Film Friday: «San Francisco» (1936)
This week on "Film Friday" I am celebrating Jeanette MacDonald's 113th birthday, which happens to be tomorrow. While I have only seen three of her films so far, one of them — this one — also features two of my favorite actors of the classic Hollywood era, Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, hence why I decided to tell you a little bit about it today. Original release poster Directed by W. S. Van Dyke, San Francisco (1936) follows Blackie Norton (Clark Gable), the rough-and-tumble own er of the Paradise , a saloon in the notorious Barbary Coast in 1906. He hires down-on-her-luck singer Mary Bla ke (Jeanette MacDonald), w ho soon b ecomes a sensation at the Paradise . Angered by the consequences of a recent fire, a group of citizens urge Blackie to run for city supervisor and a ttempt to get a fire or dinance passed that wo uld condemn many Barbar y Coast, but would save lives . En couraged by his ch ildhood friend, Father Tim Mullin (Spencer Tracy), Blackie ...