\u201cWith Fox he reached the apex of his screen career\u2026 Productions became more elaborate, although nothing was sacrificed to action. He knew that his fans wanted action above everything else\u2013and that\u2019s what he gave them. Every new picture came out with new stunts, each more dangerous than previous ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMany of the interior scenes were made at Mixville. Almost everything pertaining to the Old West could be found tucked away somewhere in this unique little settlement; indeed, the vast lot was a miniature West in itself. There was a complete frontier town, with a dusty street, hitching rails, a saloon, Jail, bank, doctor\u2019s office, surveyor\u2019s office, and the simple frame houses typical of the early Western era. Only the signs on the buildings were changed from picture to picture, and some rearrangement of the furnishings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere was an Indian village with several lodges nestled in a flat piece of land at the rear of the lot. From the range of plaster-of-Paris mountains surrounding the village Tom led many a convincing attack on a tribe of warriors, the whole thing looking ferociously real when the picture reached the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere was a plot of simulated desert too, through which Tom and Tony wandered on many an occasion on their search for the \u2018bad man\u2019; for although Tom preferred actual locations, the Fox executives always held the budget over his head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAmong other things at Maxwells there were a ranch house, sans <\/em>any ceiling of course, a corral that would hold a hundred horses, and a great barnlike structure to hold props, such as saddles, uniforms, guns, and various items of furniture that conformed to the Old West tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Goldie Griffith and Charley Mulhall, Lucille\u2019s brother, visited cowboy star Tom Mix in Los Angeles in 1914. Mix had been a performer with the Miller Brothers\u2019 101 Wild West show\u2013the same show that gave Goldie her start. Tom Mix was Hollywood\u2019s first Western megastar in his big white hat and fancy outfits. With his horse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goldie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kayturnbaugh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kayturnbaugh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kayturnbaugh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kayturnbaugh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kayturnbaugh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kayturnbaugh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4416,"href":"https:\/\/www.kayturnbaugh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kayturnbaugh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kayturnbaugh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kayturnbaugh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.kayturnbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Mixville-stunts.png\")
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