You're a Sweetheart If there Ever Was One"

This is a line of dialogue Blackie says to Della at the Chicken Ball, just a few minutes before the earthquake. It's just a throwaway line of dialogue but curiously, a year later there was a song written with that exact title written by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson. It was written for a 1937 Fox film starring alice Faye called "You're a Sweetheart".

By the way, others have discussed the end of the film with different versions of the modern San Francisco rising from the ruins. The version I always remembered contained a shot of the Golden Gate Bridge under construction. Not this time. On TCM today, April 3, 2015 it dissolved into what looked like a matt painting of San Francisco from the late 30s or 40s. No view of the bridge in this print.

One more comment about the song "San Francisco" written by Bronislau Kaper just one year after coming to the United States. What a guy! To come to a new land, not speaking the language, not being familiar with the culture and writing a hit song that has become a standard, speaks of an amazing talent. Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics.