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• April 16 - Way Out West
  Way Out West (1937 film)
  
  Way Out West is a Laurel and Hardy comedy film released in 1937. It was directed by James W. Horne, produced by Stan Laurel and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
   premieres in the US.
• May 7 - Shall We Dance
  Shall We Dance (film)
  
  Shall We Dance is the seventh of the ten Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical comedy films. The idea for this film originated in the studio's desire to exploit the successful formula created by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart with their 1936 Broadway theatre hit On Your Toes, which featured an United States dancer getting involved with...
   premieres in the US.

Top grossing films

North America

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
   Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
   
   Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American film based on the Snow White by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full length animation feature film to be produced by Walt Disney, and the first American animated feature film in movie history....
   
2. Maytime
3. Saratoga
   Saratoga (film)
   
   Saratoga is a 1937 in film film written by Anita Loos and directed by Jack Conway . The movie stars Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in their sixth and final film collaboration....
   
4. One Hundred Men and a Girl
   One Hundred Men and a Girl
   
   One Hundred Men and a Girl is a 1937 in film musical comedy film, written by Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning and James Mulhauser from a story by Hanns Kr?ly and directed by Henry Koster....
   
5. Stella Dallas
   Stella Dallas (1937 film)
   
   Stella Dallas is a 1937 in film based on the Stella Dallas . It stars Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles , Dawn Evelyn Paris, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale, Sr., Marjorie Main and Tim Holt....
   
6. Parnell
   Parnell (film)
   
   Parnell is a 1937 film starring Clark Gable as Charles Stewart Parnell, the famous Irish politician.It is considered Gable's worst film, and is classified in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time....
   
7. The Good Earth
   The Good Earth (film)
   
   The Good Earth is a feature film about China farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 in literature The Good Earth by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S....
   
8. Lost Horizon
   Lost Horizon (film)
   
   Lost Horizon is a 1937 film directed by Frank Capra starring Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt and Sam Jaffe . It tells the story of a group of travelers who find a utopian society in the Himalaya Mountains....
   
9. The Life of Emile Zola
   The Life of Emile Zola
   
   The Life of ?mile Zola is a 1937 in film biographical film of famous French author ?mile Zola. It depicts his friendship with noted painter Paul C?zanne and his involvement in the Dreyfus affair....
   
10. Dead End
    Dead End
    
    Dead End is a 1937 in film crime drama film. It is an adaptation of the Sidney Kingsley 1935 Broadway theatre play of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, and Sylvia Sidney....
    
11. The Hurricane
    The Hurricane (1937 film)
    
    The Hurricane is a film, directed by John Ford and produced by Samuel Goldwyn, about a tropical cyclone in the Pacific Ocean. It stars Dorothy Lamour and also Jon Hall, with Mary Astor, C....
    
12. Wells Fargo
13. In Old Chicago
    In Old Chicago
    
    In Old Chicago is a 1937 in film dramatic film. It tells the story of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, with a fictionalized plot, the story of the two sons of Mrs....
    
14. Conquest
    Conquest (film)
    
    Conquest is a 1937 in film film which tells the story of a Poland countess who becomes the mistress of Napoleon I of France in order to influence his actions towards her homeland....
    
15. Damaged Lives
    Damaged Lives
    
    Damaged Lives is an United States exploitation film produced by Columbia Pictures and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer about a couple that contracts a venereal disease....
    
16. La Grande Illusion
17. Annapolis Salute
18. Pépé le Moko
    Pépé le Moko
    
    P?p? le Moko is a 1937 in film film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Jean Gabin. It depicts an infamous gangster, P?p? le Moko who tries to escape the police by hiding in the casbah of the city of Algiers....
    
19. Green Fields

• Best Picture
  Academy Award for Best Picture
  
  The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
  : The Life of Emile Zola
  The Life of Emile Zola
  
  The Life of ?mile Zola is a 1937 in film biographical film of famous French author ?mile Zola. It depicts his friendship with noted painter Paul C?zanne and his involvement in the Dreyfus affair....
  - Warner Bros.
  Warner Bros.
  
  Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
  
• Best Director: Leo McCarey
  Leo McCarey
  
  Thomas Leo McCarey was an Academy Awards-winning United States film director, screenwriter and film producer . During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his fine elegance and his great sense of humour....
   - The Awful Truth
  The Awful Truth
  
  The Awful Truth is a screwball comedy film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. The plot concerns the machinations of a soon-to-be-divorced couple, played by Dunne and Grant, who go to great lengths to try to ruin each other's romantic escapades....
  
