The Hoppy we have to thank for this movie is Bob Hopkins. Bernie Hyman the producer was in conference when Bob Hopkins poked his hed in the door pointed at Hyman and said
"Jeanette Macdonald is a dance hall girl, Clark Gable her boss and Spencer Tracy is a priest.... they all get caught in the effing San Francisco earthquake. Call it San Francisco and you're IN."
Hoppy was not a writer, not a gagmen but what we would call today a genius of 'high concept, the one sentence pitch. This movie is his vision.
Review of San Francisco
