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The History of American Cinema: 1937

January - June

25/1 -

20^th Century-Fox’s studios are severely damaged by fire. [ADD]

Mar -

Frontier Films is founded as a non-profit production company to make liberal documentaries.   Founders include Willard van Dyke, Irving Lerner, Sidney Meyers, Ralph Steiner and Paul Strand. [ADD] 

17/4 -

Daffy Duck makes his debut in the Warner Brothers Looney Tune, Porky’s Duck Hunt.   He is based on a duck that lived on a pond across from Tex Avery’s high school. [ADD]

20/4 -

David Selznick’s A Star is Born is released.   Directed by William Wellman, the film stars Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. [ADD]

11/8 -

Paul Muni stars as Captain Dreyfus in Warner Brother’s recreation of the famous case in William Dieterle’s The Life of Emile Zola from a script approved by Dreyfus’s son, Pierre. [ADD]

7/6 -

Actress Jean Harlow dies of uremic poisoning at the age of 26. [ADD]

30/6 -

During the shooting of her thirteenth movie, Criminals of the Air, 19-year-old Rita Cansino, the new bride of millionaire Edward Judson, adopts the screen name of Rita Hayworth. [ADD]

30/6 -

Ronald Reagan signs a seven-year contract with Warner Brothers for $200 per week. [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1937