1937 Movies
Browse 956 titles in our 1937 Movies Database
- Bringing Up Baby
- The Awful Truth
- Sabotage
- A Day at the Races
- Lost Horizon
- A Star Is Born
- Young and Innocent
- Make Way for Tomorrow
- The Life of Emile Zola
- Stage Door
- Way Out West
- Camille
- Dead End
- Topper
- Shall We Dance
- You Only Live Once
- Nothing Sacred
- Stella Dallas
- The Good Earth
- The Prisoner of Zenda
- Heidi
- The Old Mill
- Marked Woman
- Easy Living
- Kid Galahad
- Black Legion
- Lonesome Ghosts
- Angel
- Clock Cleaners
- Night Must Fall
- The Prince and the Pauper
- Test Pilot
- It's Love I'm After
- A Slight Case of Murder
- Double Wedding
- History Is Made at Night
- A Damsel in Distress
- Humanity and Paper Balloons
- Charlie Chan at the Opera
- San Quentin
- The Amazing Adventure
- Saratoga
- Bizarre, Bizarre
- They Won't Forget
- Wee Willie Winkie
- Charlie Chan at the Olympics
- The Cowboy and the Lady
- True Confession
- Hawaiian Holiday
- The Last Gangster
- Conquest
- That Certain Woman
- Charlie Chan on Broadway
- Ever Since Eve
- Hans Westmar
- Knight Without Armor
- Dark Journey
- King Solomon's Mines
- Broadway Melody of 1938
- Confession
- Quality Street
- Stand-In
- What Did the Lady Forget?
- The Bride Wore Red
- One Hundred Men and a Girl
- Think Fast, Mr. Moto
- Magician Mickey
- The Toast of New York
- Lloyd's of London
- Maytime
- Breakfast for Two
- The Adventures of Marco Polo
- Modern Inventions
- Storm in a Teacup
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
- Night Key
- Personal Property
- Thank You, Mr. Moto
- Seventh Heaven
- Bulldog Drummond Escapes
- Born to the West
- Something to Sing About
- Two Merry Adventurers
- Don Donald
- Love Is News
- Life Dances On
- Swing High, Swing Low
- Donald's Ostrich
- Moose Hunters
- The Great O'Malley
- The Spanish Earth
- Elephant Boy
- Wise Girl
- Redes
- The Emperor's Candlesticks
- Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
- Murder at the Baskervilles
- A Family Affair
- Internes Can't Take Money
- The Great Garrick
- Little Hiawatha
- Grips, Grunts and Groans
- The Worm Turns
- Smart Blonde
- The Dybbuk
- Another Dawn
- Dizzy Doctors
- It Happened in Hollywood
- Navy Blue and Gold
- This Is My Affair
- Lady Killer
- Tarzan's Revenge
- Sh! The Octopus
- On the Avenue
- Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
- Dick Tracy
- Big City
- Wells Fargo
- The Pearls of the Crown
- La Habanera
- 3 Dumb Clucks
- Porky's Duck Hunt
- Tovarich
- Stolen Holiday
- Green Light
- Ali Baba Goes to Town
- Cash and Carry
- Porky's Railroad
- Woodland Café
- Rosalie
- Back to the Woods
- The Sitter Downers
- The Shadow Strikes
- The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
- Mickey's Amateurs
- Parnell
- Tarzan and the Green Goddess
- Goofs and Saddles
- Trade Tattoo
- You're Only Young Once
- Playing the Ponies
- Pick a Star
- Daughter of Shanghai
- The Case of the Stuttering Pig
- Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage
- The Adventurous Blonde
- She Was an Acrobat's Daughter
- First Lady
- Madame X
- Pluto's Quin-puplets
- Varsity Show
- Good Morning, Boys!
