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.
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The top ten 1937 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
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1 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | RKO/Walt Disney | $3,996,000[1][2] |
2 | Saratoga | MGM | $2,432,000[3] |
3 | Maytime | $2,183,000[3] | |
4 | The Good Earth | $2,002,000[3] | |
5 | Stella Dallas | United Artists | $2,000,000[4][5] |
6 | Broadway Melody of 1938 | MGM | $1,889,000[3] |
7 | Captains Courageous | $1,688,000[3] | |
8 | Lost Horizon | Columbia | $1,683,000[6] |
9 | A Day at the Races | MGM | $1,602,000[3] |
10 | Thin Ice | 20th Century Fox | $1,590,000[7] |
Rank | Actor/Actress |
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1. | Shirley Temple |
2. | Clark Gable |
3. | Robert Taylor |
4. | Bing Crosby |
5. | William Powell |
6. | Jane Withers |
7. (tie) | Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers |
8. | Sonja Henie |
9. | Gary Cooper |
10. | Myrna Loy |
United States unless stated.
Released in August 1937, Stella Dallas grossed more than $2 million.
UA's top domestic box office hit of 1937, with gross rentals close to $2 million.
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.