At first glance, The Black Island ( 1937 – 1938 ) is a simple thriller with Tintin in pursuit of money forgers, with the chase to Scotland giving it a feel of Alfred Hitchcock's movie version of The Thirty-Nine Steps.

After the release of The Petrified Forest, Friz Freleng made the short-length cartoon parody She Was an Acrobat's Daughter ( 1937 ), which portrays a cinema audience watching The Petrified Florist, starring Bette Davis and Lester Coward.

In 2006, as his 1937 film Daughter of Shanghai was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, Florey was called " widely acclaimed as the best director working in major studio B-films ".

* Daughter of Shanghai, 1937

* After the film's release, Friz Freleng made the short-length Merrie Melodies cartoon parody, She Was an Acrobat's Daughter ( 1937 ) that portrays a cinema audience watching The Petrified Florist, starring Bette Savis and Lester Coward.

Wong was featured in films of the early sound era, such as Daughter of the Dragon ( 1931 ) and Daughter of Shanghai ( 1937 ), and with Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express ( 1932 ).

In contrast to the usual official Chinese condemnation of Wong's film roles, the Chinese consul to Los Angeles gave his approval to the final scripts of two of these films, Daughter of Shanghai ( 1937 ) and King of Chinatown ( 1939 ).

* Daughter of the Orient ( 1937 )

* Daughter of Shanghai ( 1937 )

* Daughter of Shanghai ( 1937 )

Hart began his screen career in 1937 with a bit part in Daughter of Shanghai.

* 1937: Daughter of Shanghai

* The Daughter of the Samurai, co-directed with Arnold Fanck ( 1937 )

* The Daughter of the Samurai ( 1937 )

She came to prominence as an actress in the 1937 German-Japanese co-production Die Tochter des Samurai ( Daughter of the Samurai ), known in Japan as Atarashiki Tsuchi ( The New Earth ), directed by Arnold Fanck and Mansaku Itami.

* The Daughter of the Samurai ( 1937 )

He starred opposite Anna May Wong in Daughter of Shanghai ( 1937 ) and King of Chinatown ( 1939 ).

* Daughter of Shanghai ( 1937 )

Daughter of civil engineer Douglas Sutherland ( 1838 – 1865 ) and his Anglo-French-Canadian wife Elinor Saunders ( 1841 – 1937 ), Lucy Christiana Sutherland was born in London, England and raised in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, after her father's death of typhoid fever.

Daughter Mary Binney Cadwalader ( 1829 – 1861 ) married William Henry Rawle ( 1823 – 1889 ) in 1849 ; their daughter Mary Cadwalader Rawle ( 1850 – 1923 ) married Frederick Rhinelander Jones on March 24, 1870, who was the brother of Edith Wharton ( 1862 – 1937 ); their daughter in turn was landscape architect Beatrix Cadwalader Jones Farrand ( 1872 – 1959 ).

She Was an Acrobat's Daughter is an animated short in the Merrie Melodies series, released by Warner Brothers in April 1937 and directed by Friz Freleng.

* 1937 – The Battle of Shanghai begins.

The Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in July 1937, and in August of that year Chiang sent of his best-trained and equipped soldiers to defend Shanghai.

* 1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.

A baby crying in the ruins of a Shanghai Railway Station bombed by the Japanese in August 1937

The Battle of Shanghai in 1937 resulted in the occupation of the Chinese administered parts of Shanghai outside of the International Settlement and the French Concession.

A Chinese machine gun nest in the Battle of Shanghai, 1937.

In August 1937, the Japanese army invaded Shanghai where they met strong resistance and suffered heavy casualties.

Following the disastrous Marco Polo Bridge Incident on July 7, 1937 and the Japanese occupation of Shanghai and takeover of the Chinese movie industry, Jiang left her celebrity life on the stage behind.

The Battle of Nanking () began after the fall of Shanghai on October 9, 1937, and ended with the fall of the capital city of Nanking on December 13, 1937 to Japanese troops, a few days after the Republic of China Government had evacuated the city and relocated to Wuhan.

In a major strategic gamble, Chiang Kai-shek decided to divert Japanese attacks in northern China by attacking Shanghai, which the Japanese had occupied earlier in 1937.

