Editing My Darling Clementine (section)

===Writing===
The final script of the movie varies considerably from historical fact to create additional dramatic conflict and character. Clementine Carter is not a historical person, and in this script, she appears to be an amalgam of [[Big Nose Kate]] and [[Josephine Earp]]. The Earps were also never cowboys, drovers, or cattle owners. Important plot devices in the film and personal details about the main characters were all liberally adapted for the movie.<ref name=Signal/>

[[Old Man Clanton]] actually died before the gunfight and probably never met any of the Earps. Doc was a dentist, not a surgeon, and survived the shootout. James Earp, who was portrayed as the youngest brother and the first to die in the story, actually was the eldest brother and lived until 1926. The key women in Wyatt's and Doc's lives—Wyatt's common law wife [[Josephine Earp|Josephine]] and Doc's common-law wife [[Big Nose Kate]]—were not present in Lake's original story and were kept out of the movie as well. The film gives the date of the gunfight as 1882 although it actually occurred in 1881.<ref name=nixon/>

Upon leaving Tombstone, the itinerant actor, Granville Thorndyke ([[Alan Mowbray]]), bids farewell to the old soldier, "Dad" ([[Francis Ford (actor)|Francis Ford]], John Ford's elder brother), with lines from [[Joseph Addison]]'s poem ''The Campaign'':

{{Blockquote|text=Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand allegiance, and in friendship burn...}}