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Old movies are the closest thing we have to a time machine. They can bring us back to a time when life was simpler, and people were more authentic. Every movie lover has a list of their favorite classics and, consequently, their favorite actors and actresses. During the glory days of Hollywood, Bogart was the intense one, Grant was the funny guy, Dean was the rebel, but there was an actor who could play the everyday guy like no other, James Stewart.

Jimmy, as he was known by friends and fans worldwide, made his trademark on the silver screen as the quintessential All-American dude, pouring his easy-going persona into most of the characters he played. He built one of the most successful and enduring careers in film history and became a symbol of Hollywood golden age.

James Maitland Stewart was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, on May 20, 1908. Growing up as a typical small-town boy, he cultivated values he would carry throughout his life. He went to Princeton and got a degree in architecture, but thanks to the depression, he had difficulty finding a job in the field. With limited

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Jimmy Stewart’s rise from Private to Colonel

By Sam McGowan

Jimmy Stewart is arguably the only prewar American actor of superstar magnitude to have served in a sustained combat role during World War II, and the only one to have served in a position of command. He was also one of only a handful of men to progress from private to full colonel in less than five years.

Jimmy Stewart: Actor and Aviator

James Maitland Stewart was a native of Indiana, Pennsylvania, where his father ran a hardware store, which makes him a true product of Main Street America. Indiana is far different from Philadelphia or even nearby Pittsburgh. Located in western Pennsylvania, it lies in a region with close ties to the American frontier of the early 1800s. Like many other Americans of his age, Stewart came from a family with military service in its background. Both of his grandfathers were Civil War veterans, and his father had fought in the Spanish-American War. As a boy, Stewart actually wanted to pursue a career in the military but was dissuaded by his father. A shy and reclusive youth, he s

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Heroes And Leaders: Jimmy Stewart

“It’s a Wonderful Life” was the first movie he made after the war. His anger in the film is raw, edgy, breaking the confines of the sentimental story. In a scene where he breaks down and prays for help—“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. Show me the way, God.”—he’s overcome, crying in an unscripted moment, surprising the director. “As I said those words,” Stewart said later, “I felt the loneliness, the hopelessness of people who had nowhere to turn, and my eyes filled with tears. I broke down sobbing. That was not planned at all.” His anger and upset surprised audiences, and “It’s a Wonderful Life” failed at the box office. That anger, said one biographer, was Stewart’s PTSD—but that is an overreach. There are no medical records to check. Like many who served, he came home older and exhausted, and he kept his sorrows and remorse to himself. He, too, hid the psychological terrors of the war.