We Need More Cultural Icons Like Jimmy Stewart

The Federalist ^ | December 7, 2020 | Elle Reynolds

[LouAvul]

When Stewart did the movie "The Rear Window" with Grace Kelly, Kelly had a reputation for being a whore with a penchant for older men. Some kind of daddy hang up.

On one movie, she slept with four different men, and none of them knew she was whoring with the others.

Then came "The Rear Window." Mrs. Stewart took Jimmy to the set every day herself. She waited on set while the movie was filmed. Then she drove him home.

I like her.

[NFHale]

Loved Jimmy Stewart. A class act and a great American.

Those days are long gone, however... half the country didn’t hate the other half back then. At least not to the same degree as today, anyway.

[ealgeone]

Hollywierd doesn't have anyone even remotely close to Jimmy Stewart.

He's a one of a kind American....a real American.

Could you imagine any Lib in Hollywierd giving up an acting career to join the military??

[ClearCase_guy]

You can always play the history game of “it really started earlier than that …” but as far as I’m concerned, the Left looked at America after WWII and saw that we were culturally, militarily, and economically dominant. They worked inside our society (Joseph McCarthy was right) and ate away at all of the values that made us special. Jimmy Stewart, as a WWII veteran, Hollywood icon, and strong patriot encapsulated all of our best features. We don’t produce many people like that anymore, because “they” don’t want us to have people to look up to.

[setter]

A conservative would never get any role.

Our local theatre group is far left. If you are conservative forget about ever getting a part. The theatre producer is a far left college professor.

Liberals control every aspect from ticket sales person all the way up to the top.

The new idea is in the closet conservatives need to act liberal and get jobs in media and academia and take over like liberals did over the last 30 years

[zeugma]

One of my favorite movies of all time is Harvey. I’d like to have Elwood P. Dowd’s outlook on life.

[PGR88]

Grace Kelly was before my era.

All I can say is - man, I wish I were on the set of Rear Window...

[Bob434]

Jim was a their answer smuggler,

Seriously though he smuggled out a yeti hand , true story, weird story,

[Vision]

When you watch It's a Wonderful Life there's one scene that is a oddly intense but it's not enough for most people to notice. It's the scene were George Bailey goes to Mary's house at his mothers insistence. The film was shot out of order and that was the first filmed. Stewart was suffering from PTSD and didn't know if he'd remember how to act and it shows up in that scene. It's reported that after the scene he went into a bathroom and vomited.

God bless you Jimmy, we miss you.

[Bob434]

Wow autocorrect really butchered that lol

[DesertRhino]

As a general he also flew with a B-52 crew in a mission over Vietnam. It was kept very quiet at the time lest he become a prime target. He was the real deal.

[Fai Mao]

I respect the man, he was a great actor. But, I hate “let’s a Wonderful Life.” It is just too much sugar for my system.

[LouAvul]

If whores are your thing, knock yourself out.

[SkyPilot]

Kelly has been described as one of the most beautiful women in all of human history.

Probably not a far off description.

Jimmy Stewart was my kind of guy. When he was very old, he was interviewed on the Today Show. He showed a pocket Bible that he kept close to his heart when he flew bombing missions during WW II. He said he kept it open to Psalm 91.

Then, the female host asked him how he would like to be remembered (and the host started mentioning is famous roles and acting awards).

Instead, Steward said:

"Oh....gee….well...I would like to be remembered as a good husband, a good father, a man of God."

[PGR88]

You really have something against Grace Kelly, don’t you?

[max americana]

20 missions over Germany? Anyone who read any books about the Eight Air Force or “mighty 8” know that you are 60/40 ratio , going to die on 1 mission alone.

The US Air Force took more casualties than both the Army and Marines COMBINED. I know Jimmy S played lanky characters but he has brass balls.

My top 3 western is still Liberty Valance. Lee Marvin was a US Marine who survived Iwo JIma and Stewart who survived 20 missions..amazing.

[Avalon Memories]

James Stewart is my all time favorite actor. He was heads and shoulders better than any other actor of his era. The range and breadth of his roles is phenomenal. He should have won the best actor Oscar for Mr. Smith even though 1939 saw the release of several of the greatest classic movies. They gave him the Oscar the following year for Philadelphia Story as a consolation for losing it the previous year. Jimmy was a great human being in addition to being a great actor. I actually love the man. Other than President Reagan, there isn’t another actor living or dead about whom I could say that.

[nutmeg]

Loved Jimmy Stewart. A class act and a great American.

Amen to that. This country *really* needs more Jimmy Stewarts these days.

[Chickensoup]

I am certainly not going to diagnose Jimmy Stewart. But after reading this:

While post-traumatic stress disorder was not diagnosed as such at the time, Stewart’s biographer Robert Matzen has suggested he was suffering from PTSD during filming, which strongly influenced his portrayal of George Bailey’s struggles.

At one point in the movie, a desperate Bailey drinks despondently in a bar, crying, “I’m not a praying man, but if you’re up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I’m at the end of my rope.” Afterward, Stewart said the breakdown was unscripted. “As I said those words, I felt the loneliness, the hopelessness of people who had nowhere to turn,” he remembered in 1977. “I broke down sobbing. That was not planned at all.”

I get really angry.

The man was an actor who felt emotions and interpreted them. That is what actors do. One does not have to have PTSD to understand and feel the pain and hopelessness of the human condition. That is part of being human. To make it a pathology is perverting what it is like to have human empathy.