His first important Broadway play was as the idealist sergeant O’Hara in Sidney Kingsley’s Yellow Jack, which opened at the Martin Beck Theater on March 6, 1934, and enjoyed a respectable run.
Oscar Actors: Stewart, Jimmy–Making of a Star; Pay Before and After Military Service
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In 1941, right after winning the Best Actor Oscar for The Philadelphia Story, Stewart’s reported income was $12,000 a month. The joke in the industry was that, as a private in the military, he got paid $21 a month, thus taking a huge pay cut of $11,979.
Movie Stars: Stewart, Jimmy–Popular Genres
June 4, 2016 by
The two defining genres of Jimmy Stewart’s career were comedies and Westerns, jointly amounting to almost half of his entire output
Oscar Actors: Stewart, Jimmy–Wonderful Life, Just like His Favorite Film, Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life
June 4, 2016 by
Research in Progress: Jimmy Stewart was one of the most beloved and trusted of American actors, a screen folk hero who stirred great public affection, chiefly because of his two seminal Capra movies: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It’s a Wonderful Life, which was Stewart’s personal favorite picture. Integral to Stewart’s charisma was his […]
Oscar Actors: Stewart, Jimmy: Screen Career–Long and Spectacular from Start to Finish
June 4, 2016 by
In a spectacular Hollywood career spanning almost six decades, Jimmy Stewart made about 80 films, half of which classics.
