1937 in film

Events

Top Grossing Films of 1937

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

Movies Released

• Annapolis Salute
• The Awful Truth, starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant
• Captains Courageous, starring Spencer Tracy
• Conquest, staring 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
• La Grande Illusion, starring Jean Gabin and Dita Parlo; directed by Jean Renoir
• Lost Horizon, starring Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt; directed by Frank Capra
• The Good Earth, starring Luise Rainer and Paul Muni
• Green Fields
• The Life of Emile Zola
• Nothing Sacred, starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March
• 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 (Disney)
• Stage Door, starring Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers
• A Star Is Born, starring Janet Gaynor
• 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 23 - Marie Prevost, actress

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