Jimmy Stewart: Military History & Hollywood's Highest-Ranking Actor

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Okay, so before we start this podcast, I have, I have a

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quiz for you on Jimmy Stewart.

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No looking at your computer, no cheating.

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What was his last film that he appeared in?

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Now, was, I'll say was in,

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cause wasn't he in like an American Tale?

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Ah, I knew I should have known You would get, I should

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have known you would get it.

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Yes.

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He was in his very last

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But he was like in it as a person.

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he's a voiceover.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I mean it is a, it is a animated movie.

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You got it.

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1991 American Tale five Goes West.

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I didn't know that until I was kind of doing the little bits and pieces of

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this, and of course you would know it.

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Dang it.

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Alright.

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Onto the show.

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The year was 1939.

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In Hollywood shimmered with a magic energy, I was a fresh faced

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twenty something, junior executive at MGM, drowning in scripts and

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desperately trying to stay afloat.

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Back then, stars were born, not made.

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Or at least that's what the suits upstairs believed.

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He waltzed into my office one afternoon, a gangly figure with

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a nervous twitch to his lip.

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He wasn't the cocksure Clark Gable type, more all American grin and awkward charm.

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tested for a Western, and I, a lonely nobody, drew the short

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straw of running his session.

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He told me that James always felt too formal and just to call him Jimmy.

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He wasn't bad.

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Nowhere near the charisma of Spencer Tracy, but there was a

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genuine earnestness about him.

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A boyishness that resonated on screen, I wrote a glowing report

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highlighting his potential.

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My boss, a man fueled by cigars and cynicism, scoffed.

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Too skinny.

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Needs some polish.

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Fast forward a year, the Philadelphia story was in pre production.

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Hepburn was a lock.

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Cary Grant at Given.

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But for the reporter role, a debate raged.

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My forgotten report resurfaced.

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Jimmy got the call.

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The buzz around him started subtly.

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A few stolen glances on set.

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Whispers about his chemistry with Hepburn.

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Then came the premiere.

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Dressed in a rumbled suit, Jimmy seemed out of place.

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amidst the towering egos.

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But as the film rolled, the theater erupted.

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His portrayal of the wisecracking reporter, a touch cynical yet

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ultimately decent, stole the show.

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The night of the Oscars arrived, I watched from the bleachers, heart

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pounding for the underdog I'd championed.

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When his name was called, a collective gasp went through the room.

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Jimmy, his face flushed with disbelief, navigated the stage with the same awkward

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charm I'd remembered from his test.

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It gives me enormous pleasure to be able to present this trophy to you, Mr.

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Stewart, for the best acting in the picture for 1940.

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That picture was the Philadelphia story.

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Thank you very much, sir.

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It's a great thrill to me to receive.

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In his acceptance speech, he stumbled a bit, his voice cracking with emotion,

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but instead of diminishing him, it made him more human, more relatable.

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The next morning, the headlines screamed, Jimmy Stewart, America's New Hope.

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Years later, Jimmy became a Hollywood legend, but for me, his greatest

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performance wasn't on screen.

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It was the quiet confidence he exuded that Oscar night, a testament to the power

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of believing in the potential you see in someone, even when nobody else does.

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Welcome to Talk With History.

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I'm your host, Scott, here with my wife and historian, Jen.

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Hello.

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On this podcast, we give you insights to our history inspired

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world travels, YouTube channel journey, and examine history

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through deeper conversations with the curious, the explorers, and

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the history lovers out there.

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Jim, we're just gonna jump right into it.

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You are a massive Jimmy Stewart fan.

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Your favorite movie of all time is It's a Wonderful Life.

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You watch it every year.

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You cry every time.

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And you're, and we've done a couple Jimmy Stewart videos.

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We've actually visited his hometown.

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We've made videos from there.

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We've made guides on kind of how to visit there.

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So we've, we've covered him a fair amount on the channel.

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Now, if folks listening to this, they listened to our John Wayne podcast from

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last week, they'll know that you got the chance to go out to Los Angeles.

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Now remind our listeners kind of what that was for.

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So there is a nonprofit called pinup for vets and they have a

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calendar they do every year where all the women in the calendar all the

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pinups are veterans and I was selected this year for the 2025 calendar.

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I'm the only Navy veteran.

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I'm going to be miss October 2025 because that's the birth month of

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the United States Navy and they I got to fly out to California to LA.

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We did the photo shoot in Manhattan beach.

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I got to look like a pinup.

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They brought a 1947 town and country Chrysler in for me, the wood panels

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the woody for my photo shoot.

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And it was just so amazing to be a part of it all and to get

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to be a part of this nonprofit.

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These calendars, Support veteran VA hospitals and veteran medical expenses.

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You'll see if you follow me at all on social media, I will go to VA

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hospitals in the area and deliver these calendars as well, addressed as a pinup.