• Best Actor
  Academy Award for Best Actor
  
  Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  : Spencer Tracy
  Spencer Tracy
  
  Spencer Tracy was a two-time Academy Award winning actor of theatre and film, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 in film to 1967 in film. He is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history....
   - Captains Courageous
  Captains Courageous (film)
  
  Captains Courageous is a 1937 in film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, based on the Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling. The movie was produced by Louis D....
  
• Best Actress
  Academy Award for Best Actress
  
  Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  : Luise Rainer
  Luise Rainer
  
  Luise Rainer is a two-time Academy Awards-winning Germany film actress. Of living Academy Awards winners, she holds the earliest-awarded Oscars....
   - The Good Earth
  The Good Earth (film)
  
  The Good Earth is a feature film about China farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 in literature The Good Earth by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S....
  

• Annapolis Salute -(remake of 1933 Midshipman Jack)
• Artists and Models (Paramount)
• The Awful Truth
  The Awful Truth
  
  The Awful Truth is a screwball comedy film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. The plot concerns the machinations of a soon-to-be-divorced couple, played by Dunne and Grant, who go to great lengths to try to ruin each other's romantic escapades....
  , starring Irene Dunne
  Irene Dunne
  
  Irene Dunne was an American film actor and singer of the 1930s and 1940s. Dunne was nominated for five-time Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Cimarron , Theodora Goes Wild , The Awful Truth , Love Affair and I Remember Mama ....
   and Cary Grant
  Cary Grant
  
  Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
  
• Bizarre, Bizarre
  Bizarre, Bizarre
  
  Bizarre, Bizarre is a 1937 in film France comedy film directed by Marcel Carn?. It is based on the 1912 novel His First Offense by J. Storer Clouston....
  
• Broadway Melody of 1938
  Broadway Melody of 1938
  
  Broadway Melody of 1938 is a 1937 in film musical film film, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film is essentially a backstage musical revue, featuring high-budget sets and cinematography in the MGM musical tradition....
  , starring Eleanor Powell
  Eleanor Powell
  
  Eleanor Torrey Powell was an United States film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing....
   and Judy Garland
  Judy Garland
  
  Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
  
• Captains Courageous
  Captains Courageous (film)
  
  Captains Courageous is a 1937 in film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, based on the Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling. The movie was produced by Louis D....
  , starring Spencer Tracy
  Spencer Tracy
  
  Spencer Tracy was a two-time Academy Award winning actor of theatre and film, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 in film to 1967 in film. He is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history....
  
• Conquest
  Conquest (film)
  
  Conquest is a 1937 in film film which tells the story of a Poland countess who becomes the mistress of Napoleon I of France in order to influence his actions towards her homeland....
  , starring Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo
  
  Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actor during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age of Hollywood.Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1954 Academy Honorary Award "for her unforgettable screen performances...
   and Charles Boyer
  Charles Boyer
  
  Charles Boyer was a four-time Academy Award-nominated France-born actor. Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in European and Hollywood movies during the 1930s, and continued to act in films, television and theatre over the next several decades....
  
• A Day at the Races
  A Day at the Races (film)
  
  A Day at the Races is the seventh Film starring the three Marx Brothers, with Margaret Dumont, Allan Jones and Maureen O'Sullivan. Like their previous MGM feature A Night at the Opera , this film was a major hit....
  , starring the Marx Brothers
  Marx Brothers
  
  The Marx Brothers were a popular team of sibling comedians who appeared in vaudeville, stage plays, film, and television....
  
• Daughter of Shanghai
  Daughter of Shanghai
  
  Daughter of Shanghai is a 1937 in film American motion picture directed by Robert Florey, written by Gladys Unger and Garnett Weston, and starring Anna May Wong and Philip Ahn....
  
• Dead End
  Dead End
  
  Dead End is a 1937 in film crime drama film. It is an adaptation of the Sidney Kingsley 1935 Broadway theatre play of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, and Sylvia Sidney....
  , starring Sylvia Sidney
  Sylvia Sidney
  
  Sylvia Sidney was an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress....
  , Joel McCrea
  Joel McCrea
  
  Joel Albert McCrea, was an Cinema of the United States actor and film star whose career spanned 50 years and appearances in over 90 films....
   and Humphrey Bogart
  Humphrey Bogart
  
  Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an United_States_of_America actor and cultural icon. In 1997, Entertainment Weekly magazine named him the number one movie legend of all time....
  
• Ever Since Eve
  Ever Since Eve
  
  Ever Since Eve is a 1937 in film romantic comedy film starring Marion Davies and Robert Montgomery ....
  , starring Marion Davies
  Marion Davies
  
  Marion Davies was an United States film actress.Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst....
   and Robert Montgomery
  Robert Montgomery (actor)
  
  Robert Montgomery was an United States actor and director.Montgomery was born Henry Montgomery Jr. in Beacon, New York, then known as "Fishkill Landing", the son of Mary Weed and Henry Montgomery, Sr....
  
• A Family Affair
  A Family Affair (film)
  
  A Family Affair is the first entry in the Andy Hardy film series, though Mickey Rooney has a secondary role as the son of Judge Hardy, played by Lionel Barrymore....
  Starring Lewis Stone
  Lewis Stone
  
  Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
  , Mickey Rooney
  Mickey Rooney
  
  Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  , Cecilia Parker
  Cecilia Parker
  
  Cecilia Parker was a film actress.She was brought to southern California as a child by her mother, Mrs. Naudy Anna Parker. Her father was an England soldier....
  , and Fay Holden
  Fay Holden
  
  Fay Holden , was an United States actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1935 in film and 1958 in film, but is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Emily Hardy, Mickey Rooney's mother in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Andy Hardy movie series....
  
• The Firefly
  The Firefly (film)
  
  The Firefly is a 1937 motion picture starring Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones and set in Spain during the time of the Emperor Napoleon I. It includes such songs as "The Donkey Serenade" and "Giannina Mia", which were released on 78 r.p.m....
  , starring Jeanette MacDonald
  Jeanette MacDonald
  
  Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy ....
   and Allan Jones
• The Good Earth
  The Good Earth (film)
  
  The Good Earth is a feature film about China farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 in literature The Good Earth by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S....
  , starring Luise Rainer
  Luise Rainer
  
  Luise Rainer is a two-time Academy Awards-winning Germany film actress. Of living Academy Awards winners, she holds the earliest-awarded Oscars....
   and Paul Muni
  Paul Muni
  
  Paul Muni was an United States Academy Awards-winning and Tony Award-winning Stage and film actor.BiographyEarly life and career...
  
• Good Morning, Boys
  Good Morning, Boys
  
  Good Morning, Boys is a 1937 in film United Kingdom comedy film....
  , starring Will Hay
  Will Hay
  
  William Thomson Hay was an England comedian, actor and amateur astronomy....
  
• Grand Illusion
  Grand Illusion (film)
  
  Grand Illusion is a 1937 in film war film directed by Jean Renoir, the son of artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The screenplay was written by Renoir and Charles Spaak....
  , starring Jean Gabin
  Jean Gabin
  
  Jean Gabin was a major France actor and war hero....
   and Dita Parlo
  Dita Parlo
  
  Dita Parlo was a German people film actor.Born Grethe Gerda Kornst?dt in Stettin , Parlo made her first film appearance in Homecoming in 1928 and quickly became a popular actress in Germany....
  ; directed by Jean Renoir
  Jean Renoir
  
  Jean Renoir , born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France, was a film director, actor and author. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir....
  
• Green Fields
  Green Fields
  
  "Green Fields" is a song by an unnamed alternative rock Rock music Musical ensemble fronted by Damon Albarn, and is the eleventh track on their 2007 debut album The Good, the Bad & the Queen ....
  
• The Hurricane
  The Hurricane (1937 film)
  
  The Hurricane is a film, directed by John Ford and produced by Samuel Goldwyn, about a tropical cyclone in the Pacific Ocean. It stars Dorothy Lamour and also Jon Hall, with Mary Astor, C....
  , starring Dorothy Lamour
  Dorothy Lamour
  
  Dorothy Lamour was an United States film actor. She is probably best-remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies co-starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby....
  
• Lancashire Luck
  Lancashire Luck
  
  Lancashire Luck is a 1937 in film British film comedy, directed by Henry Cass. It is notable as the film debut of Wendy Hiller, and the first credited appearance of Nigel Stock....
  , film debut of Wendy Hiller
  Wendy Hiller
  
  Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller Order of the British Empire was an English people film and theatre actor. The Academy Awards-winning actress enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years....
  
