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

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...

“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...

Bad news, Sedona movie fans. The Russian film archive Gosfilmofond’s much-heralded gift to the U.S. of a digital copy of The Call of the Ca...

A sketch of a costume designed by Edith Head and intended to be worn by Hedy Lamarr in a sequence in Paramount's Sedona-filmed Copper Ca...

There’s no record of any complaints from Golden State historical societies or politicians when most of the advertising materials Paramount c...

Paramount Pictures went on to make 52 more films based on Zane Grey stories over the next 17 years, but  To the Last Man , unlike  The Vanis...

Famous Players-Lasky PR claimed that while filming To the Last Man in Tonto Basin “Richard Dix hunted down a wildcat that had been harass...

Richard Dix stands triumphant following a Last Man barroom brawl, as uncredited Charles Ogle (far right) looks on. Ogle was the first act...

Last Ma n mountain girl Ellen Jorth (Lois Wilson) gets a kick out of store-bought footwear. Working in the great outdoors can be hazard...

To the Last Man began approximately four weeks of location filming in spring 1923. The company of 49 film workers and 53 pack animals arriv...

In 1921, Zane Grey bought three acres of land on Anderson Lee “Babe” Haught’s homestead in Arizona’s Tonto Basin to build a hunting cabin. “...

Lois Wilson and Richard Dix on location at Tonto Basin. Surviving Famous Players-Lasky press materials have left us with a pretty good id...

Lois Wilson in costume for To the Last Man . To the Last Man ’s top-billed Lois Wilson would also play the lead female roles in  The Cal...

Filming To the L ast Man at Tonto Basin in 1923 are (standing, from left) unknown, James Wong Howe, Richard Dix, Lois Wilson and Victor F...

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...

The most enduring Sedona legend surrounding  Angel and the Badman  is that John Wayne and Gail Russell had a love affair during local filmin...

Paramount Pictures staff songwriters Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, who would pen the Doris Day hit “Que Será Será” and hummable theme songs ...