Sedona, Arizona,
played host to more than sixty Hollywood productions from
the first years of movies into the 1970s. Now for the first
time, Arizona’s Little Hollywood tells the
tale of each of these films in fascinating detail. This small
town served as a kind of microcosm of Hollywood history—heavy
on westerns, to be sure, but also liberally salted with the
fantastic stories now part of movie lore and legend.
From the earliest days of
silent movies—when directors
were first learning what filmmaking was—through the
years of B westerns, World War II propaganda, film noir, and
the Hollywood blacklist, little Sedona has been a silent but
stunning backdrop. In these pages you’ll see Joan Crawford
chewing her way through the famed red rock scenery; follow
in the hoofprints of equine divas; learn the inside story
of Elvis Presley’s casting as a half-Navajo cowboy;
and meet stars and luminaries from John Wayne to Art Carney,
Robert Mitchum, Joseph P. Kennedy, Gene Tierney, John Ford,
Howard Hughes, and Mickey Rooney. more>>
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