Arizona's Little Hollywood
Monday, February 28, 2011

Total Pre-Call, Part 3

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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...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Total Pre-Call, Part 2

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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...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Total Pre-Call, Part 1

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Arizona’s Little Hollywood , the definitive history of the starring role Sedona played in the movies, focuses on the high desert country tha...
Monday, February 7, 2011

Shirley, You’re Mistaken...

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Heroic George O'Brien protects Shirley Nail in Riders of the Purple Sage. Over the years, a number of reports in the Arizona press h...
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 ,...
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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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