Editing Sedalia, Missouri (section)

==In popular culture==
===Film===
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The 1948 film ''[[Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!]]'' premiered at [[Fox Theatres]]. The premiere was attended by [[Lon McCallister]], [[Colleen Townsend]], [[Luanne Hogan]] and [[Betty Ann Lynn]]. A crowd of over 10,000 gathered to watch the celebrities paraded through downtown Sedalia on a donkey cart.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Imhauser |first1=Rebecca Carr |title=Legendary Locals of Sedalia, Missouri |year=2013 |publisher=Arcadia |isbn=9781467100403 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BmU3X_ZMG7cC&pg=PA88 |access-date=23 July 2019}}</ref>

[[File:Minuteman II.jpg|thumb|right|Minuteman II missile launch]]
In the [[United States|American]] [[television movie]] ''[[The Day After]]'' (1983), aired by [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], Sedalia is destroyed when the Soviet Union attacks the [[Minuteman Missile|Minuteman II Missile]] silos around the area. At the time of the movie's release, 150 of the missiles were located in the Sedalia area in underground silos. They had been sited there since activation in early 1964 of the first Minuteman missiles under the control of the [[351st Missile Wing]] located at [[Whiteman Air Force Base]]. The release of the movie led to a significant (if belated) increase in local community concern about the missiles. Concern remained high until all the missiles were dismantled between 1992 and 1997 as a result of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the United States and Russia.

Sedalia was featured in two widely seen 1977 films: ''[[Heroes (1977 film)|Heroes]]'', starring [[Henry Winkler]] and [[Harrison Ford]]; and the made-for-TV movie ''[[Scott Joplin (film)|Scott Joplin]]'', starring [[Billy Dee Williams]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076674 |title=''Scott Joplin'' (1977) |publisher=IMDb.com |access-date=2011-02-12 }}</ref>

Sedalia was mentioned briefly in the motion picture ''[[MASH (film)|MASH]]''. Parts of the 1941 film ''Bad Men of Missouri'' are set in Sedalia. The city was mentioned in ''[[Old Yeller (1957 film)|Old Yeller]]''.

===Television===
The classic, long running [[Western (genre)|Western]] series ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]'', which ran on [[CBS]] from [[1959 in television|1959]] to [[1966 in television|1966]], featured Sedalia as a destination for cattle drives. It starred [[Eric Fleming]] as the trail boss, Gil Favor, and the emerging [[Clint Eastwood]] as the "ramrod" (i.e., second in charge), Rowdy Yates.
[[File:1990SedaliaJoplinFestBanjoPiano.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival, Sedalia, 1990]]

===Music===
Sedalia is well known as the adopted home of [[ragtime]] music's most well known musician and stylist [[Scott Joplin]]. Joplin's famous ''[[Maple Leaf Rag]]'' was named for a [[Western saloon|saloon]] in Sedalia.<ref name=":0">James Lincoln Collier, Benny Goodman and the Swing Era, Oxford University Press, page 199</ref> Sedalia was also the hometown to Joe Harris, vocalist and trombonist with [[Benny Goodman and His Orchestra]] and later [[MGM Studios]].<ref name=":0" />

In 1935, in the midst of the [[Great Depression]], which affected Sedalia severely, Abe Rosenthal along with other music-loving residents formed the Sedalia Symphony Society and established a symphony orchestra, which, as the second oldest in Missouri, celebrated its 75th season in 2009–2010.

Sedalia has been the host to several rock and roll events, such as the [[Ozark Music Festival]] in 1974, and the [[Delicious Rox Festival]] in 2006.