- Every Day's a Holiday
- I Met Him in Paris
- Woman Chases Man
- Fly Away Baby
- To New Shores
- When You're in Love
- Bulldog Drummond at Bay
- The Perfect Specimen
- Live, Love and Learn
- The King and the Chorus Girl
- Désiré
- Song of Freedom
- Forty Naughty Girls
- Thunder in the City
- Thin Ice
- Slim
- Non-Stop New York
- Maid of Salem
- Windbag the Sailor
- Back in Circulation
- The Firefly
- My Dear Miss Aldrich
- The Paneless Window Washer
- Voyage to the Sky
- Lenin in October
- West of Shanghai
- High, Wide and Handsome
- They Gave Him a Gun
- Waikiki Wedding
- Our Gang Follies of 1938
- Super-Sleuth
- Juggernaut
- Pietro wyzej
- Skeleton on Horseback
- Artist and Models
- That Girl from Paris
- Pensionat Paradiset
- Wings of the Morning
- Danger - Love at Work
- Men Are Not Gods
- London by Night
- The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
- Dark Sands
- Mister Max
- Hitting a New High
- Zorro Rides Again
- Give Me Your Heart
- One in a Million
- Call It a Day
- Salama Is Safe
- I Never Changes My Altitude
- The Thirteenth Chair
- Vogues of 1938
- Ready, Willing and Able
- Scipione l'africano
- Children in the Wind
- I Wanna Be a Sailor
- Bank Alarm
- Submarine D-1
- The Life and Loves of Beethoven
- A Bride for Henry
- Thank You, Jeeves!
- Living on Love
- The Green Cockatoo
- The Man Who Found Himself
- The Wrong Road
- The Last Train from Madrid
- Dinner at the Ritz
- Doctor Syn
- Porky's Garden
- The Singing Marine
- Trouble in Texas
- Get Rich Quick Porky
- House Cleaning Blues
- Beg, Borrow or Steal
- The Road Back
- Mountain Justice
- Boots and Saddles
- Uncle Tom's Bungalow
- Dangerous Number
- She's Got Everything
- Don't Tell the Wife
- Double or Nothing
- You Can't Have Everything
- Tim Tyler's Luck
- You Can't Beat Love
- SOS Coast Guard
- Flight from Glory
- Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
- Murder on Diamond Row
- Victoria the Great
- The Footloose Heiress
- Keep Your Seats, Please!
- The Soldier and the Lady
- Lady Behave!
- God's Country and the Woman
- Public Wedding
- The Thirteen
- It's Never Too Late to Mend
- Francis the First
- Round-Up Time in Texas
- Sing, You Sinners
- Little Buck Cheeser
- Married Before Breakfast
- Alcatraz Island
- Avalanche
- Between Two Women
- The Go Getter
- Porky's Super Service
- Escape by Night
- Rhythm in the Clouds
- Riders of the Whistling Skull
- Slaves in Bondage
- Peter the First
- Borderland
- Affairs of Cappy Ricks
- Porky's Hero Agency
- The Impractical Joker
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat
- The Littlest Diplomat
- Draegerman Courage
- High Flyers
- North of the Rio Grande
- Love Is on the Air
- Parábola
- There Goes the Groom
- Rustlers' Valley
- Sea Devils
- Music for Madame
- The Straits of Love and Hate
- The Bad Man of Brimstone
- Texas Trail
- Fant
- Similarities Between Length and Speed
- Fugitive in the Sky
- There Goes My Girl
- Slave Ship
- Criminal Lawyer
- ¡Centinela, alerta!
- A kölcsönkért kastély
- Porky the Wrestler
- Picador Porky
- The Struggle for Survival
- Boy of the Streets
- New Faces of 1937
- We Who Are About to Die
- Hit the Saddle
- When's Your Birthday?
- She Loved a Fireman
- Idol of the Crowds
- The Ticket of Leave Man
- Lancer Spy
- Rover's Rival
- Make a Wish
- I Cover the War!
- Hoosier Schoolboy
- Behind the Headlines
- Hopalong Rides Again
- The Life of the Party
- The Candid Candidate
- Born Reckless
- Fight for Your Lady
- Telephone Operator
- Blake of Scotland Yard
- All Over Town
- Yoshiwara
- The Painted Stallion
- The High Command
- One Mile from Heaven
- Hills of Old Wyoming
- A Car-Tune Portrait
- Sing, Cowboy, Sing
- California Straight Ahead!
- Lovagias ügy
- Step Lively, Jeeves!
