Editing 1937 in film (section)

==Events==
* March 26 – [[London Films]] abandons production of ''[[I, Claudius (film)|I, Claudius]]'' two weeks after its female lead, [[Merle Oberon]], is injured in a car crash.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19370325&id=4uw-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=Dk0MAAAAIBAJ&pg=5220,3578690&hl=en|title=Star's injuries halt production of film|newspaper=[[The Tuscaloosa News]]|date=26 March 1937|accessdate=4 December 2024}}</ref>
* April 16 – [[Laurel and Hardy]] comedy ''[[Way Out West (1937 film)|Way Out West]]'' premieres in the US.
* May 7 – [[Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers]] musical comedy ''[[Shall We Dance (1937 film)|Shall We Dance]]'' premieres in the US.
* May 11 – Drama ''[[Captains Courageous (1937 film)|Captains Courageous]]'', starring [[Spencer Tracy]], premieres in New York, going into general release on June 25.
* June 7 – [[Jean Harlow]], one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the decade, dies aged 26 at [[Good Samaritan Hospital (Los Angeles)|Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles]]. The official cause of death is listed as [[cerebral edema]], a complication of kidney failure.
* June 11 – [[Marx Brothers]] comedy ''[[A Day at the Races (film)|A Day at the Races]]'' premieres in the U.S.
* 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 (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.
* December 21 – [[Walt Disney]]'s debut feature film ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 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 opens nationwide on February 4, 1938, and is a massive box office success, briefly holding the record as the highest-grossing sound film of all time.
* [[Monogram Pictures]], who had merged with [[Republic Pictures]] two years earlier, decide to separate and distribute their own films again.