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==Multi-Function Station==

== Events ==

MVAFS was a multi-function station: a [[Semi Automatic Ground Environment|SAGE]] long range radar site operated by the 666th Radar Squadron (host squadron)<ref name="ref_mil_museum">{{cite web

*[[April 16]] - ''Way Out West'' premieres in the US.

|url = http://www.militarymuseum.org/MillValleyAFS.html

*[[May 7]] - ''Shall We Dance'' premieres in the US.

|title = Mill Valley Air Force Station

|accessdate = 2007-07-18

|publisher = [[California State Military Museum]]

}}</ref>; an AN/FSS-7 [[SLBM]] detection radar site operated by Detachment 3 14th Missile Warning Squadron<ref name="ref_mil_museum" />; a [[Project Nike|Nike]] missile air defense control site (San Francisco Defense Area Site SF-90DC<ref name="ref_mil_museum" /><ref name="ref_missile_sites">{{cite web

|url = http://ed-thelen.org/loc-c.html#SF-90DC

|title = Locations of Former NIKE MISSILE SITES (text)

|accessdate = 2007-07-18

|publisher = Ed Thelen

}}</ref><ref>{{cite web

|url = http://www.nps.gov/goga/historyculture/cold-war.htm

|title = GGNRA - Cold War Era, 1952-1974

|accessdate = 2007-07-18

|publisher = [[National Park Service]]

}}</ref>) operated by the Army Air Defense Command Post for the 40th Artillery Brigade from 1959 until June 1971 and the 13th Air Defense Artillery Group from July 1971 to August 1974<ref name="ref_mil_museum" />; a [[Federal Aviation Administration]] (FAA) Joint Surveillance System (JSS) Facility J-33<ref name="ref_missile_sites" /><ref>{{cite web

|url = http://nas-architecture.faa.gov/nas/___location/location_data.cfm?fid=11342

|title = MILL VALLEY LRR SURVEILLANCE [QMV]

|accessdate = 2007-07-18

|publisher = [[Federal Aviation Administration]]

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. I served at MVAFS from 1972 to 1974 and personally witnessed these functions. More to follow later. [[User:ConradPino|Conrad T. Pino]] 08:42, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

==References==

== Top grossing films ==

{{reflist}}

#''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]''

#''[[Conquest]]''

#''[[Damaged Lives]]''

#''[[Parnell]]''

#''[[La Grande Illusion]]''

#''[[Annapolis Salute]]''

#''[[Pépé le Moko]]''

#''[[Green Fields]]''

== [[Academy Award]]s ==

*[[Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture|Best Picture]]: ''[[The Life of Emile Zola]]'' - [[Warner Bros.]]

*[[Academy_Award_for_Best_Actor|Best Actor]]: [[Spencer Tracy]] - ''[[Captains Courageous]]''

*[[Academy_Award_for_Best_Actress|Best Actress]]: [[Luise Rainer]] - ''[[The Good Earth (film)|The Good Earth]]''

== Movies released ==

Movies released in 1937 include:

*''[[Annapolis Salute]]''

*''[[The Awful Truth]]'', starring [[Irene Dunne]] and [[Cary Grant]]

*''[[Broadway Melody of 1938]]'', starring [[Eleanor Powell]] and [[Judy Garland]]

*''[[Captains Courageous (movie)|Captains Courageous]]'', starring [[Spencer Tracy]]

*''[[Conquest (film)|Conquest]]'', starring [[Greta Garbo]] and [[Charles Boyer]]

*''[[Damaged Lives]]''

*''[[A Day at the Races (movie)|A Day at the Races]]'', starring the [[Marx Brothers]]

*''[[Dead End]]'', starring [[Sylvia Sidney]], [[Joel McCrea]] and [[Humphrey Bogart]]

*''[[Dick Tracy (film)|Dick Tracy]]'', starring [[Raplh Byrd]], [[Kay Huges]] and [[Smiley Burnette]]

*''[[The Good Earth (movie)|The Good Earth]]'', starring [[Luise Rainer]] and [[Paul Muni]]

*''[[Good Morning Boys]]'', starring [[Will Hay]]

*''[[Green Fields]]''

*''[[The Hurricane (1937 movie)|The Hurricane]]'', starring [[Dorothy Lamour]]