- Over the Goal
- The Return of Maxim
- The Big Shot
- Springtime in the Rockies
- Men in Exile
- I Promise to Pay
- Hollywood Cowboy
- Yid'l mit'n Fid'l
- Passenger to London
- The Woman I Love
- Arizona Days
- Git Along Little Dogies
- Crossroads
- Dog Daze
- Saturday's Heroes
- Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
- The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen
- Hideout in the Alps
- Public Cowboy No. 1
- Juurakon Hulda
- Under Cover of Night
- Espionage
- September in the Rain
- Znachor
- Night Club Scandal
- The Shadow
- Abused Confidence
- Mravnost nade vse
- Devil's Playground
- Without Dowry
- You're in the Army Now
- Nobody's Baby
- Jim Hanvey, Detective
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Land Beyond the Law
- Whoops! I'm a Cowboy
- Meet the Missus
- Reunion in Rhythm
- The Man from Nowhere
- Hands Off Me!
- Marry the Girl
- The Man in the Mirror
- Gunsmoke Ranch
- China Passage
- Paradise Express
- Too Many Wives
- Wake Up and Live
- Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
- Heart of Paris
- Wine, Women and Horses
- Expensive Husbands
- Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
- Girls Can Play
- Danger Patrol
- Penrod and Sam
- The 13th Man
- Bunny Mooning
- On with the New
- Conquest of Peter the Great
- When Thief Meets Thief
- Mama Steps Out
- Racing Lady
- The Devil Diamond
- Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
- Bad Guy
- Once a Doctor
- The Westland Case
- Juha
- Pudgy Picks a Fight
- Tri vejce do skla
- Atarashiki tsuchi
- They Wanted to Marry
- Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow
- Dance Charlie Dance
- You're a Sweetheart
- Chicken a la King
- Riding on Air
- Street of Shadows
- The Game That Kills
- I'll Take Romance
- Baltic Deputy
- Gasparone
- The World Is Ours
- On Again-Off Again
- Ding Dong Doggie
- Les rois du sport
- The Cheat
- Windjammer
- Life Begins in College
- You Can't Buy Luck
- Ignace
- We're on the Jury
- Border Phantom
- Hideaway
- Bengal Tiger
- Murder in Greenwich Village
- Fit for a King
- Missing Witnesses
- Nancy Steele Is Missing!
- Hittin' the Trail
- A Woman's Sorrows
- Larceny on the Air
- Midnight Court
- Blake of Scotland Yard
- Midnight at the Wax Museum
- Meet the Boy Friend
- The Mill on the Floss
- Adventure's End
- White Bondage
- The Foxy Hunter
- Man of the People
- Paid to Dance
- Moonlight Sonata
- That Man's Here Again
- The Girl Said No
- Life Begins with Love
- The League of Frightened Men
- Jungle Jim
- Gifts from the Air
- Quick Money
- Sing Me a Love Song
- Beauty and the Barge
- Sky Racket
- Service with a Smile
- Virginity
- Marthe Richard
- Border Cafe
- Empty Holsters
- Lo squadrone bianco
- L'affaire du courrier de Lyon
- Secret Agent X-9
- Model Husband
- The Seven Ravens
- Prairie Thunder
- Ballerina
- Woman Racket
- Green Fields
- The Legion of Missing Men
- The Devil's Saddle Legion
- Hollywood Round-Up
- Murder Is News
- Wife, Doctor and Nurse
- Feather Your Nest
- Movie-Mania
- Old Louisiana
- Talent Scout
- Bill Cracks Down
- Pani minister tanczy
- Annapolis Salute
- Learn from Experience, Part I
- O-Kay for Sound
- Such Is My Country
- The Gold Racket
- Silent Barriers
- Wings Over Honolulu
- Range Defenders
- The Man Who is Talked About
- Ebb Tide
- A Lawman Is Born
- Lapatossu
- I Married a Spy
- It's All Yours
- Command Performance
- Park Avenue Logger
- Harlem on the Prairie
- The Outer Gate
- Learn from Experience, Part II
- Wild West Days
- The New Deal Show
- Arizona Gunfighter
- Clipped Wings
- Valley of Terror
- The Crime Nobody Saw
- Dangerously Yours
- King of Gamblers
- Az én lányom nem olyan
- Love Under Fire
- The Lonely White Sail
- Heart of the Rockies
- The Silver Trail
- Atlantic Flight
- Blazing Sixes
- Landslide
- Sara Learns Manners
- Exclusive
- Fizessen, nagysád!
