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He completed Rope directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Call Northside , and weathered two box-office disappointments with On Our Merry Way , a comedic musical ensemble in which Stewart and Henry Fonda were paired as two jazz musicians, and You Gotta Stay Happy , for which the posters depicted Stewart being kissed on one cheek by Joan Fontaine and on the other by a chimpanzee.

In the documentary film James Stewart: A Wonderful Life , hosted by Johnny Carson , Stewart said that he went back to Westerns in in part because of the string of flops. He returned to the stage to star in Mary Coyle Chase 's Harvey , which had opened to nearly universal praise in November , [73] as Elwood P. Dowd, a wealthy eccentric living with his sister and niece, and whose best friend is an invisible rabbit as large as a man. Dowd's eccentricity, especially the friendship with the rabbit, is ruining the niece's hopes of finding a husband.

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While trying to have Dowd committed to a sanatorium , his sister is committed herself while the play follows Dowd on an ordinary day in his not-so-ordinary life. Stewart took over the role from Frank Fay and gained an increased Broadway following in the unconventional play. Bing Crosby was the first choice, but he declined. Stewart also played the role on Broadway in , which was shot on videotape for NBC as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame series in , and on the London stage in He also starred in the Western radio show The Six Shooter for its one-season run from to During this time, Stewart wore the same cowboy hat and rode the same horse, "Pie", in most of his Westerns.

He had the ability to talk naturally. He knew that in conversations people do often interrupt one another and it's not always so easy to get a thought out. It took a little time for the sound men to get used to him, but he had an enormous impact. And then, some years later, Marlon came out and did the same thing all over again—but what people forget is that Jimmy did it first. In Stewart's collaborations with director Anthony Mann , he entered the realm of the western.

Stewart's first appearance in a film directed by Mann came with the western, Winchester ' In choosing Mann after first choice Fritz Lang declined , Stewart cemented a powerful partnership. In it, Stewart is a tough, vengeful sharpshooter, the winner of a prized rifle which is stolen and then passes through many hands, until the showdown between Stewart and his brother Stephen McNally. Frequently, the films featured Stewart as a troubled cowboy seeking redemption, while facing corrupt cattlemen, ranchers and outlaws—a man who knows violence first hand and struggles to control it.

The Stewart—Mann collaborations laid the foundation for many of the westerns of the s and remain popular today for their grittier, more realistic depiction of the classic movie genre. Audiences saw Stewart's screen persona evolve into a more mature, more ambiguous, and edgier presence. Stewart and Mann also collaborated on other films outside the western genre. Louis continued Stewart's portrayals of 'American heroes'. Thunder Bay , released the same year, transplanted the plot arc of their western collaborations to a more contemporary setting, with Stewart as a Louisiana oil driller facing hostile fishermen.

Stewart's starring role in Winchester '73 was also a turning point in Hollywood. His agent, Lew Wasserman , brokered an alternate deal, in which Stewart would appear in both films for no pay, in exchange for a percentage of the profits as well as cast and director approval. The second collaboration to define Stewart's career in the s was with director Alfred Hitchcock. Like Mann, Hitchcock uncovered new depths to Stewart's acting, showing a protagonist confronting his fears and his repressed desires.

Stewart's first movie with Hitchcock was the technologically innovative film Rope , shot in long "real time" takes. The two collaborated for the second of four times on the hit Rear Window , widely considered one of Hitchcock's masterpieces. Stewart portrays photographer L. Jeffries gets into more than he can handle, however, when he believes he has witnessed a salesman Raymond Burr hiding evidence of a murder, and when his glamorous girlfriend Grace Kelly , at first disdainful of his voyeurism and skeptical about any crime, eventually is drawn in and tries to help solve the mystery.

Limited by his wheelchair, Stewart is led by Hitchcock to react to what his character sees with mostly facial responses. It was a landmark year for Stewart, becoming the highest grossing actor of and the most popular Hollywood star in the world, displacing John Wayne. Scottie's obsession inevitably leads to the destruction of everything he once had and believed in. Though the film is widely considered a classic today, Vertigo met with very mixed reviews and poor box-office receipts upon its release, and marked the last collaboration between Stewart and Hitchcock.

Grant was actually four years older than Stewart but photographed much younger.

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Critical appreciation of all three films continues to be strong. This courtroom drama stars Stewart as Paul Biegler, the lawyer of a hot-tempered soldier played by Ben Gazzara who claims temporary insanity after murdering a tavern owner who raped his wife. The film featured a career-making performance by George C.

Scott as the prosecutor. The film was considered quite explicit for its time, and it was a box-office success. On January 1, , Stewart received news of the death of Margaret Sullavan. On April 17, , longtime friend Gary Cooper was too ill to attend the 33rd Academy Awards ceremony, so Stewart accepted the honorary Oscar on his behalf. Stewart's emotional speech hinted that something was seriously wrong, and the next day newspapers ran the headline, "Gary Cooper has cancer".