• The Life of Emile Zola
  The Life of Emile Zola
  
  The Life of ?mile Zola is a 1937 in film biographical film of famous French author ?mile Zola. It depicts his friendship with noted painter Paul C?zanne and his involvement in the Dreyfus affair....
  
• Lost Horizon
  Lost Horizon (film)
  
  Lost Horizon is a 1937 film directed by Frank Capra starring Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt and Sam Jaffe . It tells the story of a group of travelers who find a utopian society in the Himalaya Mountains....
  , starring Ronald Colman
  Ronald Colman
  
  Ronald Colman was an England Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor....
   and Jane Wyatt
  Jane Wyatt
  
  Jane Waddington Wyatt was an United States actor perhaps best known for her role as the housewife and mother on the television series Father Knows Best and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the science fiction television show, "Star Trek"....
  ; directed by Frank Capra
  Frank Capra
  
  'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
  
• Maytime, starring Jeanette Macdonald
  Jeanette MacDonald
  
  Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy ....
   and Nelson Eddy
  Nelson Eddy
  
  Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American singer and movie star who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs....
  
• Nothing Sacred
  Nothing Sacred (film)
  
  Nothing Sacred is a screwball comedy film made by Selznick International Pictures and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by William A....
  , starring Carole Lombard
  Carole Lombard
  
  Carole Lombard , born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was an Oscar-nominated United States Actor. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in several classic films of the 1930s, most notably in the 1936 film My Man Godfrey....
   and Fredric March
• Oh, Mr Porter!
  Oh, Mr Porter!
  
  Oh, Mr Porter! is a comedy film released in 1937 in film starring United Kingdom actor Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by Marcel Varnel....
  , starring Will Hay
  Will Hay
  
  William Thomson Hay was an England comedian, actor and amateur astronomy....
  
• The Old Mill
  The Old Mill
  
  The Old Mill is a 1937 in film Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson, scored by Leigh Harline, and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on November 5, 1937....
  
• One Hundred Men and a Girl
  One Hundred Men and a Girl
  
  One Hundred Men and a Girl is a 1937 in film musical comedy film, written by Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning and James Mulhauser from a story by Hanns Kr?ly and directed by Henry Koster....
  , starring Deanna Durbin
  Deanna Durbin
  
  Deanna Durbin is a Canada singer and actress....
  
• Parnell
  Parnell (film)
  
  Parnell is a 1937 film starring Clark Gable as Charles Stewart Parnell, the famous Irish politician.It is considered Gable's worst film, and is classified in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time....
  , starring Clark Gable
  Clark Gable
  
  Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
   and Myrna Loy
  Myrna Loy
  
  Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, but after a few minor roles in silent films, she devoted herself fully to an acting career, and from 1925 gradually established herself as a film actress....
  
• Pépé le Moko
  Pépé le Moko
  
  P?p? le Moko is a 1937 in film film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Jean Gabin. It depicts an infamous gangster, P?p? le Moko who tries to escape the police by hiding in the casbah of the city of Algiers....
  , starring Jean Gabin
  Jean Gabin
  
  Jean Gabin was a major France actor and war hero....
  
• The Perfect Specimen, starring Errol Flynn
  Errol Flynn
  
  Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle....
  , screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley
  Lawrence Riley
  
  Lawrence Riley was a successful United States playwright and screenwriter. He gained fame in 1934 in literature as the author of the Broadway theatre hit Personal Appearance, which was turned by Mae West into the classic film Go West, Young Man , starring herself....
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• The Prisoner of Zenda
  The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 film)
  
  The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1937 in film black-and-white adventure film based on the Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda and the 1896 play. Of the many film adaptations, this is considered by many to be the definitive version....
  , starring Ronald Colman
  Ronald Colman
  
  Ronald Colman was an England Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor....
  
• Shall We Dance
  Shall We Dance (film)
  
  Shall We Dance is the seventh of the ten Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical comedy films. The idea for this film originated in the studio's desire to exploit the successful formula created by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart with their 1936 Broadway theatre hit On Your Toes, which featured an United States dancer getting involved with...
  , starring Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire
  
  Fred Astaire was an United States Academy Award-winning film and Broadway theatre dance, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films....
   and Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  
  Ginger Rogers was an Academy Awards-winning United States film and stage actor, dancer and singer. In a film career spanning 50 years, she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre....
  