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And I will talk to veterans in the VA hospitals in that capacity as well.

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But it's just awesome that every woman in the calendar is a veteran and it's a

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nonprofit to support veteran healthcare.

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Yeah.

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So I, if I, and correct me if I'm wrong, but you're going to

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kind of be one of the Tennessee representatives for, for this nonprofit,

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So I'm a pinup.

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Ambassador, and I've also done some of that capacity when I went to Normandy

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and the 80th anniversary of D Day.

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I dressed as a pinup and I was a pinup ambassador there as well.

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But yes, I will be representative here in the Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas area.

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I will leave a link in the show notes at, at Penn.

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I think it's pin-ups for vets.

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com.

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That you can either pre order the calendar or depending on when you're

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listening to this, you can go to the site and you can order the calendar.

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So I'll make sure that I, I put that link in the show notes

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While you were out there, it was Memorial Day weekend.

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We had some friends that you were able to stay with out there.

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So you had visited John Wayne's grave site.

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Cause you had a day and this was like, you had to hit like the top of your

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list of, if you had one day in Los Angeles, this was one of the grave

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sites you were going to go, go visit.

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And that was Jimmy Stewart.

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Yeah, at Walk with history, you can always write us with

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historical stuff you're interested in.

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And we make a lot ongoing lists.

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Especially geographically of areas we're in in case we ever get to visit

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we have huge lists for California and definitely based on time and I only had

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one day and for one day there were just two huge stars, two huge influences

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in my life that I really wanted to see John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart.

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Unfortunately they're not at the same cemetery.

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I thought they were.

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They are not.

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They're.

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Their cemeteries are about an hour away from each other.

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One is 30 minutes north of LA, one is 30 minutes south of LA.

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So Mr.

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Stewart is the one who is north of LA.

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Now he.

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Is actually in a cemetery with lots of famous movie actors and

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actresses from all different eras.

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I mean, you called out a couple on the video and that was like

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Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable.

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Obviously, you went to go specifically see Jimmy Stewart, but this was a a

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cemetery that has quite a few folks in

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So Forest Lawn Memorial Park has six cemeteries in

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the Southern California area.

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And because they have six cemeteries, they do have in a mass number of celebrities.

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Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, just We were just looking up the Nelsons,

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Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, like I think Matt Perry from Friends, he's

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just been buried in Forest Lawn.

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Like it's just very famous.

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Even John Wayne's father and one of his sons is buried in Forest Lawn.

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So it's just one of those like celebrity graveyards because there's one of

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six Jimmy Stewart is in the Glendale.

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one.

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And what's interesting about going there is, is as you pull in, they

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have a, basically a cemetery watch person or, someone who greets

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you and they give you a map.

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And then if you ask for a specific celebrity, they don't

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tell you about any celebrities.

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Even though that's why people are visiting their cemetery, more or

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less, that's not what they are

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they don't, they don't promote

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They don't promote that.

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of tout it as like a

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They don't have a list of them on a map for you.

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It's nothing like that.

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If you find all that stuff, it has to be kind of like aftermarket.

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And we, we show you in our video where Jimmy Stewart is but they are there to

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talk about the history of Forest Lawn.

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There's a museum of Forest Lawn.

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Forest Lawn does have some amazing architecture buildings there.

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They do have some recreation, very Christian mementos like the Last

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Supper and the the David and the Pieta.

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So they have some recreations of some very famous Christian sculptures

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and they're beautiful stained glass.

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And so that's the kind of things that they will give you information

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about and tell you where to go.

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So just some advice.

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If you're pulling into Forest Lawn and you're asking where Marilyn

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Monroe is, they will not tell

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Yeah.

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So look it up on find a grave or something like that ahead of time.

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Now, Jimmy Stewart, you mentioned he kind of.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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He was born and raised in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

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We, we, so we got to go there.

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Now he got his start in movies pretty young as, as well.

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Okay.

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Similar to John Wayne,

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Yeah.

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So he started acting at Princeton.

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So it's so funny.

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We have John Wayne at USC.

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We have Jimmy Stewart at Princeton.

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Coast to coast, right?

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Princeton's in New Jersey.

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And so he's born and raised in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

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It's a small town in Pennsylvania Kind of like where I what I grew

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up in just like your quintessential Small Pennsylvania town, which is

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really reminiscent of It's a Wonderful

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It really does look like it.

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I'll link that our video from there.

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If people are curious to kind of, kind of what the downtown Indiana PA,

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looks but it really does look like.

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It's a wonderful life like Bedford,

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Bedford Falls.

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It looks just like it.

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So I think it wasn't a stretch for him to play that character because it

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looked just like Indiana, Pennsylvania.

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So he's, he's at Princeton.

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And after graduating, he began a career as a stage actor on Broadway.

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So he doesn't go far.

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He goes up to New

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I didn't know

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starts on Broadway, and he lands his first supporting role in The Murder Man.

