That legendary film director was sitting with equally legendary film actors Henry Fonda and James Stewart. Wow

It is pretty cool when someone else remembers a certain person who is famous in history and can tell about it later on in life before they pass away.

Its absolutely incredible to hear someone giving a first hand account of life in the wild west this channel truly is amazing

Fascinating stuff: a video done just over fifty years ago includes memories of someone from the Wild West days. History is more recent than we think. Thanks for sharing!

I've been obsessed with the Wild West since early childhood. I've always said that I was born 100 years too late. My dad and I used to watch Tombstone together over and over. I also went to Tombstone, AZ and was asked to dance on top of the bar at Big Nose Kate's, to which I (embarrassingly) obliged. A live band played to a packed house and I was handed two replica six-shooters and gave it my all at the behest of the owner, a tall older gentleman with white hair and a cowboy hat who plucked me out of the crowd. Talk about memories..🤩🤦‍♀️

John Wayne supposedly picked up Wyatt Earp's accent upon befriending him in the mid-to-late 1920s. So he lived on in Wayne.

My wife’s cousin first cousin 5 times removed was Ben Thompson who was arrested by Wyatt Earp…

Can you imagine how much that hand drawn sketch would be worth today?

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Wyatt Earp died in January 1929. John Ford was 34 years old at the time of Earp's death. Harry Carey, Sr. starred in 25 silent films by Ford during the 1920s.

If memory serves you posted a video of his nephew from the 50’s. That was an interesting video.

John Wayne's famous walk and talk, he said, was modeled after Wyatt Earp, his acquaintance. Maybe you can fact-check this; I heard it in the JW interview. Thank you for your channel idea, it may prove to be quite educational and entertaining.

Thank you for your channell! It`s very interesting!

If someone wanted to know about Wyatt, all they needed to do was ask John Wayne. He knew him as early as 17 years old when he'd fetch coffee for him. Wyatt did off camera advice for the western movies before John ever got into acting.

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John Wayne talks about Wyatt Earp that is where he got his attitude from and there are old black-and-white videos of him walking around on movie sets plenty of the original cowboy movies were actually using real cowboy bandits who were no longer wanted by the law

Amaaaaazing

His childhood home is in my Dutch town In Pella. Iowa!

You could have mentioned Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart were on the film too, lol. LOVE the old movies. Those days are gone...

Time is a strange thing. We so easily think that all those famous outlaws and lawmen of the so-called Wild West lived a very very long time ago. Maybe it's because all our lives we've seen their characters in the movies and on TV and read about them in books and comics. They have become myths, not even real persons. We feel that they are from somewhere far away history, like for example Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great or Socrates. However, when I think about it, my own mother lived at the same time as Wyatt Earp. She was 6 when he died. Not much time has passed. Human life is just so short. I have often wondered why, by some absurd coincidence, no film footage or voice recording of Wyatt Earp has been found. You would think that some news reporter, filmmaker or a friend of his would have thought of filming such a famous person, especially since he knew so many famous actors, directors and other people in the film industry during his Hollywood years. Film cameras had been in use for decades before his death. I guess there is still a chance that someday a movie clip will be found in the basement of some old Hollywood family, or from some safe box and we can see Wyatt Earp walking on the background of some Hollywood movie set, or at an evening party.

Hope someone saved that sketch!!

I think I saw a clip years ago with Wyatt Earp doing boxing refereeing, just a few seconds. There was some film, I think Jesse James' son was an actor who played him in the film? I heard that Butch Cassidy's real sister came to the film set and said to Paul Newman joking, "Hello Butch, i'm your sister". I wonder if her visit is on film?

Amazing. A color interview with Henry Fonda and James Stewart in which THEY are the youngsters.

John Wayne was said to have also met Wyatt and styled his on screen persona after Wyatt

John Wayne talked quite a few times about learning a lot from Earp and knowing him.

I wouldn't put too much stock in what Ford's saying. He claims that his film closely followed a diagram drawn by Earp, but it's well known that the shootout in the movie was nothing like the real event. Ford's story comes across like something concocted by a studio publicist.

That’s nuts!

Supposedly there is a video of John Wayne where talked about meeting Earp and learning speech and physical mannerisms from Earp.

Interesting that Earp supposedly said he had to get close as he wasn’t a good shot.

He's wearing an old OLD style Angels hat too. With the halo

What film was Ford referring to in this clip? Earp lived until 1929, there were movie cameras near him, pity no one took a clip of him.

Wow. Jimmy Stewart, John Ford, and Henry Fonda sitting around talking.

John Wayne was taught the fast draw by earpp he talks about it John Wayne worked at the Hollywood studios in the 20s where Earp was a consultant on western movies

WOW

My Uncle William S Hart was directly descended from the actor of the same name that knew Earp

Where can the entire video be found?

I heard of this information before. But I don't know if I trust John Ford. It's possible that he could have met Wyatt Earp. But how could he go from the direct source and screw it up so bad in My Darling Clementine? Not one thing he did in that movie was anything like the real location and real events.

I just saw vdo earp in person talking

John Wayne talked to Earp in the studio canteen.

I worked with a lady who was related to Johnny Ringo.

A mustache that could also be used as a bipod if needed.

