

Most of these letters were burned after Sister Mary's death in 1939 by her sister, who feared that the letters were tarnish the nun's reputation. After Doc's death in 1887 her letters were among the possessions of his sent back to Georgia. Although Sister Mary never made a trip out west to bring Doc home, they corresponded via letters for the rest of his life. As Sister Mary Melanie she would become an elementary school teacher, exactly like her cinematic counterpart. In 1883, unlike her cinematic counterpart, Mattie decided to enter the Sisters of Mercy Convent to become a Catholic nun. There would be no other man for her after John. His farewell to her surely was an emotional time and as a result she never married. When Doc left Georgia in 1873, Mattie was distraught after separating from the only man she truly loved. Although romantic relationships and marriage between cousins were common in the Southern United States of the nineteenth century, Mattie's devout Catholic parents wholeheartedly disapproved. Prior to My Darling Clementine, Lou Dalgleish worked with Bryan Ferry, Steven Spielberg and The Brodsky Quartet. Mattie was the eldest daughter of Robert Kennedy Holliday and Mary Anne Fitzgerald. The band was formed by Birmingham -based couple Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish, musicians in their own rights for many years and who began to perform together as My Darling Clementine in 2010, after 10 years of marriage. All rights reserved.While the character of Clementine Carter was by and large a product of the movie's fiction, she did have a historical counterpart in Doc Holliday's first cousin named Martha Ann "Mattie" Holliday. Based loosely on the real Wyatt Earp, hes an independent. Home Now Playing Home Video Reviews Articles Blog Mail Search Page About ContactĬopyright © 2000– Steven D. Wyatt Earp is the main protagonist of the 1946 classic John Ford western My Darling Clementine. Vivo/Alive: A documentary about Eucharistic adoration returns to theaters for one day only.Love and thunder, signifying nothing? Religion and nihilism in recent Marvel movies.Too good not to be true: Two movies about the Thailand cave rescue.A new foray into Middle-Earth: The Rings of Power.The Rings of Power: Season 1 at the halfway mark.The floor of the unfinished church - at once a celebration of joie de vivre, community and civilization in the rough, and faith and church as social institutions - represents the film’s real high point. MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (BLU-RAY) Western, Drama Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Ward Bond, Alan Mowbray, John. Life, but only a necessary bit of business the Sunday morning dance on After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.After their cattle are stolen and. Corral isn’t the defining moment of Earp’s The title also puts the emphasis not on the shootout or the hero,īut on a schoolmarm, Clementine Carter (Cathy Downs), and thus on theĬoming of civilization to the frontier. As Battleground is to The Battle of the Bulge, My Darling Clementine is to Shootout at the O.K. My Darling Clementine exemplifies the mythology of the old West, but it never feels like an act of myth-making - or demythologizing. Corral (or, more recently, Wyatt Earp and Tombstone), nothing about My Darling Clementine betrays any awareness that the viewer is supposed to know these names and events. Unlike such self-conscious later films as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is an indication of the lightness with which My Darling Clementine carries the legendary baggage of its subject matter. That the film’s title mentions neither Wyatt Earp or the O.K. Of the Old West, and the gentler Fonda as one of the new men who would On the film, speculates that Ford perhaps “saw Wayne as the embodiment


Ford, who met the real Wyatt Earp, could easily haveĬast John Wayne in the role Roger Ebert, in his “Great Movies” essay