• Slim
  Slim (film)
  
  Slim is a 1937 in film movie starring Henry Fonda. The movie is sometimes called Slim the Lineman.It is a film adaptation of the 1934 novel Slim, written by William Wister Haines, which concerns lineman in the electric power industry....
  , starring Henry Fonda
  Henry Fonda
  
  Henry Jaynes Fonda was an United States Academy Awards-winning film and Stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, Naturalism acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....
  
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
  
  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American film based on the Snow White by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full length animation feature film to be produced by Walt Disney, and the first American animated feature film in movie history....
  , first American feature-length animated movie (Walt Disney Productions)
• Stage Door
  Stage Door
  
  Stage Door is a RKO film, adapted from the play by the same name, that tells the story of several would-be actresses who live together in a boarding house at 158 West 58th Street in New York City....
  , starring Katharine Hepburn
  Katharine Hepburn
  
  Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
   and Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  
  Ginger Rogers was an Academy Awards-winning United States film and stage actor, dancer and singer. In a film career spanning 50 years, she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre....
  
• A Star Is Born
  A Star Is Born (1937 film)
  
  A Star Is Born is a 1937 Romance film drama film film producer by David O. Selznick and film director by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell ....
  , starring Janet Gaynor
  Janet Gaynor
  
  Janet Gaynor was an American actor.One of the most popular actresses of the silent films era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in the films: Sunrise , Seventh Heaven , and Street Angel ....
   and Fredric March
• Stella Dallas
  Stella Dallas (1937 film)
  
  Stella Dallas is a 1937 in film based on the Stella Dallas . It stars Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles , Dawn Evelyn Paris, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale, Sr., Marjorie Main and Tim Holt....
  , starring Barbara Stanwyck
  Barbara Stanwyck
  
  Barbara Stanwyck was an United States actor, a star of film and television, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as Cecil B....
  
• Topper
  Topper (film)
  
  Topper is a comedy film which tells the story of a stuffy, stuck-in-his-ways man who is haunted by the ghosts of a fun-loving married couple....
  , starring Cary Grant
  Cary Grant
  
  Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
  , and Constance Bennett
  Constance Bennett
  
  Constance Campbell Bennett was an United States actor. Known as much for her elegant persona as for her acting career, Bennett was one of Hollywood's most luminous stars, delivering amusing, madcap, and occasionally arch performances that belie her ornamental reputation....
  
• Tovarich
  Tovarich (film)
  
  Tovarich is a 1937 in film Warner Bros. comedy film based on the 1935 play by Robert E. Sherwood. It was produced and directed by Anatole Litvak with Robert Lord as associate producer and Hal B....
  , starring Claudette Colbert
  Claudette Colbert
  
  Claudette Colbert was a French-born American stage and film actress.Born in Saint-Mand?, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway theater productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures....
   and Charles Boyer
  Charles Boyer
  
  Charles Boyer was a four-time Academy Award-nominated France-born actor. Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in European and Hollywood movies during the 1930s, and continued to act in films, television and theatre over the next several decades....
  
• Way Out West
  Way Out West (1937 film)
  
  Way Out West is a Laurel and Hardy comedy film released in 1937. It was directed by James W. Horne, produced by Stan Laurel and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
  , starring Stan Laurel
  Stan Laurel
  
  Stan Laurel was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II....
   and Oliver Hardy
  Oliver Hardy
  
  Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted 31 years, 1926-1957 ....
  
• You Only Live Once
  You Only Live Once
  
  You Only Live Once is a 1937 in film Police procedural film starring Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda. Considered an early film noir, the film was the second directed by Fritz Lang in United States....
  , starring Henry Fonda
  Henry Fonda
  
  Henry Jaynes Fonda was an United States Academy Awards-winning film and Stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, Naturalism acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....
  
• You're Only Young Once
  You're Only Young Once
  
  You're Only Young Once is the second Andy Hardy movie, with Lewis Stone permanently replacing Lionel Barrymore as Judge Hardy, and Mickey Rooney appearing as his son Andy....
   starring Lewis Stone
  Lewis Stone
  
  Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
  , Mickey Rooney
  Mickey Rooney
  
  Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  , Cecilia Parker
  Cecilia Parker
  
  Cecilia Parker was a film actress.She was brought to southern California as a child by her mother, Mrs. Naudy Anna Parker. Her father was an England soldier....
  , and Fay Holden
  Fay Holden
  
  Fay Holden , was an United States actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1935 in film and 1958 in film, but is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Emily Hardy, Mickey Rooney's mother in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Andy Hardy movie series....
  
