Arizona's Little Hollywood
Monday, April 23, 2012

"Lightning" Deal

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Smoke Lightning had a two day run at Fredonia, New York’s Winter Garden Theatre in May 1933, but the headline attraction wasn’t all-...
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Monday, February 6, 2012

Twin Beauts

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Bet this photo grabbed your attention! The babe is Irish McCalla, 5' 9 1/2" pin-up glamazon and future star of TV's Sheena, Que...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

Stock Answers

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Richard Dix and Lois Wilson in 1925's  The Vanishing American... Between 1923 and 1928, Paramount Pictures released almost a dozen fi...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Sedona's Citizen Welles, Part 3

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Orson Welles and cinematographer Greg Toland at work on Citizen Kane. Orson Welles lived in Sedona for nearly two years in the ’70s. His...
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Monday, January 16, 2012

Sedona's Citizen Welles, Part 2

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1941 Orson Welles publicity portrait for Citizen Kane . Filmmaker Orson Welles lived in Sedona from 1977 through 1978 with his wife and ...
Monday, January 9, 2012

Sedona's Citizen Welles, Part 1

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Beatrice Welles on Sedona’s Schnebly Hill, flanked by her father’s 1970 Academy Honorary Award “for superlative artistry and versatility i...
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Monday, December 26, 2011

Selective Short Subject

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MGM sent a film film crew to Sedona—its last to make the trip to Red Rock Country for twenty years—in May 1943 to photograph scenes for Roam...
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Arizona's Little Hollywood
Having played host to more than 60 Hollywood productions—from the early years of cinema through the 1970s—Sedona, Arizona’s unsung role in American film is the topic of this blog. Here, once and for all Sedona gets her due as a key location in movie history, a silent but stunning backdrop to all genres of movies including silent films, B westerns, World War II propaganda, and film noir.
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