- Come On, Cowboys
- Boothill Brigade
- Criminals of the Air
- Forget Love for Now
- Youth on Parole
- The Mysterious Pilot
- Action for Slander
- Maria Papoila
- The Women Men Marry
- Premiere
- The Gambling Terror
- Tough to Handle
- Spendthrift
- Brothers of the West
- Riders of the Rockies
- A Star Athlete
- Bar-Z Bad Men
- Thunder Trail
- Night Ride
- Farewell Topsails
- Portia on Trial
- Heroes of the Alamo
- Der Herrscher
- O, en så'n natt!
- Pygmalion
- Dark Manhattan
- Fifty Roads to Town
- Top of the Town
- Fair Warning
- The Trusted Outlaw
- The Trigger Trio
- Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin
- The Man of the Hour
- Talk of the Devil
- Le fauteuil 47
- Paradise Isle
- Cotton Queen
- The Great Gambini
- L'habit vert
- She's Dangerous
- Time Out for Romance
- Confessions of a Newlywed
- Pesti mese
- Mille, Marie og mig
- Sea Racketeers
- Roll Along, Cowboy
- Wallaby Jim of the Islands
- Book Bargain
- The Cherokee Strip
- Uncivilized
- The Great Hospital Mystery
- Champagne Waltz
- The Logger's Bride
- Scotland Yard Commands
- Colorado Kid
- The Face Behind the Scar
- The Red Rope
- What Price Vengeance
- Guns in the Dark
- Bombs Over London
- Roaring Six Guns
- Exiled to Shanghai
- Headline Crasher
- Head Over Heels in Love
- The Last Night
- Cheyenne Rides Again
- Where Trails Divide
- Konyaku sanbagarasu
- The Vicar of Bray
- The Feud of the Trail
- The Virgin Bride
- Yesterday's Boys Didn't Use Hair Fixers
- Úrilány szobát keres
- Navy Blues
- Forlorn River
- Falesná kocicka
- 80 Mile Speed
- Dakarguli samotkhe
- This Way Please
- Melody for Two
- Amateur Crook
- To levende og en død
- Ksiazatko
- Lightnin' Crandall
- 23 1/2 Hours Leave
- The Man Who Cried Wolf
- Accused
- Klart till drabbning
- Don't Fool Yourself Dear
- The Fighting Deputy
- Aurora de esperanza
- Man of Affairs
- Orphan of the Pecos
- Her Husband's Secretary
- Big Town Girl
- The Messenger
- Donner, Blitz und Sonnenschein
- Midnight Taxi
- Luck of Roaring Camp
- The Tenth Man
- The Good Old Soak
- Battle of Greed
- Love Takes Flight
- Boy, the Noszty
- Black Aces
- Girls of Nowolipki
- It Can't Last Forever
- Double Exposures
- The Show Goes On
- The Miracle Worker
- Larceny Street
- Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
- Radio Patrol
- God's Country and the Man
- Whistling Bullets
- Secret Valley
- Dangerous Holiday
- The Californian
- The Mystery of the Ghastly Face
- Andula vyhrála
- We Have Our Moments
- Love on Toast
- Nation Aflame
- Boss of Lonely Valley
- Outcast
- As Dream and Shadow...
- Josette
- Young Dynamite
- Thrill of a Lifetime
- Indiscretion
- Island Captives
- Danger Valley
- Let's Get Married
- Kunku
- Zauber der Boheme
- Hotel Kikelet
- Chikemuri Takadanobaba
- Lost Ranch
- Women of Glamour
- Southern Carrier
- Asessorin naishuolet
- Wings Over Africa
- Kuriton sukupolvi
- Les dégourdis de la 11ème
- Circus Girl
- Flying Fists
- Seven Slaps
- Doomed at Sundown
- The Air Hostess
- Ja alla oli tulinen järvi
- Girl Overboard
- Devcata, nedejte se!
