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...

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

Forget the legend. Monument Valley wasn’t unknown to Hollywood before 1939’s Stagecoach , and director John Ford only “discovered” it in th...

Monument Valley and Sedona share a unique distinction – thanks to the movies, both symbolize “the West” in the American subconscious and to ...

Exciting news! I just learned that my book  Arizona's Little Hollywood  is a finalist in the Contemporary Nonfiction category for the 20...

To the Last Ma n star Richard Dix at Arizona's Mogollon Rim. It was probably in the late teens that Zane Grey began work on what wou...

Arizona’s Little Hollywood , the definitive history of the starring role Sedona played in the movies, focuses on the high desert country tha...

Cattlemen Karl Malden, Charles Grey and William C. Bryant (rear) go gunning for sheepherders – and maybe a few MGM suits – in Wild Rovers....

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...

Catch a film ­featuring our red rock scenery on TV: Wild Rovers (1971, filmed in Flagstaff, Sedona and Monument Valley) starring William H...

Catch a film ­featuring our red rock scenery on TV: Wild Rovers (1971, filmed in Flagstaff, Sedona and Monument Valley) starring William Ho...

Every one of Dennis Hopper’s obituaries acknowledged the greatest achievement of his long Hollywood career: Easy Rider , the landmark (and d...

The Criterion Collection’s Blu-ray release of John Ford’s Stagecoach is a keeper––the film looks better than it has in decades and the disc...