Angie Dickinson hauled off the set by Robert Mitchum Young Billy Young Old Tucson Arizona 1968 Acrylic Print

In "River of No Return" (1954) Robert Mitchum hauled dance hall girl Marilyn Monroe, over his shoulder like a side of beef. If it worked once, why not again? This is from "Young Billy Young."

When this tableau was filmed there must have been 50, non crew, bystanders watching the action. I also have 16mm color of the scene that I will be including in my future vanishingamericanwest site.

I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...