Arizona's Little Hollywood
Monday, September 26, 2011

Sedona: “The Edge of the World?”

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That’s how clever studio flacks (not New Agers fearful of cataclysm in 2012) described the view from Sedona’s Schnebly Hill in the caption o...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Celebs Celebrate John Mitchum

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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...
Monday, September 12, 2011

Proud Papa

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“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...
Monday, September 5, 2011

Trail to Lone Pine

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Roy Rogers and Trigger greet Dale Evans, Beverly Lloyd and Peggy Stewart in a scene from Utah (1945) shot in Lone Pine’s Alabama Hills. ...
Monday, August 29, 2011

'The Call of the Canyon' is Still Lost

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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...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Monumental Pictures, Part 2

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Even though Monument Valley has less than four minutes of screen time in Stagecoach , it made an indelible impression on Moviegoers in 1939...
Monday, August 15, 2011

Monumental Pictures, Part 1

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Forget the legend. Monument Valley wasn’t unknown to Hollywood before 1939’s Stagecoach , and director John Ford only “discovered” it in th...
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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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