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Line 40: In 1936, director [[Woody Van Dyke]] who had worked as Griffith's apprentice on ''[[Intolerance (1916 movie)\|Intolerance]]'', asked Griffith to help him shoot the famous earthquake sequence for ''[[San Francisco (film)\|San Francisco]]''. Though Griffith was uncredited, the [[Clark Gable]] - [[Jeanette MacDonald]] - [[Spencer Tracy]] blockbuster was the top-grossing film of the year.<ref>[[1936 in film]]</ref> In 1939, producer [[Hal Roach]] hired Griffith to produce ''[[Of Mice and Men (1939 film)\|Of Mice and Men]]'' (1939) and ''[[One Million B.C.]]'' (1940), writing to him, "I need help from the production side to select the proper writers, cast, etc. and to help me generally in the supervision of these pictures."<ref>Richard Lewis Ward, ''A History of the Hal Roach Studios'', p. 109-110. Southern Illinois University, 2005. ISBN 080932637X. In his [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company\|Biograph]] days, Griffith had directed two films with prehistoric settings: ''Man's Genesis'' (1912), and ''Brute Force'' (1913).</ref> Although Griffith eventually disagreed with Roach over the production and parted, Roach later insisted that some of the scenes in the completed film were directed by Griffith. This would make the film the final production in which Griffith was actively involved. However, cast members recall Griffith directing only the [[screen test]]s and costume tests. When Roach advertised the film in late 1939 with Griffith listed as producer, Griffith asked that his name be removed.<ref>Ward, p. 110.</ref> ==Death==