- Adolf Armstarke
- The Crime of Dr. Forbes
- Miehen kylkiluu
- Niedorajda
- Checkers
- Bosko's Easter Eggs
- Arsene Lupin, Detective
- Left Handed Law
- Arsena
- Rich Relations
- Damaged Goods
- Woman of Malacca
- Sweet Devil
- Sutyi, the Lucky Child
- The Duke Comes Back
- Song of the City
- Circus Daze
- The Hit Parade
- The Law Commands
- Vengeance of the Deep
- The Lights of Asakusa
- The Girl from Scotland Yard
- The Roaming Cowboy
- Advokátka Vera
- The Lady Escapes
- Captain Kidding
- Navy Spy
- Love and Hisses
- It Could Happen to You
- Calling the Tune
- Blazing Barriers
- Woman Against the World
- The Private's Job
- Song of the Road
- Law for Tombstone
- Swing It Professor
- Take a Chance
- Doktor Aybolit
- Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States
- Underworld
- Making Fashion
- Western Gold
- Konjiki yasha
- Love in Stunt Flying
- Claudine à l'école
- Les hommes nouveaux
- Postal Union
- Everything Is Rhythm
- Sherlock Holmes: The Grey Lady
- The Ballad of Cossack Golota
- Ruslan and Ludmila
- The Terrible Sarati
- Madame Bovary
- Gavrosh
- A Revolução de Maio
- Pique Dame
- Girl Loves Boy
- A férfi mind örült
- Two Who Dared
- A Clown Must Laugh
- Bleka greven
- The Living Corpse
- Flådens blå matroser
- Die ewige Maske
- Troopship
- Join the Marines
- Truxa
- The Lie of Nina Petrovna
- Tukkijoella
- Outside the Law
- Dreaming Lips
- Giovanni de Medici: The Leader
- Mother Song
- Der var engang en Vicevært
- The Foxy Pup
- Incognito
- The Kreutzer Sonata
- Talking About Jacqueline
- Ridin' the Lone Trail
- Under a Cloud
- Det begyndte ombord
- Please Teacher
- Mystery Range
- Lyckliga Vestköping
- Shakhtyory
- Die Fledermaus
- The Andersson Family
- Heart of Spain
- Riddle Ranch
- Please Keep Me in Your Dreams
- It Isn't Done
- Talking Feet
- Trail of Vengeance
- Rose of Tralee
- Spy of Napoleon
- Odygdens belöning
- Young Pushkin
- Und du mein Schatz fährst mit
- Patriots
- Plat eller krone
- Guadalajara
- Moonlight on the Range
- Mukti
- Bed and Breakfast
- Gobseck
- Prtosani mgebavi
- Mayskaya noch
- Double Crime in the Maginot Line
- White Slaves
- The Duchess of Parma
- South Sea Sweethearts
- Good-Bye Nicanor
- Radio Lover
- Don't Get Me Wrong
- Rough Riding Rhythm
- Southern Roses
- In Mozart's Footsteps
- Nuorena nukkunut
- Pat und Patachon im Paradies
- The Penny Pool
- The Street Singer
- The Barrier
- Lucky Jade
- The Golden Valley
- En fuldendt gentleman
- Der Unwiderstehliche
- Pearls Bring Tears
- Beethoven Concerto
- Lyin' Hunter
- Ushchelye Alamasov
- Versprich mir nichts!
- Pugachev
- Ryska snuvan
- En flicka kommer till sta'n
- Behind the Spanish Lines
- Land der Liebe
- Amapola del camino
- Chinatown Nights
- Father Steps Out
- The Fairy-Tale About Emelya
- Steve's Cannon Crackers
- Aloha, le chant des îles
- Witches' Night
- Mies Marseillesta
- Koshkin dom
- Les gangsters de l'expo
- Frk. Møllers jubilæum
- Den kloge Mand
- Alarm in Peking
- His Best Friend
- Ride to Freedom
- Pappas pojke
- Die ganz großen Torheiten
- The House Across the Street
- En sjöman går iland
- La reina mora
- The Affairs of Pierre
- Konflikt
- Spring Handicap
- Calling All Stars
- The Happiest Married Couple in Vienna
- New News
- Karussell
- Mr. Stringfellow Says No
- Hearts Aflame
- Football Fever
- Bergslagsfolk
- Volk i semero kozlyat
- Maman Colibri
- Än leva de gamla gudar
- Brillanten
- Some Time Soon
- The Voice of the Heart
- The Four Corn Patches
- Don Juan Tenorio
- Music Man
- A Girl from the Chorus
- Come on Ponciano
- Strife Over the Boy Jo
- Bubi
- Firemen's Picnic
- La bataille silencieuse
- Peter in the Snow
- Wandering Bird
- El forastero
- Felicita Colombo
- Sailor Maid
- Edgar & Goliath
- Safety First
- The Duchy of Cornwall
- Advance Democracy!
