stewart and Simone Simon
- Shall We Dance, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
- Sidewalks of London (aka St. Martin's Lane), starring Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison (GB)
- Il signor Max, starring Vittorio De Sica (Italy)
- Skeleton on Horseback (Bílá nemoc), directed by and starring Hugo Haas (Czechoslovakia)
- Slave Ship, starring Warner Baxter and Wallace Beery
- Slim, starring Henry Fonda
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, first American feature-length animated movie
- The Soldier and the Lady
- Something to Sing About, directed by Victor Schertzinger, starring James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley
- Song at Midnight (Ye ban ge sheng) (China)
- Souls at Sea, starring Gary Cooper and George Raft
- Stage Door, starring Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers
- Stand-In, starring Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart
- A Star Is Born, starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March
- Stella Dallas, starring Barbara Stanwyck
- Storm in a Teacup, starring Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison (GB)
- Street Angel (Malu tianshi), starring Zhou Xuan (China)
T-V
- That Certain Woman, starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda
- They Gave Him a Gun, starring Spencer Tracy and Gladys George
- They Won't Forget, starring Claude Rains
- Think Fast, Mr. Moto, starring Peter Lorre
- This Is My Affair, starring Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck
- Thunder in the City, starring Edward G. Robinson, Nigel Bruce, Ralph Richardson (GB)
- To New Shores, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Zarah Leander (Germany)
- Topper, starring Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young
- Tovarich, starring Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer
- Tři vejce do skla (Three eggs in a glass) (Czechoslovakia)
- True Confession, starring Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore
- Victoria the Great, starring Anna Neagle and Anton Walbrook (GB)
W-Z
- Way Out West, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- Wee Willie Winkie, starring Shirley Temple
- Wells Fargo, starring Joel McCrea
- Wise Girl, starring Miriam Hopkins and Ray Milland
- Without Dowry (Bespridannitsa) (U.S.S.R.)
- Woman Chases Man, starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea
- The Woman I Love, starring Paul Muni and Miriam Hopkins
- Yoshiwara, directed by Max Ophüls, starring Sessue Hayakawa (France)
- You Can't Have Everything, starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Gypsy Rose Lee
- You Only Live Once, starring Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney
- Young and Innocent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (GB)
- You're Only Young Once, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
- Znachor (The Miracle Man) (Poland)
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 (d. 2008)
- February 25 – Sir Tom Courtenay, English actor
- March 30 – Warren Beatty, American actor and director
- April 6 – Billy Dee Williams, American actor
- April 15 - Uldis Pūcītis, Latvian actor (d. 2000)
- April 22 – Jack Nicholson, American actor
- April 27 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
- May 16 – Yvonne Craig, American actress (d. 2015)
- June 1 – Morgan Freeman, American actor and director
- June 2 – Sally Kellerman, American actress and singer
- June 10 – Luciana Paluzzi, Italian actress
- June 14 – Jørgen Leth, Danish director
- 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 (d. 2008)
- November 5 – Harris Yulin, American actor
- November 21 – Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (d. 2010)
- December 7 – Kenneth Colley, English actor
- December 9 – Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
- December 21 – Jane Fonda, American actress
- December 29 – Barbara Steele, English actress
- December 31 – Sir Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor
Deaths
- January 2 – Ross Alexander, 29, American actor, Captain Blood, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Flirtation Walk
- January 23 – Marie Prevost, 38, Canadian-born American actress, The Marriage Circle, The Racket, The Godless Girl, Cain and Mabel
- February 3 – Marija Leiko, 49, Latvian film actress, The Green Alley, The Rats
- May 1 – Snitz Edwards, 69, Austro-Hungarian-born American actor, The Thief of Bagdad, The Phantom of the Opera, Seven Chances, College
- May 10 – William Tedmarsh, 61, English-American silent film actor
- June 7 – Jean Harlow, 26, American actress, The Public Enemy, Libeled Lady, Suzy, Red Dust
- November 13 – Mrs. Leslie Carter, 75, American stage and screen actress, Becky Sharp, Rocky Mountain Mystery
- December 21 - Ted Healy, 41, American actor and founder of The Three Stooges, San Francisco, Mad Love, Beer and Pretzels, Soup to Nuts
Debuts
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