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May 9, 2024 · Hanks, who had visited Stewart in his final years and had a tour of the legendary actor's house, said that Stewart's co-star in 17 movies died a week after Fonda gifted Stewart the painting.
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Feb 12, 2024 · According to Tom Hanks’interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where the iconic actor discusses his first Western movie News of the World, Stewart’s regard for Pie was so high that his only piece of movie memorabilia in his house was a painting of Pie, gifted to him by Henry Fonda.
- The Man Who Knew too Much (1956) Like Mann and Capra before him, Stewart developed a highly successful relationship with director Alfred Hitchcock. Although he was badly miscast in his first outing for Hitchcock in Rope (1948), he was put to better use in the director’s remake of his 1934 British success.
- Harvey (1950) Counter balanced with the ‘tough guy’ image of the Anthony Mann films, was Stewart’s role as the pleasant, middle aged Elwood P. Dowd, who has befriended an invisible 6 foot ‘pooka’ (rabbit) named Harvey.
- Bend of the River (1952) In 1950, Stewart began a fruitful collaboration with director Anthony Mann. Bend of the River was the second of these films, with Stewart playing Glyn McLyntock, scout for a wagon train of settlers, who saves Emerson Cole (Arthur Kennedy) from a lynching.
- Call Northside 777 (1949) In 1941 Stewart, a certified pilot, enlisted in the Air Force and ended up becoming a decorated pilot, flying numerous dangerous missions during the war.
Jul 3, 1997 · James Stewart, who died yesterday at 89, wasn't just a great American film actor. His early screen persona - amiable, quirky, idealistic, somehow quintessentially American - inspired more than...
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Directors with whom he also worked include Henry Hathaway ( Call Northside 777 and How the West Was Won), Frank Borzage ( The Mortal Storm ), Ernst Lubitsch ( The Shop Around the Corner ), Billy Wilder ( The Spirit of St. Louis) and Otto Preminger ( Anatomy of a Murder ).
When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man’s associate. In 1935, Stewart signed a contract with MGM studios and began his impressive film career. MGM cast him in musicals, dramas, comedies, and westerns.
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Aug 24, 2016 · Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of director Frank Capra’s best, among the “top three” that also includes It Happened One Night (1934) and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). Deeds (Gary Cooper) is another naïve man, like Stewart’s character, who leaves a country town for the big city and finds people at their worst and, then later ...