Why is it that the mustache are not straight on the Frontiersman

Wyatt Earp spent several of his last years , he died in 1929 , hanging around several of the small Western movie sets , in California , known as Poverty Row . Movie sets , such as , Lone Star and Republic ........where a young man working as a basic " gofer " ,later to be known as John Wayne , became friendly with Earp .......in fact ......later in his life ....Wayne claimed he patterned his Western " outllok " ...after Earp ..

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I`ve always wondered why the "OK coral shootout" scene was so radically different in "My Darling Clementine" than any other version of it. It obviously did not happen the way it was portrayed in the film. Either John Ford is lying or Wyatt Earp lied to JF about how it went down. What motivation? Wyatt was known to -- shall we say -- aggrandize things from time to time. And JF was not opposed to embellishing and/or altering facts to make the story more appealing. What ever the case, the way the gun fight was staged did make for a good story and a fine film. I reckon that`s all that matters in Hollywood.

My uncle is George Brett... His father(my grandfather) cheated on his wife and had 2 daughters with my grandma... My mother and aunt are his and ken's half sisters... They have never met tho... My aunt met them during Jacks funeral but my mother has never met any of them and thats a shame

Yeah, but it never happened like that in the movie. So who was lying? Ford or Earp?

Wyatt Earp - nobody I know knew him. Jesse James - yes.

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Didn't you post his nephew talking about his uncle? That counts, yes?

Love John Ford's movies but his version of the gun fight between the Earps and the cowboys in My Darling Clementine was wildly inaccurate. Too bad Wyatt wasn't advising on that.

If you read " 'Tis Herself," Maureen O'Hara's autobiography, you will lose ALL respect for John Ford. I do know John Wayne (whom Ford took every opportunity to belittle) befriended Earp, and learned everything he could from him. Evidently "the Duke" incorporated many of Earp's mannerisms into his own cowboy "schtick."

Love anything to do with the old west . Always felt like I was better suited for the American west of the 1800's . Especially the southern states .

It definitely didn't happen as was portrayed in My Sweet Clementine. The newspaper accounts of the time confirm how it happened.

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Is that Jimmy Stewart sitting there?

I Michael Kurz played a few games of billards with Wyatt and his brothers had a few bites,not once did they ever talk about the every day life (Clantons or not trusting any cowpokes in tombstone) just mainly rambled on about upcoming colt 45s

More importantly he got to talk with Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart.

Did he say Harry Caray, as in the sportscaster?

We are going to frame him now!

John Wayne not only knew Earp by copied his speaking style.

John Ford's recitation and depiction of the OK Coral gunfight are complete nonsense. The gunfight took place on October 26,1881. Ford has Old Man Clanton (Newman Hanes Clanton) at the scene when in fact he had died two months earlier on August 13, 1881. Ford shows Wyatt shooting and killing an armed Ike Clanton that day. This is also false. Wyatt testified that Ike was unarmed and did not participate in the gunplay. Wyatt said at the November 16, 1881, Preliminary Hearing, "After about four shots were fired, Ike Clanton ran up and grabbed my left arm. I could see no weapon in his hand, and thought at the time he had none, and so I said to him, "The fight had commenced. Go to fighting or get away,” at the same time pushing him off with my left hand, like this. He started and ran down the side of the building and disappeared between the lodging house and photograph gallery." Ike was not killed that day. Rather, he was killed June 1, 1887, in Springerville, AZ, by the town's constable. Most egregiously, Ford has Doc Holliday killed in the stables near the end of the gunfight. Holliday died from tuberculosis six years after the 30-second battle and six months after Ike Clanton. He died with his boots off while a patient at The Hotel Glenwood Springs, Glenwood Springs, CO, on November 8, 1887. As for Wyatt, Ford has him fully decked out with a single gun rig on the right hip and a six-gun in his left hand and not wearing an overcoat. Wyatt had not equipped himself with his rig. Instead, he had put his pistol in his pocket. In his testimony, Wyatt said under oath, "I had my pistol in my overcoat pocket, where I had put it when Behan told us he had disarmed the other parties. When I saw Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury draw their pistols, I drew my pistol." Both Wyatt Earp and John Ford were great tellers of wild tales. Neither should be believed at face value. Obvious falsehoods can be easily verified. Ford apparently didn't verify anything. In a John Ford later film, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," the newspaper editor correctly says, "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." John Ford filmed the legend, the truth be damned.

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I knew Wyatt. Don't talk about it though, sorry

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JOHN WAYNE never met WYATT EARP... most of Earp's legendary life was fabricated by writer Stuart N. Lake, he's the one who promoted him to the world. Marian Morrison was a lowly prop man before director Raoul Walsh changed his name to John Wayne for the 1930 epic THE BIG TRAIL, shot in widescreen but flopped at the box-office. At the time of this interview Ford was in extremely poor health, battling various ailments including memory loss for well over ten years. Wyatt Earp never made any real money from his so-called fame... it was HOLLYWOOD that made plenty of money doing countless movies and TV shows and never having to pay him a penny! Wayne came to HOLLYWOOD in 1929, and Wyatt Earp died the same year close to downtown Los Angeles. The name Wyatt Earp was known to very few in the Old West, and he was never as saintly as portrayed in the movies or by Hugh O'Brian in the famous TV show!

That was the shortest and lamest interview I ever saw.....