California

Also known as California (1927 film)

California is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and written by Marian Ainslee, Ruth Cummings and Frank Davis. The film stars Tim McCoy, Dorothy Sebastian, Marc McDermott, Frank Currier and Fred Warren. The film was released on May 7, 1927, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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The film dramatized the Battle of San Pasqual, of December 6–7, 1846, a battle of the Mexican–American War 1846-1848, in which General Stephen W. Kearny's U.S. Dragoons fought Californio lancers in the San Pasqual Valley, just east of Escondido, California.

Cast

Tim McCoy as Capt. Archibald Gillespie

Dorothy Sebastian as Carlotta del Rey

Marc McDermott as Drachano

Frank Currier as Don Carlos del Rey

Fred Warren as Kit Carson

Lillian Leighton as Duenna

Edwin Terry as Brig. Gen. Stephen W. Kearny

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Also known as California (1927 film)

Notable quotes

“California's a wonderful place to live — if you happen to be an orange.”
— Fred Allen, as reported in 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About California (2007), by Steven D. Price, p. viii
“Whatever starts in California unfortunately has a tendency to spread.”
— Attributed to Jimmy Carter in a 1977 cabinet meeting; reported in Steven D. Price, 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About California (2007), p. viii.
“Consider California. Its wealth was initially built on gold mines. But today it is built on silicon and celluloid - Silicon Valley and the celluloid hills of Hollywood.”
— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 18: "The Permanent Revolution"
“California is a queer place — in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.”
— D. H. Lawrence, letter (September 24, 1923); published in The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, E. Mansfield, and W. Roberts (1987), vol. 4
“When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. It was the heart of the hippie activity, and it was our culture, our generation, expressing itself at its most festive, so it was a real magnet for the young people … with the love-ins and so on.”
— Joni Mitchell, on coming to California in 1969, as quoted in "Joni on Point" in The Los Angeles Times (7 June 2009).
“What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.”
— Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography (1937, reprinted 1971), p. 289

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