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But he had a breakthrough in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It With You, 1938.

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Frank Capra.

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Don't forget that name, right?

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It's a wonderful life.

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And Frank Capra's gonna give him a lot of different, Mr.

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Smith Goes to Washington.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:49</time>
He gives him a lot of these, Jumpstart movies that really influence him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:53</time>
He's really good friends with Henry Fonda.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:56</time>
They're roommates and then they decide to go out to California together and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:01</time>
that's when it, it's pretty early on.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:03</time>
Like he, he, his breakthrough role, and you can't take it with you, is 1938.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:08</time>
He makes a Philadelphia story in 1940

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:10</time>
what he won his Oscar

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:11</time>
and he went to Oscar.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:12</time>
So if you see a Philadelphia story, it's a very young Jimmy Stewart,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:15</time>
Katherine Heparin, cary Grant.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:17</time>
And so it's kind of like this you always hate these kind of

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:22</time>
movies, but they, no one's getting the full story from each other.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:26</time>
And everyone's

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:26</time>
he play like a reporter or

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:27</time>
a reporter.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:28</time>
Exactly.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:29</time>
And he wins an Oscar.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:30</time>
And one of my favorite stories is like his parents call and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:34</time>
we heard you won some award.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:36</time>
You should probably send it home and we'll put it in his father owned the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:40</time>
big hardware store in the small town.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:42</time>
And he goes, we'll put it in the mid in the main window.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:46</time>
And the Oscar stays 40 years.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:50</time>
So anybody who visited Indiana PA could see Jimmy Stewart's Oscar in the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:54</time>
front window of the hardware store.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:56</time>
well You know One of the things has be kind of transitioned to kind

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:59</time>
of hit his midlife that I found very interesting was the Academy I looked

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:04</time>
this up the Academy Awards for that year was in February of 1941 So not too

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:12</time>
many months later, Pearl Harbor happens.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:16</time>
And then Jimmy Stewart is one of the, I think you mentioned in the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:19</time>
video, he is one of the first actors in Hollywood to, to go and sign

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:25</time>
right up and join the war effort.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:27</time>
Yeah, he becomes the first major American movie star to list in the United

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:30</time>
States Army to fight in World War Two.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:34</time>
I, this is one of the reasons I love Jimmy Stewart so much.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:37</time>
His family has deep military roots.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:40</time>
And if you go to the museum, you're going to see a list of all his

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:43</time>
family members who both of his grandfathers were in the civil war.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:46</time>
His father served in the Spanish American war and World War One.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:51</time>
And Jimmy Stewart believed it was his duty to serve his country.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:56</time>
Before any movies, before any money or notoriety or anything

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:00</time>
with the movies, he believed his duty was to serve his country.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:05</time>
And one of the reasons I love him so much, he was rejected in November

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:11</time>
of 1940 for being low weight.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:13</time>
Really?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:14</time>
So he enlists in February of 1941.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:18</time>
So he's rejected in November 1940, goes home and eats a ton of pancakes and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:24</time>
he is accepted in February of 1941.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:28</time>
So that was, are you sure it was February of 1941?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:32</time>
even before,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:33</time>
So it's even before.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:34</time>
yeah Pearl Harbor.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:35</time>
So that was like, literally he had just won his

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:37</time>
Yes, he had literally just won the Oscar.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:40</time>
crazy.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:41</time>
And then as an experienced pilot, he reported for induction as

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:44</time>
a private in the Air Corps, March 22nd, 1941, soon to be 33 years old.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:51</time>
He was over the age limit for aviation cadet training, but he applied for

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:56</time>
the Air Corps Corps Commission as a college graduate and a licensed pilot.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:01</time>
so he had his private pilot's license.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:02</time>
Oh, interesting.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:03</time>
so he receives his commission as a second lieutenant on January 4th.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:06</time>
First 1942.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:09</time>
So all these gears were in motion when Pearl Harbor happens and he's

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:14</time>
commissioned a second lieutenant January the next month after Pearl Harbor

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:19</time>
because his again, we talked about age limits and stuff because with.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:23</time>
John Wayne, because he's such a high age, the only way he was able to get

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:28</time>
those waivers is he already had a college degree is what you need to be an officer

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:32</time>
and he already had his pilot's license.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:34</time>
Most men who are coming in to be pilots in the United States Navy have no flight

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:39</time>
And he didn't have a family.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:41</time>
Well,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:42</time>
No, he's not married at

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:43</time>
he wasn't, he wasn't married and no injuries, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:46</time>
And so that's, that's so interesting because there are Jimmy Stewart kind of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:51</time>
like, join the war effort videos, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:54</time>
And you commented when we were making this video, you're like,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:58</time>
Oh, look, he's so young, he's still wearing butter bars, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:01</time>
And now if so, he's a second lieutenant.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:03</time>
And so that was probably right when he was commissioned.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:06</time>
And he even says in that video,

<cite>Jimmy:</cite>
<time>00:16:09</time>
Now, it isn't as if it was a chore for me to talk to you, because

<cite>Jimmy:</cite>
<time>00:16:12</time>
I want to speak on my favorite subject, the Army Air Forces.

