My Darling Clementine
Starring: Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Linda Darnell
Director: John Ford
Writer: Samuel G. Engel
Producer: Samuel G. Engel
My Darling Clementine is a 1946 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp during the period leading up to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The ensemble cast also features Victor Mature (as Doc Holliday), Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Cathy Downs, and Ward Bond.
Trivia
- Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
- Based on Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal (1931 novel by Stuart N. Lake).
- In 1931, Stuart Lake published Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal two years after Earp's death, and it became an instant bestseller.
- The book is highly inaccurate as is the adapted screenplay.
- The movie's title was Ford's suggestion, simply because he liked the song "Oh My Darling, Clementine". Director John Ford said that when he was a prop boy in the early days of silent pictures, Earp would visit pals he knew from his Tombstone days on the sets.
Filming Locations
- Much of the film was shot in Monument Valley, a scenic desert region straddling the Arizona-Utah border used in other John Ford movies.
Previous Showings
3 Runs • 2 Festivals
1,463 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (November 3, 1946)
Original Run: November 3, 1946 (Sunday - Wednesday)
All runs on record (3):
- November 3, 1946 (Sunday - Wednesday)Linda Darnell, Henry Fonda
- November 11 - 12, 2006 · 937 tickets20th Century-Fox 2006w/ The Mark of Zorro
- October 16 - 17, 2025 · 526 ticketsClassic Westernsw/ The Ox-Bow Incident