Posted on 05/23/2021 12:20:05 PM PDT by mylife
There’s a statue for him in his hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania, and there’s the Jimmy Stewart Museum on the main street that has a lot of his movie memorabilia and family mementoes.
This article doesn’t mention that he is also the descendant of the original settler in Indiana who served in the Revolutionary War as captain of the Kittanning Militia. This pioneer was captured by Indians during one of the first conflicts of the Revolution in western Pennsylvania. He was imprisoned by the British in Canada for a year before a prisoner exchange allowed him to return to Pennsylvania where he joined another militia to continue the fight for freedom.
So, Stewart comes by his military heritage through Revolutionary War and Civil War ancestors. He was a remarkable man who made several visits to Indiana including to receive an honorary doctorate from the university there in 1975.
Plenty of weirdos everywhere and ‘when. I watched a video yesterday of a gentleman’s recollections of his first job in a new car dealership in Kansas.
There was the female sales person who was sleeping with everyone, the open container of cocaine in the ‘employees only’ restroom, the discussions about how to cheat customers......
Agree !
Because it really didnt get hollyweird until after ww2.
Read Chaplin’s biography it was pretty weird then too !
Also Chaplin had a preference for very young women. What I find particularly appalling he didn’t look for them. Their parents threw them at him. You’d think he was Henry VIII and they were the Howard or Boleyn families.
Chaplin, fatty Arbuckle just to name a few
Yep !
Why do you think prior to modern times actors & actresses were lower on the social scale then thieves & pickpockets, same level as prostitutes (Usually one in the same !)
My favorite is Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation.
Watch his left hand
It was a superb motion picture, and, as always J.S. was great.
Add to that, Hollywood has produced very few women of such beauty and class as Kim Novak.
It’s A Wonderful Life was the first movie he made after leaving the service; his acting shows the trauma of his life during his missions; his emotions were real.
At least he wasn’t misgendered.
Fonda was an oldstyle lib not an America hater
He loathed Jane Fonda first husband,Roger Vadim for radicalizing her and pimping her out in Barbarella. He wasa a close friend of an ARVN MG.
yep, my mothers dad and uncles were set makers. i would guess they had stories to tell.
Henry Fonda painted Jimmy’s horse that he used in dozens of movies. Google it. Fonda was an accomplished painter.
Jimmy Stewart’s Vietnam missions were flown over the south, not the north. B-52s didn’t fly their first missions over North Vietnam until 1972, and they didn’t hit Hanoi until December of that year—the famous “Christmas bombing” that hastened the end of the war and the return of our POWs.
Was just thinking last night that Jimmy would have done a much better job in Arsenic and Old Lace than Cary Grant...
Off to read the article.
I did not know that. I didn’t know that James Stewart even flew in Vietnam.
In-deed. Not your typical actor.
Yup. Read the biography “Hank and me”. Very interesting read.
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