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'Jesse James' Called Wrong Historically iOutlaw's Granddaughters Say Film Is Enter-taining but InaccurateHOLLYWOOD. Jan. 10—CAP) | —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 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 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.“Of course, Tyrone Power as1 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 i that there once was a man named . J6mes and he did ride a horse. ;Celebrities by the hundreds turned out for the special show ing, applauding liberally the production that was made last fall at Pineville, Mo., 1,700 miles from Hollywood.Jesse James, jr., retired Kansas j lt;City lawyer, who is shown in the,' picture as a five year old boy, was it unable to attend because of ill - j f ness. His wife, four daughters, j i and Mrs. Lutie Mimms, niece of * the famed outlaw, came and were j almost lost sight of in the throng.To many in the audience, fact and fancy blended soothly in the s film’s unfolding, but the James f clan confessed “disappointment.” Y “You see, said Jo, “they made a v railroad the villain of the story, ' when it was really the hatreds | engenered by the Civil war. They showed Jesse getting drunk and L 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 life. They c had him away from his wife when j f his son was born, but, in fact, they were together in Tennessee. | a‘They showed his mother being c killed by a railroad agent. Why, u she actually outlived him by more I g than 20 years. i n■ “This is the second movie about | f Jesse James. Fred Thompson j starred in one about ten . ears ago. j G It was fiction, too. !“If I ever get rich, I’d like !o 1 pioduce a true picture of my £ grandfather. I think the truth’s a j13 lot more interesting than fiction. ^
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Jefferson City Daily Capital News
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Wed, Jan 11, 1939
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