Cemetery Mission San Franciso de Assisi

For many years after the movie "Vertigo" was made people flocked to the Mission to see the grave Kim Novak visited in that movie. The cemetery at Mission San Francisco never contained "Carlotta's Grave." That was a prop Alfred Hitchcock devised for his movie. Hitchcock's prop was left in place for a long time since so many people came to see it. Finally though, historians and purists insisted that it be removed. Do not visit the Mission today expecting to see Carlotta's grave.
 The cemetery does though include the graves of many of early California's notables, including James P. Casey, a member of the city's Board of Supervisors who was hanged by a vigilante committee. So much for politicians who displeased the electorate in 1856!