1937 Movies
Browse 961 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
- Night Must Fall
- Clock Cleaners
- The Prince and the Pauper
- Test Pilot
- It's Love I'm After
- A Slight Case of Murder
- History Is Made at Night
- Double Wedding
- 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
- Breakfast for Two
- Maytime
- The Adventures of Marco Polo
- Storm in a Teacup
- Personal Property
- Modern Inventions
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
- Night Key
- 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
- Redes
- Elephant Boy
- Wise Girl
- The Emperor's Candlesticks
- Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
- Internes Can't Take Money
- Murder at the Baskervilles
- A Family Affair
- The Great Garrick
- Little Hiawatha
- Grips, Grunts and Groans
- The Dybbuk
- The Worm Turns
- Smart Blonde
- Dizzy Doctors
- Another Dawn
- It Happened in Hollywood
- Navy Blue and Gold
- Lady Killer
- This Is My Affair
- Tarzan's Revenge
- Sh! The Octopus
- On the Avenue
- Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
- Dick Tracy
- Big City
- Wells Fargo
- 3 Dumb Clucks
- La Habanera
- Porky's Duck Hunt
- The Pearls of the Crown
- Tovarich
- Green Light
- Stolen Holiday
- Ali Baba Goes to Town
- Cash and Carry
- Porky's Railroad
- Back to the Woods
- Woodland Café
- The Sitter Downers
- The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
- Rosalie
- Daughter of Shanghai
- The Shadow Strikes
- Mickey's Amateurs
- Parnell
- Goofs and Saddles
- Tarzan and the Green Goddess
- Trade Tattoo
- You're Only Young Once
- Playing the Ponies
- Pick a Star
- The Case of the Stuttering Pig
- Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage
- The Adventurous Blonde
- She Was an Acrobat's Daughter
- First Lady
- Harvest
- Madame X
- Pluto's Quin-puplets
- Little Red Walking Hood
- Good Morning, Boys!
- Varsity Show
- Every Day's a Holiday
- I Met Him in Paris
- Woman Chases Man
- Fly Away Baby
- To New Shores
- Live, Love and Learn
- When You're in Love
- Bulldog Drummond at Bay
- The Perfect Specimen
- The King and the Chorus Girl
- Désiré
- Song of Freedom
- Thunder in the City
- Forty Naughty Girls
- Thin Ice
- Maid of Salem
- Slim
- Non-Stop New York
- Windbag the Sailor
- Back in Circulation
- The Firefly
- My Dear Miss Aldrich
- Lenin in October
- The Paneless Window Washer
- Voyage to the Sky
- West of Shanghai
- High, Wide and Handsome
- Our Gang Follies of 1938
- Waikiki Wedding
- They Gave Him a Gun
- Juggernaut
- Super-Sleuth
- Shkhnim
- 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
- Mister Max
- Dark Sands
- Hitting a New High
- Zorro Rides Again
- One in a Million
- Give Me Your Heart
- Call It a Day
- Salama Is Safe
- I Never Changes My Altitude
- The Thirteenth Chair
- I Wanna Be a Sailor
- Ready, Willing and Able
- Submarine D-1
- Vogues of 1938
- Bank Alarm
- Children in the Wind
- Scipione l'africano
- The Green Cockatoo
- The Life and Loves of Beethoven
- The Wrong Road
- A Bride for Henry
- Dinner at the Ritz
- I Likes Babies and Infinks
- Thank You, Jeeves!
- The Man Who Found Himself
- Porky's Garden
- Living on Love
- The Last Train from Madrid
- Doctor Syn
- Get Rich Quick Porky
- Trouble in Texas
- The Singing Marine
- Beg, Borrow or Steal
- House Cleaning Blues
- The Road Back
- Uncle Tom's Bungalow
- Mountain Justice
- Dangerous Number
- Boots and Saddles
- She's Got Everything
- Don't Tell the Wife
- Double or Nothing
- Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
- Victoria the Great
- You Can't Have Everything
- Tim Tyler's Luck
- SOS Coast Guard
- You Can't Beat Love
- Flight from Glory
- Murder on Diamond Row
- Keep Your Seats, Please!