- The Glass Ball
- Frauenliebe - Frauenleid
- Sentinels of Bronze
- Millionäre
- Sein letztes Modell
- Meine Frau, die Perle
- Grounds for Divorce
- Mária növér
- From Acorn to Oak
- La paloma
- Silence of the Forest
- Die Austernlilli
- Romance
- School for Swing
- These Men
- Calling All Curtains
- All That Glitters
- Busman's Holiday
- Born That Way
- Skylarks
- Bra mennesker
- Splinters in the Air
- The Singing Cop
- Producing Citizens
- Sam Small Leaves Town
- Dharmaveer
- La danseuse rouge
- Against the Tide
- Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeo
- Mamma gifter sig
- La honradez es un estorbo
- Underneath the Arches
- Gypsy
- Song of the Forge
- Котофей Котофеевич
- Rotkäppchen und der Wolf
- Signal in der Nacht
- The Diamond
- Bournemouth Orchestra - Hungarian Rhapsody
- Gigolette
- Feu!
- Troïka sur la piste blanche
- L'île des veuves
- L'appel de la vie
- Bad Housekeeping
- Not a Word About Love
- Good Turners
- It Happened Thus
- Smuggler's Cave
- The Obligation to Assassinate
- Danmark for folket
- Strange Adventures of Mr. Smith
- Vi går landsvägen
- Wake Up Famous
- Ship's Concert
- La gloire du régiment
- The Fatal Hour
- Show Flat
- Off the Horses
- Pixilated
- Night Must Fall
- Kanhopatra
- Community Sing: Series 2, No. 4
- Community Sing: Series 2, No. 5
- Community Sing: Series 2, No. 3 - College Football Songs
- Hamlet and Eggs
- Vom Regen in die Traufe
- Wer hat Angst vor Marmaduke?
- Großstadt-Typen
- Der Fußball
- Gänseknöchlein
- Die Brillanten der Moranows
- Das Wiener Modell
- Klimbusch macht Wochenende
- Das Quartett
- Andere Länder, andere Sitten
- Dahil sa pag-ibig
- Steppke. Die Geschichte eines Großstadtjungen. Seine Erlebnisse zu Wasser und zu Lande
- Der Musikant von Dornburg
- Ein kleiner Reinfall
- Das kleine Fräulein träumt
- Die Mühle von Werbellin
- Von Zeppelin 1 bis LZ 130 - Die Biographie eines deutschen Genies
- Erbschaftstaumel
- Nachtbesuch
- Leichtsinn
- Community Sing: No. 3
- Shaksgam, Auden 1937
- Kensal House
- Piccadilly Playtime
- Popeye Classic Cartoons
- Tante Inges Garten
- Meet The Girl Who Became A Man
- Daily Round
- British Union of Fascists March
- Chief Guide at Hyderabad Rally
- Ajmer
- Perky Cockney
- Somersetshire Dairy-Farming
- Devon Dairy Farming
The Best Movies in 1937
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Released in 1937, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" represents an advancement in the world of animation. Directed by William Cottrell, among others, the film unfolds the tale of Snow White, a princess forced into exile by her malevolent stepmother. Her journey leads her to find refuge with seven dwarf miners, introducing audiences to a blend of captivating storytelling and pioneering animation techniques. This movie stands out for its elaborate animation process and its ability to convey intricate emotions and personalities through animated characters, setting a precedent for future animations.
