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James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English descent. Stewart was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where he was a keen athlete (football and track), musician (singing and accordion playing), and sometime actor.

In 1929, he won a place at Princeton University, where he studied architecture with some success and became further involved with the performing arts as a musician and actor with the University Players. After graduation, engagements with the University Players took him around the northeastern United States, including a run on Broadway in 1932. But work dried up as the Great Depression deepened, and it was not until 1934, when he followed his friend Henry Fonda to Hollywood, that things began to pick up.

After his first screen appearance in Art Trouble (1934), Stewart worked for a time for MGM as a contract player and slowly began making a name for himself in increasingly high-profile roles throughout the rest of the 1930s. His famous collaborations with Frank Capra, in You Can't Take It with You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), and, after World War II, It's a

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James Stewart

Discovering Film

• Episode aired Aug 19, 2015
• 41m

This documentary does not only remember and celebrate James Stewart's more than half-a-century acting career but also his personal life. Get to know the man behind the actor's persona throug... Read allThis documentary does not only remember and celebrate James Stewart's more than half-a-century acting career but also his personal life. Get to know the man behind the actor's persona through an anthology of well-selected film clips from Hollywood's golden era, and through commen... Read allThis documentary does not only remember and celebrate James Stewart's more than half-a-century acting career but also his personal life. Get to know the man behind the actor's persona through an anthology of well-selected film clips from Hollywood's golden era, and through commentaries and anecdotes from respected film critics, movie scribes, and real people who knew ... Read all

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