San Francisco (Introducing first appearance movies of songs sung in "Singin' in the Rain" ①)

I am Japanese. I write this blog not only in Japanese but also in English. But I'm not good at English very much, so I think that there are many mistakes in my English. I appropriate your understanding.

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In "Singin' in the Rain", the song "Would You?" is sung by Don and Rina (dubbed by Kathy) in second half of this movie, the scene of preview of film.

This song appealed in the MGM's movie which title is "San Francisco" for the first time. "San Francisco" was released in 1936. Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald are starring.

"Would You?" is not main theme song in this movie. It is one of a lot of songs sung in this movie.

But, this song is sung in this movie twice (I'm sorry as if I remember times by mistake). And one scene this song is sung have a little humor. I smiled to see the scene.

The theme song of the movie "San Francisco" is "San Francisco". Jeanette MacDonald sings this song many times in the movie. This song is bright and memorable. I heard that this song is one of the San Francisco city's songs.

I'll show you about the story of this movie a little.

Mary, acted by Jeanette MacDonald become a singer who sings at the bar run by Blackie act by Clark Gable. Mary sings every day at the Blackie's bar with a dream of to be an opera singer.

Blackie have a hard affection for Mary. Mary doesn't accept his affection at first. But Mary become to have an affection for Blackie little by little. Then, the chance to be an opera singer comes to Mary......

In the last half of this movie, a certain occurrence which actually happened at San Francisco in 1906 makes the story move.  I didn't know about this occurrence due to ignorance. The expressive style about this occurrence in this movie surprised me because of its force. I thought "how did they shot such scenes in the old days?"

The managing method about this occurrence to prevent the spread of the secondly damage in those days is also shot in this movie. The outcome of the method is wanted by nobody. But that was the only way. I felt regret to watch these scenes.

The last scene which has a lot of hope to live every day to the future impressed my heart.

 "San Francisco", the first appearance movie of "Would You?", the song sung in "Singin' in the Rain", please check out!

See you again!

Postscript

地名が出てくる映画の曲リスト　The List of movie songs appear place name in its lyrics - ゴッチャンポッチの映画とゲームとその他と (hatenablog.com)

↑I also mentioned "San Francisco" in this article of my own another blog,"Hatena Blog". 

I listed "San Fransisco" as the songs in whose lyrics place name appear.  I'm glad if you read it. (External link to Hatena Blog, Japanese blog service. I write this article in English too)