Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1937

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <TABLE> <TR bgcolor="#000000"><TD><img src=strip37banner.jpg width=100%> </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+2><b>Top Ten Films of 1937: World Premieres</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-1><br></Font> <Table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>1.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Grand Illusion</Font></b></Font> Dir. Jean Renoir. With Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>2.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</Font></b></Font> Dir. David Hand. Animated. Voice of Adriana Caselotti <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>3.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Stage Door</Font></b></Font> Dir. Gregory La Cava. With Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>4.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Stella Dallas</Font></b></Font> Dir. King Vidor. With Barbara Stanwyck, Anne Shirley, John Boles <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>5.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=awftruth.html style="text-decoration:none">The Awful Truth</a></b></Font> Dir. Leo McCarey. With Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>6.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">The Edge of the World</Font></b></Font> Dir. Michael Powell. With Niall MacGinnis, John Laurie <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>7.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=astarb37.html style="text-decoration:none">A Star Is Born</a></b></Font> Dir. William Wellman. With Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>8.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">The Hurricane</Font></b></Font> Dir. John Ford. With Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, C. Aubrey Smith <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>9.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=histmnig.html style="text-decoration:none">History Is Made at Night</a></b></Font> Dir. Frank Borzage. With Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur<Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> </Table> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Size=+2 Face=Garamond><b>Reviews from 1937</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1> <Font Color="#009900">&#9733</Font> <b>= Full-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#0099CC">&#169</Font> <b> = Capsule-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font> <b>&nbsp= Blog Review</b> (New Window) </Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=empcands.html style="text-decoration:none">The Emperor's Candlesticks</a></b></Font> Dir. George Fitzmaurice. With William Powell, Luise Rainer <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=lifezola.html style="text-decoration:none">The Life of &#201mile Zola</a></b></Font> Dir. William Dieterle. With Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#0099CC">&#169</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=qualstrt.html style="text-decoration:none">Quality Street</a></b></Font> Dir. George Stevens. With Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1937</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Bride Wore Red</b></Font> Dir. Dorothy Arzner. With Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Good Earth</b></Font> Dir. Sidney Franklin. With Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Charlie Grapewin <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Night Must Fall</b></Font> Dir. Richard Thorpe. With Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Also from 1937</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>The memories are fading, but they're somewhere in my brain</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>In Old Chicago</b></Font> Dir. Henry King. With Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche (<Font Size=-1><b>B?</b></Font>)<br> <hr> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Still to Come from 1937</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Ten Most Enticing Prospects:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>A Day at the Races</b></Font> Dir. Sam Wood. With the Marx Brothers, Allan Jones<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Dead End</b></Font> Dir. William Wyler. With Sylvia Sydney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Dr&#244le de drame</b></Font> Dir. Marcel Carn&#233. With Louis Jouvet, Fran&#231oise Rosay<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Lost Horizon</b></Font> Dir. Frank Capra. With Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, John Howard<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Maid of Salem</b></Font> Dir. Frank Lloyd. With Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Make Way for Tomorrow</b></Font> Dir. Leo McCarey. With Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Nothing Sacred</b></Font> Dir. William Wellman. With Carole Lombard, Fredric March<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>P&#233p&#233 le Moko</b></Font> Dir. Julien Duvivier. With Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Gabriel Gabrio<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Shall We Dance</b></Font> Dir. Mark Sandrich. With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Topper</b></Font> Dir. Norman Z. McLeod. With Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young<br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Further Research:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Broadway Melody of 1938</b></Font> Dir. Roy Del Ruth. With Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Captains Courageous</b></Font> Dir. Victor Fleming. With Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Conquest</b></Font> Dir. Clarence Brown. With Charles Boyer, Greta Garbo, Reginald Owen<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>A Damsel in Distress</b></Font> Dir. George Stevens. With Fred Astaire, George Burns<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Dark Journey</b></Font> Dir. Victor Saville. With Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Easy Living</b></Font> Dir. Mitchell Leisen. With Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Fire over England</b></Font> Dir. William K. Howard. With Flora Robson, Raymond Massey<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Green Fields</b></Font> Dir. Jacob Ben-Ami & Edgar G. Ulmer. With Michael Goldstein<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>It's Love I'm After</b></Font> Dir. Archie Mayo. With Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Last of Mrs. Cheyney</b></Font> Dir. Richard Boleslawski. With Joan Crawford, William Powell<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Marked Woman</b></Font> Dir. Lloyd Bacon. With Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>One Hundred Men and a Girl</b></Font> Dir. Henry Koster. With Deanna Durbin, Leopold Stokowski<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Prisoner of Zenda</b></Font> Dir. John Cromwell. With Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Rosalie</b></Font> Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. With Nelson Eddy, Eleanor Powell, Frank Morgan<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Souls at Sea</b></Font> Dir. Henry Hathaway. With Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>That Certain Woman</b></Font> Dir. Edmund Goulding. With Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Ian Hunter<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Victoria the Great</b></Font> Dir. Herbert Wilcox. With Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Waikiki Wedding</b></Font> Dir. Frank Tuttle. With Bing Crosby, Bob Burns, Martha Raye<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Wells Fargo</b></Font> Dir. Frank Lloyd. With Joel McCrea, Bob Burns, Frances Dee<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>You Only Live Once</b></Font> Dir. Fritz Lang. With Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Young and Innocent</b></Font> Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. With Nova Pilbeam, Derrick de Marney<br> <hr> <Font Face=Garamond> <table cellpadding=12><tr> <td>Trackbacks:</td> <td><strong><a href=movies37home.html target="_top">Permalink</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href=movies37.html target="_top">1937</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href=movarchs.html target="_top">Home</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href="http://blog.nicksflickpicks.com" target="_new">Blog</a></strong></td> <td><strong><a href=email.html target="_top">E-Mail</a></strong></td> </tr></table> </Font> </center> </body>