DVD review: 'The Wizard of Oz' Oct 31, 2009
e., Glinda the Good Witch's gown, worn by Billie Burke, was first used by Jeanette MacDonald in the 1936 film "San Francisco." Toto was played by a female cairn terrier named Terry). The collection also includes various silent movies based on the Frank L. Baum book, including the 1925 version. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Daily TV guide Jul 25, 2009
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S.F.'s signature weather, fog great for movies Jul 11, 2009
Incidentally, there's no fog, or at least none that I could spot, in "San Francisco," the 1936 earthquake movie with Jeanette MacDonald and Clark Gable. But then why should there have been. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Gossip Columnist Hedda Hopper Dishes Hollywood Dirt in "A Scandalous Affair" New York City Premiere, Merkin Hall, Sunday, April 19, 8:00 PM Apr 17, 2009
Hollywood's legendary gossip queen narrates the story of 1930s movie stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, as portrayed by Hallie Neill and Theodore Lambrinos ... New York, NY (PRWEB) April 17, 2009 -- Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy were the most successful crossover stars from opera to Hollywood ... She had access to hundreds of private love letters, diary entries and the unpublished memoirs of both Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy's mother. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Check out rep picks to see this weekend Apr 17, 2009
06 Quake Commemorative Evening Die-hard quake-o-philes will be up at 5:12 a.m.; a nap would be in order to catch the Castro's evening festivities, which begin at 7:15 p.m. with a champagne toast and live Barbary Coast music by Blackie Norton's Paradise Club Band and finish with an 8 p.m. screening of "San Francisco" (1936), with Clark Gable as a nightclub owner, Spencer Tracy as a priest and Jeanette MacDonald as a dance-hall girl. The real star, however, might be the MGM special effects... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
San Francisco, the movie Apr 13, 2009
Into their life comes Mary Blake (Jeanette MacDonald), a would-be opera singer from the sticks down on her luck. Blackie hires her to sing in his joint, then falls for her, as they used to say. (San Francisco Chronicle)
S.F.'s stories, style caught Hollywood's eye Apr 11, 2009
The most memorable moment in the 1936 musical "San Francisco" is Jeanette MacDonald belting out the lyric "San Francisco, open your golden gate." The song was introduced in this movie in which Clark Gable plays a wealthy saloon keeper in love with MacDonald, a singer who outclasses him in every department. They meet and romance right before the '06 quake. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The Way We Were Mar 29, 2009
For either part or all of the pre-Code era, Paramount had Carole Lombard, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Ruth Chatterton, William Powell, Maurice Chevalier, Kay Francis, Fredric March and Jeanette MacDonald (in her "lingerie queen" years) under contract. They also had some of Hollywood's finest directors: Josef von Sternberg, Rouben Mamoulian, Cecil B. DeMille and Ernst Lubitsch. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
