by Marc Eliot
“One Sunday” McCall’s, May 1964.
Quotes regarding the Far East trip Louella Parsons, Los Angeles Examiner, May 1, 1955.
“Hitchcock and I met” Donald Spoto, 389.
“interrupts the harmony” Ibid.
“The first time” Ibid.
“[Hitchcock] was very” Ibid., 391.
“In the beginning” Ibid., 392.
“Hitch believed” Neil P. Hurley, “The Many-Splendored Actor: An Interview with Jimmy Stewart,” The New Orleans Review, Summer/Fall 1983.
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“Leading my list” Kim Novak, TV Guide, March 7, 1987.
Excerpts of conversation at Hayward dinner pary Los Angeles Examiner (American Weekly supplement), January 1, 1956.
against a cement Fishgall, Pieces of Time, 258.
“I wanted to” Ibid.
“Like Lindbergh” Ibid.
embarrassment Andrew Sarris, Village Voice, May 19, 1987.
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“Ford, Hitchcock, Wilder” Los Angeles Times, October 15, 1967.
“The common wisdom” Peter Bogdanovich, Who the Hell’s in It?, New York: Knopf, 2004, 245–46.
“First of all” Kim Novak interviews with author.
“to make sure” Mervyn LeRoy, Mervyn LeRoy: Take One, New York: Hawthorne Books, 1974, 199.
Stewart comments about the studio system Variety, October 3, 1958.
“As the flashbulbs” Charlton Heston, In the Arena, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
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“Of the westerns” “Films and Filming,” April 1966.
“I love him…” Peter Bogdanovich, 174.
“In accepting” Andrew Sarris, The John Ford Movie Mystery, 180.
“I remember the first” Stewart interviewed by Hurley.
“I went up” Bogdanovich, Pieces of Time, 174.
“a load of crap” Dewey, James Stewart, 412 (unattributed).
Bogdanovich on Liberty Valance Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week, New York: Ballantine, 1999, 89.
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“This aging problem” Dick Kleiner, Show Beat, July 22, 1964.
“If you want a record” and “We used to take movies” Susan Squire, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, July 22, 1976.
The story of the girl and the tour bus Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1963.
“It was a profitable” Wolfson, in a 20th Century Fox press release, approximately April 1963.
“After it was all over” McCall’s, May 1964.
“It’s sad closing” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, May 22, 1963
Information regarding Chasen’s, and the quote from Bill Frye William Frye, interview with author.
“It gets difficult” and “find the audience” The Film Daily, November 19, 1963.
“All I could think of ” Jimmy Stewart’s personal notes, June 26, 1964.
“having killed a lot of Indians” and “make amends” John Ford to producer Bernard Smith as quoted in Fishgall, Pieces of Time, 294.
“rather stolid” Peter Bart, New York Times, October 11, 1964.
“my father’s only real close friend” Kelly Stewart Harcourt, interview with author.
“I hate them!” Dewey, James Stewart, 444.
“Michael and I” Kelly Stewart Harcourt, interview with author.
“We had never” Kelly Stewart Harcourt, interview with author.
“Jim and I played” Teichmann, Fonda, 305.
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“People ask if we’re bitter” Combined public comments of Stewart, Klemesrud, New York Times, February 22, 1970.
“There’s our son” Aljean Harmetz, New York Times, February 22, 1970.
“But losing” Coronet, July 1970.
“For me” Kelly Stewart Harcourt, interview with author.
“The picture was” and “Stewart would slip” Howard Teichmann, Fonda.
“I’d say to Fonda” Angela Fox Dunn, Boston Herald, December 7, 1983.
“A kid came” Joyce Haber, Los Angeles Times, March 15, 1970.
“There hasn’t been” Vernon Scott, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, May 21, 1971.
“the deep think boys” Ibid.
CHAPTER 27
“Jimmy loved to” William Frye, Vanity Fair, April 2003.
“I don’t think” McLaughlin, People, September 1, 1975.
“I’m more conservative” Arthur Bell, “Talking on the Turnpike with My Father’s Favorite Star,” Village Voice, August 14, 1978.
