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tAnyway, There Was a Man Mamed Jesse James, Says His Granddaughter of FilmHOLLYWOOD, ■ Jan, 10.—lt;/P— 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, theywere shaking their-heads. “It. may be' entertainment, but :it isn’t Jesse James,”, they declared.Jo Frances James, a Los Angeles bank executive, was credited by .20th Century-Fox studio with' assisting in assembling the historical data for the $2,000,000.-.. .. color picture of her grar.dsire’s bank-robbing career.“I don’t know what happened r to the history part of it,” said Jo.‘ “It ^seemed to me the story was fiction from beginning to end.“Of course, 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 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‘fallat Pineville, Mo., 1,700 miles from Hollywood.Jesse James, jr., retired Kansas City lawyer, who is shown in the picture as a five-year-old boy,' was unable- to attend because of illness. His wife, four daughters, 'and Mrs. Lutie Mimms, niece of the famed outlaw, came and were almost lost sight of in the. throng.To many in .the audience, fact and fancy blended smoothly in the film’s unfolding, but the James clan confessed “disappointment.”“You see,” said Jo,- “they made a railroad the villain of the story when it was really the hatreds engendered 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 jail, though he never gave up his freedom in his whole Ufa They had him away from his wife when his son was bom, but, in fact, they were together in Tennessee.“They showed his mother being killed by a rail road agent Why she actually outlived him by more than'20 years. '“This is the second movie about Jesse James. Fred Thompson starred in one about ten years ago. It was fiction, too.”'
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Ada Evening News
Ada, Oklahoma, US
Tue, Jan 10, 1939
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