<cite>Jimmy:</cite>
<time>00:16:16</time>
I can't speak from long experience.

<cite>Jimmy:</cite>
<time>00:16:19</time>
I've only been in the service a year, but I've learned a lot about

<cite>Jimmy:</cite>
<time>00:16:22</time>
what the Air Forces have to offer.

<cite>Jimmy:</cite>
<time>00:16:25</time>
That's what I want to talk to you about.

<cite>Jimmy:</cite>
<time>00:16:27</time>
. Scott: So he's making a promotional video as kind of part of his his early

<cite>Jimmy:</cite>
<time>00:16:32</time>
service, because he's so well known.

<cite>Jimmy:</cite>
<time>00:16:34</time>
Cause he had just won an Oscar like a year ago and makes this videos

<cite>Jimmy:</cite>
<time>00:16:40</time>
kind of, again, more propaganda, the good kind, getting the word out.

<cite>Jimmy:</cite>
<time>00:16:43</time>
And then he goes on to continue to serve, I mean, I think flying B 24s or

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:47</time>
B 20 fours.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:48</time>
So the issue was he's still under contract with MGM.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:53</time>
So after enlisting, he made no commercial films, but he's

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:56</time>
still under contract with MGM.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:57</time>
MGM limits his public appearances to doing these, these war effort films.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:03</time>
Because MGM is still Frank Capra and Ford.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:07</time>
They're still trying to make films during the time.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:10</time>
And so it's called Winning Your Wings and it's to help to recruit airmen.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:16</time>
That's what you see him in.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:18</time>
And that was nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1942,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:22</time>
Oh, really?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:23</time>
and it appeared in movie theaters nationwide.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:26</time>
It actually, they say it recruited about over 150, 000 new

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:31</time>
recruits just that video alone.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:33</time>
And.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:34</time>
he was very concerned that his celebrity status would regulate

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:38</time>
him to do these behind enemy lines, which has happened to people like

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:42</time>
Clark Gable and things like that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:43</time>
Like they didn't put them on the front because they're celebrity.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:47</time>
And if something would happen to them, it could be terrible, which did happen.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:51</time>
Glenn Miller.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:53</time>
And the actor, I always forget his name, but he was Ashley Wilkes in Goh Wind.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:57</time>
He was a pilot and he was lost over the English channel.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:00</time>
Never do be seen again.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:01</time>
So

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:02</time>
But that didn't happen to Jimmy

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:03</time>
did not happen.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:04</time>
But he pushed his commander to let him go to England and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:08</time>
in November of 1943 they did.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:10</time>
And so as he was part of the 300, the 703rd bomb squadron, and he flew the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:17</time>
B 24 liberator, like you said before.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:20</time>
And he was promoted to major.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:22</time>
in Germany in 1944 and he was awarded the Distinguished Cross for actions taken

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:28</time>
as the with the second bombardment wing.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:31</time>
He won an air medal with three oak leaf clusters as well.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:35</time>
Can you, can you imagine being like an air crew on his aircraft and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:39</time>
hearing his voice or Oh, hello there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:40</time>
I can't do a Jimmy Stewart impression, but imagine hearing him say, calling,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:45</time>
what, what he's doing and how he's flying that message has been, I would

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:48</time>
love to hear a secondhand account from some, from somebody that was his air

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:52</time>
crew about how he was, as a pilot, as, cause as an officer, because he's

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:57</time>
always, embodied that personality of, of service, of, he was, when he eventually

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:02</time>
got married, he was married for a very long time and stayed with her.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:05</time>
And he was very, that kind of all that whole kind of all American persona.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:10</time>
In, as we'll kind of talk a little bit more about, he ends

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:13</time>
up after the war staying in.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:24</time>
The world was a different place.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:25</time>
In 1943, Hollywood was no longer a carefree bubble.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:29</time>
Now, I found myself working for the OSS Field Photographic Branch, a

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:34</time>
far cry from greenlighting scripts.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:36</time>
John Ford, the gruff director we all knew, was now our unlikely leader, overseeing

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:41</time>
a team capturing vital events on film.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:44</time>
One day, a familiar name popped up on a briefing sheet.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:47</time>
James Stewart.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:48</time>
My heart lurched.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:49</time>
Jimmy.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:50</time>
America's sweetheart had become one of the first Hollywood actors

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:53</time>
to enlist in the Army Air Corps.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:55</time>
He was flying B 24s over Europe, a stark contrast to the staged

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:59</time>
dogfights he'd once filmed.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:01</time>
A pang of guilt washed over me, safe in my dimly lit office amidst

