Arizona is a 1940 American film starring Jean Arthur, William Holden and Warren William. The film was directed by Wesley Ruggles. For other persons named John Wayne, see John Wayne (disambiguation). ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Jean Arthur (October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an Oscar-nominated American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. ... William Holden (April 17, 1918 – ca. ... Warren William (2 December 1894 - 24 September 1948) was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, born Warren William Krech in Aitkin, Minnesota. ... Wesley Ruggles (1889-1972) was an American film director. ...

Plot

The story is set in the pioneer days of Tucson, Arizona in 1860. Life there is fit only for tough men and one very tough woman, Phoebe Titus (Jean Arthur). She catches the eye of Peter Muncie (William Holden), a handsome young man with a wagon train through Arizona but he soon leaves for California. Phoebe stays in Tucson and pursues her plan of founding a freight line to service the town's booming economy. She meets up with a Confederate dandy named Jefferson Carteret (Warren William) who pretends to help her, but secretly is in cahoots with the town's established shipper. The treacherous pair try everything from slandering her to bribing the Apaches to attack her wagons. Defeat seems inevitable, but Peter returns just in time to help Phoebe. Tucson (pronounced ) is the seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, located 118 miles (188 km) southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles (98 km) north of the U.S.-Mexico border. ... Wagon Train was a television series on NBC from 1957 to 1962 and on ABC from 1962 to 1965. ... Motto Deo Vindice (Latin: Under God, Our Vindicator) Anthem (none official) God Save the South (unofficial) The Bonnie Blue Flag (unofficial) Dixie (unofficial) Capital Montgomery, Alabama (until May 29, 1861) Richmond, Virginia (May 29, 1861–April 2, 1865) Danville, Virginia (from April 3, 1865) Language(s) English (de facto) Religion... For other uses, see Apache (disambiguation). ...

Set

Arizona was filmed on a set located just outside the city of Tucson in the Sonoran Desert. After filming, lay dormant for a few years during World War II, but was revived and made into a full studio after the war. The studio continues today as Old Tucson Studios. Map of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Old Tucson Studios is a movie studio and theme park just outside of Tucson, Arizona. ...

Cast

• Jean Arthur (as Phoebe Titus)
• William Holden (as Peter Muncie)
• Warren William (as Jefferson Carteret)
• Porter Hall (as Lazarus Ward, the established shipper)
• Edgar Buchanan (as Judge Bogardus)
• Paul Harvey (as Solomon Warner)

Jean Arthur (October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an Oscar-nominated American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. ... William Holden (April 17, 1918 – ca. ... Warren William (2 December 1894 - 24 September 1948) was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, born Warren William Krech in Aitkin, Minnesota. ... Porter Hall (September 19, 1888 - October 6, 1953) was a film actor known for appearing in a number of films in the 1930s and 1940s many times, due to a weak chin and shifty eyes, playing movie villians. ... Edgar Buchanan (born March 20, 1903; died April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both movies and television, but is probably most familiar as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction and Green Acres television sitcoms of the 1960s. ...

Crew

• Producer: Wesley Ruggles
• Director: Wesley Ruggles
• Screenplay: Claude Binyon, Clarence Budington Kelland (story)
• Cinematography: Fayte Browne
• Film Editing: William A. Lyon, Otto Meyer
• Art Direction: Lionel Banks, Robert Peterson
• Music: Stephen Foster, Victor Young

Wesley Ruggles (1889-1972) was an American film director. ... Claude Binyon was a screenwriter and director. ... Victor Young (August 8, 1900 - November 10, 1956) was an Jewish-American composer, violinist and conducter. ...

External links

• Arizona on Turner Classic Movies

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