My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.
There were probably more good leading roles for women in 1937 alone than in the last ten years of Hollywood movies, far too many to nominate here. Among those Oscar-worthy actresses missing out: Constance Bennett, Beulah Bondi, Bette Davis, Deanna Durbin, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Luise Rainer, Sylvia Sidney, Barbara Stanwyck, Shirley Temple. No doubt others.
I picked the five who I thought turned in the best performances of their careers in 1937.
By the way, Katie-Bar-The-Door and I saw Grand Illusion for the first time in a ratty mall three-plex in Greenbelt, Maryland, which is a little like saying you ate Beluga caviar for the first time in a Cracker Barrel off the side of the interstate. We figured it must have been either a mistake or a practical joke, and we were the only two people in the theater, but, boy, what a good movie.
A little surprised that You Only Live Once doesn't make the cut anywhere. But very pleased to see Eric Blore and his sublime performance in the under-appreciated It's Love I'm After making the Supporting Actor list.
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