1937 in film

Years in film:	1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years:	1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940

Events

• April 16 - Way Out West premieres in the US.
• May 7 - Shall We Dance premieres in the US.

Top grossing films

North America

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2. Conquest
3. Damaged Lives
4. Parnell
5. La Grande Illusion
6. Annapolis Salute
7. Pépé le Moko
8. 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)
• 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 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

• Dick Tracy, starring Ralph Byrd
• Blake of Scotland Yard, starring Ralph Byrd and Herbert Rawlinson
• Jungle Menace, starring Frank Hardy
• The Mysterious Pilot, starring Frank Hawks
• The Painted Stallion, starring Ray Corrigan
• S.O.S. Coast Guard, starring Ralph Byrd and Bela Lugosi
• Zorro Rides Again, starring John Carroll
• Secret Agent X-9, starring Scott Kolk
• Tim Tyler's Luck, starring Frankie Thomas

Short film series

• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1926-1940)

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 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