- The Soldier and the Lady
- The Footloose Heiress
- Lady Behave!
- The Thirteen
- God's Country and the Woman
- It's Never Too Late to Mend
- Sing, You Sinners
- Francis the First
- Public Wedding
- Round-Up Time in Texas
- Married Before Breakfast
- Alcatraz Island
- Between Two Women
- The Go Getter
- Avalanche
- Porky's Super Service
- Escape by Night
- Slaves in Bondage
- Peter the First
- Riders of the Whistling Skull
- Rhythm in the Clouds
- Affairs of Cappy Ricks
- Porky's Hero Agency
- The Impractical Joker
- We Who Are About to Die
- Borderland
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat
- The Littlest Diplomat
- High Flyers
- Draegerman Courage
- North of the Rio Grande
- Love Is on the Air
- Parábola
- There Goes the Groom
- The Straits of Love and Hate
- Rustlers' Valley
- Sea Devils
- Music for Madame
- Fugitive in the Sky
- The Bad Man of Brimstone
- Texas Trail
- Porky the Wrestler
- Similarities Between Length and Speed
- There Goes My Girl
- Fant
- ¡Centinela, alerta!
- Picador Porky
- Criminal Lawyer
- Slave Ship
- A kölcsönkért kastély
- The Ticket of Leave Man
- Hit the Saddle
- The Struggle for Survival
- Boy of the Streets
- New Faces of 1937
- She Loved a Fireman
- Idol of the Crowds
- When's Your Birthday?
- Rover's Rival
- Born Reckless
- Hoosier Schoolboy
- Lancer Spy
- Make a Wish
- I Cover the War!
- Behind the Headlines
- Hopalong Rides Again
- The Candid Candidate
- The Life of the Party
- Telephone Operator
- Blake of Scotland Yard
- Fight for Your Lady
- All Over Town
- Yoshiwara
- The High Command
- The Painted Stallion
- One Mile from Heaven
- Hills of Old Wyoming
- Passenger to London
- A Car-Tune Portrait
- Sing, Cowboy, Sing
- California Straight Ahead!
- Hollywood Cowboy
- The Return of Maxim
- Lovagias ügy
- Springtime in the Rockies
- Step Lively, Jeeves!
- Dog Daze
- I Promise to Pay
- Over the Goal
- The Big Shot
- Yid'l mit'n Fid'l
- Men in Exile
- Arizona Days
- Crossroads
- The Woman I Love
- Git Along Little Dogies
- Hideout in the Alps
- Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
- Saturday's Heroes
- The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen
- Public Cowboy No. 1
- September in the Rain
- Under Cover of Night
- Juurakon Hulda
- Znachor
- Night Club Scandal
- Espionage
- The Shadow
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Devil's Playground
- Abused Confidence
- Mravnost nade vse
- Nobody's Baby
- Whoops! I'm a Cowboy
- Jim Hanvey, Detective
- Without Dowry
- You're in the Army Now
- Land Beyond the Law
- The Man from Nowhere
- China Passage
- Reunion in Rhythm
- Meet the Missus
- Hands Off Me!
- Marry the Girl
- The Man in the Mirror
- Gunsmoke Ranch
- Paradise Express
- Wake Up and Live
- Too Many Wives
- Wine, Women and Horses
- Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
- Girls Can Play
- Expensive Husbands
- Heart of Paris
- Racing Lady
- Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
- Danger Patrol
- On with the New
- Conquest of Peter the Great
- When Thief Meets Thief
- Penrod and Sam
- The Devil Diamond
- The 13th Man
- Bunny Mooning
- Pudgy Picks a Fight
- The Westland Case
- Mama Steps Out
- Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
- Juha
- Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow
- Bad Guy
- Tri vejce do skla
- Once a Doctor
- They Wanted to Marry
- Atarashiki tsuchi
- Dance Charlie Dance
- You're a Sweetheart
- Chicken a la King
- The Cheat
- Riding on Air
- Baltic Deputy
- Street of Shadows
- Ding Dong Doggie
- I'll Take Romance
- The World Is Ours
- The Game That Kills
- Windjammer
- Gasparone
- Life Begins in College
- Hideaway
- On Again-Off Again
- Les rois du sport
- We're on the Jury
- Border Phantom
- You Can't Buy Luck
- Bengal Tiger
- Murder in Greenwich Village
- Ignace
- Fit for a King
- Midnight at the Wax Museum
- Nancy Steele Is Missing!
