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Movie history events from 1937

Detective Jake Gittes gets his nose slashed while investigating a case involving adultery, murder and water rights. (Los Angeles, California) (Chinatown)

Vivi Abbot and her friends form the Ya Ya Sisterhood. (Louisiana) (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)

China and Japan begin a state of undeclared war. (Empire of the Sun)

Francesca and Kathryn Corleone born; Johnny Fontaine released from contract to bandleader Les Halley. (The Godfather)

Hitler joins the Thule Society, a collection of German aristocrats obsessed with the occult. (Hellboy)

Mr Henderson dies, leaving his wife a widow. (England) (Mrs. Henderson Presents)

The Soggy Bottom Boys band is formed by Ulysses Everett McGill, Delmar O'Donnell & Pete from an escaped chain-gang. (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)

Johnny Cash's father floats his family out from their home after a flood. (Arkansas) (Walk the Line)

Friday 5th February: "Modern Times" premieres in theatres. (Chaplin)

Friday 26th March: Biff Tannen born. (Back to the Future Part II)

Wednesday 31st March: Ann Chester weds James "Piccadilly Jim" Crocker at St Michael's Cathedral. (New York, New York) (Piccadilly Jim)

Thursday 3rd June: Edward VIII, no longer king, marries Wallis Warfield, the American divorcee for whom he abdicated the British throne. (France) (Woman I Love, The )

Friday 2nd July: Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan are reported missing. (near Howland Island, Pacific Ocean) (The Aviator)

Sunday 11th July: Dylan Thomas marries Caitlin Macnamara. (Penzance, Cornwall) (Caitlin)

Friday 8th October: Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane. (Busman's Honeymoon)

Sunday 14th November: 20 year-old Leonard Lowe becomes catatonic and is sent to Bainbridge Hospital in the Bronx. (New York) (Awakenings)


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