• Young and Innocent
  Young and Innocent
  
  Young and Innocent is a British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney and John Longden. It is very loosely based on Josephine Tey's novel A Shilling for Candles ....
  , directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
  
• Something to Sing About
  Something to Sing About (1937 film)
  
  Something to Sing About is the second and final film James Cagney made with Grand National Pictures before mending relations with and returning to Warner Bros.....
  , directed by Victor Schertzinger
  Victor Schertzinger
  
  Victor L. Schertzinger was an United States composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His films include Paramount on Parade , Something to Sing About with James Cagney, and the first two "Road" pictures Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar ....
  

Serials

• Blake of Scotland Yard, starring Ralph Byrd
  Ralph Byrd
  
  Ralph Byrd was an United States actor. He was most famous for playing the comic strip character Dick Tracy on screen, in Serial s, Film and Television program....
   and Herbert Rawlinson
  Herbert Rawlinson
  
  Herbert Rawlinson was a leading man in Hollywood?s silent film era. However, when sound came into films thereafter, he became a character player until the year he died....
  
• Dick Tracy
  Dick Tracy (serial)
  
  Dick Tracy is a 15-Chapter Republic Pictures Serial starring Ralph Byrd based on the Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould. It was directed by Alan James and Ray Taylor ...
  , starring Ralph Byrd
  Ralph Byrd
  
  Ralph Byrd was an United States actor. He was most famous for playing the comic strip character Dick Tracy on screen, in Serial s, Film and Television program....
  
• Jungle Jim
  Jungle Jim (serial)
  
  Jungle Jim is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the Jungle Jim by Alex Raymond....
  
• Jungle Menace
  Jungle Menace
  
  Jungle Menace was the first serial released by Columbia Pictures.Based on the success of Republic Pictures 1936 in film serial Darkest Africa, starring real-life animal trainer Clyde Beatty, Columbia made this exotic jungle serial starring real-life animal collector Frank Buck ....
  , starring Frank Buck
  Frank Buck (animal collector)
  
  This article is about Frank Buck, whose philosophy of hunting wild animals was to "bring 'em back alive". For other people with the same name, see Frank Buck....
  
• The Mysterious Pilot
  The Mysterious Pilot
  
  The Mysterious Pilot is a Columbia Pictures Serial based on the book by William Byron Mowery and starring the record-breaking aviator Frank Monroe Hawks....
  , starring Frank Hawks
• The Painted Stallion
  The Painted Stallion
  
  The Painted Stallion is a Republic Pictures Movie serial. It was the sixth Republic serial of the sixty-six made by that company. Western serials such as this made up a third of the serials from Republic, a studio that was also heavily involved in making B-Western feature films at the time....
  , starring Ray Corrigan
• Radio Patrol
  Radio Patrol (serial)
  
  Radio Patrol is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the comic strip Radio Patrol....
  
• Secret Agent X-9
  Secret Agent X-9 (1937 serial)
  
  Secret Agent X-9 is a Universal Pictures Serial film based on the comic strip Secret Agent X-9 by Dashiell Hammett, Leslie Charteris, Alex Raymond et al....
  , starring Scott Kolk
• S.O.S. Coast Guard
  S.O.S. Coast Guard
  
  S O S Coast Guard is a Republic Pictures Serial film. It was the seventh of the sixty-six serials made by Republic. The plot concerns the mad scientist Boroff attempting to sell a superweapon to the highest bidder, opposed by Coast Guard Lieutenant Terry Kent , for both personal and professional reasons....
  , starring Ralph Byrd
  Ralph Byrd
  
  Ralph Byrd was an United States actor. He was most famous for playing the comic strip character Dick Tracy on screen, in Serial s, Film and Television program....
   and Bela Lugosi
  Béla Lugosi
  
  B?la Lugosi was a Hungarians-born United States actor of theatre and film, well known for playing Count Dracula in the Dracula and subsequent Dracula ....
  
• Tim Tyler's Luck
  Tim Tyler's Luck (serial)
  
  Tim Tyler's Luck is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the comic strip Tim Tyler's Luck....
  , starring Frankie Thomas
  Frankie Thomas
  
  Frank Marion Thomas, Jr. was an American actor who played both lead and supporting roles on Broadway, in films, in post-World War II radio, and in early television....
  
