Arizona's Little Hollywood
Monday, January 31, 2011

Dressed for Duress

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Studios would take still photos of their actors in costumes to test the look of the wardrobe; here, we see Jane Wyman in one such test as Wa...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Love, the Second and Third Time Around

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Chill Wills Max Evans' 1960 novel The Rounders , filmed in Sedona by director Burt Kennedy and released by MGM in 1965, was the first...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Correction, Please

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His baby blues made playing a full-blooded Native American a concern when Burt Lancaster came to Sedona in ‘53 for Robert Aldrich’s Apache ,...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Morgan Woodward Revisits 'Firecreek'

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Firecreek gang Morgan Woodward, James Best, Jack Elam, and Gary Lockwood. During his 2005 visit to Sedona, I caught up with perennial m...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Brand Renewed

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Max Brand’s Singing Guns first appeared in a weekly pulp magazine, Western Story , serialized in six installments between Dec. 15, 19...
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....
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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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