Jim Casey

Jim Casy (Preacher) from The Grapes of Wrath. Thomas Hart Benton, a native of eastern Oklahoma, was assigned to draw archetypal Oklahomans for 20th Century Fox as the studio believed that would make the casting more accurate. "It was a long head, bony, tight of skin and set on a neck as stringy and muscular as a celery stalk." " His cheeks were brown and shiny and hairless and his mouth full-- humorous and sensual. The nose, beaked and hard, stretched the skin so tightly that the bridge showed white." Slide copy only