• Wild West Days
  Wild West Days
  
  Wild West Days is a Universal Pictures Serial film based on a Western novel by W. R. Burnett. It was the 103rd of the studio's 137 serials ....
  
• Zorro Rides Again
  Zorro Rides Again
  
  Zorro Rides Again is a 12-chapter Republic Pictures Serial film. It was the eighth of the sixty-six Republic serials, the third with a Western theme and the last produced in 1937....
  , starring John Carroll
  John Carroll (actor)
  
  John Carroll was an United States actor and singer. He was born Julian Lafaye in New Orleans, Louisiana.Carroll performed in several small roles in films under his original name until 1935, when he first used the name John Carroll in Hi, Gaucho!....
  

• Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
  (1917–1941)
• Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy
  
  Laurel and Hardy were a popular comedy team of thin, British-born Stan Laurel and heavy, American-born Oliver Hardy . They became famous during the early half of the 20th century for their work in motion pictures and also appeared on stage throughout America and Europe....
  (1921-1943
  1943 in film
  
  The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
  )
• Our Gang
  Our Gang
  
  Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together....
  (1922
  1922 in film
  
  Events* November 26 - The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor ....
  -1944
  1944 in film
  
  The year 1944 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Charley Chase
  Charley Chase
  
  Charley Chase was an United States comedian, screenwriter and film director, best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies. He was the older brother of comedian/director James Parrott....
  (1924
  1924 in film
  
  Events* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ...
  -1940
  1940 in film
  
  The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)

• Krazy Kat
  Krazy Kat
  
  Krazy Kat is a comic strip created by George Herriman that appeared in U.S. newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It was first published in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal American, and Hearst was a major booster for the strip throughout its run....
  (1925
  1925 in film
  
  Events...
  -1940
  1940 in film
  
  The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
  Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
  
  Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is an anthropomorphic rabbit animated cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for films distributed by Universal Studios in the 1920s and 1930s....
  (1927
  1927 in film
  
  Events*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda....
  -1938
  1938 in film
  
  The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Mickey Mouse
  Mickey Mouse
  
  Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney....
  (1928
  1928 in film
  
  EventsAlthough some movies released in 1928 had Sound film, most were still silent film.* July 31 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mascot Leo the Lion roars for the very first time, creating one of the most popular American film logos....
  -1953
  1953 in film
  
  The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Silly Symphonies
  Silly Symphonies
  
  Silly Symphonies is a series of animated short subjects, 75 in total, produced by The Walt Disney Company from 1929 to 1939, while the studio was still located at Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles....
  (1929
  1929 in film
  
  EventsThe days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound film was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released....
  -1939
  1939 in film
  
  The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Screen Songs
  Screen Songs
  
  Screen Songs is the name of a series of animation produced by the Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures between 1929 and 1938....
  (1929
  1929 in film
  
  EventsThe days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound film was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released....
  -1938
  1938 in film
  
  The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Looney Tunes
  Looney Tunes
  
  Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and is Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series....
  (1930
  1930 in film
  
  Events...
  -1969
  1969 in film
  
  The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Terrytoons
  Terrytoons
  
  Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry . The studio, located in suburban New Rochelle, New York, operated from 1928 to 1968....
  (1930
  1930 in film
  
  Events...
  -1964
  1964 in film
  
  The year 1964 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Merrie Melodies
  Merrie Melodies
  
  Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animation distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969. The sister series to Warner's Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies were originally one-shot musical film cartoon shorts before gradually featuring recurring characters....
  (1931
  1931 in film
  
  Events...
  -1969
  1969 in film
  
  The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Scrappy
  Scrappy
  
  Scrappy is a cartoon character created by Dick Huemer for Charles Mintz's Krazy Kat Studio. A cute little round-headed boy, Scrappy often found himself involved in off-beat neighborhood adventures....
  (1931
  1931 in film
  
  Events...
  -1941
  1941 in film
  
  The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Betty Boop
  Betty Boop
  
  Betty Boop is an animation cartoon fictional character designed by Grim Natwick, appearing in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films produced by Max Fleischer and released by Paramount Pictures....
  (1932
  1932 in film
  
  Events*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*The Walt Disney Company released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film....
  -1939
  1939 in film
  
  The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Popeye
  Popeye
  
  File:Thimbletheat.jpgPopeye the Sailor is a fictional hero famous for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous TV shows....
  (1933
  1933 in film
  
  Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
  -1957
  1957 in film
  
  The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Happy Harmonies
  Happy Harmonies
  
  Happy Harmonies is the name of a series of animation distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and produced by Harman and Ising between 1934 and 1938....
  (1934
  1934 in film
  
  Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
  -1938
  1938 in film
  
  The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Color Rhapsodies
  Color Rhapsodies
  
  Color Rhapsodies was a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles B. Mintz for Columbia Pictures. They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of Walt Disney's Technicolor Silly Symphonies....
  (1934
  1934 in film
  
  Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
  -1949
  1949 in film
  
  The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Meany, Miny, and Moe (1936
  1936 in film
  
  The year 1936 in film involved some significant events....
  -1937)
• Donald Duck
  Donald Duck
  
  Donald Duck is a cartoon fictional character from The Walt Disney Company. Donald is a white anthropomorphism duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet....
   (1937-1956
  1956 in film
  
  The year 1956 in film involved some significant events....
  )

Births

• January 4 - Dyan Cannon
  Dyan Cannon
  
  Dyan Cannon is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film and television actor, Film director, screenwriter, Film editing#Film Editor, and Film producer....
  , American actress
• January 15 - Margaret O'Brien
  Margaret O'Brien
  
  Margaret O'Brien is an Academy Award-winning United Statesn film actor, and although her career was brief, was one of the most highly regarded child actors in cinema history....
  , American actress
• January 30 - Vanessa Redgrave
  Vanessa Redgrave
  
  Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
  , English actress
• February 27 - Barbara Babcock
  Barbara Babcock
  
  Barbara Babcock is an American actress who works primarily on television....
  , American actress
• June 1 - Morgan Freeman
  Morgan Freeman
  
  Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. is an American actor, film director, and narrator. Freeman is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice....
  , actor
• August 8 - Dustin Hoffman
  Dustin Hoffman
  
  Dustin Lee Hoffman is a two-time Academy Award-, six-time Golden Globe-, three-time BAFTA- and Emmy Award-winning United States actor....
  , American actor
• September 4 - Mikk Mikiver
  Mikk Mikiver
  
  Mikk Mikiver was a prominent Estonians stage and film actor and theater director.Mikk Mikiver graduated from the State Conservatory of Tallinn in 1961....
  , Estonian actor
• November 4 - Loretta Swit
  Loretta Swit
  
  Loretta Swit is an American stage and television actress known for her character roles. The naturally blonde Swit is best-known for her two-time Emmy-winning portrayal of Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on M*A*S*H ....
  , American actress
• November 21 - Ingrid Pitt
  Ingrid Pitt
  
  Ingrid Pitt is an actress best known for her work in horror films of the 1960s and 1970s....
  , Polish-born British actress
• December 9 - Darwin Joston
  Darwin Joston
  
  F. Darwin Solomon was an United States actor known professionally as Darwin Joston . Joston appeared in many popular television shows during the 1960s, early 1970s, and mid-1980s, but he is best known for his performances in independent films that later achieved cult status, particularly Assault on Precinct 13 ....
  , American actor
• December 21 - Jane Fonda
  Jane Fonda
  
  Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
  , American actress

Deaths

• January 2 - Ross Alexander
  Ross Alexander
  
  Ross Alexander was an United States stage and film actor....
  , American actor
• January 23 - Marie Prevost
  Marie Prevost
  
  Marie Prevost was a Canada actor of the early days of film. During her twenty year career, she made 121 Silent film and Sound film....
  , Canadian-born American actress
• February 3 - Marija Leiko
  Marija Leiko
  
  Marija Leiko was a Latvians silent movie actress in Europe since the 1910s, especially popular in Latvia, Germany and Russia....
  , Latvian film actress
• May 1 - Snitz Edwards
  Snitz Edwards
  
  Snitz Edwards was a notable character actor of the early years of the silent film era into the 1930s....
  , Austro-Hungarian-born American actor
• June 7 - Jean Harlow
  Jean Harlow
  
  Jean Harlow was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" and the "Blonde Bombshell" due to her famous platinum blonde hair, and ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of all time AFI's 100 Years......
  , American actress
• November 13 - Mrs. Leslie Carter
  Mrs. Leslie Carter
  
  For the female soloist popstar see Leslie Carter.Caroline Louise Dudley was an United States silent film and stage actress who used her married name, Mrs....
  , stage & screen actress