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:05</time>
a mountain of photographs, while Jimmy faced unimaginable danger.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:09</time>
John Ford, ever perceptive, noticed my reaction.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:13</time>
You know him?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:13</time>
He rumbled.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:15</time>
His voice paled.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:16</time>
Betraying a flicker of respect.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:18</time>
I poured him a cup of coffee, the memory of Jimmy's earnest face, a stark contrast

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:22</time>
to the grim realities of war on our desks.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:26</time>
He tested for a Western at MGM years ago, I confessed.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:29</time>
One of my first reports ever.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:32</time>
Ford grunted, the closest he ever got to a smile.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:35</time>
Good head on his shoulders, that one.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:38</time>
They say he's a damn good pilot too.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:41</time>
Every successful bombing run photograph we received felt like a personal victory.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:45</time>
Every downed bomber a punch to the gut.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:48</time>
Jimmy's youthful confidence on screen had morphed into a different kind

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:51</time>
of heroism, one far more dangerous.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:54</time>
The war ended, a bittersweet victory.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:57</time>
Hollywood started churning out war films again, but they felt hollow compared

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:00</time>
to the real stories we'd documented.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:02</time>
Jimmy returned a decorated hero, the boyish charm tempered by

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:06</time>
the weight of his experience.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:08</time>
He continued to shine on screen, but for me, he would always

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:11</time>
be more than a movie star.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:13</time>
He was a reminder of the courage that lies beneath an easy smile,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:17</time>
a testament to the war fought.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:19</time>
Not just on the silver screens, but in the vast expanse of the sky.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:23</time>
To my big brother George, the richest man in town.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:34</time>
And so if you visit Jimmy Stewart's hometown like we did in Indiana and you

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:37</time>
have to make this hike up to his house called vinegar Hill, halfway up they have

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:43</time>
a plaque that commemorates his service and talks about all of the war missions

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:49</time>
he flew and it's well into the twenties.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:52</time>
He did 24 war missions, like over enemy lines.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:56</time>
And like I said, he, he's promoted to full Colonel in March of 1945.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:02</time>
So he's.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:03</time>
He's one of the few people who rises from private to colonel in only four years.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:09</time>
And like you said, if you asked anybody who served with

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:13</time>
him, it's my understanding.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:14</time>
He was just a very humble guy, but did his job and did it well.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:20</time>
He didn't want any favoritism.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:22</time>
He didn't want any special treatment.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:24</time>
He wanted to do the job just like everybody else.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:27</time>
And he didn't want any.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:29</time>
People to think he was getting any Favoritism because

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:32</time>
of his celebrity status.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:33</time>
So he wasn't good at what he did.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:36</time>
So he made sure he did everything everybody else had to do and Like you said

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:42</time>
he doesn't get out of the service when the war is over he actually will stay in

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:48</time>
Now he stays in as a reservist.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:50</time>
a reservist but because of that he will be Come the highest ranking

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:58</time>
actor in the military of all time.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:01</time>
He becomes a brigadier general.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:02</time>
we do get a lot of comments and these are people who just

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:05</time>
kind of don't realize how the military, military structure works.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:08</time>
Some people will jump in and say well, what about Ronald Reagan?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:11</time>
Like he was the commander in chief.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:12</time>
I was like, Okay, fair point.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:15</time>
However, comma, the President, the Commander in Chief, is not

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:18</time>
technically in the military.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:20</time>
They are still a civilian.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:21</time>
They don't swear an oath into office.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:23</time>
They don't do any of that stuff.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:25</time>
So while they are overall in charge of, the military as the head of, of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:30</time>
the government They are, the president is not technically in the military,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:34</time>
so there has never been another higher ranking kind of Hollywood actor than

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:40</time>
Jimmy Stewart because he finished his time as, I think, a one star.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:44</time>
And people will say, well, what about, John Ford?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:46</time>
John Ford, I mean, he finishes as a Navy captain, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:49</time>
There's, there's lots of folks that finishes 06s but Jimmy Stewart

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:52</time>
is, is the highest ranking of all

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:54</time>
Yeah, he has a star and it's, and I'm not going to say that John

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:58</time>
Ford, it's not real military service when you're making propaganda movies

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:04</time>
or when you're making movies, but Jimmy Stewart is operating in a combat role.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:08</time>
So he's actually a pilot in the United

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:10</time>
Yeah, and I do believe some people will bring up John Ford

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:13</time>
because he finished as an 06 and was eventually awarded kind of like

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:19</time>
an honorary rank of Rear Admiral in the Navy, but that was honorary.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:23</time>
He never actually held the rank while he was commissioned in military service.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:28</time>
So people will, I think, point him out as

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:30</time>
yes, yes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:32</time>
So what I love about Jimmy Stewart.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:36</time>
And again, we, we cover this and with our videos from his hometown,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:41</time>
his first movie after he comes back from the war is It's a Wonderful

