The True Story of Jesse James
The True Story of Jesse James is a 1957 American Western drama film adapted from Henry King's 1939 film "Jesse James", which was only loosely based on James' life.
It was directed by Nicholas Ray, with Robert Wagner portraying Jesse James and Jeffrey Hunter starring as Frank James.
Filming took place during 1955.
Originally titled The James Brothers in the United Kingdom, the film focused on the relationship between the two James brothers during the last 18 years of Jesse James' life.
Jesse James as the Outlaw
Jesse James as the Outlaw is a 1921 silent film directed by Franklin B. Coates, cast designed by Edgar Kellar and starring Jesse James, Jr., Diana Reed and Marguerite Hungerford.
It is the sequel of" Jesse James under the Black Flag", released the same year.
Both films were featured in theaters and were not financial successes.
Zerelda Mimms
Zerelda Amanda Mimms James( July 21, 1845 – November 13, 1900) was the first cousin and wife of Jesse James.
Charles Ford (outlaw)
Charles Wilson" Charley" Ford( July 9, 1857 – May 6, 1884) was an outlaw, and member of the James Gang.
He was the lesser known brother of Robert Ford, the killer of Jesse James.
Charlie Ford was introduced to Jesse and Frank James by Wood Hite and he joined the gang.
In 1882 Jesse James recruited Robert and Charles Ford to help with a planned robbery of another bank.
Thomas T. Crittenden offered$ 10,000 for the capture of Jesse James, and on April 3, 1882, Robert Ford shot Jesse James.
He and Charles Ford were convicted and were sentenced to be hanged, but were pardoned by Crittenden.
Two years later, after a period of deep depression following James' death, terminal illness from tuberculosis, and a debilitating morphine addiction, Charles Ford died by suicide on May 6, 1884.
I Shot Jesse James
I Shot Jesse James is a 1949 American western film directed by Samuel Fuller about the murder of Jesse James by Robert Ford and Robert Ford's life afterwards.
The story is built around a fictional rivalry between Ford and his eventual killer Edward Kelley (called John in the film) over a woman.
"I Shot Jesse James" is Samuel Fuller's first movie, and stars Reed Hadley as Jesse James and John Ireland as Bob Ford.
The film was released on video by the Criterion Collection's Eclipse imprint together with "The Baron of Arizona" and "The Steel Helmet".
Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director best known for the movie
"Rebel Without a Cause."
Ray is also appreciated for many narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963 including "Bigger Than LifeJohnny GuitarThey Live by Night", and "In a Lonely Place", as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled "We Can't Go Home Again", which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death from lung cancer.
Ray's compositions within the CinemaScope frame and use of color are particularly well-regarded.
Ray was an important influence on the French New Wave, with Jean-Luc Godard famously writing in a review of "Bitter Victorycinema is Nicholas Ray."
Days of Jesse James
Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers.
Jesse James Under the Black Flag
Jesse James Under the Black Flag is a 1921 silent black and white historical western film directed and written by Franklin B. Coates.
It is about the bandit Jesse James, who is portrayed by his son Jesse James Jr..
It is the prequel of "Jesse James as the Outlaw", both released the same year and featured in theaters.
Jesse James' Kid
Jesse James' Kid (also known as "Son of Jesse James") is a 1965 Spanish-Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Antonio del Amo.
J. Frank Dalton
John Frank Dalton( March 8, 1848 August 15, 1951) was a man who, in the last few years( 1948- 1951) of his long life, publicly claimed to be the famous outlaw Jesse James.
However, most professional historians believe that Dalton was merely a Jesse James impostor, and that the real Jesse James was killed by Robert" Bob" Ford on April 3, 1882, in a house Jesse was renting located at 1318 Lafayette Street in St. Joseph, Missouri.
With the death of Jesse James in 1882, and the subsequent death of his( Dalton's) wife Julia Ellen Groshon during childbirth in 1886, Dalton abandoned his children and began roaming the countryside.
In the 1930s and 1940s he appeared in Independence County, Arkansas, telling tales of being Jesse James, and on other occasions he told tales of being the famous Western lawman John Franklin" Frank" Dalton( June 8, 1859- November 27, 1887), thus earning himself a meal.
By the 1940s he was in Oklahoma and Texas, where his uncle lived and he had relatives.
It was in Texas that he first claimed he was the same Frank Dalton who historians believe had been killed in 1887.
When it was proved that he was n't the original Frank Dalton( 1859- 1887), in April, 1948- in Lawton, Oklahoma- he took up being Jesse James instead.
Dalton was allegedly 100 years old at the time of his first public appearance as Jesse James- at Lawton, Oklahoma in April – May, 1948.
Like the real Jesse James, Dalton apparently had been a pro-Confederate guerrilla in Missouri during the Civil War.
However, Dalton's account of himself as Jesse James did not hold up under questioning from Jesse James' surviving relatives.
Nevertheless, several people of note, such as journalist/ novelist Robert Ruark, were convinced that J. Frank Dalton was the famous outlaw Jesse Woodson James.
To many people's surprise, Dalton did appear to have many of the unique body marks/ body features which the real Jesse James was rumored to have.
These body features included: seven bullet wounds, a rope burn around his neck, a collapsed lung, a damaged fingertip, and severely burned feet.
On September 5, 1949, Rudi Turilli and Lester B. Dill( the general manager and owner, respectively, of Meramec Caverns, near Stanton, Missouri) hosted a reunion at Meramec Caverns for Dalton and his last- remaining old- time friends, in celebration of Dalton's/ Jesse James' supposed 102nd birthday.
J. Frank Dalton died on August 15, 1951, in Granbury, Texas, and his death certificate was recorded with the name of the man he claimed to be.
His gravestone in Granbury Cemetery also has that claimed identity recorded on it.

Question: Why did the director of film The True Story Of Jesse James die?
Answer: lung cancer