Antique collector Terral Metheny is giving a presentation for the Hemet Heritage Foundation on “Hemet’s Forgotten Movie Star: Monroe Salisbury” on Monday, Sept. 8.
The idea for the presentation came about when Metheny found some movie tickets at a Hemet estate sale to the 1920 movie “The Blinding Trail” featuring silent movie actor Monroe Salisbury. This piqued Metheny’s curiosity, and he did some research on the actor.
In the late 1910s, Salisbury bought a 40-acre citrus ranch in Hemet near the Soboba Indian Reservation and would spend time there between filming. He appeared in the first full feature version of “Ramona” in 1916 and made friends with Soboba tribal members who helped him portray the lead character of “Alessandro.” Salisbury started out as a stage actor
