Even when he is playing a Hungarian clerk in Hungary (”The Shop Around the Corner” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033045/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 ), Jimmy Stewart comes across as All-American (as does John Wayne as Genghis Khan in “The Conqueror”).
A great American.
https://youtu.be/XOX1v-MsNCo
Rich Little does Jimmy Stewart.
Jimmy was a strong conservative. His best friend, Hank Fonda, was a strong liberal. The respective children were equally opposite in their ideologies as well.
How could two, with such differing opinions, be best friends for decades?
When Fonda died, I recall an intervew with Stewart. Asked that same question, he said “Well, there’s some things we just didn’t talk about.”.
Different times indeed.
This article is cockeyed. It says, for example “He never did become an aviator, but his father’s dreams of Princeton were realized.”
Then it refers to his military service, but focuses on movies he made during the war. It then says he was promoted steadily up the military ranks, but doesn’t say what he did. After saying he never became an aviator it says and won a distinguished flying cross, but not what he did to get it.
In fact he flew 20 dangerous combat missions as a B-24 command pilot, wing commander or squadron commander.
So it’s nice that it says such wonderful things about a guy who not only played an everyman hero in the movies, but actually lived the role in real life, but it really needs work.
Jimmy Stewart dated the greatest actress of all time, Olivia DeHavilland.
I never did like Jimmy Stewart as an actor. But he made every movie he was in better. So I guess I really did like Jimmy Stewart as an actor.
In 1962, I believe, I remember Jimmy Stewart hosting a “get out the vote” effort” for PA Republican Governor candidate William Scranton at a huge venue in Hershey with maybe 20,000 in attendance. Jimmy looks around at the standing room only audience and deadpans:”You know, they tell me you can fit all of the Republicans in Pennsylvania in a telephone booth.”. He then looks around and saya,”Some phone booth!!!”
The movies with John Wayne Liberty Valance The Shootist How the West was won
Jimmy Stewart and the WW2 Mission That Almost Broke Him
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/jimmy-stewart-ww2-mission-air-force/
Just saw my local high school production of It’s a Wonderful Life and commented afterward, “That kid could have a good future as Jimmy Stewart.”
Just saw my local high school production of It’s a Wonderful Life and commented afterward, “That kid could have a good future as Jimmy Stewart.”