The Big Trail Marquee Christmas Fox Tucson Theater 1930 color added 2013
by David Lee Guss
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The Big Trail Marquee Christmas Fox Tucson Theater 1930 color added 2013
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David Lee Guss
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The Fox Tucson opened on April 11, 1930 with a showing, not of a Fox film, but the MGM musical "Chasing Rainbows." It had been built as a combination vaudeville/movie house, but talkies spelled doom for "vaud." In fact the dressing rooms, beneath the stage, were never completed.
As a Christmas offering that year the theater featured Raoul Walsh's "The Big Trail," two months after it had premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in LA.
Walsh had first seen Marion Morrison unloading, with a distinctive flair, furniture in the Fox warehouse.
The director was looking to cast an unknown (who would work for a nominal salary) for the studio's Western epic about the Oregon Trail, "The Big Trail." It was planned as Fox's major 1930 release.
Walsh was taken with Morrison's walk feeling he was "a real pioneer type," with "broad shoulders, big hands and a commanding carriage."
Morrison, called Duke (after his dog) since childhood, had toiled as a prop boy with John Ford. Walsh consulted Ford who felt Duke would do just fine.
Walsh talks about discovering Duke:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6uU_8Fe2E4&feature=related
@2013 David Lee Guss Film homage, The Big Trail
marquee, Fox Tucson Theater, Tucson, Arizona, 1930-2013
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October 31st, 2016
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