Posts from sun526 in thread „The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)“

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Originally posted by Moonshine_Sally@Oct 19 2006, 12:55 PM
My mom comes from a large family and her oldest brother is now 83yrs old while her youngest brother will turn 54 next month.That is enough of an age difference to me.

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Ya know, it occured to me, the one thing I think we fogot to mention when talking about the age span in the Elder brothers characters and the fact that Katie would had to have been fertile for 30 some odd years, is the fact that back in the 1700's, 1800's, and up into the 1900's that is wasn't uncommon for girls to wed as early as 12 yrs. old (some by arranged marriages) and have their first child by the time they were 13 or 14 yrs. old and would continue to have children into their early 40's, especially in rural areas, as well as in some metropolitan areas.

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Originally posted by ethanedwards@Oct 19 2006, 04:18 AM
Hi sun526,

I know what you mean, as these days,
there is so much information available!!
I include as much info, as I can,
so there is no need, to go on the internet looking for it.

Bills, work on Katie Elder,
is very interesting, hope you enjoyed it.

Thanks, for your support of the Movie Forum
and your interesting replies,

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Yes indeed! I do appreciate the info. I may not post a lot, but I do read a bunch, and most everytime I learn something new .

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Originally posted by ethanedwards@Oct 18 2006, 10:55 AM
This is from my initial post:-

Hi,

Thanks Jim, you making your post above,
reminded, me to link, sun526,
to the story Bill is collecting, regarding the 'real' Katie Elder,
follow the links below,

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Duke Stories- Page 48

Katie Elder

Wikipedia- Big Nose Kate

Mary Katherine Haroney

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Sorry bout that. I missed you already posted that info. Sometimes in long post's I miss some info and sometimes my little ol' attention span wanders .

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Originally posted by may2@Jan 10 2006, 09:19 PM
I came upon this under Tommy Kirk's entry at IMDB awhile ago,
I assume he was going to play Bud. I think he would have been even more unbelievable as Duke's brother that Michael Anderson Jr. was, he's really short.

As it was Katie must have been fertile for 35 years to have sons with such a large age span.

I always thought it was odd they used the name Katie Elder. Wasn't there an actual Katie Elder in the old West famed as a madam or one of the girls?

It's one of my favorite John Wayne movies anyway. It has a great Elmer Bernstein score.

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It wasn't unusual for people in rural America to have rather large families and at a vast age span....ie, my Dad's family was 13 brothes and sisters with 4 half brothers and a half sister for a grand total of 18 kids , the first being born in 1928 and the last being born in 1954. Birth control was not well practiced then or before.

Check this out, there was indeed a Kate Elder. She was Doc Holliday's (of O.K. corral fame) wife/girlfriend or whatever. She was called "Big nosed" Kate Elder.