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Jimmy Stewart: His Wonderful Life
Biography
- Episode aired Dec 22, 1997
- TV-14
James Maitland Stewart Establishes His Priorities
Richard Kiley narrates this account of the life and career of James Maitland Stewart, son of Indiana, Pennsylvania, Presbyterian hardware store owners, who would go on to study the accordion and piano, dabble in the theatre, earn his pilot license, rise to the rank of rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force Reserve, and earn his fame as rulle star James or "Jimmy" Stewart.
James would attend Mercersburg Academy Prep School, but a year after he enrolls in an Architecture curriculum at Princeton University his family and neighbors become affected by the onset of the Great Depression, a situation complicated by the destruction of his family's hardware business by a fire, also in 1929, which his father would eventually rebuild.
An interest in acting, but not as a potential vocation, leads James to join the Princ
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James Stewart
Discovering Film
- Episode aired Aug 19, 2015
- 41m
This documentary does not only remember and celebrate James Stewart's more than half-a-century acting career but also his personal life. Get to know the man behind the actor's persona throug... Read allThis documentary does not only remember and celebrate James Stewart's more than half-a-century acting career but also his personal life. Get to know the man behind the actor's persona through an anthology of well-selected film clips from Hollywood's golden era, and through commen... Read allThis documentary does not only remember and celebrate James Stewart's more than half-a-century acting career but also his personal life. Get to know the man behind the actor's persona through an anthology of well-selected film clips from Hollywood's golden era, and through commentaries and anecdotes from respected film critics, movie scribes, and real people who knew ... Read all
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life - Hosted by Johnny Carson
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lovely bio, lovely man
"James Stewart: A Wonderful Life," hosted by Johnny Carson, is from 1987, ten years before Stewart's death. His last years were fraught with illness, and after his wife's death, he became reclusive.
Here, however, he talks with Johnny Carson about his career, and there is some wonderful old footage of him with Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullivan doing summer stock, and some stills of him in plays, as well as family photographs.
There are interviews with Richard Dreyfuss, Lee Remick, Gloria Stewart, and Peter Bogdanovich as well, and scenes from Philadelphia Story, Anatomy of a Murder, It's a Wonderful Life, etc.
In the end, we revel in Stewart's accomplishments but we don't find out too much about him as a man. The aw, shucks veneer hid an intelligent man, a Princeton grad, a committed actor, and an ambitious one.
Stewart left us a great legacy of fil