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1937 in film
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The year 1937 in film involved some significant events.
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 4 - Loretta Swit, American actress
- 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
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