- Missing Witnesses
- The Mill on the Floss
- Hittin' the Trail
- Meet the Boy Friend
- Larceny on the Air
- Blake of Scotland Yard
- Paid to Dance
- Midnight Court
- The Foxy Hunter
- A Woman's Sorrows
- Man of the People
- Adventure's End
- White Bondage
- Moonlight Sonata
- The Girl Said No
- Sky Racket
- Gifts from the Air
- Beauty and the Barge
- The League of Frightened Men
- Jungle Jim
- That Man's Here Again
- Service with a Smile
- Life Begins with Love
- Quick Money
- Sing Me a Love Song
- Virginity
- Border Cafe
- Marthe Richard
- The Seven Ravens
- Empty Holsters
- Lo squadrone bianco
- Secret Agent X-9
- Model Husband
- L'affaire du courrier de Lyon
- Ballerina
- Murder Is News
- Prairie Thunder
- Green Fields
- Woman Racket
- The Legion of Missing Men
- Hollywood Round-Up
- Wife, Doctor and Nurse
- The Devil's Saddle Legion
- Pani minister tanczy
- Talent Scout
- Feather Your Nest
- The Gold Racket
- Movie-Mania
- Old Louisiana
- Such Is My Country
- Annapolis Salute
- Bill Cracks Down
- Range Defenders
- O-Kay for Sound
- The Man Who is Talked About
- Wings Over Honolulu
- Silent Barriers
- Learn from Experience, Part I
- It's All Yours
- Dangerously Yours
- Ebb Tide
- A Lawman Is Born
- Lapatossu
- Command Performance
- The Crime Nobody Saw
- The New Deal Show
- I Married a Spy
- Harlem on the Prairie
- King of Gamblers
- Park Avenue Logger
- The Outer Gate
- Wild West Days
- Arizona Gunfighter
- Clipped Wings
- Valley of Terror
- Learn from Experience, Part II
- Heart of the Rockies
- The Silver Trail
- Az én lányom nem olyan
- Love Under Fire
- The Lonely White Sail
- Boothill Brigade
- Blazing Sixes
- Sara Learns Manners
- Atlantic Flight
- Come On, Cowboys
- Exclusive
- Landslide
- Criminals of the Air
- Fizessen, nagysád!
- Forget Love for Now
- Youth on Parole
- The Mysterious Pilot
- Spendthrift
- Maria Papoila
- The Women Men Marry
- Tough to Handle
- Action for Slander
- Brothers of the West
- The Gambling Terror
- Premiere
- Portia on Trial
- Bar-Z Bad Men
- A Star Athlete
- Thunder Trail
- Riders of the Rockies
- Farewell Topsails
- Heroes of the Alamo
- Night Ride
- Pygmalion
- Der Herrscher
- O, en så'n natt!
- Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin
- Top of the Town
- Kunku
- The Face Behind the Scar
- Fair Warning
- Fifty Roads to Town
- The Trigger Trio
- Dark Manhattan
- The Trusted Outlaw
- Paradise Isle
- The Great Gambini
- Cotton Queen
- The Man of the Hour
- Talk of the Devil
- Le fauteuil 47
- Sea Racketeers
- Time Out for Romance
- L'habit vert
- Confessions of a Newlywed
- Pesti mese
- She's Dangerous
- Wallaby Jim of the Islands
- Book Bargain
- Mille, Marie og mig
- Scotland Yard Commands
- What Price Vengeance
- Guns in the Dark
- Roll Along, Cowboy
- Uncivilized
- The Great Hospital Mystery
- Colorado Kid
- The Cherokee Strip
- Champagne Waltz
- The Red Rope
- The Logger's Bride
- Exiled to Shanghai
- Where Trails Divide
- Cheyenne Rides Again
- Roaring Six Guns
- Bombs Over London
- Head Over Heels in Love
- Headline Crasher
- Navy Blues
- The Last Night
- The Feud of the Trail
- Yesterday's Boys Didn't Use Hair Fixers
- Amateur Crook
- Forlorn River
- Konyaku sanbagarasu
- The Vicar of Bray
- The Virgin Bride
- Falesná kocicka
- 80 Mile Speed
- The Fighting Deputy
- To levende og en død
- Dakarguli samotkhe
- Úrilány szobát keres
- Lightnin' Crandall
- This Way Please
- The Messenger
- Klart till drabbning
- Melody for Two
- The Man Who Cried Wolf
- Midnight Taxi
- Women of Glamour
- Ksiazatko
- Don't Fool Yourself Dear
- 23 1/2 Hours Leave
- Aurora de esperanza
- The Tenth Man
- Double Exposures
- The Show Goes On
- Battle of Greed
- Man of Affairs
- Orphan of the Pecos
- Luck of Roaring Camp
- Her Husband's Secretary
- The Good Old Soak
- Big Town Girl
- Accused
- Donner, Blitz und Sonnenschein
- Love Takes Flight
- Boy, the Noszty
- Black Aces
- Girls of Nowolipki
- It Can't Last Forever
- Larceny Street
- The Miracle Worker
- God's Country and the Man
- Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
- Dangerous Holiday
- Whistling Bullets
- Radio Patrol
- Secret Valley
- The Mystery of the Ghastly Face
- Andula vyhrála
- Doomed at Sundown
- Nation Aflame
- Outcast
- Les dégourdis de la 11ème
- Young Dynamite
- The Californian
- Thrill of a Lifetime
- We Have Our Moments
- Love on Toast
- Indiscretion
- Boss of Lonely Valley
- Ja alla oli tulinen järvi
- As Dream and Shadow...
- Josette
- Let's Get Married
- Zauber der Boheme
- The Air Hostess
- Circus Girl
- Island Captives
- Lost Ranch
- Danger Valley
- Southern Carrier
- Hotel Kikelet
- Asessorin naishuolet
- Chikemuri Takadanobaba
- Flying Fists
- Seven Slaps
- Wings Over Africa
- Kuriton sukupolvi
- Adolf Armstarke
- Left Handed Law
- Girl Overboard
- Niedorajda
- Devcata, nedejte se!
- Checkers
- Rich Relations
- Arsene Lupin, Detective
- The Crime of Dr. Forbes
- Miehen kylkiluu
- The Duke Comes Back
- Bosko's Easter Eggs
- Navy Spy
- Damaged Goods
- Sweet Devil
- Arsena
- The Law Commands
- Song of the City
- Woman of Malacca
- Sutyi, the Lucky Child
- The Lady Escapes
- Circus Daze
- The Hit Parade
- Vengeance of the Deep
- Love and Hisses
- The Girl from Scotland Yard
- The Roaming Cowboy
- The Lights of Asakusa
- Advokátka Vera
- Captain Kidding
- Woman Against the World
- It Could Happen to You
- Calling the Tune
- Blazing Barriers
- The Private's Job
- Song of the Road
- Barrios bajos
- Law for Tombstone
- Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States
- Take a Chance
- Swing It Professor
- Underworld
- Western Gold
- Konjiki yasha
- Les hommes nouveaux
