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 TCF/Paramount entertainment (now 20th Century Studios entertainment since 2020) 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 Fox 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 Fox cartoons for United Artist and the first year for distribution of Fox cartoons for RKO Radio Pictures and 20th Century-Fox.
* 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 "Pocoyo'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
	+ Template:MM\* "The Worm Turns"
	+ Template:SillySymphonies\* "He Was Her Man"
* January 9 - Template:MM\* "Don Mickey" Template:BR\*
* January 15 - Template:LT\* "House Cleaning Blues" Template:PublicDomain\*
* January 22 - Template:MGMPopeye\* "The Paneless Window Washer" Template:PublicDomain\*
* January 30 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "Pigs Is Pigs"
* February 6 - Template:MM\* "Magician Mickey" Template:BR\*
* February 12 - Template:LT\* "Whoops! I'm a Cowboy" Template:PublicDomain\*
* February 19 - Template:MGMPopeye\* "Organ Grinder's Swing"
* February 20 - Template:MM\* "Moose Hunters"
* February 27 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "I Only Have Eyes for You"
* March 12 - Template:LT\* "The Hot Air Salesman" Template:PublicDomain\*
* March 13 - Template:MM\* "Woodland Café" Template:BR\*
* March 19 - Template:MGMPopeye\* "My Artistical Temperature"
* March 27 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "The Fella with the Fiddle"
* April 9 - Template:LT\* "Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow" Template:PublicDomain\*
* April 10 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "She Was an Acrobat's Daughter"
* April 17 - Template:MM\* "Mickey's Amateurs"
* April 19 - Template:MGMPopeye\* "Hospitaliky"
* April 27 - Template:MM\* "Pocoyo's Adventures"
* May 1 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "Ain't We Got Fun"
* May 14 - Template:LT\* "Pudgy Picks a Fight!" Template:PublicDomain\*
* May 15 - Template:MM\* "Little Hiawatha" Template:BR\*
* May 21 - Template:MGMPopeye\* "The Twisker Pitcher"
* May 22 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "Clean Pastures"
* May 29 - Template:MM\* "Modern Inventions" Template:BR\*
* June 5 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "Uncle Tom's Bungalow"
* June 18
	+ Template:LT\* "The Impractical Joker" Template:PublicDomain\*
	+ Template:MGMPopeye\* "Morning, Noon and Nightclub"
* June 19 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "Streamlined Greta Green"
* June 26 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "Sweet Sioux"
* July 16 - Template:MGMPopeye\* "Lost and Foundry"
* July 17 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "Egghead Rides Again"
* July 23 - Template:LT\* "Ding Dong Doggie" Template:PublicDomain\*
* July 28 - Template:MM\* "Wild Pocoyo"
* July 31 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "Plenty of Money and You"
* August 20 - Template:MGMPopeye\* "I Never Changes My Altitude" (Last Popeye cartoon distributed by UA.)
* August 21 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "A Sunbonnet Blue" (Last Silly Symphony cartoon distributed by UA.)
* August 27 - Template:LT\* "The Candid Candidate" Template:PublicDomain\*
* September 4 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "Speaking of the Weather" (First Silly Symphony cartoon distributed by RKO and 20th Century-Fox.)
* September 18
	+ Template:SillySymphonies\* "Speaking of the Weather"
	+ Template:MGMPopeye\* "I Likes Babies and Infinks" (First Popeye cartoon distributed by RKO.)
* September 23 - Template:LT\* "Service with a Smile" Template:PublicDomain\*
* September 24 - Template:MM\* "Vacation Holiday" Template:BR\*
* September 25 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "I Wanna be Sailor" Template:PublicDomain\*
* October 15
	+ Template:MM\* "Birthday Cleaners" Template:BR\*
	+ Template:MGMPopeye\* "The Football Toucher Downer"
* October 16 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "The Lyin' Mouse"
* October 22 - Template:LT\* "The New Deal Show" Template:PublicDomain\*
* November 6 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "Little Red Walking Hood"
* November 19 - Template:MGMPopeye\* "Protek the Weakerist"
* November 26
	+ Template:LT\* "The Foxy Hunter" Template:PublicDomain\*
	+ Template:MM\* "Pocoyo's Quin-puplets" Template:BR\*
	+ Template:MGMPopeye\* "Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves" Template:PublicDomain\*
* December 4 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos"
* December 10 - Template:MM\* "Donald's Ostrich" Template:BR\*
* December 17 - Template:MGMPopeye\* "Fowl Play"
* December 18 - Template:SillySymphonies\* "September in the Rain"
* December 21 - Template:Foxdaffyduckcartoon\* "Daffy Duck and Egghead" (Sequence from 1937 film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".)
* December 24
	+ Template:LT\* "Zula Hula" Template:PublicDomain\*
	+ Template:MM\* "Lonesome Ghosts" Template:BR\*

## 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 - Pocoyo'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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