One month later, on May 13, , six days after his 60th birthday, Cooper died. In the early s, Stewart took leading roles in three John Ford films, his first work with the director. The next, 's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance , Stewart's first picture with John Wayne , is a classic "psychological" western, shot in black and white film noir style featuring powerful use of shadows in the climactic sequence, with Stewart as an Eastern attorney who goes against his non-violent principles when he is forced to confront a psychopathic outlaw played by Lee Marvin in a small frontier town.

At story's end, Stewart's character — now a rising political figure — faces a difficult ethical choice as he attempts to reconcile his actions with his personal integrity. The film's billing is unusual in that Stewart was given top billing over Wayne in the trailers and on the posters but Wayne was listed above Stewart in the film itself. The complex picture garnered mixed reviews but was an instant hit at the box office and became a critical favorite over the ensuing decades. How the West Was Won which Ford co-directed, though without directing Stewart's scenes and Cheyenne Autumn were western epics released in and respectively.

One of only a handful of movies filmed in true Cinerama , shot with three cameras and exhibited with three simultaneous projectors in theatres, How the West Was Won went on to win three Oscars and reap massive box-office figures. Cheyenne Autumn , in which a white-suited Stewart played Wyatt Earp in a long semi-comedic sequence in the middle of the movie, failed domestically and was quickly forgotten.

The historical drama was Ford's final Western and Stewart's last feature film with Ford. Stewart's entertainingly memorable middle sequence is not directly connected with the rest of the film and was often excised from the lengthy film in later theatrical exhibition prints and some television broadcasts. Having played his last romantic lead in Bell, Book and Candle , with Kim Novak, and silver-haired although not all was his—he wore a partial hairpiece starting with It's a Wonderful Life and in every film thereafter , Stewart transitioned into more family-related films in the s when he signed a multi-movie deal with 20th Century Fox.

These included the successful Henry Koster outing Mr. The Civil War period film Shenandoah and the western family film The Rare Breed fared better at the box office; the Civil War movie, with strong antiwar and humanitarian themes, was a hit in the South.

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As an aviator, Stewart was particularly interested in aviation films and had pushed to appear in several in the s, including No Highway in the Sky , and Strategic Air Command and The Spirit of St. He continued in this vein in the s, in a role as a hard-bitten pilot in The Flight of the Phoenix Subbing for Stewart, famed stunt pilot and air racer Paul Mantz was killed when he crashed the " Tallmantz Phoenix P-1 ", the specially made, single-engined movie airplane, in an abortive "touch-and-go".

Stewart also narrated the film X in After a progression of lesser western films in the late s and early s, Stewart transitioned from cinema to television. In the s he had made guest appearances on the Jack Benny Program. He followed it with the CBS mystery Hawkins , in which he played a small town lawyer investigating cases, similar to his character in Anatomy of a Murder. The series garnered Stewart a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Dramatic TV Series, but failed to gain a wide audience, possibly because it rotated with Shaft , another high-quality series but with a starkly conflicting demographic, and was cancelled after one season.

During this time, Stewart periodically appeared on Johnny Carson 's The Tonight Show , sharing poems he had written at different times in his life. His poems were later compiled into a short collection, Jimmy Stewart and His Poems Stewart returned to films after an absence of five years with a major supporting role in John Wayne 's final film, The Shootist where Stewart played a doctor giving Wayne's gunfighter a terminal cancer diagnosis. At one point, both Wayne and Stewart were flubbing their lines repeatedly and Stewart turned to director Don Siegel and said, "You'd better get two better actors.

All three movies received poor reviews, and The Magic of Lassie flopped at the box office. Following the failure of The Magic of Lassie , Stewart went into semi-retirement from acting. Lee Library in In the s and '90s, he did voiceover work for commercials for Campbell's Soups. Stewart's longtime friend Henry Fonda died in , and former co-star and friend Grace Kelly died after a car crash shortly afterwards. He filmed several television movies in the s, including Mr.

Krueger's Christmas , which allowed him to fulfill a lifelong dream to conduct the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The re-release of his Hitchcock films gained Stewart renewed recognition. Rear Window and Vertigo were particularly praised by film critics, which helped bring these pictures to the attention of younger movie-goers.

He was presented with an Academy Honorary Award by Cary Grant in , "for his 50 years of memorable performances, for his high ideals both on and off the screen, with respect and affection of his colleagues". In , Stewart made an impassioned plea in Congressional hearings, along with, among many others, Burt Lancaster , Katharine Hepburn , Ginger Rogers , and film director Martin Scorsese , against Ted Turner 's decision to ' colorize ' classic black and white films, including It's a Wonderful Life.

Stewart stated, "the coloring of black-and-white films is wrong.

