Editing Mill Valley, California (section)

==In media==
Mill Valley has also been home to many artists, actors, authors, musicians, and TV personalities, and it is the setting for or is mentioned in many artworks. For example:

* Actress and comedian [[Eve Arden]] was born there in 1908.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-13-mn-4578-story.html|title=Eve Arden, 82; Portrayed TV's Beloved 'Our Miss Brooks'|date=November 13, 1990|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=October 16, 2019}}</ref>
* Actress and dancer [[Monica Barbaro]], nominated for an Academy Award in 2025, grew up there and graduated from Tamalpais High School.
* [[Rock music]] stars such as [[Mike Bloomfield|Michael Bloomfield]], [[John Cipollina|John]] and Mario Cipollina, [[Clarence Clemons]], [[Dan Hicks (singer)|Dan Hicks]], [[Sammy Hagar]], [[Janis Joplin]], [[Huey Lewis]], [[Lee Michaels]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Mr. Piano Power|newspaper=[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]]|publisher=Spotlight Publications|date=August 28, 1971|page=3}}</ref> [[Bonnie Raitt]], [[Pete Sears]], and [[Bob Weir]] have called Mill Valley home at some point.
* Famed music executive/producer and film director [[George Daly (music executive)|George Daly]] worked originally with [[Janis Joplin]] and [[Huey Lewis]], then both Mill Valley residents, along with Marin's [[Carlos Santana]], and Mill Valley singer-songwriter Tim Hockenberry (of TV's ''[[America's Got Talent (season 7)|America's Got Talent]]'' successes); Daly also co-directed and co-wrote the [[Gary Yost]] Mill Valley-focused movie ''[[The Invisible Peak]]'', concerning the razing of the [[Mount Tamalpais]] West Peak during the [[Cold War]]. The multiple award-winning film, narrated by [[Peter Coyote]], was featured in multiple US film festivals, including the [[Mill Valley Film Festival]].
* [[Jerry Garcia]]—who recorded music in a Mill Valley recording studio—also once called Mill Valley home.
* Author [[John Gray (U.S. author)|John Gray]], who writes the ''[[Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus]]'' books, is a long time Mill Valley resident. 
* Award-winning sports journalist [[Ann Killion]] was born and raised in Mill Valley.
*Printmaker and author [[Tom Killion (artist)|Tom Killion]] was born and raised in Mill Valley.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://inthemake.com/tom-killion/|title=Tom Killion|website=In The Make|language=en-US|access-date=June 18, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://santacruzmah.org/2017/tom-killion-jan-5-2018-april-22-2018/|title=California's Wild Edge; Prints by Tom Killion|date=January 12, 2018|website=Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (SCMAH)|language=en|access-date=June 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920120429/https://santacruzmah.org/2017/tom-killion-jan-5-2018-april-22-2018/|archive-date=September 20, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Writer [[Ki Longfellow]] lived on Hillside Avenue.
* Composer [[John Anthony Lennon]] was raised in Mill Valley.
* [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] summered in Mill Valley in the early 1970s, having left some of his own graffiti on the wall of the residence "The Maya the Merrier."
* Music producer-songwriter [[Scott Mathews]]' home is up on [[Mount Tamalpais]], while his private recording studio and office is run out of his other Mill Valley house on the banks of [[Richardson Bay]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marinscope.com/archives/article_3f33a94e-7dd4-5c90-b31e-ff208726d3a0.html |title=Marin producer behind hit single &#124; Archives |website=Marinscope.com |date=February 22, 2012 |access-date=February 27, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Jack Finney]] was a Mill Valley author whose best-known works include ''[[The Body Snatchers]]'', the basis for the influential and classic 1956 movie ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'', and all its remakes. He moved with his young family from New York City to Mill Valley, where he wrote his most famous novel in the early 1950s.
* Artist and [[Marin County]]-native [[Zio Ziegler]] completed a mural titled "The Mysterious Thing" on side of the CineArts Sequoia theater in 2016.<ref>{{cite web |title=New Zio Ziegler Mural 'The Mysterious Thing" Debuts, Dazzles Above Playa Deck |url=https://www.enjoymillvalley.com/-blog/new-zio-ziegler-mural-the-mysterious-thing-debuts-dazzles-above-playa-deck |website=Enjoy Mill Valley |access-date=June 17, 2019}}</ref>

