Nob Hill is a 1945 Technicolor film about a Barbary Coast, San Francisco, United States saloon keeper, starring George Raft and Joan Bennett.

Tony falls for Nob Hill socialite Harriet Carruthers and agrees to support her brother, Lash, who is a candidate for district attorney.

In March 1943, producer Harry Sherman announced he had purchased an original screen story, Crocus Hill by Eleanore Griffin, about a ten-year-old Irish girl in 1860s San Francisco; she arrives to discover her uncle is dead and gets adopted by a gambler because she is good luck.

[4] 20th Century Fox had a lot of success making Technicolor musicals set during America's past, including Coney Island (1943) and Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943).

Norman Reilly Raine was going to write the script, Andre Daven would produce and the film would be a vehicle for Peggy Ann Garner, who had just impressed in Jane Eyre.

[6] Eventually the male starring role was assigned to Fred MacMurray with Gregory Ratoff to direct and Lynn Bari and Merle Oberon to be the female leads along with Garner.

Zanuck allowed Hathaway to make some key changes, including reducing the amount of musical interludes, and removing a sequence that made fun of a Chinese servant.