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 ...

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...

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 An unpublished pearl of...

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...

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...

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

In 1948, popular folksinger Burl Ives was one of the main selling points for RKO Radio Pictures when it was promoting Station West , the par...

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...

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...

Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford tip their hats to Hope Holiday and Sue Ane Langdon. Despite its “naughty” (for 1965) nude scenes, the biggest ...

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

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, ...

10-year-old Jerry Hartleben in 3:10 to Yuma with Van Heflin and Leora Dana. The original version of 3:10 to Yuma spent two days in Sed...

Russell Crowe (as outlaw Ben Wade) and Peter Fonda in 2007’s 3:10 to Yuma . "You know, I think Sedona was considered as one of our ...