Alternate Best Actor 1937: Results

5. Claude Rains in They Won't Forget- Rains does his best and puts a great deal of effort in his performance, but his character unfortunately is paper thin.

 Best Scene: Griffin rabble rouses the courtroom.

4. Victor Moore in Make Way For Tomorrow- Moore gives a moving quiet performance of a man who witnesses society pass him by.

Best Scene: "Husband and Wife say goodbye for the last time".

2 . Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in Way Out West- There is no reason to separate them as together they create the greatest comedy duo ever, and show well there unique talent together in this film. ( In the overall rank I merely put them in alphabetical order.)

Best Scene: "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine".

1. Cary Grant in The Awful Truth- Grant gives an entertaining and enjoyable performance that is a terrific example of his abilities as the lead of a romantic comedy.

Best Scene: Jerry finds the other man Lucy is hiding. 

Overall Rank:

1. Robert Montgomery in Night Must Fall
2. Jean Gabin in Pepe Le Moko
3. Ronald Colman in The Prisoner of Zenda
4. Cary Grant in The Awful Truth
5. Oliver Hardy in Way Out West
6. Stan Laurel in Way Out West
7. Jean Gabin in Grand Illusion
8. Fredric March in A Star is Born
9. Ronald Colman in Lost Horizon
10. Victor Moore in Make Way For Tomorrow
11. Robert Donat in Knight Without Armour
12. Edward G. Robinson in Kid Galahad 
13. Henry Fonda in You Only Live Once
14. Laurence Olivier in Fire Over England
15. Charles Boyer in Conquest
16. Paul Muni in The Life Emile Zola
17. James Stewart in Seventh Heaven
18. Freddie Bartholomew in Captains Courageous  
19. Claude Rains in They Won't Forget
20. Paul Muni in The Good Earth
21. Fred Astaire in Shall We Dance
22. Claude Rains in Stolen Holiday
23. Groucho Marx in A Day At the Races
24. Peter Lorre in Think Fast Mr. Moto
25. Peter Lorre in Thank You Mr. Moto
26. Fredric March in Nothing Sacred
27. Roland Young in Topper
28. Wayne Morris in Kid Galahad
29. Billy Mauch in The Prince and the Pauper
30. Bobby Mauch in The Prince and the Pauper
31. Cary Grant in Topper
32. Edward Norris in They Won't Forget
33. Spencer Tracy in Captains Courageous 
34. Jon Hall in The Hurricane

Next Year: 1974