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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:

Best Sound, Recording - Douglas Shearer
(M-G-M SSD)

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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