Arizona's Little Hollywood
Monday, November 28, 2011

German Spectacle

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Since its publication last year, the chapter in my book  Arizona’s Little Hollywood  that’s raised the most eyebrows is the one that reveale...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Dan Gordon, Part 2

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Anthony Edwards and Linda Fiorentino in Gotcha! (1985) DAN: “The first successful movie I wrote was called Tank . It was with Jim Garne...
Monday, November 14, 2011

Dan Gordon, Part 1

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Screenwriter Dan Gordon has written the scripts for some of Hollywood’s most popular films, including Passenger 57 , Wyatt Earp , Murder in...
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 An unpublished pearl of...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 ...
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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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