1930'S JAMES STEWART ORIGINAL AQUATONED PORTRAIT 5" X 7" MOVIE STAR PHOTO..U.S.A

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1930'S JAMES STEWART
A COLUMBIA PICTURE MOVIE STAR
AQUATONED CARD---U.S.A.
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1930'S JAMES STEWART
James Maitland Stewart
(May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military pilot. Known for his distinctive
drawl
and everyman screen persona, Stewart's film career spanned 80 films from 1935 to 1991. With the strong morality he portrayed both on and off the screen, he epitomized the "American ideal" in the mid-twentieth century. In 1999, the
American Film Institute
(AFI) ranked him third on its list of the
greatest American male actors
.
Born and raised in
Indiana, Pennsylvania
, Stewart started acting while at
Princeton University
. After graduating in 1932, he began a career as a stage actor, appearing on Broadway and in summer stock productions. In 1935, he landed his first supporting role in a movie and in 1938 he had his breakthrough in
Frank Capra
's ensemble comedy
You Can't Take It with You
. The following year, Stewart garnered his first of five
Academy Award
nominations for his portrayal of an idealized and virtuous man who becomes a senator in Capra's
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(1939). He won his only
Academy Award for Best Actor
for his work in the comedy
The Philadelphia Story
(1940), which also starred
Katharine Hepburn
and
Cary Grant
. A licensed amateur pilot, Stewart enlisted in the
Army Air Forces
soon after the US entered the
Second World War
in 1941. After action in Europe, he attained the rank of colonel and received several awards for his service. He was promoted to
brigadier general
in the
Air Force Reserve
in 1959, and retired in 1968 at which time he was awarded the
Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
. There are several claims that President
Ronald Reagan
promoted Stewart to the honorary rank of
major general
in May 1985 at the same time as awarding his Medal of Freedom, but this is unsupported by evidence, as there was no legislative authorization for such a promotion, the record of the Medal of Freedom presentation at the Reagan Library contains no mention of a promotion, and the video of the presentation contains no promotion. President Reagan also recounted at a White House briefing that he was corrected by Stewart himself after Reagan incorrectly insisted he was a major general at a campaign event.
Stewart's first postwar role was as
George Bailey
in Capra's
It's a Wonderful Life
(1946). Although the film was not a major success upon release, he earned an
Oscar
nomination and the film has become a Christmas classic, as well as one of his most well known roles. In the 1950s, Stewart played darker, more morally ambiguous characters in movies directed by
Anthony Mann
, including
Winchester '73
(1950),
The Glenn Miller Story
(1954) and
The Naked Spur
(1953), and by
Alfred Hitchcock
in
Rope
(1948),
Rear Window
(1954),
The Man Who Knew Too Much
(1956), and
Vertigo
(1958). His other films in the '50s included the Broadway adaptation
Harvey
(1950) and the courtroom drama
Anatomy of a Murder
(1959), both of which landed him Oscar nominations. For the latter he won the
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
from the
Venice Film Festival
. He was one of the most popular film stars of the '50s, with most of his films becoming box office successes. Stewart's later Westerns included
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(1962) with
John Wayne
and
Cheyenne Autumn
(1964), both directed by
John Ford
. He appeared in many popular family comedies during the 1960s. After brief ventures into television acting, Stewart semi-retired by the 1980s. He received many honorary awards, including an
Academy Honorary Award
and the
Presidential Medal of Freedom
, both in 1985.
Stewart remained unmarried until his 40s and was dubbed "The Great American Bachelor" by the press. In 1949, he married former model
Gloria Hatrick McLean
. They had twin daughters, and he adopted her two sons from her previous marriage. The marriage lasted until McLean's death in 1994; Stewart died of a
pulmonary embolism
three years later.
The card was printed in the U.S.A. Approx. size is 5” X 7” inches. Aquatoned was printed in the U.S.A.
CONDITION: EX+
. (some yellowing, writing on back, NOT an auto)
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