Arizona's Little Hollywood
Monday, December 27, 2010

How to Stampede

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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...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Blake Edwards: That’s Life!

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Cattlemen Karl Malden, Charles Grey and William C. Bryant (rear) go gunning for sheepherders – and maybe a few MGM suits – in Wild Rovers....
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Kayenta, Ariz., P.O. [was] Beside Itself With Arrival of Players

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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...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Gloria Henry: Catching Up with a Strawberry Gal

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Gloria Henry spent a week in Sedona filming 1948's  The Strawberry Roan  with singing cowboy Gene Autry. Henry, familiar to baby boomers...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Love on the Rocks?

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The most enduring Sedona legend surrounding  Angel and the Badman  is that John Wayne and Gail Russell had a love affair during local filmin...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

Sedona Movie Alert!

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Throughout the 1930s, Sedona was seen on screen as the setting for low-budget "B" Westerns. That all changed with 1940's  Virg...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Unsung Heroes

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Paramount Pictures staff songwriters Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, who would pen the Doris Day hit “Que Será Será” and hummable theme songs ...
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Arizona's Little Hollywood
Having played host to more than 60 Hollywood productions—from the early years of cinema through the 1970s—Sedona, Arizona’s unsung role in American film is the topic of this blog. Here, once and for all Sedona gets her due as a key location in movie history, a silent but stunning backdrop to all genres of movies including silent films, B westerns, World War II propaganda, and film noir.
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