Background
Several biographical sources state that James was born in Eagle Pass, Texas. But he was actually born in Manhattan, New York, October 3, 1899, to Alexander Walter Rothschild and Sophie Nusbaum. James died at age 53, from Leukemia, in Newport Beach, California.
He was survived by wife Anne James (née Marina Alexeieff Zeitlin, known as Anne Andre.
Born 1919), an English actress, and children, Rian Jeffrey James and Victoria James. James" mother was a sister-in-law of song writer Albert Von Tilzer.
Prior marriages
Dorothy Pauline Barmon (1902–1976), married March 31, 1921
Goldie Jane H. Taub (born 1904), married April 28, 1924, Manhattan, New York
Diane Corday, married May 5, 1930, divorced April 18, 1936.