Utah's Little Hollywood
— Kanab Utah "Walk of Fame" —
Director William A. Wellman, known to Hollywood as "Wild Bill", was a man who sprinted through life. A director for over thirty-five years, Wellman's versatility was hard to match. "Wild Bill" was part of the Golden Age of tough gangster films, with James Cagney and Jean Harlow, adventure films with Gary Cooper and Ray Milland, comedies with Ginger Rogers and Carole Lombard, musicals with Barbara Stanwyck, aviaition films with John Wayne and hero westerns with Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter, and Henry Fonda. Bill directed 18 western's (sic), 7 were silents. In 1944 he directed, "Buffalo Bill" with Joel McCrea and Maureen O'Hara. Then in 1951 directed "Westward the Women" with Robert Taylor in Kanab, Utah.| HM Number | HMRU0 |
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| Series | This marker is part of the Utah: Kanab, Utah "Walk of Fame" series |
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| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 at 9:45am PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 12S E 364042 N 4101295 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 37.04805000, -112.52893333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 37° 2.883', W 112° 31.736' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 37° 2' 52.98" N, 112° 31' 44.16" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 435 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 7 W Center St, Kanab UT 84741, US |
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