We have our picture in the current issue of Saturday Evening Post (issue of Jan. 28).. in color too! In the layout for pictures for H. Allen Smithโs article on Pioneertown, Just Like The Movies the cowboy leaning on the hitching rail in front of the newspaper office is Harvey. The pictures were made while we were up in the desert making โGirl From San Lorenzo,โ a Cisco Kid western.
โThe Marshal of Gunsight Pass,โ starring PIONEERTOWNโS president, RUSS HAYDEN bowed in on KCEA-TV, and Variety called itโฆ โhigh caliber live western fare.โ The show was by far the best local production we have seen and should have a happy future.
Hi Neighbor! This week we talk about movies and the people who make them. DANNY KAYE, who left SAM GOLDWYN to sign with the Warner Brothers, is now tearing up his contract and leaving the Burbank lot. He has made only one of the five pictures his contract called for, but the break has been called amicable. Itโs our bet that DANNY forms a company of his own for indie production.
Hi Neighbors! By the time you read this we will be up in the far reaches of the Joshua Desert around Pioneertown, the movie-set where people live. we ride that-away with GENE AUTRY to make two of his television westerns and as usual weโll be doing a bad old meanie. So next week weโll give you a report on what really happens when a picture company goes on location. If we can get some of the beauty of the desert and the action of the picture down on paper, it should be fairly interesting readingโฆ so plan on dropping around then will you?
:00 am Sunday morning we take off from Lockheed Airport with GENE AUTRY handling the controls of his twin engine Beech. Gene, with over 3000 air hours in his log book, handles the plane with the same ease and sureness that sends CHAMPION thundering over the plains. We cut thru the now famous Los Angeles smog blanket and keep a date with the rising sun high over the mountains. Forty minutes later Gene puts us down with a perfect landing on a little air strip at the outskirts of Yucca Valley.
Once again we write from, but this time, not about the Home of Western Moviesโฆ Pioneertown. Weโre up here making the last two of the current series of Gene Autry TV pictures, and as usual we love it. Ducan Renaldo and Leo Carillo are in town finishing up their series of โCisco Kidโ Tversโฆ so if you want to find anyone in Hollywoodโฆ look in Pioneertown.
Hi Neighbors! Once again our copy is datelined PIONEERTOWN. JEAN, our Missouri Bride and Yours Truly are up here in the high desert this week making a couple of TV Westerns with that bright new Western Star, JOCK Oโ MAHONEY. We sort of feel a bit of paternal pride in JOCK because we were only one of the first Hollywood reporters to wave his flag on high and name him as a rising star. JOCK is really on the busy side now.
Hi Neighbors! Several times we have said here that TV is going to mean a lot of work for the folks of Hollywood. Another proof came into being today in a survey taken in New York City. It showed that, if run of full schedule, the seven TV stationsโ of Metropolitan New York City could exhibit Hollywoodโs entire annual output of feature films in one week! We believe that just as radio gave the recording industry the best years of itโs production life, so will TV give Hollywood the greatest upsurge of employment ever known. Check with us five years from now so that we can sayโฆ โWe told you so!โ
Hi Neighbors! Only this time it isnโt โHarvey In Hollywood,โ itโs Harvey in Pioneertownโฆ the home of Western movies! Yep, riding thataway with GENE AUTRY again and this time we are taking it very easy. Only kill one hombre in two pictures and for usโฆ thatโs a vacation. Hope they donโt pick up our โKillerโs Guildโ card!
