Painted Desert

Last updated April 30, 2019

Painted Desert may refer to:

Geography

Painted Desert (Arizona), an area of badlands in the southwestern United States
- Painted Desert Inn, a lodge at the Petrified Forest National Park
Painted Desert (South Australia), a mountainous area in south-central Australia
Painted Desert, a neighborhood in Las Vegas, Nevada, US

Painted Desert (Arizona) desert in Arizona

The Painted Desert is a United States desert of badlands in the Four Corners area running from near the east end of Grand Canyon National Park and southeast into Petrified Forest National Park. It is most easily accessed in the north portion of Petrified Forest National Park. The Painted Desert is known for its brilliant and varied colors, that not only include the more common red rock, but even shades of lavender.

Painted Desert Inn lodge complex in Petrified Forest National Park, in Navajo County

Painted Desert Inn is a lodge complex in Petrified Forest National Park, in Navajo County, eastern Arizona. It is located off of Interstate 40 and historic U.S. Route 66, overlooking the Painted Desert.

Painted Desert (South Australia) geographical object

The Painted Desert is in the Far North of South Australia. It is 120 kilometres (75 mi) north-east of Coober Pedy, in the Arckaringa Station pastoral lease, not far from the homestead. It is notable for its distinctive mesas, mountains, and geological formations. Not far from here on the way to Oodnadatta, there are large areas of ground covered with mica. The entire region is desolate and made up of soft, fragile rock.

Art, entertainment, and media

Film

The Painted Desert , a 1931 film starring Clark Gable
Painted Desert (1938 film), a 1938 remake starring George O'Brien and Laraine Day
Painted Desert, a 1993 film featuring Don Keith Opper

The Painted Desert is a 1931 American pre-Code film released by Pathé Exchange. Produced by E. B. Derr, it was directed by Howard Higgin, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Tom Buckingham. It starred low-budget Western stars William Boyd and Helen Twelvetrees, and featured a young Clark Gable in his talking film debut. The picture was shot mostly on location in Arizona.

Painted Desert is a 1938 Western film directed by David Howard and starring George O'Brien and Laraine Day. The picture is a remake of The Painted Desert, which stars William Boyd and features an early appearance by Clark Gable in a major supporting role. The movie was partially filmed on location in Red Rock Canyon, a popular filming location during the 1930s and 1940s, with a multitude of B-Westerns being filmed there.

Don Keith Opper is an American actor, writer, and producer who has starred in film and on television. He is best known for his role as Charlie McFadden in the 1986 science fiction film Critters and each of the three sequels. His most recent film role is in Albert Pyun's 2005 horror film Infection. Opper has made guest appearances on many TV shows, including Miami Vice, Quantum Leap, 21 Jump Street, Roseanne, Harsh Realm and The Division.

Music

Painted Desert, a movement in the Grand Canyon Suite by Ferde Grofé
The Painted Desert, a 2004 album by the Barrett Martin Group
The Painted Desert, a 2005 composition for brass band by Philip Sparke

The Grand Canyon Suite is a suite for orchestra by Ferde Grofé, composed between 1929 and 1931. It was initially titled Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon.

Barrett Martin is an American writer, drummer, composer, and Grammy award-winning producer. He is best known for his work with Seattle rock bands Skin Yard, Screaming Trees, Mad Season, Tuatara, and Walking Papers. Martin has played on albums by R.E.M., the Stone Temple Pilots, and Queens Of The Stone Age.

Philip Allen Sparke is an English composer and musician born in London, noted for his concert band and brass band music. Children Ben Sparkle (14.02.2001) His early major works include The Land of the Long White Cloud- "Aotearoa" - written for the 1980 Centennial New Zealand Brass Band championship. He subsequently went on to win the EBU New Music for Band Competition three times, including in 1986 with a commission from the BBC called Orient Express,

Songs

"Painted Desert", a song on the 1970 album The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free by Cannonball Adderley
"The Painted Desert", a 1985 single by Pat Benatar from her 1984 album Tropico
"The Painted Desert", a song by 10,000 Maniacs from their 1987 album In My Tribe

The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free is an album by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet recorded, in part, at the 1970 Monterey Jazz Festival. A portion of the performance is memorialized in the Clint Eastwood movie Play Misty For Me. Additional "live in-studio" tracks were recorded the following month at the Capitol Records Tower, in Hollywood, to turn the Monterey material into a double album. The album features Adderley with brother Nat Adderley, Joe Zawinul, Walter Booker and Roy McCurdy and guest appearances by Bob West and Cannon's 15-year-old nephew Nat Adderley, Jr. who penned and performed the gospel-influenced protest title song.

<i>Tropico</i> (Pat Benatar album) 1984 studio album by Pat Benatar

Tropico is American rock singer Pat Benatar's fifth studio album, and sixth album overall, released in late 1984 by Chrysalis Records. This is the first album to feature one-time John Waite bassist Donnie Nossov, who replaced Roger Capps in Benatar's band.

<i>In My Tribe</i> Album by 10,000 Maniacs

In My Tribe is an album by the American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. Released on July 27, 1987, it was their second major-label album and their first to achieve large-scale success. John Lombardo, Natalie Merchant's songwriting partner on previous albums, left the band in 1986. Merchant began collaborating with the other members of the band, most notably with Rob Buck.

Other uses

Arizona elegans philipi, commonly known as the Painted Desert glossy snake

Arizona elegans philipi, commonly known as the Painted Desert glossy snake, is a subspecies of glossy snakes, a nonvenomous colubrid endemic to North America.

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