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Showing posts with label Lone Pine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lone Pine. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Stars shine in Lone Pine....





Another view of the Film Museum in Lone Pine...

For more about the museum, click here...and here....

And you might want to check out the October 7-9, 2011 Lone Pine Film Festival here...


I'm heading south for Easter and the following week...
Please enjoy my postings for the week and I will comment when I can...

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Do you know...



Do you know that...
                              
                         ...at least 364 movies and tv series have been filmed in the
                            Alabama Hills outside of Lone Pine on Hwy 395?

                         ...while most of the movies and tv series filmed near Lone Pine
                            were Westerns, many other genres have been filmed there
                            including science fiction, comedies, historical dramas, etc...

                         ...actors who have filmed there include such actors as Fatty Arbuckle,
                            Tom Mix, John Wayne, Bing Crosby, Tony Curtis, Randolph Scott,
                            Maureen O'Hara, Kirk Douglas, Roy Rogers, Noah Beery Jr.,
                            Elizabeth Montgomery, Gene Autrey, Spencer Tracy, Roddy
                            McDowall, Vincent Price, William Shatner, Steve McQueen,
                            Pat O'Brien, Joel McCrea, Eric Estrada, Whoopie Goldberg,
                            Mary Pickford, Audie Murphy, John Travolta, Henry Fonda...
                            to name just a few!!!
  
                         ...some movies and tv series you might recognize are...
                            Around the World in 80 Days, Gunga Din, Broken Arrow,
                            Chaplin, Gladiator, Charge of the Light Brigade, 
                            Maverick, HopAlong Cassidy, The Roy Rogers Show,
                            the Flinstone movie, North to Alaska, Nevada Smith, Nevada,
                            The Cowboy and the Lady, Farewell to Manzanar, GI Jane,
                            Star Trek V, Star Trek VII (the Next Generation), Ironman,
                            The Great Race, Hell Bent for Leather, Tarzan's Desert Mystery,
                            High Sierra, and Rawhide...again, to name just a few...

                         ...a Russian born man named Nuta Kotlyarenko became famous as
                            Nudie, the first tailor to put rhinestone's on clothing and the
                            creator/owner of Nudie's Rodeo Tailors...he also outfitted cars!!!

                         ...that for a full listing of films shot in the Alabama Hills outside of
                            Lone Pine, click here...


...all this and more is what you will learn about if you stop in at the 
located in Lone Pine on Highway 395