The next year he worked with director John Ford in The Hurricane (1937). In 1937, Mitchell was cast in Frank Capra’s Lost Horizon (1937), as an embezzler. He was in his first film, a silent, in 1923. He expanded this into writing for theater and by 1913 decided to become a stage actor and debuted on Broadway in 1916. The child of Irish immigrants, Mitchell followed his father into the newspaper business. Thomas Mitchell played the role of scatterbrained Uncle Billy. Lionel Barrymore played mean old rich man Mr. In 1986, two weeks before her 65th birthday, Reed died of pancreatic cancer. She continued to work but at a reduced rate through the 1970s and early 80s. In 1958, she began working on television in “The Donna Reed Show” 1958-1966. She handled the role of Sacajawea in The Far Horizons (1955), with Charlton Heston and Fred MacMurray as Lewis and Clark. Showing her range she starred in The Caddy (1953), a comedy with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. For this role, she won the Oscar for best-supporting actress. In 1953, she flipped this image on its head when she played hostess Alma, Reed prostitute, in From Here to Eternity (1953). Through the 1940s Reed received increasingly better roles mostly as the wholesome, girl-next-door type. She was a beauty queen and went she went to college in LA she was noticed by MGM talent scouts and received a contract. Stewart worked until near his death at the age of 89 in 1997.ĭonna Reed played Mary Hatch.
Of course, It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) may be his most beloved role. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) where he takes a family vacation way before the Grisswalds, Shenandoah (1965) playing a man of faith looking for his children during the Civil War, and finally The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) where Stewart is a down and out pilot marooned with crash survivors in the Libyan desert. Other great movies by Stewart include Harvey (1950) where only he could see a giant rabbit, No Highway in the Sky (1951) again with Marlene Dietrich where Stewart’s character was predicting a plane crash, The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) where he was a murderer on the run hiding as a circus clown, Strategic Air Command (1955), Anatomy of a Murder (1959) which shocked the public because the explicit topic, Mr. These films were Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and Vertigo (1958). Stewart starred in four Alfred Hitchcock thrillers. Louis (1957), and Carbine Williams (1952) about a prisoner that invented the M-1 rifle used in World War II. He had a few film biopics such as The Stratton Story (1949), The Glenn Miller Story (1954), The Spirit of St.
In westerns, there was Winchester ’73 (1950), Broken Arrow (1950), The Naked Spur (1953), The Man from Laramie (1955), Two Rode Together (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) with John Wayne, Cheyenne Autumn (1964) where he took the role of Wyatt Earp, The Cheyenne Social Club (1970), and The Shootist (1976) which was John Wayne’s last movie. During his long career, he worked across virtually every genre of film. The beloved, every-man, Stewart’s career picked right back up after the war.
Stewart stayed in the reserves and retired in 1959 as a brigadier general. Stewart like Clark Gable actually flew combat missions over Europe during World War II. He was drafted into the Army in 1940 as a private but his education and flying experience helped him rise to the rank of colonel in the Army Air Force.
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But he was making other movies as well, such as Destry Rides Again (1939) co-starring with Marlene Dietrich, a movie that was spoofed in Blazing Saddles (1974), and The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) were big hits and made Stewart a star. The movies You Can’t Take It With You (1938) and Mr. His roles increased regularly and he hit it big in 1937 when the first of his three collaborations with Frank Capra was released. In 1934, the lanky actor went to Hollywood and quickly found work in a short title Art Trouble (1934), and his first feature the next year The Murder Man (1935). The Depression dried up any work for the young actor. Following graduation, he toured with the University Players and was on Broadway in 1932. He entered Princeton in 1929 and continued to act while studying. At prep school, Jimmy was an athlete, musician, and actor. Jimmy as I will refer to him from here on, was born in 1908. The film is It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) starring the amazing James Stewart as George Bailey. Today’s movie is a Christmas favorite features some great stars.
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