While the basics of "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken" are true - she was a diving-horse girl, she did marry the boss's son, and she did continue diving after losing her eyesight in a diving accident - Carver said many of the details have been either fabricated or so altered that "to me, they're completely unrecognizable."
Carver shared tales about everything from her jewelry being stolen by a classmate at a pre-World War I schoolhouse to her father-in-law's falling-out with Buffalo Bill Cody and having her own extraordinary life story turned into an autobiography and now a Disney movie.īut when Carver said Williams was good at making up stories, she knew whereof she spoke. During a recent telephone interview from New York - she lives in Pleasantville, N.J. Like Jimmy Durante used to say, `I got a million of 'em.' " "He's the one that was making up the stories. "I said, `Look, Matt - I'm 86 years old, I've had enough incidents in my life, and I don't have to make up stories.' "Carver chuckled. "He said, `Come on, Sonora - you're making these stories up,' " Carver recalled. Sonora Carver, whose experiences as a diving-horse rider inspired the new film "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken," was entertaining members of the cast and crew with anecdotes one night when writer-producer Matt Williams came along.
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