Jimmy Stewart the truth behind the legend
Many of the stars of the silver screen in twentieth-century Hollywood became national icons, larger-than-life figures held up as paragons of American virtues. Unfortunately, the private lives of actors such as John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Errol Flynn rarely lived up to the idealistic roles they port...
| Main Author: | Munn, Michael. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Skyhorse Publishing,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- How the Stewarts won the West
- Beat the Kaiser
- Inventions and education
- The lady's man
- Taking to the stage
- Hollywood
- Gangsters
- What shall we do with Jimmy Stewart?
- Star status
- An Oscar and a commission
- Over there
- Trying for a wonderful life
- The secret FBI agent
- Undercover in Hollywood
- Gloria
- Keeping all the balls in the air
- The Anthony Mann years
- Friendships renewed and destroyed
- Time of depression
- The last good decade
- The television years
- Honoured to the very end.