“adoptive father” of an orangutan Walter Wagner, Beverly Hills: Inside the Golden Ghetto, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1976, 127.
“Gloria, Jimmy and I” Frye, Vanity Fair, and interview with author.
“We got into Tokyo” Ibid.
“Harvey” Los Angeles Times, December 11, 1978.
“You know” Teichmann, Fonda, 352.
“that was good” From Bell, “Talking on the Turnpike,” and from Kelly Stewart Harcourt (“that was good,” “she should have said it that way,” “I wish I hadn’t done it that way,” “that dialogue doesn’t work,” describing to the author her father watching himself on television.
“Then, suddenly” Dewey, James Stewart, 482.
CHAPTER 28
“Rear Window has already” David Sterritt, The Christian Science Monitor, October 20, 1983.
“It was titled” Variety, October 5, 1983.
“The wonderful thing” Janet Maslin, New York Times, October 9, 1983.
“I remember her so vividly” Dunn, BH December 5, 1983.
Janet Maslin and Andrew Sarris Their reviews of the rerelease of Vertigo are here taken from Aulier, Vertigo, 190–91.
CHAPTER 29
“It’s over” Paul Hendrickson, Life magazine, July 1991.
“a property issue” Jane Birnbaum, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, July 3, 1988.
“the hierarchy” John Karlen, Interview with the author.
“I’m devastated” New York Daily News, July 3, 1997.
Filmography
FEATURE FILMS
All films are feature length, except where noted by asterisk (*), and are listed in the order of their release (year noted), which sometimes differs from the order in which they were made. Production companies are listed separately if they are different from the major studio distributor.
1. ART TROUBLE (1934).* A Vitaphone Corporation short. Directed by Ralph Staub. Producer uncredited. Screenplay (story) by Jack Henley, Dolph Singer. Principal cast: Harry Gribbon, Shemp Howard, Beatrice Blinn, Leni Stengel, James Stewart (uncredited).
2. THE MURDER MAN (1935). MGM. Directed by Tim Whelan. Produced by Harry Rapf. Screenplay by Tim Whelan, John C. Higgins (from a story by Tim Whelan and Guy Bolton). Principal cast: Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Harvey Stephens, Robert Barrat, James Stewart, Fuzzy Knight, Ralph Bushman.
3. ROSE-MARIE (1936). MGM. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke II. Produced by Hunt Stromberg. Screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Alice D. G. Miller, from an operetta with books and lyrics by Otto A. Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. Principal cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Reginald Owen, Allan Jones, James Stewart, Alan Mowbray, Gilda Gray, George Regas, Robert Greig, Una O’Connor, Lucien Littlefield, David Niven, Herman Bing.
4. NEXT TIME WE LOVE (1936). Universal. Directed by Edward H. Griffith. Produced by Paul Kohner. Screenplay by Melville Baker (Doris Anderson and Preston Sturges both worked, uncredited, on the script, from the Ursula Parrott story “Say Goodbye Again”). Principal cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Ray Milland, Grant Mitchell, Anna Demetrio, Robert McWade, Ronnie Cosby, Florence Roberts, Christian Rub (uncredited), Charles Fall, Nat Carr, Gottlieb Huber.
5. WIFE VS. SECRETARY (1936). MGM. Directed by Clarence Brown. Produced by Hunt Stromberg. Screenplay by Norman Krasna, Alice Duer Miller, John Lee Mahin (from the short story by Faith Baldwin). Principal cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, May Robson, George Barbier, James
Stewart, Hobart Cavanaugh, Tom Dugan, Gilbert Emery.
6. IMPORTANT NEWS (1936).* An MGM Miniature (10 minutes). Directed by Edwin Lawrence. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Principal cast: Charles “Chic” Sale, James Stewart.
