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How Jimmy Stewart's agony in It's a Wonderful Life came from extreme PTSD (tr)
UK Daily Mail ^
| 10/06/2016
| Dan Bates
Posted on 10/07/2016 5:21:51 AM PDT by DFG
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To: PeteB570
The deadline was coming up and they needed an interesting story...
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posted on
10/07/2016 5:47:31 AM PDT
by
Mr. Douglas
(Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
To: COBOL2Java
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posted on
10/07/2016 5:48:01 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: HartleyMBaldwin
Actually, after June 20, 1941, it was the U.S. Army Air Forces.My Dad was a radioman on an aircraft carrier in WW II. Curious: When did the Navy get to fly their own planes?
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posted on
10/07/2016 5:49:31 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Hillary's screeching voice is like the pipe organs of hell)
To: Mr. Douglas
The deadline was coming up and they needed an interesting story... Wouldn't surprise me
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posted on
10/07/2016 5:50:52 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Hillary's screeching voice is like the pipe organs of hell)
To: COBOL2Java
The Navy bought their first airplanes in 1911.
To: wbarmy
I have to wonder if he, as a big and famous and important Hollywood actor, had much to say publicly about politics.
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posted on
10/07/2016 5:54:38 AM PDT
by
polymuser
(Enough is enough!)
To: PLMerite
True, but most people have enough self control and self discipline to get through it without crying on every-bodies sleeves.
Jimmy Stewart did not allow them to use his medals or wartime exploits to sell his movies. THAT is why it took awhile to get a part.
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posted on
10/07/2016 5:55:29 AM PDT
by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
I dont get it. The second line :)
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posted on
10/07/2016 5:56:41 AM PDT
by
dp0622
(IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: HartleyMBaldwin
The Navy bought their first airplanes in 1911. Don't tell Obama! He'll say they're good enough.
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posted on
10/07/2016 5:57:05 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Hillary's screeching voice is like the pipe organs of hell)
To: DFG
After getting a leave of absence Stewart spent weeks staying with his friend Peter Fonda in Los Angeles doing nothing but decompress. Peter Fonda was an infant at the time.
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posted on
10/07/2016 5:59:30 AM PDT
by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
To: DFG
Jimmy Stewart was the greatest American hero.
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posted on
10/07/2016 6:04:08 AM PDT
by
longfellow
(Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
To: iowamark
Henry Fonda? Remember, this is the Daily Mail, they’re not strong on facts (or much of anything else other that publishing a hundred articles a day).
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posted on
10/07/2016 6:07:04 AM PDT
by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
To: DFG
Weird that he was friends with Henry Fonda. Fonda was a disgusting pro Soviet anti American.
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posted on
10/07/2016 6:07:31 AM PDT
by
mindburglar
(When Superman and Batman fight, the only winner is crime.)
To: iowamark
Henry Fonda was born in 1905.
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posted on
10/07/2016 6:10:17 AM PDT
by
mindburglar
(When Superman and Batman fight, the only winner is crime.)
To: iowamark
Duh. My bad...Peter Fonda. Morons.
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posted on
10/07/2016 6:11:24 AM PDT
by
mindburglar
(When Superman and Batman fight, the only winner is crime.)
To: wbarmy
“True, but most people have enough self control and self discipline to get through it without crying on every-bodies sleeves.”
Different people, different reactions. Being in command, being responsible for men’s lives, *and* flying the missions. Those were some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. FLAK and fighters. That can be very much unnerving.
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posted on
10/07/2016 6:16:31 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: polymuser
There is a great book on Jimmy Stewart, called A Biography. He was more than just a great actor, he was an incredible man in every dimension.
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posted on
10/07/2016 6:16:51 AM PDT
by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: PLMerite
I agree, but the story he tells is quite different. And just because you can call up the anger and fear of a situation for a role, does not mean you are suffering from PTSD. It means you are a good actor.
None of his actions in later years showed any fear of flying, or getting back in the saddle, that any kind of PTSD would have shown.
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posted on
10/07/2016 6:22:01 AM PDT
by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: mindburglar
Weird that he was friends with Henry Fonda. Fonda was a disgusting pro Soviet anti American. I don't think that Henry Fonda was much beyond a leftist Democrat, ie typical Hollywood left. It was his kids, Peter and Jane, that went much further left, reputedly to some discomfort on his part. Jimmy Stewart was not his only conservative Hollywood friend, as both John Wayne and Ronald Reagan regarded him as a misguided friend. Of course, this was when Hollywood did not have the conservative black list that it appears to have today!
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posted on
10/07/2016 6:23:19 AM PDT
by
SES1066
(Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
To: wbarmy
Thanks! I’ll check that out.
He was a national treasure.
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posted on
10/07/2016 6:24:58 AM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump, said on 9-28: Hillary 'will put the Oval Office up for sale')
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