BEHIND THE SCENES PHOTOS FROM THE
FILMING OF
HOW THE WEST WAS WON

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filming Linus giving Eve the fur,
filmed at Battery Rock, Illinois

 



Henry Hathaway films the train
reunion scene with George Peppard
and Debbie Reynolds
 



Cinerama camera films Carroll
Baker receiving the letter from
Andy Devine



Henry Hathaway films the
Prescott family aboard the
Erie Canal boat
 



Cinerama camera behind the tent
films Debbie Reynolds, Carroll
Baker and Karl Malden
 



filming the deleted scene where
Marshall Ramsey and posse
catch up to Zeb and family
 



John Ford directs Carroll Baker
where she grieves at the family
graveyard



filming the wagons crossing the
river - you can see Thelma Ritter
and Debbie Reynolds on the
wagon's front seat



Director George Marshall
stands next to the massive
Cinerama camera enclosure



Thomas Conroy uses the boom
crane camera to film the train
in the Outlaws chapter



John Ford stands in front of
the line of Union cannons for
the Civil War chapter
 



Henry Hathaway directs his
crew at Erie Canal jump off site,
Karl Malden in background



Cinerama camera on set -
note the multiple white
microphones



Sherman Sage, Benjamin Black Elk,
and David H. Miller teach Henry
Fonda the Arapahoe language



John Ford directs Carroll Baker
in the scene where George
Peppard leaves for the war
 



Joe Laschelle (next to
Cinerama camera) was
the cinematographer
 



Jimmy Stewart points out
view from pirate cave to
Henry Hathaway
 



John Wayne as General
Sherman talks to
d
irector John Ford
 



Henry Hathaway listens while
Debbie Reynolds gets her
point across



Director George Marshall on
a ladder uses a megaphone to
give directions on set
 



John Ford prepares scene
with George Peppard and
Carroll Baker



Henry Hathaway and crew look
on as Debbie Reynolds reads
the latest Hollywood paper



George Peppard with Dick Webb,
who was MGM's chief wrangler



John Ford directs Russ Tamblyn
and George Peppard at the pink
Shiloh stream
 



David H. Miller and other film
crew pose next to camera and
boom crane seat



unconcious Cleve (Gregory Peck)
is held by Debbie Reynolds with a
Cinerama camera in the foreground



George Peppard examines a
genuine war bonnet with
Benjamin Black Elk
 



Andy Devine, Carroll Baker,
John Ford, George Peppard
and Claude Johnson are on
set at the Rawlings farm



Gregory Peck and Robert
Preston go over the script
with Henry Hathaway
 



Carroll Baker and Debbie
Reynolds listen while Jimmy
Stewart plays the accordian



George Peppard and Claude
Johnson prepare for next scene
with director John Ford



Robert Preston asks "How's
the water?" as Gregory Peck
warms his feet in hot water
 



Agnes Morehead leans on
Cinerama camera, with Carroll
Baker and Debbie Reynolds



Directors John Ford,
Henry Hathaway, and
George Marshall
 



Directors John Ford and
Henry Hathaway pose
for a publicity shot
 



Carroll Baker, Henry Hathaway
and Debbie Reynolds relax
between takes



Debbie Reynolds, Jimmy Stewart,
and Carroll Baker on Green
Island, near Smithfield, Kentucky
 



Agnes Morehead, Jimmy Stewart,
Debbie Reynolds, Carroll Baker
on Green Island, KY., July 1961
 



Jimmy Stewart, Carroll Baker,
Debbie Reynolds, Henry
Hathaway on Green Island
 



Gregory Peck amd Robert
Preston play chess to relax
between takes
 



Benjamin Black Elk, Henry
Fonda, and Sherman Sage
behind the scenes



Directors John Ford
and HTWWW producer
Bernard Smith
 



Henry Hathaway and Debbie
Reynolds have a face to face
discussion



Richard Widmark behind the
scenes with Producer
Bernard Smith
 



Director John Ford poses
with Carroll Baker for a
publicity shot
 



Jimmy Stewart tries to relax,
while Henry Hathway fully
relaxes between takes



Jimmy Stewart thought
that he was too old to
play Linus' part
 



Debbie Reynolds with her
mother, daughter Carrie
Fisher, son Todd Fisher



Henry Hathway holds a device
that simulates the Cinerama
camera's three viewpoints
 



Harry Morgan (as General Grant)
poses with John Ford while
shooting the Civil War chapter



Debbie Reynolds chats
with veteran actor Walter
Brennan (Col. Hawkins)



Carroll Baker, Jimmy Stewart,
and Debbie Reynolds get served
a meal while in costume
 



in a posed pic Debbie Reynolds
pretends to surprise Henry
Hathaway with a kiss



Director George Marshall
helmed the Railroad chapter
of the movie
 



Henry Hathaway used
a helicopter to shuttle
between film locations
 



Debbie Reynolds talks to
George Peppard while Henry
Hathaway looks on



Cinerama cameras without
the massive housing are hidden
inside a covered wagon
 



extras (actors) used in the
Rapid City film location
are seen off camera



Some of the barges, Erie Canal
boats, and paddlewheelers
used in the movie
 



tourists watch the filming
of How The West Was
Won
 



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Director Hathaway confers with cinematographer Milton Krasner ASC, and Technical Advisor Peter Gibbons for the runaway train sequence.


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Hope Lange being photographed in a sequence later deleted. Note obies on camera.




The caption on the back of this photo reads:
Gregory Peck isn't amused by Robert Preston's joking query, "How's the water?", between scenes of MGM-Cinerama's "How The West Was Won". Peck was warming his tootsies in buckets of hot water after an icy dip in Colorado's Gunnison River during filming of a rescue scene.

 

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