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CUN IS HOSTILE TO'JESSEJAMES''Entertainment/ but Not The Facts, Outlaw's Kin Kay of Pineville MovieHOLLYWOOD, Jan. 10—*.^ F««f granddaughter* of Jeuse Jam**. the Missouri outlaw, saw Him ride across the movie screen last night, gun* blaring and posses ;e pursuit. But when they left the theater after a two-hour preview, thev were shaking their heads.' Tt may be entertainment, hut it isn't Jesse James,” they declared Jo Frances James, a Los Angeles hank executive, was credited by Twentieth Century-Fox studio with assisting in assembling the historical data for the I2.ft00.noo color picture of her grandsire’s hank-mhhing career.I don't know what happened to the history part of it, said Jo. *ft seemed to me the story waa fiction from beginning to end.Of course, Tyrone Power aa Jesoe Jamee, and the other actors were fine, and the color effects were beautiful and the scenes were wel directed, hut about the only connection it had with fact was that there once was a man named James and he did ride a horse.Celebrities by the hundreds turned out for the special showing, applauding liberally the production that was made last fall at Pineville. Ho.. l,?no miles from Hollywood, Jesse James, Jr., retired Kan«as Citr lawyer, who is shown in the picture as a 5-year-old boy, was unable to attend because of illness. His wife, four daughters, and Mrs, Lutie Mimma. niece of the famed outlaw, came and were almost lost sight of in the throng.To many in the audience, fart and fancy blended smoothly in the films enfolding, but the James clan confessed disappointment.You see, said Jo, they made a railroad the villian of the story, when it waa really the hatreds enter, le red by the Civil war. They •* wed Jesse getting drunk and «iu«rreling with his men. when that never happened. They had him surrendering and then breaking jail, though he never gave up his freedom in his whole life. They had him away from his wife when his son was bom, hut, in fart, they were together in Tennessee.They showed his mother being j n killed by a railroad agent. Why. I she actually outlived him by more n than it) years. tlThis is the second movie about j tl Jc5*o James. Fred Thompson star* I w red in one about 10 years ago. It j was fiction, too. ) «fi
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Miami Daily News Record
Miami, Oklahoma, US
Tue, Jan 10, 1939
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