In 1947 MGM made a movie using Lake Chelan as the background. The movie was called "The Courage of Lassie" and starred 12 year old Elizabeth Taylor!
We had heard about this movie a lot (it's one of the historical events talked about on the boat ride up the lake). Last week during the Miner's reunion, one of their slide show pictures had Elizabeth Taylor in it along with some of the (then) Holden kids. Dawn Coffey started asking questions of those "old timers" and found out more facts about the making of the movie from them. There was a trained bear and a trained raven in the move (as well as Lassie, of course). She also found out that Elizabeth Taylor stayed in one of the chalets here.
Tonight we watched the movie. Well, what do you expect from a movie made in 1947? It was a little corny and overacted, but we had fun watching it. We even had popcorn and real old fashioned movie candy to eat during the show. And we all clapped at the happy ending!
We had heard about this movie a lot (it's one of the historical events talked about on the boat ride up the lake). Last week during the Miner's reunion, one of their slide show pictures had Elizabeth Taylor in it along with some of the (then) Holden kids. Dawn Coffey started asking questions of those "old timers" and found out more facts about the making of the movie from them. There was a trained bear and a trained raven in the move (as well as Lassie, of course). She also found out that Elizabeth Taylor stayed in one of the chalets here.
Tonight we watched the movie. Well, what do you expect from a movie made in 1947? It was a little corny and overacted, but we had fun watching it. We even had popcorn and real old fashioned movie candy to eat during the show. And we all clapped at the happy ending!
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