Jimmy Stewart

Most Hollywood actors were like that 60 years ago. It's only now it's gone very liberal. It wasn't that long ago actors like Susan Sarandon and Jane Fonda were regarded as looney anti-American weirdos by Hollywood actors like Charlton Heston!

A lot of dead people were Reagan supporters. He, Reagan, did win two terms after all.

I can’t excuse the racism though. Though, I’d want evidence before I believe something like this.

He was also a skinny fug who got leading roles against prime actresses like Grace Kelly who had to pretend his bony ass wasn't gross.

NEXT!

I remember him appearing on Wogan in the late 1980s crying about his dead dog.

I'm trying to look up where I read he was racist. The only evidence I'm finding are his father's connections to KKK & his alleged behavior towards Woody Strode during the shooting of "Liberty Valance."

He was working on a movie filming in Spain in the 1950s. He and his wife tried to check in to the nicest hotel in town, but the clerk said:

“I’m sorry Mr. Stewart, but we don’t allow Hollywood types here.”

He took a card out of his wallet to show to the clerk, who then replied:

“Well, we certainly have a room for US Air Force Brigadier General James Stewart!”

He volunteered. No bone spurs for him.

Many of the actors/directors from the golden age volunteered and put their careers on hold. You would never see something like that today.

R1, actually, a fair number of old Hollywood were liberal. Think Henry Fonda, Bogart, Chaplin, etc.

Stewart actually served in the same division in WW2 as my uncle and came to several of the reunions. So, no bone spurs...

Did you meet him?

He was very cute in the 1930s as MGM's new male ingenue. Check him out introducing the song Easy to Love which he croons to Eleanor Powell in his own wobbly but adorable singing voice in Born to Dance.

Always easier to take in supporting roles back then in Ziegfeld Girl, Another Thin Man and even The Philadelphia Story, for which he inexplicably won a best Actor Oscar in spite of supporting Kate Hepburn and Cary Grant.

Apparently, he lost his virginity to Ginger Rogers.

To [R10] No, I never met him but my uncle said he was a really nice, down to earth guy and never acted like a Hollywood star. That's all I got!

I think this is the only photo of a young, shirtless Stewart.

Most of the old Hollywood crowd were right wing and racist. The 1915 Birth of a Nation film made Hollywood and America ate it up. From 1915 to the 1960s it was the order of the day. Characters such as Mammy and Prissey and Stepanfetchit were cherished by Hollywood. Myrna Loy was among the few who said" why not have a Colored doctor or lawyer in films instead of always showing them as servants. Ginger Rogers, Roslind Russell...such wonderful actors and icons, were right wing and racist. Many of these folk did better than they ever imagined, so they would never bite the hand that fed them.

It’s Jimmy Stewart night on TCM!

Rope now Vertigo next, more after.

Maybe. But he was definitely crusing for some angel wings the night I had to throw him outta my bar.

Here's the Wogan clip. It's actually incredibly touching.