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Movies: Popular Movies of 1937

Movies in chronological context: 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1937th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 937th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1930s decade. ()

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs(1937)

G
| 1h 23min | Fantasy, Animation, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 2,330 votes)

A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.

Directed by David Hand, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Percival C. Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen, ...
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Grand Illusion(1937)

1h 54min | Drama, History, War
3.9/5 (with 142 votes)

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

Directed by Jean Renoir - With Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio, Gaston Modot, ...
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The Awful Truth(1937)

1h 31min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 57 votes)

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

Directed by Leo McCarey - With Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Molly Lamont, ...
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Way Out West(1937)

1h 4min | Comedy, Western
3.7/5 (with 44 votes)

Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.

Directed by James W. Horne - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Finlayson, Rosina Lawrence, Stanley Fields, The Avalon Boys, ...
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Lost Horizon(1937)

2h 12min | Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 44 votes)

British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.

Directed by Frank Capra, Andrew Marton - With Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Sam Jaffe, John Howard, H. B. Warner, Edward Everett Horton, ...
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A Day at the Races(1937)

NR
| 1h 51min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 40 votes)

Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.

Directed by Sam Wood - With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan, Dudley Dickerson, ...
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Make Way for Tomorrow(1937)

1h 32min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 40 votes)

At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?

Directed by Leo McCarey - With Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read, ...

Young and Innocent(1937)

1h 23min | Thriller, Romance / Love, Crime
3.5/5 (with 40 votes)

Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Basil Radford, Edward Rigby, Jerry Verno, John Longden, ...
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A Star Is Born(1937)

1h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 39 votes)

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given a test, and is caught up in the Hollywood glamor machine (ruthlessly satirized). She and her idol Norman marry; but his career abruptly dwindles to nothing.

Directed by William A. Wellman, Jack Conway - With Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander, ...
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Captains Courageous(1937)

1h 55min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 32 votes)

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.

Directed by Victor Fleming - With Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Mickey Rooney, John Carradine, ...
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You Only Live Once(1937)

1h 26min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 32 votes)

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

Directed by Fritz Lang - With Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon, William Gargan, Margaret Hamilton, ...
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The Old Mill(1937)

NR
| 9min | Animation
3.8/5 (with 31 votes)

We see the various birds, mice, and bats that have moved into an old windmill, followed by the frogs, crickets, and fireflies making their music in an adjacent pond. Then a storm comes, shaking loose parts in mill and threatening everything we've seen.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Graham Heid
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Shall We Dance(1937)

PG
| 1h 49min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 26 votes)

Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.

Directed by Mark Sandrich - With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Eric Blore, Edward Everett Horton, Harriet Hoctor, Ben Alexander, ...
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Pépé le Moko(1937)

1h 34min | Crime, Romance / Love, Drama
3.8/5 (with 25 votes)

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.

Directed by Julien Duvivier - With Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Gaston Modot, Paul Escoffier, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre, ...

Lonesome Ghosts(1937)

NR
| 9min | Animation, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 24 votes)

Four bored ghosts in a haunted house who've scared everyone away call up Ghost Hunters Mickey, Donald, and Goofy in hopes to have a little fun scaring them off.

Directed by Burt Gillett
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Topper(1937)

1h 37min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.

Directed by Norman Z. McLeod - With Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Eugene Pallette, Hedda Hopper, ...

Heidi(1937)

G
| 1h 28min | Drama, Kids & Family, Music
3.5/5 (with 21 votes)

Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.

Directed by Allan Dwan - With Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Mary Nash, Marcia Mae Jones, Sidney Blackmer, ...
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Clock Cleaners(1937)

NR
| 9min | Animation
3.5/5 (with 21 votes)

Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are cleaning a large clock. Among the complications: Mickey fights a sleeping stork that doesn't want to leave, Donald gets tangled up in the main-spring, and Goofy is inside the bell when the clock strikes four.

Directed by Ben Sharpsteen
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The Life of Emile Zola(1937)

1h 56min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 20 votes)

Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.

Directed by William Dieterle - With Joseph Schildkraut, Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Gloria Holden, Donald Crisp, Henry O'Neill, ...
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Dead End(1937)

1h 33min | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 18 votes)

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.

Directed by William Wyler - With Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, Claire Trevor, Joel McCrea, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins, ...

Nothing Sacred(1937)

1h 17min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.

Directed by William A. Wellman - With Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Walter Connolly, Sig Ruman, Margaret Hamilton, Raymond Scott, ...
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Stella Dallas(1937)

1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.

Directed by King Vidor - With Barbara Stanwyck, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale, Marjorie Main, Tim Holt, ...

Stage Door(1937)

1h 32min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.

Directed by Gregory La Cava - With Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, ...
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Marked Woman(1937)

1h 36min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

Set in the underworld of Manhattan, Marked Woman tells the story of a woman who dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters. The women of the story are "hostesses". What is implied, but not stated clearly is that they are prostitutes, who work in a gambling den in the city.

Directed by Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz - With Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Mayo Methot, Eduardo Ciannelli, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins, ...
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The Good Earth(1937)

2h 18min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 14 votes)

The story follows Wang Lung (Paul Muni), a humble farmer, who makes an arranged marriage to a slave, O-Lan (Luise Rainer). The couple's great struggle is to procure--and then, against withering odds, keep--a piece of land, ownership of which makes the difference between self-determination and near-slavery. The film's physical production is truly eye-filling, with location shooting in China providing exterior shots and backdrops (and blending seamlessly with the footage shot in the U.S.). No wonder the great cinematographer Karl Freund won an Oscar for the photography, which includes an awesomely staged locust plague.

Directed by Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý - With Luise Rainer, Paul Muni, Tilly Losch, Walter Connolly, Charley Grapewin, Keye Luke, ...
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Modern Inventions(1937)

NR
| 9min | Kids & Family, Animation
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Donald Duck goes to a museum of modern inventions. After getting in without paying, he meets a robot butler who takes Donald's hat every time he sees him. Donald is very annoyed by this and magically fixes himself a new hat every time this happens and strolls on. Ignoring the sign not to touch it, Donald starts playing with a wrapping machine and ends up being wrapped himself. He also encounters and tries out a robot nursemaid and a fully automatic barber chair. They both don't do him much good.

Directed by Jack King

Don Donald(1937)

NR
| 8min | Animation
3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

Donald is courting Daisy (called Donna, here in her first appearance) Duck in Mexico. He arrives on a burro, which doesn't get along at all well with her; she convinces him to buy a car. They head through the desert, but the car breaks down, and throws Donald out, then takes off on its own with Daisy trapped inside the rumble seat. The car hits a rock, throwing Daisy into a mud puddle, to Donald's excessive amusement. Daisy pulls a unicycle from her purse, and rides off.

Directed by Ben Sharpsteen

Hawaiian Holiday(1937)

NR
| 8min | Animation
3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

The gang is on vacation. Goofy has some surfing problems, Donald learns why you don't wear a grass skirt near a fire, Pluto and a starfish have a tiff, followed by an encounter with a hermit crab.

Directed by Ben Sharpsteen
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Easy Living(1937)

1h 28min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

Directed by Mitchell Leisen - With Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland, William Demarest, Andrew Tombes, Luis Alberni, ...

The Prisoner of Zenda(1937)

1h 41min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
4.1/5 (with 11 votes)

An Englishman on a Ruritarian holiday must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped.

Directed by John Cromwell, W. S. Van Dyke - With Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, ...
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