In the days before World War I, Clarence Sinclair Bull took his first photograph — of a ladder leaning against a building on his father’s ranch south of Sun River, using a camera he bought in a Great Falls hardware store. Not too many years after that, he was photographing Hollywood’s elite. (more…) Continue Reading →
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Malta cowboy was an early Western star in Hollywood
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“Wallace D. Coburn, the original shoot -’em -up, watch-my-smoke, whoopee-ky-otee cowpuncher and movie star, is in town.”
That was how the Honolulu Star-Bulletin trumpeted the May 1917 arrival of northern Montana’s original cowboy poet and movie star in the islands. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Culture, Diversions, Montana, Charles M. Russell, Hollywood, Malta, Wallace D. Coburn
Designer ‘Irene,’ raised in Baker, wowed Hollywood
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She was the fabulous Baker, Mont., girl who had built “Irene” into a quality trademark. This fabled designer of magical gowns for the movies once led such a charmed career that she was known simple by her first name: Irene. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Culture, Diversions, Montana, Baker, Hollywood, Irene Lentz, MGM Studios
Montana friends hoping to make their mark in Hollywood
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A couple of Montana boys who stumbled into the movie business while attending Carroll College appear to have struck a chord with their latest film. “What Separates Us,” by director Bryan Ferriter, a native of Helena, and producer Isaac Marble, who grew up on the East Bench outside of Fox, near Roberts, won the best-picture award at the Machetanz Film Festival in Palmer, Alaska, last summer. (more…) Continue Reading →