1937 in film

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The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first American full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . Jean Harlow's final movie, Saratoga , was domestically the year's top grossing film but internationally, Maytime surpassed it with initial box office of over 4 million dollars. [1]

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Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1937 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1937
RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
1 Saratoga MGM $2,432,000 [2]
2 Maytime $2,183,000 [2]
3 The Good Earth $2,002,000 [2]
4 Stella Dallas United Artists $2,000,000 [3] [4]
5 Rosalie MGM$1,946,000 [2]
6 Broadway Melody of 1938 $1,889,000 [2]
7 Captains Courageous $1,688,000 [2]
8 Lost Horizon Columbia$1,683,000 [5]
9 A Day at the Races MGM$1,602,000 [2]
10 Thin Ice 20th Century Fox $1,590,000 [6]

Events

Academy Awards

Top ten money-making stars

RankActor/Actress
1. Shirley Temple
2. Clark Gable
3. Robert Taylor
4. Bing Crosby
5. William Powell
6. Jane Withers
7. (tie) Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
8. Sonja Henie
9. Gary Cooper
10. Myrna Loy

1937 film releases

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Notable films released in 1937

United States unless stated.

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Serials

Comedy film series

Animated short film series

Births

Deaths

Film debuts

References

  1. ↑ Turk, Edward Baron (1998). Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald . University of California Press. p.  365. ISBN   978-0-520-22253-3.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  3. ↑ Madsen, Axel (2015). Stanwyck: A Biography. ISBN   978-1-5040-0861-7. Released in August 1937, Stella Dallas grossed more than $2 million.
  4. ↑ Reid, John Howard (2012). 140 All-Time Must-See Movies for Film Lovers Now Available On DVD. ISBN   978-1-105-75295-7. UA's top domestic box office hit of 1937, with gross rentals close to $2 million.
  5. ↑ Dick, Bernard F. (1992). Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio. ISBN   978-0-8131-5215-8. Lost Horizon was probably least successful. It was budgeted at $1.66 million, but the combined U.S. and Canadian gross was only $1,683 million, thus barely covering production costs.
  6. ↑ "All-time Film Rental Champs". Variety . October 15, 1990.
  7. ↑ "Star's injuries halt production of film". The Tuscaloosa News . 26 March 1937. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  8. ↑ Tosaka, Yuji (2003). Hollywood Goes to Tokyo: American Cultural Expansion and Imperial Japan, 1918–1941. p. 255.
  9. ↑ First Actor to Portray Sherlock Holmes on TV; Guinness World Records online; retrieved November 2016

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