In August 14, 1937, Chiang ordered his troops to take Shanghai at all costs, but initial attempts to break through the Japanese perimeter defences failed.

He arrived in Shanghai on 27 September 1937 as part of an infantry regiment which handled chemical weapons.

Diamond returned to Shanghai with his old outfit, the 4th Marines, ten months later ; was transferred to the 2nd Marines in December 1934 ; and returned to the States in February 1937.

She resided afterwards in Shanghai until July 1937, when the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937-1945 ) broke out.

* Hsu Shuhsi ( 1937 ) The North China Problem Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh.

For instance, The Times published a report on 1 October 1937 of a Japanese attack on Shanghai in China which generated " a great mushroom of smoke ".

In 1937, Hongqiao was the site of the so-called ' Oyama Incident ' in which a Japanese lieutenant was shot dead by Chinese Peace Preservation Corps soldiers in the lead-up to the Battle of Shanghai.

The bombing of Shanghai by the Imperial Japanese Navy on January 28, 1932 and August 1937 and the bombings during the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ), had demonstrated the power of strategic bombing, and so air forces in Europe and the United States came to view bomber aircraft as extremely powerful weapons which, in theory, could bomb an enemy nation into submission on their own.

Shanghai, Commercial Press, 1937.

* George Steele ( born 1937 ), professional wrestler nicknamed " The Animal "

" Aside from Roger Ackroyd, the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including such acknowledged classics as Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders ( 1935 ), Cards on the Table ( 1936 ), and Death on the Nile ( 1937 ).

* 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica ( or Gernika in Basque ), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.

* Adrian Darby ( born 1937 ), British conservationist and academic

In 1934, he was made a member of the Privy Council and served as a member of the League of Nations ( 1934 – 37 ), becoming the President of the League of Nations in 1937.

During his 72 years of Imamat ( 1885 – 1957 ), the community celebrated his Golden ( 1937 ), Diamond ( 1946 ) and Platinum ( 1954 ) Jubilees.

By French aristocrat Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan ( 1876 – 1937 ), he had Roger Marie Vincent Philippe Lévêque de Vilmorin ( 12 September 1905 – 20 July 1980 )

With five national championships ( 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939 ), Ajax was the most successful Dutch team of the nineteen thirties.

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE ( born 31 December 1937 ), best known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh | deadurl = no

In addition to creating Li ' l Abner, Capp also co-created two other newspaper strips: Abbie an ' Slats with magazine illustrator Raeburn van Buren in 1937, and Long Sam with cartoonist Bob Lubbers in 1954, as well as the Sunday " topper " strips Washable Jones, Small Fry ( aka Small Change ), and Advice fo ' Chillun.

During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.

Morggeustrom ( 1933 – 1937 ), resident

* Rupiah Banda ( born 1937 ), President of Zambia

" Foresight: its Logical Laws, Its Subjective Sources ," ( translation of the 1937 article in French ) in H. E. Kyburg and H. E. Smokler ( eds ), Studies in Subjective Probability, New York: Wiley, 1964.

Gene Ahern's The Squirrel Cage ( January 3, 1937 ), an example of a topper ( comic strip ) | topper strip which is better remembered than the strip it accompanied, Ahern's Room and Board ( comic strip ) | Room and Board.

The two Chinese parties nominally formed a united front to oppose the Japanese in 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937-1945 ), which became a part of World War II.

He had been severely affected by several tragedies occurring in a short period of time: Robert E. Howard's death by suicide ( 1936 ), Lovecraft's death from cancer ( 1937 ) and the deaths of his parents, which left him exhausted.

All-Union Population Censuses were carried out in the USSR ( which included RSFSR and the other republics ) in 1920 ( urban only ), 1926, 1937, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989.

During the period the Board existed, Brooklyn College ( 1930 ), Queens College ( 1937 ) and a number of other four-year colleges and two-year community colleges were created.

Christie's novels include, Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ), Death on the Nile ( 1937 ), and And Then There Were None ( 1939 ).

: The first, Doctor Syn ( 1937 ), featured noted actor George Arliss in the title role and was its star's last film.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.