Foxfire (1955)

Interesting facts

• Filmed in: California

Foxfire is a 1955 American drama romance Western film released by Universal-International, directed by Joseph Pevney, and starring Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler, and Dan Duryea. The movie was loosely based on a best-selling 1950 novel by Anya Seton.

Production

The film was based on a 1950 novel by Anya Seton, who had family members involved with mining and researched the novel's setting by spending time in Gila County, Arizona, visiting gold mines and spending time in an Indian reservation.

Film rights were bought by Universal in July 1953.

Though Seton's novel takes place during the Great Depression and Prohibition era, the film's script is set in contemporary times. The film retained most of the novel's characters, locations and many plot events but substantially reworked the storyline. Villains intrinsic to the original story were eliminated, as was a melodramatic quest by three embittered treasure seekers for a Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine.

In July 1953, Universal-International announced that June Allyson, who matched Seton's description of her heroine, would co-star with Jeff Chandler in a film adaptation of the novel, with filming slated to begin in April 1954.

Filming was pushed back as Allyson dropped out and Jane Russell was offered the lead role. Russell was paid $200,000 and was granted the right to employ Chandler for a future film for her own production company.

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