These are some of the Jimmy Stewart movies that I have and like. He was good in all of them. He made a good many movies and was a good draw for movie theaters.
It' a Wonderful World. 1939 Destry Rides Again . 1939 It's A Wonderful Life. 1946 Winchester '73. 1950 Broken arrow. 1950 Bend of the River. 1952 The Naked Spur. 1953 The Far Country 1954 The Man from Laramie. 1955 Night Passage. 1957 Two Rode together. 1961 The Man who shot Liberty Valance. 1962 How the West Was Won. 1962 Cheyenne Autumn. 1964 The Rare Breed. 1966 Firecreek. 1968
On March 22, 1941, Jimmy Stewart was drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces. He was assigned to the Army Air Corps as an enlisted man and stationed at Moffett Field, Calif. During his nine months of training at that base, he also took extension courses with the idea of obtaining a commission. He completed the courses and was awaiting the results when Pearl Harbor took place. A month later he received his commission, and because he had logged over 400 hours as a civilian, he was permitted to take basic flight training at Moffett and received his pilot wings. During the next nine months, he instructed in AT-6, AT-9 and B-17 aircraft and flew bombardiers in the training school at Albuquerque, N.M. In the fall of 1943, Stewart went to England as Commanding Officer of the 703d Bomb Squadron, equipped with B-24s.
He began flying combat missions and on March 31, 1944, was appointed Operations Officer of the 453rd Bomb Group and, subsequently, Chief of Staff of the 2nd Combat wing, 2nd Air Division of the 8th Air Force. Stewart ended the war with 20 combat missions. He remained in the USAF Reserve and was promoted to brigadier general on July 23, 1959. He retired on May 31, 1968.
..................................................... He was at Reagan's 1st inauguration party in full uniform along with another high ranking actor but I can't remember who it was. Reagan was sitting down watching the show when the officers came to a salute. Reagan didn't recognize is as a salute to the new commander in chief and he sat there. Someone whispered in his ear that he was expected to return the salute and he shot to his feet like he had a cherry bomb in his back pocket. Reagan was a Lt in the AAF but never served overseas because of an eyesight problem.
Holy smokes, I forgot about “Mr Smith”’and “Shenandoah”, also two of my favorites. Much as I love Duke, I think Jimmy Stewart had much more range and made more really great films. Politics not withstanding, I’m also a big fan of both Henry Fonda and Kirk Douglas. I said in a previous post, that John Wayne more or less always played the same roll. A hard nosed man out for justice. Stewart, Fonda, Douglas, along with Spencer Tracy and some others had much more range, and, IMHO, were better actors. I’ve often wondered how Stewart would have been as a bad guy. Fonda was great in “Once Upon a Time”’and “Firecreek”.
Stewart was only a year younger than Duke. I know I’ve read that Duke was disappointed, and a little guilty, that he wasn’t able to join the service. I believe that the military told him he would better serve the cause in the film industry, and possibly his shoulder injury from college made him ineligible? At any rate, I’ve also read that John Ford in particular gave Duke a lotta crap over his failure to serve. Ford had a bit of a sadistic bully side to him, but Duke always thought that he owed his career to Ford. I read Harry Carry Jr’s book about the John Ford Stock Company, and some other articles regarding Ford, Wayne, Stewart and Fonda. Interesting reading, even for a history nerd like myself. I’ve always said that as a boy, I looked up to two great men, my heroes. The Old Man and John Wayne. 7mm
Bell, Book and Candle with a hot Kim Novak and young Jack Lemon. Stewart was very embarrassed by having to play the romantic interest of a woman so much younger than himself (Kim Novak) and told his agent that he would never again accept a role with that great a disparity in age with the female co-star.
He did poem on Johnny Carson about his dog that died. Sure put a tear in your eye.
I saw that on a Internet TV channel that runs Carson reruns the other day. He had a way with words and their delivery that many Stars did not. He was truly one of a kind.
My favorite Stewart Westerns are: “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” and the one with Audie Murphy, “Night Passage”
just saw him on tubi tv watch old movies on computer .in the 1985 The North and the South mini series ,he had a small part ,and he was really old , but still the same old Jimmy loved it