1937 in film
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.
June 7 – , one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the decade, dies aged 26 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. The official cause of death is listed as cerebral edema, a complication of kidney failure.
Jean Harlow
July 23 – Six weeks after Jean Harlow's death, her final film, , is released. It is an instant box office success and becomes the highest-grossing film of her career.
Saratoga
December 21 – 's debut feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length cartoon to be made in America, in Technicolor, and in sound, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles. The film is a massive box office success and briefly holds the record as the highest-grossing sound film of all time.
Walt Disney
who had merged with Republic Pictures two years earlier, decide to separate and distribute their own films again.
Monogram Pictures
Thunder in the City
Dreaming Lips
Maid of Salem
Girl Loves Boy
Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons
Jungle Jim
Radio Patrol
Wild West Days
(1913–1938)
Harold Lloyd
(1914–1940)
Charlie Chaplin
(1915–1939)
Lupino Lane
(1917–1944)
Buster Keaton
(1929–1937)
Wheeler and Woolsey
(1929–1946)
The Marx Brothers
(1934–1959)
The Three Stooges
Silly Symphonies
January 1 - , English actress
Suzy Kendall
January 2 - , American actor
Jack Rader
January 4 – , American actress
Dyan Cannon
January 12 – , English actress and model
Shirley Eaton
January 15 – , American actress
Margaret O'Brien
January 16 – , Australian actress, singer, director and writer
Lorraine Bayly
January 30 – , English actress
Vanessa Redgrave
February 1 – , American comedian, actor and singer
Garrett Morris
February 21 – , American actor
Gary Lockwood
February 25 – , English actor
Tom Courtenay
February 27 – , American character actress
Barbara Babcock
March 2 – , American actress
BarBara Luna
March 5 – , Italian actor
Sal Borgese
Warren Beatty
April 1 – , American character actor
Jordan Charney
Terrence Hardiman
Corinne Cole
Uldis Pūcītis
April 18 – , American actor and producer
Robert Hooks
April 19 – , American actress
Elinor Donahue
April 20 – , American actor, author and activist
George Takei
April 22 – , American actor
Jack Nicholson
May 5 – , American actor
John Martino
George Carlin
May 13 – , American actress
Zohra Lampert
June 1 – , American actor and director
Morgan Freeman
June 10 – , Italian actress
Luciana Paluzzi
Johnny Brown
June 14 – , Danish director
Jørgen Leth
July 2 – , American retired actress
Polly Holliday
July 12 – , American stand-up comedian and actor
Bill Cosby
July 16 – , Ukrainian actress
Ada Rogovtseva
Ken Ogata
July 25 – , British actor
Paul Collins
July 28 – , Russian screenwriter, actor, writer and television presenter (d. 2022)
Viktor Merezhko
Steven Berkoff
August 8 – , American actor
Dustin Hoffman
Fran Bennett
August 15 – , American actress
Ella Mitchell
August 16 – , American retired actress
Lorraine Gary
September 1 – , Chinese actress, singer and director
Tsai Chin
Mikk Mikiver
September 6 – , American actress, comedian and singer
Jo Anne Worley
Cüneyt Arkın
Don Bluth
Ron Cobb
Vic Tablian
October 15 – , American actress and singer
Linda Lavin
November 4 – , American actress
Loretta Swit
November 5 – , American actor
Harris Yulin
November 17 – , English satirist and comedic actor (d. 1995)
Peter Cook
Ingrid Pitt
November 30 – , English director and producer
Ridley Scott
Max Baer Jr.
December 7 – , English actor
Kenneth Colley
December 12 – , American singer and actress
Connie Francis
December 16 – , American actress
Joyce Bulifant
December 21 – , American actress
Jane Fonda
December 29 – , English actress
Barbara Steele
December 31 – , Welsh actor
Anthony Hopkins
January 2 – , 29, American actor, Captain Blood, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Flirtation Walk
Ross Alexander
January 23 – , 40, Canadian-born American actress, The Marriage Circle, The Racket, The Godless Girl, Cain and Mabel
Marie Prevost
May 1 – , 69, Austro-Hungarian-born American actor, The Thief of Bagdad, The Phantom of the Opera, Seven Chances, College
Snitz Edwards
May 10 – , 61, English-American silent film actor
William Tedmarsh
Jean Harlow
November 13 – , 75, American stage and screen actress, Becky Sharp, Rocky Mountain Mystery
Mrs. Leslie Carter
December 21 – , 41, American actor and creator of The Three Stooges, San Francisco, Mad Love, Beer and Pretzels, Soup to Nuts
Ted Healy
– They Won't Forget
Lana Turner
Block, Alex Ben; Wilson, Lucy Autrey, eds. (2010). George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-By-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success. . ISBN 978-0-06-177889-6.