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San Francisco

6.5

Released June 26, 1936Runtime 1h 55min

She Fell In Love . . . with the toughest guy on the toughest street in the world!

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Music

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Countries

United States of America

Finances

Budget: $1,300,000
Revenue: $5,273,000
Profit/Loss: $3,973,000

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Cast

Clark GableBlackie Norton

Jeanette MacDonaldMary Blake

Spencer TracyFather Tim Mullin

Jack HoltJack Burley

Jessie RalphMrs. Maisie Burley

Ted HealyMat

Shirley RossTrixie

Margaret IrvingDella Bailey

Harold Huber'Babe'

Edgar KennedySheriff

Al SheanProfessor

William RicciardiSignor Baldini

Kenneth Harlan'Chick'

Roger Imhof'Alaska'

Charles JudelsTony

Russell Simpson'Red' Kelly

Bert RoachFreddie Duane

Warren HymerHazeltine

Adrienne D'AmbricourtMadame Albani (uncredited)

Gertrude AstorDrunk's Girl (uncredited)

Irving BaconPicnicker (uncredited)

King BaggotEarthquake Survivor (uncredited)

Margaret BertSalvation Army Nurse (uncredited)

Sidney BraceyBurley's Butler Allen (uncredited)

G. Pat CollinsBartender (uncredited)

Nigel De BrulierEarthquake Survivor (uncredited)

Vernon DentFat Man (uncredited)

Tom DuganDrunk (uncredited)

John GeorgeCustodian at Blackie Norton's (uncredited)

D.W. GriffithOrchestra Conductor (uncredited)

Bronislau KaperConductor (uncredited)

Frank MayoDealer (uncredited)

Tom McGuireBartender (uncredited)

John 'Skins' MillerMan on Stretcher (uncredited)

James MurrayEarthquake Survivor (uncredited)

William H. O'BrienWaiter at Chicken's Ball (uncredited)

Dennis O'KeefeNew Year's Celebrant (uncredited)

Lillian RichNun (uncredited)

William Ripley DorrChoir (uncredited)

Jason Robards Sr.Father (uncredited)

Frank SheridanFounders' Club Member (uncredited)

Harry StrangSoldier (uncredited)

Ben TaggartCop (uncredited)

Dorothy VernonNew Years Eve Reveler (uncredited)

Rosemary ThebyEarthquake Survivor (uncredited)

Madame Sul-Te-WanEarthquake Survivor (Uncredited)

Crew

W.S. Van DykeDirector

D.W. GriffithSecond Assistant Director

Anita LoosScreenplay

Robert E. HopkinsStory

Herman J. MankiewiczWriter

W.S. Van DykeProducer

Bernard H. HymanProducer

John EmersonProducer

Edwin B. WillisAssistant Art Director

Harry McAfeeAssistant Art Director

AdrianCostume Design

Oliver T. MarshDirector of Photography

Edward WardMusic

Tom HeldEditor

Cedric GibbonsArt Direction

Herbert StothartMusic

John HoffmanSequence Artist

Douglas ShearerSound Director

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Reviews

I sometimes found Jeanette MacDonald to be a sort of singing hybrid of Bette Davis and Binnie Barnes! She reminds me very much of that here in this engaging, if slightly long, romantic tale set just before the infamous San Francisco earthquake. "Mary Blake" arrives in the city looking for a job and...