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| Title | : | Jimmy Stewart: The Truth Behind the Legend |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.44 (791 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1510704140 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-09 |
| Language | : | English |
While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.. However, the private lives of actors such as John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Errol Flynn rarely lived up to the idealistic roles they portrayed. Smith Goes to Washington.Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of
Warm portrait of an all-star -- with a few surprises Wayne Engle Jimmy Stewart wasn't just Jefferson Smith, raging at his corrupt fellow senators on behalf of "the little fellow" in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington;" or George Bailey, saving Bedford Falls and neglecting himself for years, in "It's A Wonderful Life;" or Elwood P. Dowd, a kindly drunk arm-in-arm with an invisible, giant rabbi. "FLAWED BUT WORTHWHILE" according to Max A. Collins. The plus side to this biography is the author's access, over the years, to Stewart himself, his wife Gloria and numerous Hollywood personalities. The author wisely lets them do most of the talking. While he overstates Stewart's friendship with J. Edgar Hoover during blacklist days, that material is not without interest.Wher. A fairly good biography. However A fairly good biography. However, it seems the author had no adversion to repeating gossip and unsubstantiated rumors regarding Mr. Stewart's alleged "temper and racist attitudes". It also contained little of Mr. Stewarts war record, combat experiences, or even an accounting of all the known missions in which he took a docu
Jimmy Stewart, thanks to It’s a Wonderful Life, hasn’t suffered the same fate. Did Munn really write everything down? Still, shaky bona fides aside, this a fun Old Hollywood bio. Among the nuggets mined here: the rift over politics between conservative Stewart and his liberal best friend, Henry Fonda; Stewart being tempted by Grace Kelly; and how Stewart wanted to help Hoover rout the Mafia from Hollywood but ended up naming Communists. Much of the information comes from phone calls and social chats with Gloria Stewart. --Ilene C
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