1937

== History ==
* The Looney Tunes start using "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" as their theme music.
* Porky's famous "in a drum" closing was first used. The Porky drum design was changed two years from now.
* The Porky Signature theme was abandoned after "Service with a Smile".
* This year is released the First Disney/Warner Bros entertainment (now Disney/SEGA entertainment since 1991) classic animated movie "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" the movie is all produced by Walt Disney but is included a sequence of Daffy Duck and Egghead directed by Fred Avery and produced by Leon Schlensinger.
* First Disney cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin.
* First appearance of Daffy Duck in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs before the Next Year in his First Daffy Duck cartoon the same name of the sequence.
* This year is the last year for distribution of Disney cartoons for United Artist and the first year for distribution of Disney cartoons for RKO Radio Pictures.
* Mel Blanc's first cartoon, "The Fella with the Fiddle," is released.
* The Color Rings change from blue from 1936-37 to yellow rings starting with "Pluto's Quin-puplets".
* Friz Freleng leaves the studio to work.
* Cal Howard and Cal Dalton inherit Friz's unit after his departure.
==Theatrical releases==
===Feature films===
*December 21 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
== Shorts ==
*January 2 
** "The Worm Turns"
** "He Was Her Man"
*January 9 - "Don Donald" 
*January 15 - "House Cleaning Blues" 
*January 22 - "The Paneless Window Washer" 
*January 30 - "Pigs Is Pigs"
*February 6 - "Magician Mickey" 
*February 12 - "Whoops! I'm a Cowboy" 
*February 19 - "Organ Grinder's Swing"
*February 20 - "Moose Hunters"
*February 27 - "I Only Have Eyes for You"
*March 12 - "The Hot Air Salesman" 
*March 13 - "Woodland Café" 
*March 19 - "My Artistical Temperature"
*March 27 - "The Fella with the Fiddle"
*April 9 - "Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow" 
*April 10 - "She Was an Acrobat's Daughter"
*April 17 - "Mickey's Amateurs"
*April 19 - "Hospitaliky"
*May 1 - "Ain't We Got Fun"
*May 14 - "Pudgy Picks a Fight!" 
*May 15 - "Little Hiawatha" 
*May 21 - "The Twisker Pitcher"
*May 22 - "Clean Pastures"
*May 29 - "Modern Inventions" 
*June 5 - "Uncle Tom's Bungalow"
*June 18
** "The Impractical Joker" 
** "Morning, Noon and Nightclub"
*June 19 - "Streamlined Greta Green"
*June 26 - "Sweet Sioux"
*July 16 - "Lost and Foundry"
*July 17 - "Egghead Rides Again"
*July 23 - "Ding Dong Doggie" 
*July 31 - "Plenty of Money and You"
*August 20 - "I Never Changes My Altitude" (Last Popeye cartoon distributed by UA.)
*August 21 - "A Sunbonnet Blue" (Last Silly Symphony cartoon distributed by UA.)
*August 27 - "The Candid Candidate" 
*September 4 - "Speaking of the Weather" (First Silly Symphony cartoon distributed by RKO.)
*September 18
** "Speaking of the Weather"
** "I Likes Babies and Infinks" (First Popeye cartoon distributed by RKO.)
*September 23 - "Service with a Smile" 
*September 24 - "Hawaiian Holiday" 
*September 25 - "I Wanna be Sailor" 
*October 15 
** "Clock Cleaners" 
** "The Football Toucher Downer"
*October 16 - "The Lyin' Mouse"
*October 22 - "The New Deal Show" 
*November 6 - "Little Red Walking Hood"
*November 19 - "Protek the Weakerist"
*November 26
** "The Foxy Hunter" 
** "Pluto's Quin-puplets" 
** "Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves" 
*December 4 - "The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos"
*December 10 - "Donald's Ostrich" 
*December 17 - "Fowl Play"
*December 18 - "September in the Rain"
*December 21 - "Daffy Duck and Egghead" (Sequence from 1937 film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".)
*December 24
** "Zula Hula" 
** "Lonesome Ghosts" 
==Events==
*December 27 - Walt Disney appears on the cover of TIME Magazine but is not appears with Leon Schlensinger in that cover.
==Character debuts==
*January 9 - Donna Duck
*February 12 - Wiffle Piffle
*May 15 - Hiawatha
*May 29 - Robot Butler, Robot Nurse Maid, Mechanical Barber Chair, Hitch-Hiker's Aid
*July 17 - Egghead
*September 24 - Starfish, Crab
*October 17 - Huey, Dewey, and Louie
*November 26 - Pluto's Quin-puplets
*December 21 - Daffy Duck, The Evil Queen, Magic Mirror, Snow White, The Prince, The Huntsman, Happy, Grumpy, Sneezy, Bashful, Sleepy, Doc, Dopey, Forest Animals, Raven, Vultures
*December 24 - Lonesome Ghosts, Zulu Peoples
==Production==
*December 20 - Cecil B. DeMille interviews Walt Disney and Leon Schlensinger on the Lux Radio Theatre.
==People==
===Births===
*January 12 - Kiyoshi Komiyama (Japanese voice actor)
*January 30 - Vanessa Redgrave (actress)
*January 31 - Suzanne Pleshette (actress and voice actress)
*February 1 - Garrett Morris (actor, comedian, and singer)
*March 3 - Bobby Driscoll (actor, voice actor, and artist)
*March 30 - Warren Beatty (actor, producer, screenwriter, and director)
*April 6 - Billy Dee Williams (actor)
*April 20 - George Takei (actor, voice actor, and author)
*April 22 - Jack Nicholson (actor, film director, producer, and writer)
*May 2 - Lorenzo Music (actor, voice actor, writer, producer, and musician)
*May 12 - George Carlin (comedian, actor, screenwriter, and author)
*May 24 - Bill Exter (animator)
*June 1 - Morgan Freeman (actor)
*June 28 - Tom Magliozzi (radio show host and mechanic)
*July 6 - Ned Beatty (actor, voice artist, and comedian)
*July 12 - Bill Cosby (comedian, actor, author, singer, and songwriter)
*August 6 - Barbara Windsor (actress)
*August 8 - Dustin Hoffman (actor)
*August 27 - Tommy Sands (singer and actor)
*September 6 - Jo Anne Worley (actress, voice actress, comedian, and singer)
*September 13 - Don Bluth (animator, film director, producer, writer, production designer, video game designer, animation instructor, and Co-founder of Sullivan Bluth Studios and Fox Animation Studios)
*September 28 - Rod Roddy (radio and television announcer)
*November 30 - Ridley Scott (director and producer)
*December 8 - James MacArthur (actor)
*December 21 - Jane Fonda (actress, voice actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru)
*December 31 - Anthony Hopkins (actor, director, and producer)
==Artists Joined==
*Marc Davis
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