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-...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

To promote  Indian Uprising (released in 1951, long before the dawn of political correctness) ,  Columbia Pictures flacks suggested theater ...

George “Gabby” Hayes with Karolyn Grimes  (hopefully not too soon after his buttermilk and cornbread lunch) Now all grown up, actress Kar...

Karolyn Grimes on the Albuquerqu e set During the mid- to late 1940s, Karolyn Grimes was one of Hollywood’s busiest child actors. She ma...

Since its publication last year, the chapter in my book  Arizona’s Little Hollywood  that’s raised the most eyebrows is the one that reveale...

Anthony Edwards and Linda Fiorentino in Gotcha! (1985) DAN: “The first successful movie I wrote was called Tank . It was with Jim Garne...

Screenwriter Dan Gordon has written the scripts for some of Hollywood’s most popular films, including Passenger 57 , Wyatt Earp , Murder in...

James Stewart confers with Italian-American “Indian” Iron Eyes Cody in Sedona. Suspicious PR item from the pressbook for Broken Arrow , f...

Silent movie star Richard Dix listens to the radio––still a technological marvel at the time––while filming Redskin on northern Arizona’s re...

Ernest Borgnine, Ben Cooper, Frank Marlowe, Royal Dano, Joan Crawford, and Scott Brady in Johnny Guitar (1954). An unpublished pearl of...

In 1977, spiders – and William Shatner – invaded Camp Verde, Arizona, for the filming of the B horror movie Kingdom of the Spiders . It’s a ...

That’s how clever studio flacks (not New Agers fearful of cataclysm in 2012) described the view from Sedona’s Schnebly Hill in the caption o...

John Mitchum in Noises Off . When Cindy Mitchum Azbill’s father, actor, singer and poet John Mitchum, passed away in 2001, she had the id...

“Father of Film” D.W. Griffith (right) presents the 1946 Oscar for Best Color Cinematography to Leon Shamroy for his work on Leave Her to He...