Lost Horizon
Frank Capra's "Lost Horizon" takes its viewers on an extraordinary journey to Shangri-La, a mystical utopian society hidden in the mountains of Tibet, which the protagonists discover following a plane crash. This blend of adventure and fantasy captivates with its exploration of idealism, the human condition, and the pursuit of peace in a tumultuous world. The film's rich thematic narrative, combined with Capra's direction, showcases the potential of cinema to explore complex ideas through engaging storytelling.
A Star Is Born
Directed by talents including William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, and Victor Fleming, "A Star Is Born" narrates the poignant tale of a young woman ascending to stardom in Hollywood while navigating a complex relationship with a fading alcoholic actor. This story has proven its enduring appeal through multiple remakes, each adapted to fit its era, yet the original 1937 version remains a landmark for its raw depiction of fame, addiction, love, and loss. Its exploration of the darker side of celebrity and entertainment remains relevant, reflecting the timeless nature of its themes.
The Grand Illusion
Jean Renoir's "The Grand Illusion" is a profound war drama that gets into the lives of French soldiers detained in a German POW camp during World War I. What sets this film apart is its humanist approach to the war narrative, emphasizing the shared experiences and aspirations of individuals from opposing sides. Through its thoughtful depiction of camaraderie, loyalty, and the universal desire for peace, the film critiques the futility of conflict and underscores the common humanity that can transcend even the deepest divisions.
The Awful Truth
"The Awful Truth," directed by Leo McCarey, emerges as a masterclass in romantic comedy, weaving the story of a couple amidst divorce who gradually realize the depth of their feelings for each other. Distinguished for its sharp wit and expert comedic timing, the film excels in presenting the complexities of relationships through humor and light-hearted scenarios. Its success lies not just in eliciting laughs but in its portrayal of rediscovery, love, and the sometimes circuitous path to true happiness.
Film & Industry Highlights of 1937
The Groundbreaking Achievements of 1937
1937 stands as a remarkable year within the film industry, marking progressions in technology, storytelling, and the commercial scene of cinema. Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" not only emerged as the first American full-length animated film but also set a precedent for future productions in terms of both its financial success and technical innovation. With a groundbreaking budget of $1.5 million, it defied expectations by grossing $8 million, making it the highest-earning film of 1938. The significance of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" extends beyond its financial achievements; it was the first film to have an official soundtrack and was the pioneer in releasing a motion picture soundtrack album.
The 9th Academy Awards
The 9th Academy Awards ceremony, conducted on March 4, 1937, introduced the categories of Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, broadening the scope of recognition within the industry. "The Great Ziegfeld" clinched the Best Picture award, while "Anthony Adverse" led with four wins. Notably, "Anthony Adverse," "Dodsworth," and "The Great Ziegfeld" each secured seven nominations, showcasing the year's strong contenders. The expansion of award categories and the variety of nominees underscore the evolving nature of cinematic achievements during this period.
Noteworthy Film Releases of 1937
In addition to "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," 1937 witnessed the release of several other films that have since been acknowledged for their artistic and cultural contributions. "Captains Courageous," an adventure drama family film, "A Day at the Races," a comedy that featured the Marx Brothers, and "The Grand Illusion," a war drama directed by Jean Renoir, stand out among the year's cinematic offerings. "The Grand Illusion" is especially recognized as one of the greatest films ever made, demonstrating the year's range in genre and thematic content.
Technological Innovations
1937 was also a year of technological innovation within the film industry. Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies short, "The Old Mill," utilized the multi-plane camera for the first time. This technology enabled a greater depth of image and a more dynamic sense of movement, allowing for more complex panning shots. Such advancements were instrumental in enhancing the visual appeal of animated films, setting new standards for animation that would influence future productions.
Personalities and Box Office Success
The year also saw the tragic loss of Jean Harlow, celebrated as the first film actress to grace the cover of Life magazine. Her untimely death due to uremic poisoning occurred before she could complete her role in "Saratoga" alongside Clark Gable, adding a somber note to a year of otherwise remarkable achievements.
In terms of box office success, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" led the charts, followed by "Saratoga" and "Maytime." The success of these films reflects the varied preferences of the American public, showcasing a broad range of interests, from animated features to romantic dramas.