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Lake's book was the source for the first film about Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal, produced by Sol M. Wurtzel in 1934. Before the first movie was released, Wyatt Earp's widow Josephine Earp sued 20th Century Fox for $50,000 in an attempt to keep them from making the film. She said it was an "unauthorized portrayal" of Wyatt Earp.
The O.K. Corral hearing and aftermath was the direct result of the 30-second Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, on October 26, 1881. During that confrontation, Deputy U.S. Marshal and Tombstone Town Marshal Virgil Earp, Assistant Town Marshal Morgan Earp, and temporary deputy marshals Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday shot and killed Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury.
The 1931 book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal was a best-selling biography by Stuart N. Lake. [35] It established Wyatt Earp's role as a fearless lawman in the American Old West and the legend of the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" in the public consciousness.
Wyatt Earp in Nome, Alaska, with long-time friend and former Tombstone mayor and newspaper editor John Clum, 1900 The pistol was said to be Wyatt Earp's, left behind in Juneau, Alaska, but he was arrested in Nome three days before the date on the sign The Wyatt Earp and Josephine Sarah Marcus Cottage in Vidal, California
Wyatt Earp became the archetypal image of a real-life anti-hero. [92] In 1927, Earp defended his decisions before the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and afterward to Stuart Lake, author of the 1931 largely fictionalized biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal: For my handling of the situation at Tombstone, I have no regrets.
The section on My Darling Clementine features Fonda and Stewart, both of whom played Wyatt Earp in Ford films, interviewing Ford about the director's claim that Earp himself had explained the strategy and chronology of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral to Ford and Harry Carey, complete with a sketched diagram, decades before Ford filmed a version of the melee with Fonda as Earp.
Frontier Marshal is a 1934 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring George O'Brien. Produced by Fox Film and Sol M. Wurtzel , the film is the first based on Stuart N. Lake 's enormously popular but largely fictitious "biography" of Wyatt Earp , Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal .
Stuart Lake's book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal was the basis for how Earp has been depicted as a fearless Western hero in a large number of films and books. [14] The book was first adapted into a movie for Frontier Marshal in 1934.