San Francisco
Starring: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Jeanette MacDonald
Director: D. W. Griffith, W. S. Van Dyke
Writer: Anita Loos, Robert Hopkins, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Producer: John Emerson, Bernard H. Hyman
San Francisco is a 1936 American musical-drama disaster film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy. MacDonald's singing helped make this film the highest grossing international hit of the year, coming on the heels of her other 1936 blockbuster, Rose Marie.
Trivia
- Won the Academy Award for Best Sound.
- Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture; Academy Award for Best Actor; Academy Award for Best Director; Academy Award for Best Story.
- The earthquake montage sequence was created by Slavko Vorkapich, but the montage of effects was credited to Vokapich's collaborator and second unit director John Hoffman.
- The Barbary Coast barroom set was built on a special platform that rocked and shook to simulate the historic tremor (similar sets were built for the 1974 disaster film Earthquake for an office building, bar, and seismology institute).
- Famous silent film directors D. W. Griffith and Erich von Stroheim worked on the film without credit.
Filming Locations
- San Francisco
Previous Showings
6 Runs • 3 Festivals
4,707 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (July 12, 1936)
Original Run: July 12, 1936 (Sunday - Friday)
All runs on record (6):
- July 12, 1936 (Sunday - Friday)Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald
- September 5 - 7, 1990 · 1,400 ticketsw/ The Merry Widow (1934)
- July 7, 1994 · 344 ticketsw/ Red Dust
- March 31, 2001 · 827 ticketsWinter 2001w/ Big Broadcast of 1936
- July 30 - August 1, 2008 · 1,128 ticketsSummer 2008 Bette Davis, James Stewart, silent films and more!w/ Show Boat
- February 28 - March 1, 2026 · 1,008 ticketsMusicals, plus Bob Hopew/ 42nd Street