1937 in film

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The year 1937 in film involved some significant events.
Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Academy Awards
4 Films released in 1937
5 Serials
6 Short film series
7 Animated short film series
8 Births
9 Deaths
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[edit] Events
April 16 - Way Out West premieres in the US.
May 7 - Shall We Dance premieres in the US.

[edit] 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

[edit] Academy Awards
Best Picture: The Life of Emile Zola - Warner Bros.
Best Actor: Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous
Best Actress: Luise Rainer - The Good Earth

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[edit] 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