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Jeanette MacDonald's older sister, Blossom Rock, signed with MGM and was given the name Marie Blake. [...]	D
When Jack offers Blackie a cigar, Blackie notes that it is a Cameo. This is one that was introduced [...]	D
The success of this film convinced Darryl F. Zanuck to set up his own disaster movie at 20th Century [...]	D
There are at least three ties to the Marx Brothers in this film. First, Al Schoen, their uncle, play [...]	D
San Francisco has a rich history of operatic tradition. Performances by many entertainers began duri [...]	D
Spencer Tracy initially had qualms about appearing in this film because he was unsure about playing [...]	D
Spencer Tracy, playing a priest, makes a note to himself in one scene, "That Rooney kid skipped mass [...]	D
The song "San Francisco", which was written for this film, is now a popular anthem in the city and i [...]	D
Despite its realistic portrayal of the San Francisco earthquake, this film did not win the Academy A [...]	D
This film is included among the American Film Institute's 2002 list of 400 nominated for the top 100 [...]	D
This film is included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 nominated for the top 100 [...]	D
The character of Blackie Norton was inspired by Wilson Mizner, a fellow writer of Robert E. Hopkins [...]	D
The scene in which Gable makes his pitch for MacDonald to "take me the way that I am" is written and [...]	D
In the film, Blackie Norton (Clark Gable) runs for the office of Supervisor in San Francisco, the sa [...]	D
When he was awarded Best Sound Recording at the Academy Awards for this film, Douglas Shearer (Norma [...]	D
This was Robert J. Wilke's film debut.	D
The song Jeanette MacDonald sings, entitled "Would You", would be later be sung by Debbie Reynolds's [...]	D
Before filming his first love scene with Jeanette MacDonald, whom he did not like and did not enjoy [...]	D
Jeanette MacDonald's commercial recording of the title song was not recorded nor released commercial [...]	D
Prologue: "San Francisco--guardian of the Golden Gate--stands today a Queen among seaports--industri [...]	D
This film is one of four produced in a two-year span that climaxed with high-profile disaster sequen [...]	D
Mary tells Blackie that opera had been around for 150 years or so. In fact, it had been around for s [...]	D
Perhaps a response by Fox to this film, the following year's L'incendio di Chicago (1938) is quite r [...]	D
Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald did not get along at all during filming, and avoided each other c [...]	D
This film and another MGM hit, Il paradiso delle fanciulle (1936), were the two top-grossing films o [...]	D
This film earned Spencer Tracy the first of his nine Oscar nominations.	D
While writers Anita Loos and Robert E. Hopkins considered W.S. Van Dyke a director of considerable t [...]	D
When they made this film, Gable was the #2 ranked box office star in America and MacDonald was 9th, [...]	D
The dress Jeanette MacDonald wears while singing "Would You" was reworn by Judy Garland in For Me an [...]	D
The official death toll of the San Francisco earthquake was about 700 but it is believed that the ac [...]	D
Clark Gable got along with Spencer Tracy. They were close in age, both liked to tie one on, and they [...]	D
This film was designed as a vehicle for Jeanette MacDonald while her regular singing partner, Nelson [...]	D
Erich von Stroheim, who had been unceremoniously fired from MGM many years earlier, contributed addi [...]	D
The entire shoot took place on MGM soundstages and the studio backlot.	D
This film included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 movies nominated for the top [...]	D
One of Mary's opera gowns was later used for "Glinda the Good Witch of the North" in Il mago di Oz ( [...]	D
A single fire hydrant still worked in San Francisco after the earthquake. It was located at 20th and [...]	D
Clark Gable hated the final scene where he breaks down, and insisted on being filmed from behind whi [...]	D
To create the destructive nature of the earthquake, entire sets were built on hydraulic lifts and sh [...]	D
This film was the first of three in three successive years which were nominated for the Best Picture [...]	D
Al Shean (born Adolph Schoenberg), who plays the Professor, was half of one of the most popular team [...]	D
Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy would go on to make two other films together, Arditi dell'aria (1938) [...]	D
Clark Gable did not want to make this film but he was at the mercy of MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer [...]	D
Jeanette MacDonald personally chose Spencer Tracy for the second male lead. Previously he had mainly [...]	D
Jeanette MacDonald brought Anita Loos' screenplay to the attention of MGM head Irving Thalberg, with [...]	D
The comment that Spencer Tracy makes about the "Rooney kid" is an ad-lib (watch Jeanette MacDonald's [...]	D
At 14 minutes and 58 seconds, Spencer Tracy's performance in this film is the shortest ever to be no [...]	D
The film boasts an unusually large number of players who appeared in silent films: Clark Gable, Jack [...]	D
Superstar Jeanette MacDonald scored another big hit for MGM in 1936 Rose-Marie (1936), with Nelson E [...]	D
D.W. Griffith directed several scenes without ever being credited as the film was also his last one [...]	D
This film took 52 days to shoot at a cost of $1.3 million--an expensive one for its day.	D
The process-server is played by Edgar Kennedy. He, along with his brother, Tom, was a familiar face [...]	D

