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.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1937 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
June 7 –
Jean Harlow, 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.
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 highest-grossing film of her career.
The Hound of the Baskervilles / Der Hund Von Baskerville (German) Sherlock Holmes film directed by Carl Lamac, starring Bruno Guttner as Holmes, and Fritz Odemar as Watson
Silver Blaze (British), a Sherlock Holmes film directed by Thomas Bentley, starring
Arthur Wontner as Holmes, Ian Fleming as Watson and Lyn Harding as Moriarty; released in U.S. as Murder at the Baskervilles
^Jewell, Richard B. (1994). "RKO Film Grosses, 1929-1951: the C.J. Tevlin ledger". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 14 (1): 37–49.
doi:
10.1080/01439689400260031.
^Jewell, Richard B. (1994). "Appendix 1". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 14 (S1): 1–11.
doi:
10.1080/01439689408604545.
^
abcdefThe Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^Madsen, Axel (2015). Stanwyck: A Biography.
ISBN978-1-5040-0861-7. Released in August 1937, Stella Dallas grossed more than $2 million.
^Reid, John Howard (2012). 140 All-Time Must-See Movies for Film Lovers Now Available On DVD.
ISBN978-1-105-75295-7. UA's top domestic box office hit of 1937, with gross rentals close to $2 million.
^Dick, Bernard F. (1992). Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio.
ISBN978-0-8131-5215-8. 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.
^"All-time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990.
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.
HarperCollins.
ISBN978-0-06-177889-6.
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.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1937 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
June 7 –
Jean Harlow, 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.
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 highest-grossing film of her career.
The Hound of the Baskervilles / Der Hund Von Baskerville (German) Sherlock Holmes film directed by Carl Lamac, starring Bruno Guttner as Holmes, and Fritz Odemar as Watson
Silver Blaze (British), a Sherlock Holmes film directed by Thomas Bentley, starring
Arthur Wontner as Holmes, Ian Fleming as Watson and Lyn Harding as Moriarty; released in U.S. as Murder at the Baskervilles
^Jewell, Richard B. (1994). "RKO Film Grosses, 1929-1951: the C.J. Tevlin ledger". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 14 (1): 37–49.
doi:
10.1080/01439689400260031.
^Jewell, Richard B. (1994). "Appendix 1". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 14 (S1): 1–11.
doi:
10.1080/01439689408604545.
^
abcdefThe Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^Madsen, Axel (2015). Stanwyck: A Biography.
ISBN978-1-5040-0861-7. Released in August 1937, Stella Dallas grossed more than $2 million.
^Reid, John Howard (2012). 140 All-Time Must-See Movies for Film Lovers Now Available On DVD.
ISBN978-1-105-75295-7. UA's top domestic box office hit of 1937, with gross rentals close to $2 million.
^Dick, Bernard F. (1992). Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio.
ISBN978-0-8131-5215-8. 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.
^"All-time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990.
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.
HarperCollins.
ISBN978-0-06-177889-6.