Saving the old girl is more than a dream. Everyone wants to save “Hollywood in the Desert”—the Old Tucson Studios that hosted more than 400 films and television projects in the eight decades since Columbia Pictures decided to build an 1860s replica of Tucson for its game- changing Arizona.   Arizona, noted for its historic authenticity, was the first movie made at the Old Tucson Studios, and the reason


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