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July 9 – The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire. July 23 – Six weeks after Jean Harlow's death, her final film, Saratoga, is released. It is an instant box office success and becomes the year's highest-grossing film, as well as the highest-grossing film of her career.
This list of American films of 1937 compiles American feature-length motion pictures that were released in 1937. The 10th Academy Awards , hosted by Bob Burns , were presented on March 10, 1938 at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel .
They Won't Forget is a 1937 American drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, and Lana Turner, in her feature debut.It was based on a novel by Ward Greene called Death in the Deep South, which was in turn a fictionalized account of a real-life case: the trial and subsequent lynching of Leo Frank after the murder of Mary Phagan in 1913.
1937 film festivals (1 P) I. 1937 in Indian cinema (2 P) S. Film series introduced in 1937 (6 P) Pages in category "1937 in film" The following 3 pages are in this ...
Lost Horizon (re-released in 1942 as The Lost Horizon of Shangri-La) is a 1937 American adventure drama fantasy film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same name by James Hilton. The film exceeded its original budget by more than $776,000 and took five years to earn back its cost.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an aggregate score of 100% based on 5 critic reviews. [7] Conquest grossed $730,000 in the United States and $1,411,000 in other markets, bringing the total sum of $2,141,000. Although a success with audiences, the film's high budget resulted in a loss of $1,397,000. [8]
Make Way for Tomorrow is a 1937 American tragedy film directed by Leo McCarey. The plot concerns an elderly couple (played by Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi ) who are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents.
A Star Is Born is a 1937 American Technicolor drama film produced by David O. Selznick, directed by William A. Wellman from a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor (in her only Technicolor film) as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March (in his Technicolor debut) as a fading movie star who helps launch her career.