1937 in film

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 â€" Way Out West premieres in the US.
May 7 â€" Shall We Dance premieres in the US.
May 11 â€" Captains Courageous premieres in the US.
July 9 â€" The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
December 21 â€" Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premieres in the US.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Academy Awards

Best Picture: The Life of Emile Zola â€" Warner Bros.
Best Director: Leo McCarey â€" The Awful Truth
Best Actor: Spencer Tracy â€" Captains Courageous
Best Actress: Luise Rainer â€" The Good Earth

Top Ten Money Making Stars

Notable films released in 1937

U.S.A. unless stated

Action for Slander, starring Clive Brook and Ann Todd â€" (GB)
Ali Baba Goes to Town, starring Eddie Cantor
Andula Won (Andula vyhrÃ¡la) â€" (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 â€" (U.S.S.R.)
The Bride Wore Red, directed by Dorothy Arzner, starring Joan Crawford
Big City, starring Luise Rainer and Spencer Tracy
Bizarre, Bizarre, (DrÃ´le de drame ou L'Ã©trange aventure du Docteur Molyneux), directed by Marcel CarnÃ©, starring Louis Jouvet and Michel Simon â€" (France)
Black Legion, starring Humphrey Bogart
Born to the West, starring John Wayne
Brief Ecstasy, starring Paul Lukas â€" (GB)
Broadway Melody of 1938, starring Eleanor Powell and Judy Garland

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) â€" (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 â€" (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) â€" (India)
The Dybbuk, Yiddish language film from (Poland)

Easy Living, starring Jean Arthur and Edward Arnold
The Edge of the World, directed by Michael Powell â€" (GB)
Elephant Boy, directed by Robert J. Flaherty and Zoltan Korda, starring Sabu â€" (GB)
EspaÃ±a 1936, a documentary produced & co-written by Luis BuÃ±uel â€" (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 â€" (GB)
The Firefly, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones
First Lady, starring Kay Francis and Preston Foster

Gangway, starring Jessie Matthews â€" (GB)
The Good Earth, starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer (Academy Award for Best Actress)
Good Morning, Boys, starring Will Hay â€" (GB)
Grand Illusion, directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Dita Parlo â€" (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 â€" a Yiddish language film
Gribouille (aka The Meddler), starring Raimu and MichÃ¨le Morgan â€" (France)
La Habanera, directed by Douglas Sirk â€" (Germany)
Head Over Heels, starring Jessie Matthews â€" (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 (NinjÅ Kami FÅ«sen) â€" (Japan)
The Hurricane, starring Dorothy Lamour

IJK

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 â€" (GB)

Lancashire Luck, film debut of Wendy Hiller â€" (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) â€" (Germany)
Marked Woman, starring Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart
Maytime, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
Morality Above All Else (Mravnost nade vÅ¡e) â€" (Czechoslovakia)

NOP

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 â€" (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
PÃ©pÃ© le Moko, directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Jean Gabin â€" (France)
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

QRS

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 â€" (GB)
Il signor Max, starring Vittorio De Sica â€" (Italy)
Skeleton on Horseback (BÃlÃ¡ nemoc), directed by and starring Hugo Haas â€" (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
Something to Sing About, directed by Victor Schertzinger, starring James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley
Song at Midnight (Ye ban ge sheng) â€" (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 â€" (GB)
Street Angel (Malu tianshi), starring Zhou Xuan â€" (China)

TUV

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 â€" (GB)
To New Shores, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Zarah Leander â€" (Germany)
Topper, starring Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young
Tovarich, starring Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer
TÅ™i vejce do skla (Three eggs in a glass) â€" (Czechoslovakia)
True Confession, starring Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore
Victoria the Great, starring Anna Neagle and Anton Walbrook â€" (GB)

WXYZ

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) â€" (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 OphÃ¼ls, starring Sessue Hayakawa â€" (France)
You Can't Have Everything, starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Gypsy Rose Lee
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 â€" (GB)
Znachor (The Miracle Man) â€" (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 (1913â€"1938)
Charlie Chaplin (1914â€"1940)
Lupino Lane (1915â€"1939)
Buster Keaton (1917â€"1944)
Laurel and Hardy (1921-1945)
Our Gang (1922â€"1944)
Wheeler and Woolsey (1929-1937)
The Marx Brothers (1929â€"1946)
The Three Stooges (1933â€"1962)

Animated short film series

Krazy Kat (1925â€"1940)
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927â€"1938)
Mickey Mouse (1928â€"1953)
Screen Songs (1929â€"1938)
Looney Tunes (1930â€"1969)
Terrytoons (1930â€"1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931â€"1969)
Scrappy (1931â€"1941)
Betty Boop (1932â€"1939)
Popeye (1933â€"1957)
Happy Harmonies (1934â€"1938)
Color Rhapsodies (1934â€"1949)
Meany, Miny, and Moe (1936-1937)
Donald Duck (1937-1956)

Births

January 4 â€" Dyan Cannon, American actress
January 15 â€" Margaret O'Brien, American actress
January 30 â€" Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
January 31 â€" Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008)
February 25 â€" Sir Tom Courtenay, English actor
March 30 â€" Warren Beatty, American actor and director
April 6 â€" Billy Dee Williams, American actor
April 15 - Uldis PÅ«cÄ«tis, Latvian actor (d. 2000)
April 22 â€" Jack Nicholson, American actor
April 27 â€" Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
May 16 â€" Yvonne Craig, American actress
June 1 â€" Morgan Freeman, American actor and director
June 2 â€" Sally Kellerman, American actress and singer
June 10 â€" Luciana Paluzzi, Italian actress
July 6 â€" Ned Beatty, American actor
August 8 â€" Dustin Hoffman, American actor
September 5 â€" William Devane, American actor
September 7 â€" John Phillip Law, American actor (d. 2008)
November 5 â€" Harris Yulin, American actor
November 21 â€" Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (d. 2010)
December 7 â€" Kenneth Colley, English actor
December 9 â€" Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
December 21 â€" Jane Fonda, American actress
December 29 â€" Barbara Steele, English actress
December 31 â€" Sir Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor

Deaths

January 2 â€" Ross Alexander, American actor
January 23 â€" Marie Prevost, Canadian-born American actress
February 3 â€" Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress
May 1 â€" Snitz Edwards, Austro-Hungarian-born American actor
June 7 â€" Jean Harlow, American actress
November 13 â€" Mrs. Leslie Carter, stage & screen actress
December 21 - Ted Healy, American actor & founder of The Three Stooges

Debuts

Glenn Ford - Night in Manhattan
Ronald Reagan - Love Is on the Air
Lana Turner - They Won't Forget

Wednesday, March 25, 2015