In December 1952, Cukor was approached by Sid Luft, who proposed the director helm a musical remake of the 1937 film A Star is Born with his then-wife Judy Garland in the lead role.

After George Washington Slept Here ( 1940 ), Kaufman and Hart called it quits, although throughout the 1930s, Hart worked both with and without Kaufman on several musicals and revues, including: Face the Music ( 1932 ); As Thousands Cheer ( 1933 ), with songs by Irving Berlin ; Jubilee ( musical ) ( 1935 ), with songs by Cole Porter ; and I'd Rather Be Right ( 1937 ), with songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

H. G. Wells wrote enthusiastically about the musical, and Cohan's performance as Roosevelt, in an article " The Fall in America 1937 ", published in Collier's on 28 January 1938 and reprinted in his World Brain ( 1938 ).

Of more lasting importance to Britten was his meeting in 1937 with the tenor Peter Pears, who was to become his musical collaborator and inspiration as well as his life partner.

Glenn Miller compiled several musical arrangements and formed his first band in 1937.

Together, from 1933 to 1939, they made nine musical films at RKO: Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Roberta ( 1935 ), Top Hat ( 1935 ), Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ), Shall We Dance ( 1937 ), Carefree ( 1938 ), and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle ( 1939 ) ( The Barkleys of Broadway ( 1949 ) was produced later at MGM ).

Tom Smothers ( born Thomas Bolyn Smothers III on February 2, 1937 ) is an American comedian, composer and musician, best known as half of the musical comedy team The Smothers Brothers, alongside his younger brother Dick.

* Tom Smothers ( born Thomas Bolyn Smothers III on February 2, 1937 ) American comedian, composer and musician, best known as half of the musical comedy team The Smothers Brothers, alongside his younger brother Dick.

Babes in Arms is a 1937 musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Rodgers and Hart.

Instrumental to the sisters ' success over the years were their parents, Olga and Peter ; their orchestra leader and musical arranger, Vic Schoen ( 1916 – 2000 ); music publishing giant Lou Levy, who died only days after Maxene, and was their manager from 1937 – 51 and was also Maxene's husband from 1941 – 49 ; and both Jack Kapp ( d. 1949 ) and his brother David Kapp, who founded Decca Records. Maxene was the mother of 2 children, Mark ( born -) & Shianne ( born ).

* The Jewish songwriter Harold Rome wrote, for the musical " Pins and Needles " in 1937, a gospel song, " Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin ," which made the analogy between Belshazzar and Hitler, saying the former " didn't pay no income taxes :/ The big shot of the Babylon-Jerusalem Axis.

Arthur turned down the role of the lady missionary in Lost Horizon ( 1973 ), the unsuccessful musical remake of the 1937 Frank Capra film of the same name.

She tried a big musical On the Avenue ( 1937 ) opposite Dick Powell, but others of her films, including One Night in Lisbon ( 1941 ), and My Favorite Blonde ( 1942 ) with Bob Hope, were less prestigious.

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.

( 1937 ) – musical – composer

It was made into a musical by Twentieth Century Fox in 1937.

* The Arts ( with musical illustrations by Grace Castagnetta ), 1937, Simon and Schuster

* Gold Diggers of 1937 ( 1936 ) ( director / choreographer of musical numbers )

* The Singing Marine ( 1937 ) ( director / choreographer of musical numbers )

* Shall We Dance ( 1937 )-a Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers musical with lots of dance, including ballet.

* People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR ( 1937 )-for creation of the musical drama " Gyulsary ").

The musical had a successful original run on the West End in 1937 and very successful revivals in both London and New York in the 1980s.

Technicolor films such as Becky Sharp ( 1935 ), The Garden of Allah ( 1936 ), Nothing Sacred ( 1937 ), and A Star Is Born ( 1937 ) made him realize that Hollywood feature films presented a threat to Germany's internal market and that Hollywood's dominance of colour and musical film technology should be matched, at least if Germany was serious about engaging in a cultural war with the U. S. and Britain.

* WPA Blues, a 1937 song by Casey Bill Weldon, also recorded by Huddie " Leadbelly " Ledbetter: " Everybody's working in this town / And it's worrying me night and day / If that means working too / Have to work for the WPA "

" Moore and Henry Kuttner also have Northwest Smith hum the song in their 1937 short story " Quest of the Starstone ," which quotes several lines of lyrics.

There, in 1940, Britten composed Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, the first of many song cycles for Pears ( Britten composed his first individual work for Pears in 1937, as part of The Company of Heaven for the BBC ).

Furthermore, in song duets with Astaire, she co-introduced Berlin's " I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket " from Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields's " Pick Yourself Up " and " A Fine Romance " from Swing Time ( 1936 ) and the Gershwins ' " Let's Call the Whole Thing Off " from Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

However, this represents an anachronism as the movie's events take place in late 1937, two years before the song first appeared.

The 1937 song ( lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Richard A. Whiting ) contains in the second verse:

The trend toward " new dimensions and greater depth " in the composer's style was continued by the song cycle Tel jour, telle nuit ( 1937 ) and Concerto in G minor for organ, strings, and timpani ( 1938 ).

* Lux Radio Theater: song of Songs opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr ( 20 December 1937 )

Composer Richard Stein ( 1909 – 1992 ) sued Paul for plagiarism, charging that Paul's " Johnny ( Is the Boy for Me )" was taken from Stein's 1937 song " Sanie cu zurgălăi " ( Romanian for " Sleigh with Bells ").

Their marriage inspired him to both compose works for her to play ( Thème et variations for violin and piano in the year they were married ) and to write pieces to celebrate their domestic happiness, including the song cycle Poèmes pour Mi in 1936, which he orchestrated in 1937.

* Poèmes pour Mi (" Poems for Mi "), song cycle ( 1936, orchestral version 1937 )

The African-American singer-activist Paul Robeson recorded the song several times ; his 1937 recording uses a British translation rather than the one more commonly found in the USA.

Meanwhile, the radio continued to develop an audience for gospel music, a fact that was commemorated in Albert E. Brumley's 1937 song, " Turn Your Radio On " ( which is still being published in gospel song books ).

Merle Ronald Haggard ( born April 6, 1937 ) is an American country music song writer, singer, guitarist, fiddler and instrumentalist.

In 1937 Carmichael appeared in the movie Topper, serenading Cary Grant and Constance Bennett with his song " Old Man Moon ".

In 1937 he wrote the song " Chimes of Indiana " which was presented to Indiana University as a gift by the class of 1935.

( One example of his profile at his professional peak was being mentioned in Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's 1937 song " The Lady Is a Tramp ": " I follow Winchell, and read every line.

On June 3, 1937, the Central Standing Committee ( 中央常務委員會 ) approved the proposal, and in 1943, the song officially became the national anthem of the Republic of China.

* " Caravan " ( song ), a 1937 jazz standard

Hull is mentioned by name in the 1937 calypso song " FDR in Trinidad " popularized by Attila the Hun, and also by Ry Cooder on his 1972 album Into the Purple Valley.

All four of John ’ s children assisted with his folksong research and with the daily operations of the Archive: Shirley, who performed songs taught to her by her mother ; John Jr., who encouraged his father's association with the Library ; Alan Lomax who accompanied John on field trips and who from 1937 – 42 served as the Archive ’ s first paid ( though very nominally ) employee as Assistant in Charge ; and Bess, who spent her weekends and school vacations copying song texts and doing comparative song research.