1937 in film
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Events
Top grossing films
- 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
Movies released
Movies release in 1937 include:
- Annapolis Salute
- The Awful Truth, starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant
- Captains Courageous, starring Spencer Tracy
- Conquest, starring Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer
- Damaged Lives
- A Day at the Races, starring the Marx Brothers
- Dead End, starring Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea and Humphrey Bogart
- Dick Tracy, starring Raplh Byrd, Kay Huges and Smiley Burnette
- The Good Earth, starring Luise Rainer and Paul Muni
- Good Morning Boys, starring Will Hay
- Green Fields
- The Hurricane, starring Dorothy Lamour
- La Grande Illusion, starring Jean Gabin and Dita Parlo; directed by Jean Renoir
- The Life of Emile Zola
- Lost Horizon, starring Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt; directed by Frank Capra
- Nothing Sacred, starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March
- Oh, Mr Porter!, starring Will Hay
- Parnell, starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy
- Pépé le Moko, starring Jean Gabin
- The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Ronald Colman
- Shall We Dance, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, first feature-length animated movie (Walt Disney Productions)
- Stage Door, starring Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers
- A Star Is Born, starring Janet Gaynor
- Stella Dallas, starring Barbara Stanwyck
- Topper, starring Cary Grant, and Constance Bennett
- Way Out West, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- Young and Innocent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Births
- January 4 - Dyan Cannon, actress
- January 15 - Margaret O'Brien, actress
- January 17 - Troy Donahue, actor
- August 8 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
- August 18 - Robert Redford, American actor
Deaths
- January 2 - Ross Alexander, actor
- January 23 - Marie Prevost, actress
- June 7 - Jean Harlow, actress
- November 21 - Ingrid Pitt, actress