1937 in film

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of 1937 3 Academy Awards 4 Movies Released 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

Top Grossing Films of 1937

• Best Picture: The Life of Emile Zola - Warner Bros.
• Best Actor: Spencer Tracy - Captains Courageous
• Best Actress: Luise Rainer - The Good Earth

• 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
• 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

• 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

• January 23 - Marie Prevost, actress