===In film===
*The film ''[[Serial (1980 film)|Serial]]'' (1980) starring [[Martin Mull]], [[Tuesday Weld]] and [[Sally Kellerman]] was shot almost entirely on location in Mill Valley and nearby [[Tiburon, California|Tiburon]].<ref>"'Serial' benefit premiere Friday in Marin". ''[[Argus-Courier]]''. March 26, 1980. p. 10A.</ref>
*The [[Tamalpais High School]] marching band appeared, as the ''Spring Street Settlement House'' marching band on [[Mission Street]] in San Francisco, in [[Woody Allen]]'s film ''[[Take the Money and Run (film)|Take the Money and Run]]'' ([[1969 in film|1969]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1401-Winter-2014/Screening-Room-Paul-Feig2.aspx|title=Screening Room: Paul Feig: The Rules of the Game BY STEVE POND|website=[[Directors Guild of America]]|access-date=May 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cinapse.co/take-the-money-and-run-but-leave-this-woody-allen-title-behind-409f64115ccc|title=TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN…But Leave This Woody Allen Title Behind|first=Frank|last=Calvillo|date=January 23, 2018|website=Medium|access-date=May 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.woodyallenpages.com/films/take-the-money-and-run/|title=Take The Money And Run|date=June 2, 2012| access-date=May 8, 2020}}</ref>
*In [[Paul Verhoeven]]’s film ''[[Basic Instinct]]'' (1992) a subplot character, Hazel Dobkins, was a murderer fictionally visited by [[Sharon Stone]]’s character, [[Catherine Tramell]], at "26 Albion Road in Mill Valley", but actually located at 26 Liberty Street in Petaluma.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/b/Basic-Instinct.php|title=Filming Locations for Basic Instinct (1992)|website=The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations|access-date=May 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nortonsmoviemaps.com/1/post/2015/09/basic-instinct.html|title=Basic Instinct|website=Norton's Movie Maps|access-date=May 8, 2020}}{{dead link|date=May 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chillybin.com/movies/basic.html|title=Petaluma, California in the movies |website= chillybin.com|access-date=May 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.google.com/maps/place/26+Liberty+St,+Petaluma,+CA+94952/@38.2326436,-122.6446151,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8085b6a704f6b98d:0x517fd819314387a3!8m2!3d38.2326436!4d-122.6424264?hl=en|title=26 Liberty St|website=google maps|access-date=May 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themoviedistrict.com/basic-instinct/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225020547/http://www.themoviedistrict.com/basic-instinct/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 25, 2015|title=Basic Instinct (1992) Filming Locations |work=The Movie District |access-date= May 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SBCrDgAAQBAJ&q=Hazel+Dobkin+Catherine+Tramell&pg=PT110|title=Paul Verhoeven: Interviews |first= Margaret |last= Barton-Fumo|date=December 26, 2016|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=9781496810168 |access-date=May 8, 2020|via=Google Books}}</ref>
*In [[George Lucas]]' film ''[[American Graffiti]]'' ([[1973 in film|1973]]), the [[sock hop]] dance scenes were filmed in the high school's boys' gymnasium.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marinij.com/general-news/20070919/tam-high-to-mark-its-100th-year-with-fanfare|title=Tam High to mark its 100th year with fanfare|date=September 19, 2007|website=Marin Independent Journal|language=en-US|access-date=October 16, 2019}}</ref>
*Naval aviator [[Dieter Dengler]] built a home on Mount Tamalpais, near the Mountain Home Inn, and lived there until his death in 2001; parts of the biographical documentary about him, ''[[Little Dieter Needs to Fly]]'' (1997) were filmed there.

