After initial premiere, the manager of the Paramount Theater in San Francisco added to the downbeat ending a few shots showing the Golden Gate Bridge being built. Seeing the positive public reaction, MGM decided to have the sequence added to all other prints in release.
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When the film was re-released in 1948, the Golden Gate Bridge had already been completed by a decade, so MGM decided to remove that sequence from the ending because it was thought to be anachronistic.