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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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With the holiday season once again upon us, it’s time to share a story I wrote a year ago about Jimmy Stewart. I’ve always admired the Academy-award winning actor for his role in the classic Christmas movie, “It’s A Wonderful Life,” and for his service as WWII bomber pilot.
But it wasn’t until I started researching his story in more detail that I discovered Stewart was much more than a great actor and American. He was a man who suffered from and overcame PTSD, inspired millions of people with his kind words and spirit, and became a role model who left a lasting legacy of goodwill, patriotism, and selflessness that all Americans can be proud of.
In the eleven months since posting Stewart's story on my Facebook page, it’s reached more than 17 million people and received nearly 3.8 million comments, shares, and reactions - a testament to the enduring respect and admiration people have for the Hollywood actor and American patriot.
Scene from “It’s A Wonderful Life.” (PC: Associated
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It's a Wonderful Life
1946 film by Frank Capra
This article is about the 1946 film. For other uses, see It's a Wonderful Life (disambiguation).
It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmasfantasydrama film produced and directed by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift", self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol.[4]
The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his personal dreams to help others in his community and whose thoughts of suicide on Christmas Eve bring about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody.[4] Clarence shows George all the lives he touched and what the world would be like if he had not existed.
Although it was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, It's a Wonderful Life initially received mixed reviews and was unsuccessful at the box off