A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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Clark Gable
Blackie Norton
Jeanette MacDonald
Mary Blake
Spencer Tracy
Father Tim Mullin
Jack Holt
Jack Burley
Jessie Ralph
Mrs. Maisie Burley
Ted Healy
Mat
Shirley Ross
Trixie
Margaret Irving
Della Bailey
Harold Huber
'Babe'
Edgar Kennedy
Sheriff
Director
W.S. Van Dyke
Screenplay
Anita Loos
Tagline
"She Fell In Love . . . with the toughest guy on the toughest street in the world!"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$1,300,000
Revenue
$5,273,000
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
CinemaSerf
October 30, 2024
I sometimes found Jeanette MacDonald to be a sort of singing hybrid of Bette Davis and Binnie Barnes! She reminds me very much of that here in this engaging, if slightly long, romantic tale set just before the infamous San Francisco earthquake. "Mary Blake" arrives in the city looking for a job and she alights on the owner of the "Paradise Café". He's the suave and savvy "Blackie Norton" (Clark Ga...
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