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Released June 26, 1936
Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
MGM
115.2 min. (Feature Film)

Mary Blake, an aspiring opera singer, arrives in San Francisco with a dream to perform at the Tivio Opera House, but has to take a job at the Paradise, Blackie Norton's successful nightclub in the roughest section of the Barbary Coast. Blackie made his fortune by being tough, but never corrupt, thanks in large part to his childhood friend and conscience, Father Tim Mullin. Norton is at first infatuated by Mary, and then upset to realize that he may have real feelings for her when society patron Jack Burley, owner of the Tivio, also falls in love with her. Burley wants to buy-out her Paradise contract. Although Mary is in love with Blackie, she's willing to settle on a life with Jack so she can avoid the rough and corrupt Barbary Coast life. Mary is caught in the middle as Jack and Blackie go to war, just before the devastating 1906 earthquake hits San Francisco.

Healy stooges Sammy Wolfe (Sammy Glasser), Red Pearson and Jimmy Brewster appeared as Mat's stooges, but their screen time was deleted in editing before SAN FRANCISCO's release.

View a re-issue theatrical trailer at TCM.com

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Avg. Rating: [8.80/10]
 
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Clark Gable
Blackie Norton

Spencer Tracy
Father Tim Mullin

Jack Holt
Jack Burley

Jessie Ralph
Maisie Burley

Margaret Irving
Della Bailey

Bert Roach
Freddy Duane

Roger Imhof
Alaska Joe Kelso

Al Shean
Professor Hansen

William Ricciardi
Signor Baldini

Edgar Kennedy
Sheriff Jim

Jane Barnes
Girl in fire

Dennis O'Keefe
New Year's celebrant

Charles Sullivan
Fire spectator

Sherry Hall
New Years well wisher

Beatrice Roberts
Mrs. Forrestal

Harry Myers
Mr. Forrestal

Vince Barnett
Drunk from Los Angeles

Don Rowan
Barbary Coast type

Gertrude Astor
Drunk's girlfriend

Chester Gan
Jowl Lee

Tom McGuire
Paradise bartender

Cy Kendall
Paradise headwaiter

Sammy McKim
Choirboy

Jerry Tucker
Choirboy

Jack Kennedy
Mike, Irishman in church

Bill Wolfe
Parishioner

Edward Hearn
Parishioner

Warren Hymer
Hazeltine

Vernon Dent
Dancing fat man

Irving Bacon
Picnicker

Homer Hall
Founders Club member

Delos Jewkes
Founders Club member

Richard Carle
Founders Club member

Frank Sheridan
Founders Club member

Ralph Lewis
Founders Club member

Oscar Apfel
Founders Club member

Belle Mitchell
Louise, Mary's maid

Naomi Childers
Woman in Burley's opera box

Bronislau Kaper
Tivio orchestra leader

Tudor Williams
'Mephistopheles'

John Kelly
Kelly, stagehand

Maude Allen
Opera attendee

Sidney Bracey
Allen, the Burley butler

Tom Mahoney
Charlie, Police Captain

Ben Taggart
Policeman

Tommy Bupp
Bill, newsboy

Douglas McPhail
Tenor in 'La Traviata', voice

Henry Roquemore
Lyric Hall drunk

William H. O'Brien
Lyric Hall waiter

Anthony Jowitt
Lyric Hall guest

Nyas Berry
Lyric Hall dancer

Mae Digges
Lyric Hall dancer

Orrin Burke
Della's Lyric Hall date

Ben Hall
Man praying

G. Pat Collins
Steve, Lyric Hall bartender

Bud Geary
Man restraining Blackie

George Magrill
Presidio Marine

Harry Strang
Soldier on Nob Hill

Carl Stockdale
Salvation Army man

Margaret Bert
Salvation Army nurse

Flora Finch
Earthquake extra

Rosemary Theby
Earthquake extra

James Murray
Earthquake extra

Amber Norman
Earthquake extra

Fay Helm
Earthquake extra

Donald Hall
Earthquake extra

Fritzi Brunette
Earthquake extra

Robert J. Wilke
Earthquake extra

Edward Earle
Earthquake extra

Tony Beard
Earthquake extra

Myrtle Stedman
Earthquake extra

Rhea Mitchell
Earthquake extra

Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Earthquake extra

Ruth Gillette
Earthquake extra

Mahlon Hamilton
Earthquake extra

Helene Chadwick
Earthquake extra

King Baggot
Earthquake extra

Helen Shipman
Earthquake extra

Jean Acker
Earthquake extra

George Guhl
Earthquake extra

Wilbur Mack
Bartender

John George
Paradise janitor

Jim Farley
Policeman

D. W. Griffith
'San Francisco' conducter

Spec O'Donnell
Man searching in rubble

William Newell
Man in breadline

John 'Skins' Miller
Man on stretcher

Edgar Edwards
Young earthquake survivor

James Macklin
Young man

Sam Ash
Orchestra leader

Bing Connolly
Show spectator

George Nardelli
Show spectator

James Dime
Show spectator

Hans Moebus
Show spectator

Jimmy Brewster
Waiter / Mat's stooge, scene deleted

Sammy Wolfe
Waiter / Mat's stooge, scene deleted

Red Pearson
Waiter / Mat's stooge, scene deleted


John Emerson
Producer

Anita Loos
Screenplay

Oliver T. Marsh
Photography

Tom Held
Film Editor

Douglas Shearer
Recording Director

Cedric Gibbons
Art Director

Arnold Gillespie
Associate Art Director

Edwin B. Willis
Associate Art Director

Harry McAfee
Associate Art Director

Joseph M. Newman
Assistant Director

Willard Sheldon
Assistant Director

D. W. Griffith
2nd Unit Director

Cliff Shirpser
Assistant Cameraman

Herbert Stothart
Musical Director

Edward Ward
Original Music

Nacio Herb Brown
Original Music

Walter Jurmann
Music and Lyrics

Bronislau Kaper
Music and Lyrics

Gus Kahn
Lyrics

Adrian
Gowns

William Von Wymetal
Choreographer

Val Raset
Choreographer

Russell A. Cully
Special Effects

Slavko Vorkapich
Special Effects

James Basevi
Special Effects

John Hoffman
Montage Sequences

Loyal Griggs
Effects Photographer


















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