BILL WELLMAN SPENDS ELEVENTH SUMMER ON LOCATION IN LONE PINE

A summer spent ranging around the Alabama Hills each day would be paradise for a lot of eleven year old boys. For Bill Wellman, son of film director William A. Wellman, the summer he spent More->

WHEN THE ROUND UP CAME TO INYO COUNTY

The Paramount Company of The Round Up being shown at this year's film festival at 4:30 pm Sunday, came to Inyo County in late 1919 to scout and get ready for filming. More->

JOHN WAYNE'S LAST PROFESSIONAL FILM APPEARANCE HAPPENED IN LONE PINE

John Wayne's western career was linked with Lone Pine, and it was fitting that he would appear before the cameras here one final time in a Great Western Savings commercial. As he rides out into the Alabama Hills, he does not More->

TYCOON BRINGS TWO AMERICAN TREASURES TO L.P. : JOHN WAYNE AND BASEBALL

Few things say the U.S.A. and our culture better than baseball and John Wayne. When John Wayne was working in Lone Pine on Tycoon in 1947, co-star Laraine Day's husband Leo Durocher brought westerns and major league baseball together in a remarkable way,  More->

JOHN WAYNE KEEPS RETURNING TO LONE PINE, BUT NOT ON A HORSE

John Wayne had established himself as a cowboy hero and his career began to expand in new directions. The problems of the world became plot devices and his characters went across the world,  More->

IN 1930’S JOHN WAYNE CHAMPIONED “THE LITTLE GUY” VS. ECONOMIC EXPLOITERS

The Paramount Company of The Round Up being shown at this year's film festival at 4:30 pm Sunday, came to Inyo County in late 1919 to scout and get ready for filming. More->

JOHN WAYNE’S IMAGE BECAME BIGGER THAN HIS EARLY ROLES IN LONE PINE

John Wayne’s life and career in movies defined for millions of people what it meant to be a hero, an American and a man. For others, he became to represent the deep division in our culture at the time of the Viet Nam War that continues to persist in our national debate today.  More->

'GIRL-SHY' COWBOY STAR REX BELL CAME TO LONE PINE FIRST IN 1928, THEN 1936

He would eventually marry Hollywood super star Clara Bow, but when Rex Bell came to Lone Pine to film his third starring role for Fox, he was supposed to be 'Girl-Shy." The Girl-Shy Cowboy was the final title of the film he and a crew and cast of forty-five filmed in Lone Pine from June 20th to July 8th according to an issue of the Mt. Whitney  More->

"THE 'BIG BOY' KEPT FINDING HIS FILM CAREER AND PERSONAL LIFE LINKED WITH LP

One of his first films was made with Clarence Badger and Will Rogers in 1919. Will Rogers gave him his lifelong nickname of "Big Boy." He made films in Lone Pine all during his career, a total of 11 we know of at this time. He made one of his  More->

"I'VE MADE A LOT OF MONEY … AND SPENT SEVERAL FORTUNES FOOLISHLY"

Ken Maynard, a cowboy star who worked in Lone Pine several times, might just be the saddest success story you have ever heard. By the late 1920's and early 1930's he had achieved enormous popularity. He is noted today for his expert riding and stunts that set the standard for several decades, and   More->

ANDRE DE TOTH MADE THREE NOTEWORTHY WESTERNS IN LONE PINE

Born Sasvrai Farkasfawi Tothfalusi Toth Endre Antai Mihaly on May 15, 1913, he went on to have seven wives, 19 children and break his back not one, not two, but three times in  More->

BEHIND THE SCENES AT GUNGA DIN FILMING IN THE ROCKS

Anyone who has ever been on a set during the filming of a movie knows that things are never what they appear to be. The hectic activity, bordering on hysteria, can give way to hours of inertia. "Hurry up and wait" is the rule of the day. A lot of times the actors are waiting in their trailers, or in the case of GUNGA DIN, what we call our  More->

LONE PINE CALIFORNIA & THE ALABAMA HILLS: FILM HISTORY

A living museum -- that's what visitors call our Alabama Hills because to visit them is to revisit your past. You see those rocks and you remember the movies of a lifetime  More->

MR. BADGER, MR. ROGERS AND LONE PINE

By Chris Langley, Executive Director, Beverly and Jim Rogers Museum of Lone Pine Film history

The Cherokee kid arrived early at the Goldwyn Studios. Almost two weeks early and that sent a shock through the studio. Studio head Goldfish (name change still in the future) had given Victor Schertzingern the plumb assignment to direct the Zeigfield  More->

WHO ARE THE HOXIE BOYS AND WHY DO WE CARE ?

A cowboy and his horse form a partnership celebrated throughout western Americana, nowhere more enthusiastically than in film westerns. Brothers Jack and Al Hoxie made several movies here in Lone Pine during the 1920's.  More->

IDA LUPINO HITS CAREER "GOLD" TWICE IN LONE PINE

By Chris Langley, Executive Director, Beverly and Jim Rogers Museum of Lone Pine Film history

In our culture today, we have grown almost callous to the slaughter of families by a serial killer. So many movies have been made on the subject in the last ten years that such plots seem only appropriate for direct-to-video, low budget films. But it was not that way in 1951. More->

HOLLYWOOD'S BAD BOY GOT HIS START IN LONE PINE

By Chris Langley, Executive Director, Beverly and Jim Rogers Museum of Lone Pine Film history

Small towns love it when a young man starts out locally and goes on to make it big. Even if he began his career by playing "bad." Even if his attitude said, "Baby I don't care."  More->