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1897
Corbett/Fitzsimmons fight, Carson City -- first movie filmed in Nevada
1910
Johnson/Jeffries fight, Reno
1913
"The Tonopah Stampede for Gold" -- first nonboxing movie
1915
"The Hazards of Helen" cliffhanger serial -- first movie filmed in Las Vegas
1921
"Black Steve of the Sierras" -- first "all-Nevada" production
1923
"The Covered Wagon" -- pioneer Western epic
"Our Hospitality" -- Buster Keaton comedy classic
1924
"The Iron Horse" -- first hit for legendary director John Ford
"The Navigator" -- Buster Keaton comedy classic
1925
"Black Cyclone" -- first of three movies producer Hal Roach films at Home Ranch in Moapa Valley
1926
"The Winning of Barbara Worth" -- Gary Cooper's first major role
1937
"Slim" -- Henry Fonda and Pat O'Brien as high-voltage electrical linemen at Hoover Dam
1939
"Union Pacific" -- director Cecil B. DeMille's Western epic
1940
"One Million B.C." -- Director Hal Roach re-creates the prehistoric era in the Valley of Fire; Victor Mature's first major role
1941
"Las Vegas Nights" -- Frank Sinatra's movie debut, as Tommy Dorsey's band vocalist
1946
"Heldorado" -- Roy Rogers and Dale Evans join Las Vegas' annual Helldorado rodeo celebration
1952
"The Las Vegas Story" -- Vincent Price, Victor Mature, Jane Russell star; screenwriter Paul Jarrico's name left off credits after he refused to testify during House Un-American Activities Committee
1956
"Hollywood or Bust" -- Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis' final movie as a team
"Meet Me in Las Vegas" -- Cyd Charisse leads Oscar-nominated musical parade
1957
"The Amazing Colossal Man" -- Exposed to atomic radiation, giant terrorizes the Strip
"The Joker Is Wild" -- Sinatra stars as comedian Joe E. Lewis, croons Oscar-winning song "All the Way"
"Wild Is the Wind" -- Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani earn Oscar nominations for sheepherder melodrama
1960
"Ocean's Eleven" -- The Rat Pack invades Las Vegas
1961
"The Misfits" -- Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe make final film appearances in Arthur Miller drama directed by John Huston
1964
"Viva Las Vegas" -- Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret dance and romance
1966
"The Professionals" -- Richard Brooks earns Oscar nominations for writing and directing Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Jack Palance in Western classic
1967
"In Cold Blood" -- Richard Brooks doubles again as Oscar-nominated writer and director of Truman Capote's true-crime saga
1969
"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" -- Middle-class couples (Natalie Wood and Robert Culp, Oscar nominees Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon) try wife-swapping in Paul Mazursky satire
1970
"Elvis: That's the Way It Is" -- Documentary catches Presley's showroom act
1971
"Diamonds Are Forever" -- Sean Connery returns as James Bond
1972
"The Godfather" -- Nevada's first Best Picture Oscar winner; Francis Ford Coppola's mob classic also earns Academy Awards for Marlon Brando, screenwriters Coppola and Mario Puzo
1974
"California Split" -- Director Robert Altman's study of two compulsive gamblers (George Segal, Elliott Gould); Jeff Goldblum has an early role
"The Godfather, Part II" -- Sequel captures six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director (Francis Ford Coppola) and Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro)
"Harry and Tonto" -- Art Carney wins Best Actor Oscar as director Paul Mazursky's cross-country traveler
1976
"The Shootist" -- Melancholy Western marks John Wayne's screen farewell
1979
"The Electric Horseman" -- Washed-up rodeo cowboy Robert Redford, reporter Jane Fonda find romance
1980
"Melvin and Howard" -- Whimsical saga of Melvin Dummar, the beneficiary of Howard Hughes' controversial "Mormon will," wins Oscars for Mary Steenburgen, screenwriter Bo Goldman
1984
"Starman" -- Jeff Bridges earns Best Actor Oscar nomination as extraterrestrial traveler
1985
"Lost in America" -- Albert Brooks satire spotlights yuppie couple trying to convince casino boss to refund their gambling losses
"Prizzi's Honor" -- Dark mob comedy earns eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Jack Nicholson) and Best Director (John Huston); Anjelica Huston wins as Best Supporting Actress
1986
"Top Gun" -- Top box-office hit flies high with scenes filmed at Fallon Naval Air Station
1988
"Rain Man" -- Poignant drama wins Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman), Director (Barry Levinson) and screenplay
1990
"Misery" -- Northern Nevada stands in for Colorado in this Stephen King thriller that earns Kathy Bates a Best Actress Oscar
1991
"Bugsy" -- Saga of gangster Benjamin Siegel's Las Vegas dreams wins Oscars for costumes and art direction, nominations in eight other categories
1992
"Honey, I Blew Up the Kid" -- Amazing colossal toddler stalks the Strip in Disney sequel
"Honeymoon in Vegas" -- Madcap comedy marks the first of three Las Vegas movies for Nicolas Cage
1993
"Indecent Proposal" -- Robert Redford returns to Vegas with a million-dollar offer Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson can't refuse
1994
"Star Trek Generations" -- Valley of Fire plays the planet Varidian Three in a bridge between the old and new crews of the Starship Enterprise
1995
"Casino" -- Sharon Stone earns the only Oscar nomination for director Martin Scorsese's twilight-of-the-Vegas-mob saga
"Leaving Las Vegas" -- Writer-director Mike Figgis' tale of doomed romance with Best Actor winner Nicolas Cage, Best Actress nominee Elisabeth Shue
1996
"Independence Day" -- Area 51 provides a stage for the human counterattack against invading Martians
1997
"Fools Rush In" -- Workaday Las Vegas life inspires this romantic valentine
"Vegas Vacation" -- Hapless Chevy Chase and clan visit the ultimate family destination
"Con Air" -- Nicolas Cage returns to Las Vegas in action spectacle
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