San Francisco (1936 film)
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| Directed by | W. S. Van Dyke, D. W. Griffith |
| Produced by |
John Emerson Bernard H. Hyman |
| Written by |
Robert E. Hopkins Anita Loos |
| Starring |
Clark Gable Jeanette MacDonald Spencer Tracy Jack Holt Jessie Ralph Ted Healy |
| Music by |
Walter Jurmann Bronislaw Kaper Edward Ward |
| Cinematography | Oliver T. Marsh |
| Edited by | Tom Held |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Release date
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June 26, 1936 |
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Running time
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115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,300,000 |
| Box office | $2,868,000 (Domestic earnings) $2,405,000 (Foreign earnings) |
San Francisco is a 1936 musical-drama directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film, which was the top-grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy. The then very popular singing of MacDonald helped make this film a hit, coming on the heels of her other 1936 blockbuster, Rose Marie. Famous silent film directors D. W. Griffith and Erich von Stroheim worked on the film without credit. Griffith directed some of the mob scenes while von Stroheim contributed to the screenplay.
The film opens with two men in boxing gloves and trunks sparring vigorously. They conclude their session and get dressed. One dons a natty suit, the other a priest's collar.
The first man is "Blackie" Norton (Clark Gable), a saloonkeeper and gambler. He owns the Paradise Club on Pacific Street in the notorious Barbary Coast. The other is Blackie's childhood friend, Father Tim Mullen (Spencer Tracy, a Roman Catholic priest.
Blackie hires Mary Blake (Jeanette MacDonald), a promising, but impoverished, classically trained singer from Benson, Colorado. She becomes a star attraction at the Paradise, especially for singing "San Francisco" (a song composed for the movie, which became the city's unofficial anthem). The club piano player, "The Professor" (Al Shean), can tell Mary has a professionally trained voice. Mat (Ted Healy), Blackie's good friend at the Paradise, wisely predicts that Mary is not going to stay on the "Coast".
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