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The 1906 San Francisco earthquake is the historical background for San Francisco, a 1936 movie romance film between a gambling hall tycoon, played by Clark Gable
, and a promising but poor singer, portrayed by singer Jeanette MacDonald
. Spencer Tracy
, playing a supporting role as a priest, used this film as a career accelerator by knocking Gable down during a boxing match. The then very popular singing voice of Jeanette MacDonald
in the female lead also helped make this film into a hit.

The title song, composed by Walter Jurmann and Bronislaw Kaper, is sung by the Jeanette MacDonald character a half-dozen times in the film, and becomes in the end an anthem for survivors of the earthquake. It is now a popular sentimental sing-along at public events such as the city's annual earthquake commemoration. Judy Garland
popularized another version of the song with additional lyrics.

Gable plays a jaunty atheist throughout the film until the very end, when he "finds God" upon discovering that MacDonald's character survived the earthquake after all.

The received only a single Oscar: It was nominated for five others:
  • Best Picture - John Emerson and Bernard H. Hyman, producers
  • Best Actor in a Leading Role - Spencer Tracy
  • Best Assistant Director - Joseph M. Newman
  • Best Director - W.S. Van Dyke
  • Best Writing, Original Story - Robert E. Hopkins
Category:1936 films Category:Disaster movies Category:The Salvation Army in Films Category:Best Picture Oscar Nominee Category:Best Actor Oscar Nominee (film)

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Some related entries: Claire Sweeney | Marie Liljedahl | Peter Byrne | Morris Chestnut | Ed Flanders | Gladiator | Lina Alva | The King and I | Peter Diamond | Betty Lou Gerson | Joshua Shelley

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