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JESSE JAMES FILM IS ONLY FICTIONGranddaughters of Famous Outlaw Disappointed in Movie StoryOTHERWISE, THESHOW IS FINE5 HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 19. TP— 1 Four granddaughters of Jesse James, the Missouri outlaw, saw him. ride across a movie screen last night, guns blazing and posses in pursuit.But when they left the theater after a two-hour preview, they were shaking their heads. ^ It may be entertainment, but it isn't Jesse James, they declared.Jo Frances Jamcsi a Los Angeles bank executive, was credited by 20th Centurv-Fox studio with assisting in assembling the historical da.ta for the $2,000,000 color picture of her grandsire’s bank-robbing career.I don't know what happened to the history part of it,” said Jo. It seemed to me the story was fiction from beginning to end.Hn Did Ride a Horse.“Of courset Tyrone Power as Jesse James, ’and the other actors were fine, and the color effects were beautiful and the scenes were well directed, but 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 Pro~ duction that was made last fall at Pineville, Mo., 1,700 miles from Hollywood.Jesse James, Jr., retired I^ansas City lawyer, who is shown in the picture as a five year old boy, was unable to attend because of ill-2iess. His wife, four daughteis, and Mrs. Lutie Minims, niece of. the famed outlaw, came, and were almost lost sig'ht.of in the throng.Disappointed.To many in the audience, fact and fancy blended smoothly m the film’s unfolding, but the James clan confessed “disappoint-mcnt.’’ ,, .1 “You see, said Jo, “they made 1 a railroad the villain of the story. c when it was really the hatreds cngenered by the Civil 'War. They showed Jesse- getting drunk and quarreling with, his men, when that never happened. They had him surrendering and then breaking ia.il, though he never gave up his freedom in. his whole life They had him away from, nu wife when his son was born, but, in fact, they were together inTennessee. ' • .“They showed his mother being killed by a railroad agent,. Why, she actually outlived him bv more than 20 years.This is the second movie about Jesse James. Fred Thompson starred in one about ten years ago. It was fiction, tooIf I ever get rich, I d like to produce a true picture of my grandfather. I think the truth s a lot more interesting than fiction,
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