*''[[La Grande Illusion]]'', starring [[Jean Gabin]] and [[Dita Parlo]]; directed by [[Jean Renoir]]

*''[[The Life of Emile Zola]]''

*''[[Lost Horizon (1937)|Lost Horizon]]'', starring [[Ronald Colman]] and [[Jane Wyatt]]; directed by [[Frank Capra]]

*''[[Nothing Sacred]]'', starring [[Carole Lombard]] and [[Fredric March]]

*''[[Oh, Mr Porter!]]'', starring [[Will Hay]]

*''[[Parnell]]'', starring [[Clark Gable]] and [[Myrna Loy]]

*''[[Pépé le Moko]]'', starring [[Jean Gabin]]

*''[[The Prisoner of Zenda]]'', starring [[Ronald Colman]]

*''[[Shall We Dance (film)|Shall We Dance]]'', starring [[Fred Astaire]] and [[Ginger Rogers]]

*''[[Slim (movie)|Slim]]'', starring [[Henry Fonda]]

*''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'', first feature-length [[animated]] movie ([[Walt Disney Productions]])

*''[[Stage Door]]'', starring [[Katharine Hepburn]] and [[Ginger Rogers]]

*''[[A Star Is Born (1937 film)|A Star Is Born]]'', starring [[Janet Gaynor]] and [[Fredric March]]

*''[[Stella Dallas]]'', starring [[Barbara Stanwyck]]

*''[[Topper (film)|Topper]]'', starring [[Cary Grant]], and [[Constance Bennett]]

*''[[Way Out West (1937 film)|Way Out West]]'', starring [[Stan Laurel]] and [[Oliver Hardy]]

*''[[You Only Live Once]]'', starring [[Henry Fonda]]

*''[[Young and Innocent]]'', directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]]

==Short film series==

*''[[Buster Keaton]]'' ([[1917]]-[[1941]])

*''[[Our Gang]]'' ([[1922 in film|1922]]-[[1944 in film|1944]])

*''[[Laurel and Hardy]]'' (1926-[[1940 in film|1940]])

==Animated short film series==

*''[[Krazy Kat]]'' ([[1925 in film|1925]]-[[1940 in film|1940]])

*''[[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]]'' ([[1927 in film|1927]]-[[1938 in film|1938]])

*''[[Mickey Mouse]]'' ([[1928 in film|1928]]-[[1953 in film|1953]])

*''[[Silly Symphonies]]'' ([[1929 in film|1929]]-[[1939 in film|1939]])

*''[[Screen Songs]]'' ([[1929 in film|1929]]-[[1938 in film|1938]])

*''[[Looney Tunes]]'' ([[1930 in film|1930]]-[[1969 in film|1969]])

*''[[Terrytoons]]'' ([[1930 in film|1930]]-[[1964 in film|1964]])

*''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' ([[1931 in film|1931]]-[[1969 in film|1969]])

*''[[Scrappy]]'' ([[1931 in film|1931]]-[[1941 in film|1941]])

*''[[Betty Boop]]'' ([[1932 in film|1932]]-[[1939 in film|1939]])

*''[[Popeye]]'' ([[1933 in film|1933]]-[[1957 in film|1957]])

*''[[Happy Harmonies]]'' ([[1934 in film|1934]]-[[1938 in film|1938]])

*''[[Color Rhapsodies]]'' ([[1934 in film|1934]]-[[1949 in film|1949]])

*''[[Meany, Miny, and Moe]]'' ([[1936 in film|1936]]-[[1937 in film|1937]])

*''[[Donald Duck]]'' ([[1937 in film|1937]]-[[1956 in film|1956]])

== Births ==

*[[January 4]] - [[Dyan Cannon]], actress

*[[January 15]] - [[Margaret O'Brien]], actress

*[[January 17]] - [[Troy Donahue]], actor

*[[February 27]] - [[Barbara Babcock]], American actress

*[[August 8]] - [[Dustin Hoffman]], American actor

*[[August 18]] - [[Robert Redford]], American actor

== Deaths ==

*[[January 2]] - [[Ross Alexander]], actor

*[[January 23]] - [[Marie Prevost]], actress

*[[June 7]] - [[Jean Harlow]], actress

*[[November 21]] - [[Ingrid Pitt]], actress

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