Although several reviews were critical of the film – Pauline Kael said it " staggers along " and Stanley Kauffmann thought Cukor's direction was like " a rich gravy poured over everything, not remotely as delicately rich as in the Asquith-Howard 1937 Pygmalion " — the film was a box office hit which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the Directors Guild of America Award after having been nominated for each several times.

Three of Gershwin's songs (" They Can't Take That Away From Me " ( 1937 ), " Long Ago and Far Away " ( 1944 ) and " The Man That Got Away " ( 1954 )) were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, though none won.

The women ’ s division of professional wrestling has maintained a recognized world champion since 1937, when Mildred Burke won the original World Women's title.

From 1918 to 1938, Romania was a liberal constitutional monarchy, but one facing the rise of the nationalist, anti-semitic parties, particularly Iron Guard, which won about 15 % of the votes in the general elections of 1937.

Roald Hoffmann ( born July 18, 1937 ) is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

During this time the Giants won three pennants, defeating the Senators in the 1933 World Series and losing to the Yankees in 1936 and 1937.

That minor league franchise won the PCL title in 1937, led by then-18-year-old San Diegan Ted Williams.

The Redskins won the 1937 and 1942 Championship games, as well as Super Bowls XVII, XXII, and XXVI.

The Redskins played and won their first game in Washington D. C. on September 16, 1937, a victory against the Giants, 13 – 3.

During 1936, the studio's film The Story of Louis Pasteur proved a box office success and Paul Muni, the film's star, won the Oscar for Best Actor in March 1937.

His career flourished with a series of hit films, and in 1937 and 1938 he won consecutive Oscars for Captains Courageous and Boys Town.

* George S. Kaufman won the award twice, once in 1932 and once in 1937.

Upon entering the government, Allende relinquished his parliamentary seat for Valparaíso, which he had won in 1937.

The government won a third term at the 1937 election, with 44 of 74 seats and 50. 6 percent of the two-party preferred vote against a reunited Labor Party led by John Curtin.

In 1937, Snead's first full year on the Tour, he won five events, including the Oakland Open at Claremont Country Club in California.

You Can't Take It With You, the story of an eccentric family and how they live during the Depression, won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for drama.

After the film won a prize at the Venice Film Festival for " Best Artistic Ensemble " in 1937, the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels declared La Grande Illusion " Cinematic Public Enemy No. 1 "

In 1937, Garbo was nominated for Camille, but Luise Rainer won for The Good Earth.

The play won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

In 1937, McCarey won his first Academy Award for Directing for The Awful Truth, with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, a screwball comedy that launched Cary Grant's unique screen persona, largely concocted by McCarey ( Grant also copied many of McCarey's mannerisms ).

By contrast, under Neil McBain and subsequently Bill Findlay, the team recorded five consecutive top six finishes between 1934 – 35 and 1938 – 39, and won the Football League Third Division South Cup in 1937.

The thirties proved to be a good decade for Tromsø IL, as the club won district championships in 1933, 1936, and 1937, as well.

Bradman won the toss on New Year's Day 1937, but again failed with the bat, scoring just 13.

Hitting his peak in the late 1930s, Nagurski won a limited version of the world championship by defeating Dean Detton on June 29, 1937 ; but he finally achieved full recognition with his first National Wrestling Association world title by defeating Lou Thesz on June 23, 1939.

Boyer never won an Oscar, though he was nominated for Best Actor four times in Conquest ( 1937 ), Algiers ( 1938 ), Gaslight ( 1944 ) and Fanny ( 1961 ), the latter also winning him a nomination for the Laurel Awards for Top Male Dramatic Performance.

Saint James's church, built in 1506 and enlarged in 1937, now stands on the same spot.

Notable victories were at Bad Sliač in 1932, where he shared first place with Milan Vidmar ; Scheveningen in 1933 ; Bad Liebenwerda in 1934 with 9. 5 / 11 ; Barcelona in 1935 where he tied for first with George Koltanowski ; Moscow 1935 where he came 1st = with future World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik ; Poděbrady in 1936 with the score of + 10 = 6-1 ; and Kemeri in 1937 where he shared the top spot with Vladimir Petrov and Samuel Reshevsky.

