California Travel Tips
World Movie Premiere in Remote Mining Camp
Published on: February 05, 2014
By C. MacDonald
Weaverville, CA–Seventy-six years ago tonight (Feb. 5, 1938), major Hollywood Stars gathered for a world premiere movie in this remote California mining town.
Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, George Brent, Gabby Hayes and other celebrities gathered with Weaverville townspeople to celebrate the Warner Brothers’ movie, “Gold is Where You Find it,” one of the first filmed in Technicolor.
The whole Northern California town was abuzz. There were even bonfires on Main Street...read more>
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