===In literature===
*It is the setting for resident author [[Jack Finney|Jack Finney's]] novel ''[[The Body Snatchers]]'' (1954), although the film, ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 film)|Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'' (1956), and subsequent movie adaptations of the book have been set elsewhere.
*Writer [[Jack Kerouac]] and beat poet [[Gary Snyder]] shared a Mill Valley cabin in 1955-56<ref name="content.cdlib.org">{{cite web|url=http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf1489n5dm&chunk.id=bioghist-1.8.3&brand=oac |title=Inventory of the Gary Snyder Papers |website=Content.cdlib.org |access-date=February 27, 2017}}</ref> around 370 Montford Ave. in Homestead Valley. The cabin's coincidental location in Marin County and its adjacent location to a meadow where horses grazed, combined with Snyder's expertise in Asian languages and cultures, inspired Snyder name the cabin "Marin-An" (Japanese translation: "Horse Grove Hermitage")<ref name="content.cdlib.org"/> It was during this stay in Mill Valley that Kerouac's recent budding interest in [[Zen Buddhism]] was greatly expanded by Snyder's expertise in the subject. Kerouac's novel ''[[The Dharma Bums]]'' (1958) was consequently composed while living here and contains many semi-fictionalized accounts of his and Snyder's lives while living at Marin-An.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.millvalleyhistoricalsociety.org/history-of-homestead-valley-2002.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030405050223/http://www.millvalleyhistoricalsociety.org/history-of-homestead-valley-2002.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 5, 2003|title=History of Homestead Valley, Part II|date=April 5, 2003|access-date=December 30, 2019}}</ref>
*The fictional character Charley Furuseth, in [[Jack London|Jack London's]] 1904 novel ''[[The Sea-Wolf]]'' (1904), had a summer cottage here.
*American writer [[Cyra McFadden]], while living in Mill Valley in the 1970s, wrote a column for the ''Pacific Sun'' newspaper entitled, ''The Serial'', which satirized the trendy lifestyles of the affluent residents of Marin County.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.pacificsun.com/morguepdf/2007/2007_06_29.pac.section1.pdf |work= Pacific Sun |page=9 |title= The Serial |last= McFadden| first= Cyra|access-date=June 29, 2007|url-status= dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071107031222/http://www.pacificsun.com/morguepdf/2007/2007_06_29.pac.section1.pdf|archive-date=November 7, 2007}}</ref> She later turned her column ideas into a novel, ''[[The Serial|The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County]]'' (1977), which focused on the fictional exploits of a Mill Valley couple, Kate and Harvey Holroyd, who never quite fit into the Marin "scene". The highly successful book was later adapted as a comedy film called ''[[Serial (1980 film)|Serial]]'' (1980), starring [[Tuesday Weld]] and [[Martin Mull]].

===In music===
* The song "[[Mill Valley (song)|Mill Valley]]", recorded in 1970 and released on the album ''[[Rita Abrams|Miss Abrams and the Strawberry Point 4th Grade Class]]'',<ref name="amazon.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004SGY5|title=Miss Abrams and The Strawberry Point 4th Grade Class|date=January 1, 2000|via=Amazon}}</ref> reached #90 on the U.S. [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and #5 [[Easy Listening]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/|title=Billboard Online - Now www.billboard.com|date=December 27, 1996|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961227122903/http://www.billboard.com/|archive-date=December 27, 1996|url-status=bot: unknown|access-date=September 17, 2017}}</ref> While the school is in the Mill Valley School District, it is not within the city limits.
* The song “Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day” was written by Doug Sahm and recorded by the [[Sir Douglas Quintet]] in 1968.
* The instrumental "Girl from Mill Valley", composed by [[Nicky Hopkins]] and appearing on the [[Jeff Beck Group]] album ''[[Beck-Ola]]'' (1969).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/beck-ola-mw0000674402|title=Beck-Ola : Jeff Beck|work=AllMusic|accessdate=15 November 2024}}</ref>
*The cover art for ''[[Sports (Huey Lewis and the News album)|Sports]]'' (1983), the third album of [[Huey Lewis and the News]], features a photo of the band at the [[2 AM Club]], a bar located in Mill Valley, where the band had performed during its early days.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rockandrollroadmap.com/places/album-cover-locations/san-francisco-area/the-2-a-m-club/|title=2 AM Club|website=Rockandrollroadmap.com|date=January 5, 2016}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/902497143 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/877591608 cite #11 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. [[User:GreenC bot/Job 18]]}}</ref>

===In television===
*The fictional character [[B.J. Hunnicutt]], from the TV show ''[[M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]]'', called Mill Valley home.
* The television show ''[[Quantum Leap (1989 TV series)|Quantum Leap]]''{{'}}s [[Quantum Leap (season 4)|Episode 406]] "Raped" is set in Mill Valley in 1980.
*In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' universe, it is home to the 602 Club.
*Fictional character Doris Martin from ''[[The Doris Day Show]]'' called Mill Valley home.
*In the syndicated version of the 1980 American sitcom ''[[Too Close for Comfort]]'', Henry Rush was owner and editor of the ''Marin Bugler'' newspaper in Mill Valley.
*On the Netflix-produced teen drama series ''[[13 Reasons Why]]'', shot around Marin and Sonoma counties, the protagonist visits the Fernwood Cemetery.
*The fictional characters Larry and Abby Finkelstein from the TV show ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'' lived at 1421 Bank Lane in Mill Valley.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QY3mDwAAQBAJ&dq=larry+and+abby+finkelstein+mill+valley&pg=PA6|isbn = 9781476640327|title = The Television Treasury: Onscreen Details from Sitcoms, Dramas and Other Scripted Series, 1947-2019|date = May 21, 2020|publisher = McFarland}}</ref>