Greatest 29 Music Movies Releases from 1937

A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse. Read about A Day at the Races / IMDB / YouTube

A plucky little orphan girl gets dumped abruptly into her gruff, hermit grandfather's care, then later gets retaken and delivered as a companion for an injured girl. Look into Heidi / IMDB / YouTube

As a thunderstorm approaches, birds, mice and other creatures try to stay safe and dry in an old mill. Check out The Old Mill / IMDB / YouTube

A betting castle staff, and a series of misunderstandings and set-ups, leads to an American entertainer and an English damsel falling in love. Check out A Damsel in Distress / IMDB / YouTube

Steve Raleigh wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee, however his wife Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with two ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to . Find out about Broadway Melody of 1938 / IMDB / YouTube

An innocent young pianist falls into an affair with a married violinist. Details on Intermezzo / IMDB / YouTube

The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert that leads to a radio contract. Info on One Hundred Men and a Girl / IMDB / YouTube

An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student. Check out Maytime / IMDB / YouTube

China's first horror film, this is loosely based on The Phantom of the Opera. A disfigured musical genius roams a traditional Chinese opera house, punishing those who offend him. Explore Song at Midnight / IMDB / YouTube

Navy Lt. Richard Perry becomes an undercover man out to discover the leaders of a group of well connected men who pull off bank robberies during the McKinley administration (early 20th century). Check out This Is My Affair / IMDB / YouTube

A cocky young jockey who gets mixed up with some crooked gamblers befriends an English lad with a fast horse and the niece of a woman who runs a boarding house for jockeys. Find out about Thoroughbreds Don't Cry / IMDB / YouTube

A Broadway producer satirizes an important New York family. The family sues but their daughter falls in love with the producer. More about On the Avenue / IMDB / YouTube

A movie company is filming the Arabian Nights when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Roosevelt's New Deal, he organizes work programs, taxes the rich and abolishes the army. Read about Ali Baba Goes to Town / IMDB / YouTube

West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom. Look into Rosalie / IMDB / YouTube

A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man. Info on Pick a Star / IMDB / YouTube

A former student who is now a big Broadway show producer with three flops to his reputation, is invited back to direct the College's annual student stage show. Details on Varsity Show / IMDB / YouTube

A Swiss hotel's ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning. Info on Thin Ice / IMDB / YouTube

A black British dockworker named Johnny Zinga becomes a famous singer and learns that he is the rightful king of the African island of Casanga. See more about Song of Freedom / IMDB / YouTube

Pennsylvania, 1859. Railroad tycoon Brennan (Alan Hale) is muscling in on oil-drilling farmers, led by Peter Cortland (Randolph Scott). Cortland must try to save their oil business, while also saving his marriage to Sally (Irene Dunne). Explore High, Wide and Handsome / IMDB / YouTube

Nina, Spanish singing spy, seduces French officers for intel on Napoleon's Spain plans. In Bayonne, she falls for Diego/Captain Andre, who's spying on her. Captured during invasion, they reunite while nations are at war. Info on The Firefly / IMDB / YouTube

Mac Brewster (Benny) is head of an advertising firm that is in debt. The million-dollar Townsend Silver contract could save the firm, but the wealthy playboy Alan Townsend (Arlen) wants an amateur from high society rather than a professional model to become the Townsend Girl. Upset that she was passed over sight-unseen as a professional, Brewster's top model (Lupino. See more about Artist and Models / IMDB / YouTube

It's midnight at the bookstore and all the book and magazine characters are coming to life. When a bulldog from an adventure book uses a Boswell Sisters-like performance by girls in a travel magazine as a distraction to rob a bank, he is chased, caught, and sentenced to, of course Life (the magazine). But there's also a conveniently placed Escape magazine.... Explore Speaking of the Weather / IMDB / YouTube

In 1889, A gypsy princess, Young Marie (Annabella), loses her aristocratic husband after his is killed in an accident. Nearly a half-century later, her granddaughter Maria (Annabella) falls in love with a Canadian horse trainer, Kerry Gilfallen (Henry Fonda), working to prepare entries for Epsom Downs Derby. Although she is engaged to marry a man in Spain, she falls i. See more about Wings of the Morning / IMDB / YouTube

The Brian Sisters are also featured in this short. Read about Sunday Night at the Trocadero / IMDB / YouTube

The blueblooded Van Kletterings are broke; debutante Wendy, slated to remedy this by marrying rich bore Henry Morgan, instead leaves him at the altar and goes to work as a model for high-fashion clothing designer George Curson, whom she soon falls for. But he's happily married (at least on his side) and going into debt financing a show to please wife Mary's desire for. Info on Vogues of 1938 / IMDB / YouTube

The skeletons in a graveyard come alive at the stroke of midnight and stage a concert. Learn about Skeleton Frolic / IMDB / YouTube

Rodeo stars are being killed with poisoned needles, and Tex Ritter is next on the list. Info on Trouble in Texas / IMDB / YouTube

A fortune in gems is hidden in one of six chairs, and it's up to the prospective heir to find it. Explore Keep Your Seats, Please! / IMDB / YouTube

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals George Macrae over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play North Winds just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lul. Learn about You Can't Have Everything / IMDB / YouTube