Connessioni

El crimen del cine Oriente	D
The Immigrants	D
Il sosia innamorato	D
Stars of the Silver Screen: Spencer Tracy	D
Sven Uslings Bio: San Francisco	D
You Must Remember This: MGM Stories Part 9: Spencer Tracy	D
The Carol Burnett Show: Episode #11.2	D
Nelson and Jeanette	D
You Must Remember This: MGM Stories Part 1: Louis B. Mayer vs. Irving Thalberg	D
This Theatre and You	D
Toast of the Town: MGM's 30th Anniversary Tribute	D
Forgotten Treasure	D
I film: The Golden Age	D
Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths	D
Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership	D
Discovering Film: Spencer Tracy	D
Hollywood: The Dream Factory	D
Some of the Best	D
What Price Safety!	D
Cantando sotto la pioggia	D
Avventura al Cairo	D
Number 96: Episode #1.682	D
The Immigrants	D
L'ultimo tycoon: Oscar, Oscar, Oscar	D
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind	D
Co-Ed Fever	D
MGM Greatest Moments: A Video Sampler	D
Ma chi me l'ha fatto fare!	D
The Woman Who Married Clark Gable	D
Colombo: I cospiratori	D
Gli ultimi fuochi	D
Northward, Ho!	D
Movies Are Adventure	D
Gioco sleale	D
La piccola grande Nell: Herbie	D
The Green Fog	D
Das Leben geht weiter	D
Legendy mirovogo kino: Jeanette MacDonald	D
Precious Images	D
100 Years at the Movies	D
No Budget Story	D
Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema: Disaster Movies	D
Joaquin Murrieta	D
Diabolico complotto del Dr. Fu Manchu	D
Hired Gun	D
Quo Vadis	D
The Phantom of Hollywood	D

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When Blackie is looking at the facade of a building crumbling, the giant hand of an FX technician br [...]	D
As Jack Burley walks past a piano backstage at the opera, there is a copy of "The Hollywood Reporter [...]	D
As Blackie walks away from a building being blown up (actually a process shot), Clark Gable's head b [...]	D
After the Earthquake, the driver of a Salvation Army wagon tells Blackie Norton that he is heading t [...]	D
When Mary Blake is singing with the Boys Choir; the orientation of the boys as well as the placement [...]	D
When Blackie asks Mary the name of the song that they are dancing to; she answers, "Would You". Howe [...]	D
The earthquake actually occurred at 5:13 am. In the movie the timing appears to be in the late eveni [...]	D
When Blackie turns off the light in his bedroom; the room goes very dark including his image in the [...]	D
The song "Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here!", heard during New Year's Eve, was not written until 1917 [...]	D
The 'highbrow number' sung by Mary Blake while Blackie Norton entertains Jack Burley and Signor Bald [...]	D
At the beginning of the film when the building is on fire; there is a boy on the left and a girl on [...]	D
When Blackie snatches the necklace from his employee; he hands it back to her with his left hand. Ho [...]	D
Many set elements were quite obviously flats. This includes columns in the lyric hall, a fixture han [...]	D

Frase

Mary Blake: I'm going to stay. Father Mullin: Tha [...]	D
Jack Burley: One never knows where one's gonna fin [...]	D
[pointing at necklace] Blackie Norton: Hey. I tho [...]	D
Blackie Norton: [after Mary finishes singing for h [...]	D
Mat: [to a bartender] "Everyone to his own taste," [...]	D
Blackie Norton: I want to thank God. What do I hav [...]	D
Jack Burley: Did you ever hear of Puccini, Norton? [...]	D
Blackie Norton: [referring to her skittishness at [...]	D
Blackie Norton: [congratulating Mary after her ope [...]	D
Jack Burley: [referring to Mary Blake] Well, there [...]	D
opening title card: San Francisco - guardian of th [...]	D
Waiter at Chicken's Ball: [referring to the earthq [...]	D
Blackie Norton: That process server is the meanest [...]	D
Blackie Norton: Well sister, what's your racket? [...]	D
Mary Blake: Hello, Della. I'm glad to see you agai [...]	D

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