Biography
Friends and Family
Richard Nixon
[Friend]
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Gary Cooper
[Friend]
(Accepted his friend Gary Cooper`s honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1961, because Cooper was dying of cancer.)
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Ronald Reagan
[Friend]
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Ward Bond
[Friend]
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Henry Fonda
[Friend]
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John Wayne
[Friend]
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Bessie Stewart
[Mother]
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Alexander Stewart
[Father]
Pets
Bounce
Dog
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Beau
Dog
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Simba
Dog
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Bello
Dog
Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 I`m going to be with Gloria now. - His last words John Wayne was the greatest cowboy. Henry Fonda was the better actor but John Wayne, well, he was a champ.
I don`t act. I react.
I hate them! I absolutely hate them! Whether right or wrong, their country was at war and their country asked them to serve, and they refused and ran away. Cowards, that`s what they were.- On teenagers who dodged the draft during the Vietnam War
If I had my career over again? Maybe I`d say to myself, speed it up a little.
I`d like people to remember me as someone who was good at his job and seemed to mean what he said
I`m the inarticulate man who tries. I don`t really have all the answers, but for some reason, somehow, I make it.
Sometimes I wonder if I`m doing a Jimmy Stewart imitation myself.
There ought to be a law against any man who doesn`t want to marry Myrna Loy.
Trivia
Published a book of poetry.
When asked by the Tonight Show host Johnny Carson, "Who do you wish you could have acted with?", without a beat Jimmy said, "Garbo and Irene Dunne!"
Attended Princeton University. Graduated in 1932 with a degree in architecture.
Campaigned for Richard Nixon in the 1968 and 1972 presidential elections.
Died one day after Robert Mitchum.
He was the first movie star to enter the service for World War II, joining a year before Pearl Harbor was bombed. He was initially refused entry into the Air Force because he weighed 5 pounds less than the required 148 pounds, but he talked the recruitment officer into ignoring the test. He eventually became a Colonel, and earned the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Croix de Guerre and 7 battle stars. In 1959, he served in the Air Force Reserve, before retiring as a brigadier general.
His hair began receding during World War II. By the early 1950s, he was wearing a toupee for all his movie roles, though he often went without it in public. His baldness was made less obvious by wearing a gray toupee for many movie roles.
Never took an acting lesson, and felt that people could learn more when actually working rather than studying the craft.
Of all the movies he has done It`s a Wonderful Life (1946) was his favourite.
One of the first (if not the first) stars to receive a percentage of the gross of his movies.
Played the accordion.
The James Stewart Museum was dedicated in Indiana, Pennsylvania on 20 May 1995
US Army Air Corps during WWII
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