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-...

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

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

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...

Roy Rogers and Trigger greet Dale Evans, Beverly Lloyd and Peggy Stewart in a scene from Utah (1945) shot in Lone Pine’s Alabama Hills. ...

Even though Monument Valley has less than four minutes of screen time in Stagecoach , it made an indelible impression on Moviegoers in 1939...

I uncovered a lot of obscure facts while researching my book Arizona’s Little Hollywood , but one of the most unexpected finds was a gushing...

Don’t tell the top brass at Fox Film, but their 1933 Robbers’ Roost wasn’t the first adaption of Zane Grey’s novel for another medium; list...

The Outlaw’s Daughter is easily the most obscure Hollywood movie made in Sedona after 1950 – to this day most people have not seen it and, ...

Heroic George O'Brien protects Shirley Nail in Riders of the Purple Sage. Over the years, a number of reports in the Arizona press h...

Stampeding hundreds of wild horses for a movie is a piece of cake, right? Spook them with the sound of a sharp bang and away they go. But ho...

Movies weren’t the only fantasies churned out by Hollywood dream factories. Here’s a PR story issued by Fox Film (with factual annotations a...

Gloria Henry spent a week in Sedona filming 1948's  The Strawberry Roan  with singing cowboy Gene Autry. Henry, familiar to baby boomers...

Chances are good that if you live in Sedona, you don’t believe in coincidence. Just ask Jayne and Phil Feiner, who have lived in the Village...

Grace Bradley Boyd stepped off a train in Flagstaff on July 15, 1937, having just barely missed out on a rare treat  in those days – a Sedon...

Marge Champion is on the fence with Bob Baker in Honor of the West. 91 year-old dance legend Marge Champion will join Turner Classic Movi...

Cecilia Parker in cheesecake still promoting Universal Pictures' serial The Jungle Mystery . “If anything should happen to make me dr...

Hollywood may have turned O. Henry’s Cisco Kid into “The Robin Hood of the Old West,” but that’s not quite what the writer had in mind. Here...

If you’re under age 70, you may think “Tom Mix” is a frozen daiquiri flavoring product, but the name actually refers to Holly­wood’s onetime...

The Last of the Duanes star George O’Brien takes in the view from Sedona’s Schnebly Hill. Imagine having the opportunity to step back in ...