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 | | 137-149, "Frankie and Johnnie;" PBB 113, "Frankie and Albert;" Sandburg, pp. |
 | | Speculation that the “Frankie” ballads based on the murder became the basis of the “Frankie and Johnny” are only warranted because the ballad is said by some scholars to have been in oral circulation before the St. Louis murder in 1899. |
 | | FRANKIE FILMS: The song has inspired a number of films over the past 75 years, including Her Man (1930, Pathe, with Helen Twelvetrees), Frankie and Johnnie (1936, Republic, with Helen Morgan), and the 1966 Elvis Presley vehicle Frankie And Johnny (UA). |
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