Arizona's Little Hollywood
Monday, October 24, 2011

Quiet on the Set!

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James Stewart confers with Italian-American “Indian” Iron Eyes Cody in Sedona. Suspicious PR item from the pressbook for Broken Arrow , f...
Monday, October 17, 2011

Crystal Ball

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Silent movie star Richard Dix listens to the radio––still a technological marvel at the time––while filming Redskin on northern Arizona’s re...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Paid Sedona Vacation

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Ernest Borgnine, Ben Cooper, Frank Marlowe, Royal Dano, Joan Crawford, and Scott Brady in Johnny Guitar (1954). An unpublished pearl of...
Monday, October 3, 2011

'Kingdom of the Spiders' Reunion

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In 1977, spiders – and William Shatner – invaded Camp Verde, Arizona, for the filming of the B horror movie Kingdom of the Spiders . It’s a ...
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...
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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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