Robert Hopkins (screenwriter)
Robert Evans " Hoppy " Hopkins ( born September 21, 1886 in Ottawa, Kansas, † 22 December 1966 in Hollywood, California ) was an American screenwriter who was nominated once for an Academy Award for best original story.
Life
Hopkins began his career in the film industry in Hollywood as a writer of intertitles of silent movies like The rag pickers ( The Rag Man, 1925) by Edward F. Kline with Lydia Yeamans Titus, Ethel Wales and Robert Edeson in the lead roles. He wrote the screenplays to 1937, and templates for forty more films and wrote especially for Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer dialogues for well-known actors such as Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, William Powell and Myrna Loy.
At the Academy Awards in 1937, he was nominated for the Academy Award for best original story, and indeed for the movie San Francisco ( 1936) by WS Van Dyke with Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy as the main character.
Hopkins was at times married to actress and singer Grace Hayes and thereby stepfather of their son Peter Lind Hayes, who was also an actor and singer.