My Darling Clementine

MY DARLING CLEMENTINE

USA, 1946

Director: John Ford

Production: Twentieth Century-Fox; black and white, 35mm; running time: 97 minutes. Released November 1946. Filmed on location in Monument Valley, Utah and in New Mexico.

Producer: Samuel G. Engel; screenplay: Samuel G. Engel and Winston Miller based on a story by Sam Hellman, from the novel Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal by Stuart N. Lake; photography: Joseph P. MacDonald; editor: Dorothy Spencer; art directors: James Basevi and Lyle R. Wheeler; music: Cyril Mockridge and David Buttolph; orchestrator: Edward B. Powell; special effects: Fred Sersen; costume designer: Rene Hubert.

Cast: Henry Fonda ( Wyatt Earp ); Linda Darnell ( Chihuahua ); Victor Mature ( Doc John Holliday ); Walter Brennan ( Old Man Clanton ); Tim Holt ( Virgil Earp ); Ward Bond ( Morgan Earp ); Cathy Downs ( Clementine Carter ); Alan Mowbry ( Granville Thorndyke ); John Ireland ( Billy Clanton ); Grant Withers ( Ike Clanton ); Roy Roberts ( Mayor ); Jane Darwell ( Kate Nelson ); Russell Simpson ( John Simpson ); Francis Ford ( Dad, old soldier ); J. Farrell McDonald ( Mac the barman ); Don Garner ( James Earp ); Ben Hall ( Barber ); Arthur Walsh ( Hotel clerk ); Jack Pennick ( Coach driver ); Louis Mercier ( Francois ); Micky Simpson ( Sam Clanton ); Fred Libby ( Phin Clanton ); Harry Woods ( Luke ); Charles Stevens ( Indian Joe ); Danny Borzage ( Accordian player ); Mae Marsh.

Publications

Script:

Engel, Samuel G., and Winston Miller, in My Darling Clementine: John Ford, Director , edited by Robert Lyons, New Brunswick, My Darling Clementine New Jersey, 1984; also in Avant-Scène Cinéma (Paris), February 1985.

Books:

Mitry, Jean, John Ford , Paris, 1954.

Everson, William K., and George N. Fenin, The Westerns: From Silents to Cinerama , New York, 1962.

Haudiquet, Philippe, John Ford , Paris, 1964.

Bogdanovich, Peter, John Ford , Berkeley, 1968; revised edition, 1978.

Springer, John, The Fondas: The Films and Careers of Henry, Jane and Peter Fonda , New York, 1970.

Kitses, Jim, Horizons West , Bloomington, Indiana, 1970.

Baxter, John, The Cinema of John Ford , New York, 1971.

Place, Janey, The Western Films of John Ford , Secaucus, New Jersey, 1973.

McBride, Joseph, and Michael Wilmington, John Ford , New York and London, 1975.

Sarris, Andrew, The John Ford Movie Mystery , London, 1976.

Sinclair, Andrew, John Ford , London and New York 1979.

Ford, Dan, Pappy: The Life of John Ford , Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1979.

Anderson, Lindsay, About John Ford , London, 1981; New York 1983.

Caughie, John, editor, Theories of Authorship: A Reader , London, 1981.

Schatz, Thomas, Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System , New York 1981.

Fonda, Henry, and Howard Teichmann, Fonda: My Life , New York, 1981.

Goldstein, Norm, Henry Fonda: His Life and Work , London, 1982.

Thomas, Tony, The Films of Henry Fonda , Secaucus, New Jersey, 1983.

Reed, Joseph W., Three American Originals: John Ford, William Faulkner, Charles Ives , Middletown, Connecticut, 1984.

Gallagher, Tag, John Ford: The Man and His Films , Berkeley, 1986.

Stowell, Peter, John Ford , Boston, 1986.

Lourdeaux, Lee, Italian & Irish Filmmakers in America: Ford, Capra, Coppola and Scorsese , Springfield, 1990; 1993.

Darby, William, John Ford's Westerns: A Thematic Analysis, with a Filmography , Jefferson, 1996.

Davis, Ronald L., John Ford: Hollywood's Old Master , Norman, 1997.

Girus, Sam B., Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan , New York, 1998.

Levy, Bill, John Ford: A Bio-Bibliography , Westport, 1998.

Eyman, Scott, Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford , New York, 1999.

Articles:

Variety (New York), 9 October 1946.

New York Times , 4 December 1946.

New Yorker , 14 December 1946.

Auriol, Jean-Georges, "Lettre à John Ford sur My Darling Clementine ," in Revue du Cinéma (Paris), Spring 1947.

Rieuperout, Jean-Louis, in Quarterly of Film, Radio and Television (Berkeley), Winter 1952.

Springer, Henry, "Henry Fonda," in Films in Review (New York), November 1960.

Cowie, Peter, "Fonda," in Films and Filming (London), April 1962.

McVay, Douglas, "The Five Worlds of John Ford," in Films and Filming (London), June 1962.

Fonda, Henry, "Fonda on Fonda," in Films and Filming (London), February 1963.

Brode, Henry, in Cineaste (New York), Fall 1968.

Wood, Robin, in Film Comment (New York), Fall 1971.

"Ford Issue" of Filmkritik (Munich), January 1972.

Buffa, M., and C. Scarrone, "Per una rilettura del cinema classico americano," in Filmcritica (Rome), October-December 1973.

Gomery, Douglas, "Mise-en-Scène in John Ford's My Darling Clementine ," in Wide Angle (Athens, Ohio), vol. 2, no. 4, 1978.