VHS San Francisco Diamond Jubilee Collection Jeanette MacDonald Gable Clam Shell

VHS San Francisco Diamond Jubilee Collection Jeanette MacDonald Gable Clam Shell Determined to insure her reputation as a screen personality without a singing leading man, Jeanette MacDonald persuaded a skeptical Clark Bagle to star opposite her in the 1936 production of San Francisco. As an additional attraction, Spencer Tracy was cast as the sparring priest, Father Mullin. The result was a sensational drama of love and corruption, spiced with terrific musical numbers, and culminating in one of the most extraordinary disaster sequences in motion- picture history; the Earthquake of 1906. Blackie Norton (Gable), "king of the Barbary Coast" is proprietor of the riotous Paradise Saloon. Into his den of high-flying low life walks Mary Blake (MacDonald), looking to pursue a singing career. After "eyeballing" her legs and hearing her "pipes" Norton hires Mary, but soon their professional relationship develops into something far warmer. Just when their emotions reach a fever pitch, the whole of San Francisco cones tumbling down about their heads. The New York Times hailed San Francisco as "prodigally generous and completely satisfying." Indeed, when MacDonald signs the film's seductive hit number, "Would You?" and the rousing title song, you'll understand just why the critics raved. Thank you for viewing my Poshmark closet!