- Doktor Aybolit
- Making Fashion
- Love in Stunt Flying
- Claudine à l'école
- Postal Union
- Everything Is Rhythm
- Sherlock Holmes: The Grey Lady
- The Ballad of Cossack Golota
- Ruslan and Ludmila
- A Revolução de Maio
- Girl Loves Boy
- The Terrible Sarati
- Madame Bovary
- Gavrosh
- Flådens blå matroser
- Pique Dame
- Bleka greven
- A férfi mind örült
- A Clown Must Laugh
- The Living Corpse
- Two Who Dared
- Outside the Law
- Die ewige Maske
- Troopship
- Join the Marines
- The Lie of Nina Petrovna
- Tukkijoella
- Truxa
- Dreaming Lips
- Giovanni de Medici: The Leader
- Incognito
- Ridin' the Lone Trail
- Under a Cloud
- Mother Song
- Det begyndte ombord
- Der var engang en Vicevært
- The Foxy Pup
- The Kreutzer Sonata
- Talking About Jacqueline
- Please Teacher
- Mystery Range
- Lyckliga Vestköping
- Shakhtyory
- Die Fledermaus
- The Andersson Family
- Riddle Ranch
- Trail of Vengeance
- Talking Feet
- Heart of Spain
- Please Keep Me in Your Dreams
- It Isn't Done
- Und du mein Schatz fährst mit
- Rose of Tralee
- Spy of Napoleon
- Young Pushkin
- Plat eller krone
- Guadalajara
- Odygdens belöning
- Moonlight on the Range
- White Slaves
- Patriots
- Mayskaya noch
- Mukti
- Bed and Breakfast
- South Sea Sweethearts
- Gobseck
- Prtosani mgebavi
- Double Crime in the Maginot Line
- The Duchess of Parma
- Good-Bye Nicanor
- Radio Lover
- Southern Roses
- Don't Get Me Wrong
- Nuorena nukkunut
- Rough Riding Rhythm
- In Mozart's Footsteps
- The Golden Valley
- Pat und Patachon im Paradies
- The Penny Pool
- The Street Singer
- The Barrier
- Lucky Jade
- Lyin' Hunter
- En fuldendt gentleman
- Der Unwiderstehliche
- Pearls Bring Tears
- Beethoven Concerto
- Ryska snuvan
- Ushchelye Alamasov
- Versprich mir nichts!
- Father Steps Out
- Pugachev
- Aloha, le chant des îles
- En flicka kommer till sta'n
- Witches' Night
- Den kloge Mand
- Behind the Spanish Lines
- Land der Liebe
- Amapola del camino
- His Best Friend
- Chinatown Nights
- The Fairy-Tale About Emelya
- Steve's Cannon Crackers
- Mies Marseillesta
- Koshkin dom
- Les gangsters de l'expo
- Frk. Møllers jubilæum
- Ride to Freedom
- Alarm in Peking
- Pappas pojke
- New News
- Die ganz großen Torheiten
- The House Across the Street
- Spring Handicap
- En sjöman går iland
- The Happiest Married Couple in Vienna
- La reina mora
- The Affairs of Pierre
- Konflikt
- Calling All Stars
- Mr. Stringfellow Says No
- Karussell
- Bergslagsfolk
- Hearts Aflame
- Football Fever
- Volk i semero kozlyat
- Maman Colibri
- The Four Corn Patches
- Don Juan Tenorio
- Än leva de gamla gudar
- Some Time Soon
- A Girl from the Chorus
- The Voice of the Heart
- Music Man
- Come on Ponciano
- Romance
- Wandering Bird
- El forastero
- Felicita Colombo
- Strife Over the Boy Jo
- Bubi
- Firemen's Picnic
- La bataille silencieuse
- Peter in the Snow
- Sailor Maid
- Bad Housekeeping
- Edgar & Goliath
- Safety First
- The Duchy of Cornwall
- Advance Democracy!
- The Glass Ball
- Frauenliebe - Frauenleid
- Sentinels of Bronze
- The Yellow Flag
- 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
- 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
- Not a Word About Love
- Good Turners
- It Happened Thus
- Smuggler's Cave
- The Obligation to Assassinate
- At the Edge of a Palm Grove
- 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
- Happy in the Morning: A Film Fantasy
- 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.