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:46</time>
And I was, I didn't realize that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:49</time>
And that kind of gives that movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:51</time>
Now that I know that a little bit more weight and you can kind of talk about

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:55</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:59</time>
So if you watch It's a Wonderful Life, first of all, Jimmy Stewart didn't know if

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:02</time>
he would be accepted back into the movies.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:04</time>
He didn't know if he still had it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:06</time>
He'd been gone for a while and hadn't made any movies.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:09</time>
So he was kind of nervous about it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:10</time>
So it's Frank Capra who kind of gave him his.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:13</time>
start and let him back in.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:16</time>
Frank Capra's also has just served in, in the war.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:19</time>
And so that's why it's a wonderful life kind of has a war undertone.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:22</time>
to it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:23</time>
And, but Jimmy Stewart's character is not a service member.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:29</time>
Jimmy Stewart's character is a support, someone who stays home, someone who

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:34</time>
never gets to serve, someone who never gets the glory of combat or surviving

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:40</time>
combat or coming home to victory.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:44</time>
His brother does.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:46</time>
So bit who his brother is in It's a Wonderful Life is actually

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:51</time>
who Jimmy Stewart actually was.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:54</time>
But Jimmy Stewart plays the character of the brother who stays home and supports

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:58</time>
everybody else and keeps everything safe and normal back home in America.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:04</time>
And I really appreciate that so much because he didn't have to play that part.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:11</time>
That really wasn't who he was.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:13</time>
He was the other guy.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:15</time>
But he wanted to show, and I appreciate this, the appreciation for everybody

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:21</time>
who stays back home and supports you.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:23</time>
What, and I think you, you call out in the video that I loved was that

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:27</time>
the hero of this movie was the person who stayed home, was the person who was a 4F,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:36</time>
was the person that didn't get to follow what they thought their dreams were, but

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:41</time>
they supported everybody else's dreams.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:43</time>
They were there lifting everybody else up through the effort, through this

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:48</time>
little town and made everything better.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:51</time>
by being that person who stayed home, by being that foundation, even though

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:56</time>
they didn't get to follow their dreams.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:59</time>
And you call it out at the end when his brother gives him the toast, to my big

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:02</time>
brother, George, the richest man in town.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:05</time>
And that is Jimmy Stewart kind of that nod to everybody else in the war effort that

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:13</time>
that stayed home That didn't get the quote unquote glory of going to war and coming

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:18</time>
back and so when you when you pointed that out in the video, I just absolutely

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:24</time>
loved that perspective of This movie that is such an all time classic that is it's

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:31</time>
a wonderful life your favorite movie of all time So I thought you did a great job

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:35</time>
You Pointing that out in the video right and I cut over some it's wonderful life

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:39</time>
kind of video footage and stuff like that So I encourage people to watch it after

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:43</time>
this but it was so neat That that was his first movie back coming from coming back

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:49</time>
from the war coming back from all this and he makes this This just instant ultra

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:53</time>
classic And then continues on from there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:00</time>
Sure, and I think it's another testament to how humble he is.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:03</time>
He's not looking to get that accolade.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:06</time>
He's looking to thank everybody else for what they did during that time.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:12</time>
And he also had some PTSD, and they, he felt like maybe making this

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:17</time>
movie would help him to process it, because it is a look back at World

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:21</time>
War II, and it really did help him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:24</time>
kind of process that PTSD and understand, all the loss of life of World War II,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:29</time>
but understand what we were fighting for.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:32</time>
And, when you go on with your life, and you try to live a wonderful life, you

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:37</time>
do it in memory of all of those that gave up their life for you to do that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:41</time>
And I think that was another reason why he wanted to make this film.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:45</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:45</time>
Now, obviously, making it's a wonderful life was a big success for him.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:49</time>
And I don't, I don't know if it was, instantly successful kind of at the time.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:53</time>
I'm sure it was, it was well received, but he, he continues

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:56</time>
on and he has an, an incredibly successful, career in life after that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:00</time>
Sure.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:00</time>
Well, it's a wonderful life at the time wasn't well received.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:03</time>
It's a wonderful life at the time was mediocre.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:06</time>
Now it has grown into infamy.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:08</time>
Now it's become a classic and everybody loves it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:11</time>
But at the time it was, it

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:13</time>
It was a Christmas

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:13</time>
Christmas movie, but he made like Harvey in 1947 and that was

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:20</time>
and he got nominated for

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:21</time>
huge.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:22</time>
And we, we watch Harvey.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:23</time>
His acting is just amazing.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:26</time>
podcast about him and I included the clip in the video.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:30</time>
It's some of the best acting.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:32</time>
All right.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:33</time>
I was just so surprised when I watched certain scenes in this movie that I can