It's morally and artistically wrong and these profiteers should leave our film industry alone". In , Stewart founded the American Spirit Foundation to apply entertainment industry resources to developing innovative approaches to public education and to assist the emerging democracy movements in the former Iron Curtain countries. Paul arranged for Stewart, through the offices of President Boris Yeltsin , to send a special print of It's a Wonderful Life , translated by Lomonosov Moscow State University , to Russia as the first American program ever to be broadcast on Russian television.

Constitution and Bill of Rights. Fievel Goes West , which was his last film role. Shortly before his 80th birthday, he was asked how he wanted to be remembered. Stewart was almost universally described by his collaborators as a kind, soft-spoken man and a true professional. When Henry Fonda moved to Hollywood in , he was again a roommate with Stewart in an apartment in Brentwood, [97] and the two gained reputations as playboys. As Stewart loved to recount in self-mockery, "I, I, I pitched the big question to her last night and to my surprise she, she, she said yes!

The couple remained married until her death from lung cancer on February 16, , at the age of Ronald was killed in action in Vietnam on June 8, , at the age of 24, while serving as a lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Stewart was active in philanthropy over the years. In later years, he made advertisements for the BSA, which led to his being sometimes incorrectly identified as an Eagle Scout.

Stewart Good Citizenship Award" has been presented since May 17, One of Stewart's lesser-known talents was his homespun poetry.

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By the end of this reading, Carson's eyes were welling with tears. He was also an avid gardener. Stewart purchased the house next door to his Beverly Hills home, had it razed, and installed his garden on the lot. He was a hawk on the Vietnam War , and maintained that his son, Ronald, did not die in vain.

Stewart actively supported Reagan's bid for the Republican presidential nomination in Following the assassination of Senator Robert F. One of his best friends was fellow actor Henry Fonda , despite the fact that the pair had very different political ideologies. A political argument in resulted in a fistfight, but they maintained their friendship by never discussing politics again. I can't remember ever having an argument with him—ever!

There is a brief reference to their political differences in character in their film The Cheyenne Social Club. In the last years of his life, he donated to the campaign of Bob Dole for the presidential election and to Democratic Florida governor Bob Graham in his successful run for the Senate. Stewart was hospitalized after falling in December In February , he was hospitalized for an irregular heartbeat.

On June 25, a thrombosis formed in his right leg, leading to a pulmonary embolism one week later. Surrounded by his children on July 2, , Stewart died at the age of 89 at his home in Beverly Hills, California, with his final words to his family being, "I'm going to be with Gloria now. From the beginning of Stewart's film career in , through his final theatrical project in , he appeared in more than 92 films, television programs, and shorts.

Five of his movies were included on the American Film Institute 's list of the greatest American films: His roles in Mr. Throughout his seven decades in Hollywood, Stewart cultivated a versatile career and recognized screen image in such classics as Mr.

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He is the most represented leading actor on the AFI's Years He is the most represented leading actor on the Greatest Movies of All Time list presented by Entertainment Weekly. As part of their Years Series , Stewart was named the third-greatest screen legend actor in American film history by the AFI in Stewart left his mark on a wide range of film genres, including Westerns , suspense thrillers , family films, biographies, and screwball comedies.

He won many of the industry's highest honors and earned Lifetime Achievement awards from every major film organization, and is often considered to be one of the most influential actors in the history of American cinema. Stewart was the recipient of many official accolades throughout his life, receiving film industry awards, military and civilian medals, honorary degrees, and memorials and tributes for his contribution to the performing arts, humanitarianism, and military service.

The library at Brigham Young University houses his personal papers and movie memorabilia including letters, scrapbooks, and recordings of early radio programs. Senator Jake Garn , U. On May 20, , his 87th birthday, The James M. Stewart Foundation was created to honor James Stewart.

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In concert with his family members, the foundation also established The Jimmy Stewart Museum in his hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania. The foundation was created to "preserve, promote and enshrine the accomplishments of James M. Stewart, actor, soldier, civic leader, and world citizen A large statue of Stewart stands on the lawn of the Indiana County Courthouse, just feet from the museum.

The Jimmy Stewart Museum houses movie posters and photos, awards, personal artifacts, a gift shop and an intimate s era theatre in which his films are regularly shown. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Indiana, Pennsylvania , U. Beverly Hills, California , U. Gloria Hatrick McLean m. You hear so much about the old movie moguls and the impersonal factories where there is no freedom. MGM was a wonderful place where decisions were made on my behalf by my superiors. What's wrong with that?



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The other group lost four bombers in a subsequent interception, but Stewart's decision possibly saved it from annihilation and incurred considerable damage to his own 48 aircraft. His decision resulted in a letter of commendation and promotion to major on January 20, American Film Institute Afi. Retrieved June 22, Archived from the original on June 17, Retrieved January 11, Retrieved October 28, The New York Times.

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