{"id":6149,"date":"2025-10-11T16:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=6149"},"modified":"2025-10-11T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:12:24","slug":"walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-the-westerner-and-fred-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/11\/walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-the-westerner-and-fred-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Movie Adventures: The Westerner and Fred Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-westerner-1.jpg\" alt=\"Walter Brennan and Gary Cooper leaning in to talk over a bar .\" class=\"wp-image-6152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-westerner-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-westerner-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-westerner-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-westerner-2.jpg\" alt=\"Gray Cooper's head and a horse's ears.\" class=\"wp-image-6153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-westerner-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-westerner-2-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-westerner-2-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gary Cooper was forced to make this. He didn&#8217;t want to do it because he thought you couldn&#8217;t have a western without gunfights. There is one gunfight at the end, and I wonder if that was added to appease him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and it&#8217;s really more of a love story between Cooper and Walter Brennan, who plays the friendly murderous judge with charm Cooper can&#8217;t resist. Oh, you&#8217;re supposed to think he loves Doris Davenport, but Brennan&#8217;s the one he spends the most time with- and wakes up with in bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fred-stone.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Fred Stone's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the Right, a black and white portrait photo of Fred Stone.\" class=\"wp-image-6155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fred-stone.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fred-stone-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fred-stone-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fred Stone (Walk of Fame: 1634 Vine Street) plays Davenport&#8217;s father. He was best known as a stage performer. He was the first person to play The Scarecrow in a stage production of The Wizard of Oz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"647\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/scarecrow-647x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Black and White photo of Fred Stone dressed as the Scarecrow from the stage production of The Wizard of Oz.\" class=\"wp-image-6150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/scarecrow-647x1024.jpg 647w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/scarecrow-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/scarecrow-768x1215.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/scarecrow.jpg 823w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8230;and he looked pretty freaking cool!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how this movie connects to a movie about an Australian woman obsessed with ABBA and weddings, but here you go:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-westerner-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for The Westerner mimicking the poster for Muriel's Wedding.\" class=\"wp-image-6151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-westerner-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-westerner-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-westerner-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-westerner.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s just nothing like a lovable homicidal tyrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[350,357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-6149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-fake-posters","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6160,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions\/6160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}