The 2009 movie Me and Orson Welles, based on a book of the same name by Robert Kaplow, is a fictional story centred around Orson Welles ' famous 1937 production of Julius Caesar at the Mercury Theatre.

* Orson Welles, 1937 radio adaptation

In July 1937 came the premiere of a seven-part adaptation of Les Misérables, produced, written, and directed by Orson Welles and featuring many of his Mercury Theatre performers — Mercury's first appearance on the air.

1937 also saw a ten minute made-for-TV extract from Richard III, directed by Stephen Thomas, and starring Ernest Milton as Richard and Beatrix Lehm as Lady Anne ( 9 April ); a one-hundred minute abridged version of Orson Welles ' legendary modern dress Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar, starring Welles himself as Caesar and George Coulouris as Mark Antony ; and a thirty minute extract from André van Gyseghem's Embassy Theatre production of Cymbeline starring George Woodbridge as Cymbeline and Joyce Bland as Imogen ( 29 November ).

Moorehead met Orson Welles and by 1937 was one of his principal Mercury Players, along with Joseph Cotten.

In 1937 he returned to New York, and over the next decade established a solid reputation as a composer, collaborating with Orson Welles, Tennessee Williams and others on music for stage productions as well as orchestral pieces.

* 1937 – Too Much Johnson, Mercury Theatre Company, Director: Orson Welles ; Writers: William Gillette and Orson Welles ; Starring Joseph Cotton as Augustus Billings and Ruth Ford as Mrs. Billings.

He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works Progress Administration.

Houseman produced numerous Broadway productions, including Heartbreak House, Three Sisters, The Beggar's Opera, and several Shakespearean plays, including a famous " Blackshirt " Julius Caesar directed by Orson Welles in 1937.

He also broadcast regularly by radio and performed in a few sound films, among them the first British colour film, Wings of the Morning ( 1937 ), and Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), where he had a small uncredited part.

The Mercury Theatre was an independent repertory theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and producer John Houseman.

Many musicals in New York City became seminal national cultural events, like the controversial 1937 staging of Marc Blitzstein's labor union opera The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles and produced by John Houseman.

John Houseman, who had produced the famous 1937 Broadway version of the play starring Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre, also produced the MGM film.

* Galeazzo Ciano, Diary 1937 – 1943, Preface by Renzo De Felice ( Professor of History University of Rome ) and original introduction by Sumner Welles ( U. S. Under Secretary of State 1937 – 1943 ), translated by Robert L. Miller ( Enigma Books, 2002 ), ISBN 1-929631-02-2

That same year, 1937, after detaching themselves from the Federal Theatre Project, Houseman and Welles did The Cradle Will Rock as a full, independent production on Broadway.

In 1937, FDR promoted Welles to Under Secretary, and the Senate promptly confirmed the appointment.

Breaking with the Federal Theatre Project in 1937, Welles and Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre and began with a groundbreaking adaption of Julius Caesar that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.

Welles, Houseman, and Blitzstein, seeking a way to privately produce the show, rented the much larger Venice Theatre and a piano just in time for the scheduled preview on June 16, 1937.

* Sumner Welles ( 1892 – 1961 ), American diplomat, Under Secretary of State from 1937 to 1943

Having already appeared on radio with Welles on The Shadow ( a regular as Commissioner Weston ) and in Welles ' serial adaptation of Les Misérables from 1937, Collins became a regular on The Mercury Theatre on the Air ; through the run of the series, he played many roles in literary adaptations, from Squire Livesey from Treasure Island and Dr. Watson to Mr. Pickwick in an adaptation of Pickwick Papers.

This earlier collection — which includes the famous Jelly Roll Morton, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Muddy Waters sessions, as well as Lomax ’ s prodigious collections made in Haiti and Eastern Kentucky ( 1937 ) — is the provenance of the American Folklife Center " at the library of Congress

Olivier's 1937 performance at the Old Vic Theatre was popular with audiences but not with critics, with James Agate writing in a famous review in The Sunday Times, " Mr. Olivier does not speak poetry badly.

In April 1937, he signed a long-term contract with Warner Bros., and the same year composed the famous fanfare which introduced pictures produced by the studio, although this is no longer in use ( curiously, this was never used for the studio's television productions ).

Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d ' Avignon ( 1907 ), and Guernica ( 1937 ), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

In 1937, Broom made his most famous discovery of Paranthropus robustus.

In February 1937, following an assassination attempt on Italian East Africa's Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, Graziani ordered Italian soldiers to raid the famous Ethiopian monastery Debre Libanos, where the would-be assassins had briefly taken refuge and had the monks and nuns in the monastery executed.

This was followed by the debuts of other memorable Looney Tunes stars such as Daffy Duck ( in 1937 ) and the most famous of the Looney Tunes cast, Bugs Bunny ( in 1940 ).

A famous " Battle of the Bands " or " cutting contest " happened when the Benny Goodman Orchestra challenged Chick Webb in 1937.

For example, the van der Waals interaction energy between spherical bodies of radii R < sub > 1 </ sub > and R < sub > 2 </ sub > and with smooth surfaces was approximated in 1937 by Hamaker ( using London's famous 1937 equation for the dispersion interaction energy between atoms / molecules as the starting point ) by:

Her most famous novels include Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ), Death on the Nile ( 1937 ), and the world's best-selling mystery And Then There Were None ( 1939 ).

William Sealy Gosset ( June 13, 1876 – October 16, 1937 ) is famous as a statistician, best known by his pen name Student and for his work on Student's t-distribution.

The famous aviatrix Amelia Earhart in 1937 said her final good-byes to the continental U. S. from Hialeah as she left on her ill-fated flight around the world in 1937.

In 1937 Stone essayed the role which would become his most famous, that of Judge James Hardy in the Mickey Rooney " Andy Hardy " series.

Ciano is remembered for his famous Diaries 1937 – 1943, a daily record of his meetings with Mussolini, Hitler, von Ribbentrop, foreign ambassadors and other political figures that proved embarrassing to the Nazi leadership and the Fascist diehards.

He held many patents the most famous of which was US Patent 2, 102, 671 " Wave Translation System ", which was issued to Bell Laboratories in 1937, covering the negative feedback amplifier.

In 1937, Harding married Werner Janssen, the famous conductor.

He started publishing on exchangeability in the late 1920s but the 1937 article is his most famous treatment.

Clampett was promoted to a directorial position in 1937 and during his fifteen years at the studio, directed 84 cartoons later deemed classic and designed some of the studio's most famous characters, including Porky Pig and Tweety.

Forester is best known for his famous series of Horatio Hornblower novels which he began in 1937 ; few of his other works are well-known: The General ( 1936 ) and The African Queen ( 1935 ) are exceptions and remain popular.

The most famous expositions appear in Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade ( 1927, based on a series of lectures of 1922 ) and in his posthumous Mohammed and Charlemagne ( 1937 ), published from Pirenne's first draft.

The man most famous for climbing the tower is Fritz Wiessner who summited with William P. House and Lawrence Coveney in 1937.