From there, he moved into the spot of lieutenant governor in 1937, keeping that job until Horner's death almost four years later.

The memorial was dedicated on 7 September 1938 and a bronze inscription on the monument reads " erected by the Rector and Congregation of St Magnus the Martyr by London Bridge and the Minister and Congregation of St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall to commemorate the traditional spot where Earl Magnus was slain, AD circa 1116 and to commemorate the Octocentenary of St Magnus Cathedral 1937 ".

The first spot meter was built by Arthur James Dalladay, editor of The British Journal of Photography in about 1935 and described it in the BJP Almanac of 1937 on pages 127 to 138.

Kinnick, the lone bright spot of the 1937 season, led the nation in punting and was named first team All-Big Ten and a third team All-American.

In 1937, the city of Hutchinson erected a large bronze statue of Little Crow in a spot overlooking the Crow River near the Main Street bridge access to the downtown business district.

By the first week of June 1937, Sewell had a. 316 batting average to earn a spot as a reserve for the American League team in the 1937 All-Star Game.

* 1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago.

In America, the first major radio production was in 1937 on NBC Radio, when John Barrymore adapted the play into a forty-five minute piece, starring Barrymore himself and Elaine Barrie.

The NBC Symphony performed weekly radio concert broadcasts with Toscanini and other conductors and served as house orchestra for the network, beginning November 13, 1937 and continuing until 1954.

On Christmas night, 1937, the NBC orchestra gave its first performance — Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso in D Minor — in an entirely refurbished studio in the RCA Building.

Toscanini conducted ten concerts that first season, making his NBC debut on December 25, 1937.

Toscanini returned to the United States where the NBC Symphony Orchestra was created for him in 1937.

He conducted his first NBC broadcast concert on December 25, 1937, in NBC Studio 8-H in New York City's Rockefeller Center.

NBC had recorded all of Toscanini's broadcast performances on transcription discs from the start of the broadcasts in 1937.

* Verdi, Falstaff ( 1937, Salzburg Festival with restored sound on the Andante label ; 1950 NBC broadcast )

According to Pardo, his announcing booth in Studio 8-H, from which Saturday Night Live is telecast, is almost exactly where Arturo Toscanini stood when conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Rockefeller Center from 1937 to 1950.

The SFSO concert season was never longer than five months a year, which enabled him to continue working with the OSP, and allowed him to conduct the inaugural concert of the NBC Symphony Orchestra on 13 November 1937.

A number of recordings were made with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, usually conducted by Arturo Toscanini ; sometimes RCA utilized recordings of broadcast concerts ( Toscanini had been recording for the label since the days of acoustic recordings, and the label had been recording the NBC Symphony since its creation in 1937 ).

The original radio show began airing 15 minute episodes on January 25, 1937, on NBC Radio.

Despite acclaim for Oboler's dramas, NBC announced it was canceling the series in the summer of 1937 —" just to see whether listeners are still faithful to it ," according to one press report but also, it seems, to allow the hard-working author a vacation.

The NBELSSA operated within the NBC of America until 1936 or 1937, when it became an independent group.

He was scheduled in several different 1937 – 38 NBC timeslots and then took to the road with popular remote broadcasts.

Jacobs spoke on nationwide radio on NBC in New York City in 1937 to promote the crypt.

Ted Weems and his Orchestra on the Fibber McGee and Molly NBC Radio show, 1937.

In 1967, as RCA Victrola reissued numerous recordings of Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Seraphim reissued some of Toscanini's British recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, made in London's Queen's Hall from 1937 to 1939.

Naturally, WCOL and WBNS shared studios and offices, with WCOL eventually affiliating with both the NBC Red and Blue networks by 1937 ( retaining the Blue affiliation in 1943 ).

In the late months of 1937, the lease to NBC was terminated, with station operation reverting back to the Leese interests.

NBC, however, continued to operate it under a managerial agreement executed in the fall of 1937.