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:38</time>
100 percent see why he was nominated for Best Actor and he was actually

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:43</time>
nominated multiple times for multiple

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:45</time>
Oh, yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:46</time>
And he's going to go on to work with the great himself, Alfred Hitchcock.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:50</time>
He does a couple movies with Alfred Hitchcock.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:51</time>
He'll do Rope.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:53</time>
He'll do Vertigo.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:54</time>
And he'll do the movie that's connected to our family, Rear Window.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:58</time>
And Rear Window is amazing.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:00</time>
Anyone who can act from a wheelchair, a whole movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:06</time>
I mean, this is a testimony to how great of an actor he is.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:09</time>
And if you guys are curious about our tie, we won't go too deep

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:12</time>
into it, but again, my grandfather was a Hollywood prop master and actually

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:16</time>
worked as a prop master on rear window.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:19</time>
And he has a picture.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:20</time>
We have the picture of him setting the, essentially the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:25</time>
back lot stage for the movie.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:27</time>
So you see, if you've ever seen rear window, if you haven't, it's

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:30</time>
actually, it stands up very, very well.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:32</time>
It's still very good.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:34</time>
It's Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:36</time>
The they kind of are watching the neighbors in this kind of this murder that

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:41</time>
happens and all this this drama, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:43</time>
But there's the whole setting and if you've seen it before a picture that rear

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:45</time>
window that kind of courtyard Setting but they have the labels and my grandfather

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:51</time>
He must have probably had them there or had a picture of it of the labels of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:54</time>
each of the characters at each of their Spots across the courtyard and so we

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:58</time>
have that picture and that's never shown in the movie that that is a true family

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:03</time>
heirloom and And so it's really neat.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:05</time>
So I actually show some video of that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:07</time>
If you guys are curious up, I'll link the this Jimmy Stewart.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:11</time>
So I took some video of this picture we have in our house of that

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:15</time>
back lot with the labels for the different characters in that movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:19</time>
And that movie came out in 1954.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:21</time>
It's the eighth highest grossing film of 1954.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:25</time>
And what else happened is he replaces, in Look Magazine they do the most

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:30</time>
popular movie stars of all time, 1954, Jimmy Stewart will replace John Wayne.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:36</time>
No way.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:37</time>
the top movie star.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:38</time>
Oh, my

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:38</time>
I know so 1954 is big for him rear window and replacing John Wayne The

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:43</time>
thing about Jimmy Stewart is he's he's still bankable and he gets more bankable

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:49</time>
just as his career goes on He's just one of those stars that just Just gross.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:54</time>
And it doesn't matter.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:55</time>
He keeps, he, he's not really typecasted.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:58</time>
He does Westerns.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:00</time>
He does suspense films.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:02</time>
He does family films.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:04</time>
He, he can really just be very versatile.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:08</time>
I mean, he's playing Alfred Hitchcock.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:09</time>
He's doing family films.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:11</time>
He's doing Westerns.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:12</time>
He's playing Billy.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:13</time>
He's doing he's playing Lindbergh in the Spirit of St.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:15</time>
Louis.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:16</time>
He's playing Glenn Miller in The

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:17</time>
I mean, and he's, he's tied to John Wayne, not only from 1954, but

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:21</time>
he's in John Wayne's last movie, The Shootist, which again, they're both kind

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:25</time>
of in the twilights of their careers, obviously for John Wayne, that was his

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:28</time>
last movie, but Jimmy Stewart, that was one of his last, not his very last.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:32</time>
But he plays this doctor giving John Wayne's character, this

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:36</time>
rough and tough sheriff, the, the bad news that essentially.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:40</time>
John Wayne's character, I don't remember his name has cancer, has terminal

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:45</time>
Yeah, so they were together in the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:48</time>
And that's a John Ford movie shot in black and white to make them both

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:51</time>
look younger because they were kind of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:52</time>
Which is a phenomenal movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:54</time>
older at the time.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:55</time>
So I think the shoot is reminiscent of them coming back together in a

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:59</time>
Western Jimmy Stewart at the time had some hearing problems, couldn't quite

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:04</time>
get the cues right on movies anymore.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:07</time>
And John Wayne said, don't worry, I got you.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:09</time>
So together John Wayne would help give him the cue to say

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:13</time>
he would stomp his foot real loud or something like that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:15</time>
Do something flick his face like do something.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:17</time>
Excellent.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:17</time>
Jimmy Stewart knew when to deliver the line and stuff.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:20</time>
So it just was a comfort level.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:23</time>
You're going to see that with Jimmy Stewart.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:24</time>
He really is, he's a people person, right?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:27</time>
And he is just really feels comfortable with certain people.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:31</time>
We talked about his marriage to Gloria.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:34</time>
He marries Gloria, I think, let me make sure I have the date right here.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:42</time>
He marries Gloria in 1949, and together they'll have two daughters.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:47</time>
He'll adopt her two sons from a previous marriage, and he's with

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:52</time>
her until her death in 1994.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:55</time>
Now he lives for three more years, but he becomes kind of reclusive after

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:59</time>
this because of the comfort level.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:01</time>
He doesn't feel comfortable with anybody.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:04</time>
else really after her.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:05</time>
He wants to see his children, but that's about it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:09</time>
And it comes to a point where he has a pacemaker and he doesn't

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:13</time>
get the battery replaced.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:14</time>
He just, he wants to be with Gloria.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:16</time>
Those are his final words.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:17</time>
I want to go be with Gloria now.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:19</time>
And he's just a family man.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:22</time>
He, he is one of those people that he, not only shows you what it's like to be

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:30</time>
a person of good character, he's living the life of a man of good character.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:33</time>
And that's one of the reasons I love Jimmy Stewart so much to be able to, there was

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:38</time>
no flag at his grave for Memorial day.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:40</time>
So to be able to be the one to leave a flag at Brigadier General James

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:46</time>
Maitland Stewart's grave, it was an.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:48</time>
honor for me.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:49</time>
And then his adopted son, who is killed in Vietnam, who Memorial Day is

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:55</time>
all about, also did not have a flag.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:57</time>
He's buried.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:58</time>
Beside his, his mother, who's Jimmy Stewart's wife I left

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:03</time>
a flag at his grave as well.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:04</time>
That was such an honor for me.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:06</time>
So my Memorial Day for me was perfect because I got to honor

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:12</time>
somebody who I really look up to and honor his son and his service.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:18</time>
And for me, it just meant a lot to be there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:20</time>
Yeah, it was, it was, again, I'm so glad that you got out there and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:25</time>
you got to be able to make that video.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:26</time>
And I think you bring up some really great points about Jimmy Stewart's

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:30</time>
service and what he did after, right after he came back with that role.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:37</time>
And it's a wonderful life.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:38</time>
And I, I really encourage people to go watch the video.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:40</time>
It's a shorter one, five or six minutes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:42</time>
But it's, I think it was just, I just really enjoyed kind of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:46</time>
the points that you brought up.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:53</time>
The silver screen shimmered a little less brightly for me in 1976.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:58</time>
Gone were the days of feeding scripts to fresh faced hopefuls.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:01</time>
I'd now navigated a Hollywood landscape obsessed with sequels and explosions.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:06</time>
Yet, here I was.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:07</time>
Back in familiar territory.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:10</time>
John Wayne's office, of all places.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:12</time>
Only this time, I wasn't a nervous junior executive, seeking

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:15</time>
approval, but a seasoned advisor brought in for a specific purpose.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:19</time>
Jimmy Stewart.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:21</time>
The name still held a certain magic.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:23</time>
The lanky youth I championed all those years ago had blossomed

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:26</time>
into a Hollywood legend.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:28</time>
He was here for the shootist, a poignant reflection on aging gunslingers, a role

<cite>Scott:</cite>
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that echoed his own on screen persona.

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Time had etched lines on Jimmy's face, the boyish grin replaced by a seasoned

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smile, but his eyes still held that same spark of decency, the same twinkle that

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had captivated audiences for decades.

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We talked about the script, dissecting the character of J.

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B.

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Brooks, a fading Marshall clinging to a bygone era.

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I'm damn lucky you were around, Doc.

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That second one nearly did me in.

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There was a vulnerability in Jimmy's portrayal of the physician.

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Who gives John Wayne's character the news no one wants to hear.

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Books, every few days I have to tell a man or a woman something I don't want to.

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I've been practicing medicine for 29 years and I still don't know how to do it well.

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A quiet acceptance of mortality that resonated deeply.

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It was a far cry from the wisecracking reporter of the Philadelphia story, or

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the idealistic heroes of his many films.

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Yet in a way, it felt like a culmination.

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Here was Jimmy.

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The embodiment of American virtue confronting his own twilight.

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As we worked, I couldn't help but reminisce.

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I shared stories from his early days, the forgotten tests that launched his career.

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A hint of surprise actually flickered across his face, then a warm smile.

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Seems like a lifetime ago, he chuckled.

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That familiar drawl still holding its charm.

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Filming wrapped, and Jimmy's performance in The Shootist was a

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masterclass in understated brilliance.

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It wasn't the showstopper of his youth, but a quiet symphony of emotions.

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Watching him on screen, I didn't see a Hollywood legend, but the

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young man with a nervous twitch.

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The man who dared to dream big.

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The man who soared through the skies in a B 24.

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Jimmy Stewart's legacy transcended the silver screen.

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He was a testament to the enduring power of decency, a reminder that heroism

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comes in many forms, and for me, he would always be a bridge between the wide eyed

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dreams of Hollywood's golden age and the bittersweet realities of time's passage.

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Thank you.

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