7. SMALL TOWN GIRL (1936). MGM. Directed by William A. Wellman. Produced by Hunt Stromberg. Screenplay by John Lee Mahin, Edith Fitzgerald, Frances Goodrich, and Albert Hackett (from the novel by Ben Ames Williams). Principal cast: Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Binnie Barnes, Lewis Stone, Andy Devine, Elizabeth Patterson, Frank Craven, James Stewart, Douglas Fowley, Isabel Jewell, Charley Grapewin, Nella Walker, Robert Greig, Edgar Kennedy, Willie Fung.
8. SPEED (1936). MGM. Directed by Edwin L. Marin. Produced by Lucien Hubbard. Screenplay by Michael Fessier (from an original story by Milton Krims and Larry Bachman). Principal cast: James Stewart, Una Merkel, Ted Healy, Wendy Barrie, Weldon Heyburn, Ralph Morgan, Patricia Wilder.
9. THE GORGEOUS HUSSY (1936). MGM. Directed by Clarence Brown. Produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Screenplay by Ainsworth Morgan, Stephen Morehouse Avery (from the novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams). Principal cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Melvyn Douglas, James Stewart, Alison Skipworth, Louis Calhern, Beulah Bondi, Melville Cooper, Edith Atwater, Sidney Toler, Gene Lockhart, Phoebe Foster, Clara Blandick, Frank Conroy, Nydia Westman, Willard Robertson, Charles Trowbridge, Greta Meyer, Fred “Snowflake” Toones.
10. BORN TO DANCE (1936). MGM. Directed by Roy Del Ruth. Produced by Jack Cummings. Screenplay by Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers (from their screen story written with B. G. DeSylva). Principal cast: Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Una Merkel, Sid Silvers, Frances Langford, Raymond Walburn, Alan Dinehart, Buddy Ebsen, William Mandel, Joe Mandel, Juanita Quigley, Georges and Jalna, Reginald Gardiner, J. Marshall Smith, L. Dwight Snyder, Jay Johnson, Del Porter.
11. AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936). MGM. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke II. Produced by Hunt Stromberg. Screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett (from unpublished story material by Dashiell Hammett). Principal cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia, Jessie Ralph, Alan Marshal, Teddy Hart, Sam Levene, Dorothy McNulty (as Penny Singleton is credited), William Law, George Zucco, Paul Fix.
12. SEVENTH HEAVEN (1937). 20th Century Fox. Directed by Henry King. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, associate produced by Raymond Griffith. Screenplay by Melville Baker (from the play by Austin Strong). Principal cast: Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, Gregory Ratoff, Gale Sondergaard, J. Edward Bromberg, John Qualen, Victor Kilian, Thomas Beck, Sig Rumann, Mady Christians, Rollo Lloyd, Rafaela Ottiano, Georges Renavent, Edward Keane, John Hamilton, Paul Porcasi, Will Stanton, Irving Bacon, Leonid Snegoff, Adrienne D’Ambricourt.
13. THE LAST GANGSTER (1937). MGM. Directed by Edward Ludwig. Produced by J. J. Cohn. Screenplay by John Lee Mahin (from a story by William A. Wellman and Robert Carson). Principal cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner, Lionel Stander, Douglas Scott, John Carradine, Sidney Blackmer, Grant Mitchell, Edward S. Brody, Alan Baxter, Frank Conroy, Louise Beavers.
14. NAVY BLUE AND GOLD (1937). MGM. Directed by Sam Wood. Produced by Sam Zimbalist. Screenplay by George Bruce (from his novel). Principal cast: Robert Young, James Stewart, Florence Rice, Billie Burke, Lionel Barrymore, Tom Brown, Samuel S. Hinds, Paul Kelly, Barnett Parker, Frank Albertson, Minor Watson, Robert Middlemass, Phillip Terry, Charles Waldron, Pat Flaherty, Stanley Morner (as Dennis Morgan is billed), Matt McHugh, Ted Pearson.
15. OF HUMAN HEARTS (1938). MGM (Loew’s Inc.). Directed by Clarence Brown. Produced by John W. Considine Jr. Screenplay by Bradbury Foote (from the story “Benefits Forgot” by Honore Morrow). Principal cast: Walter Huston, James Stewart, Gene Reynolds, Beulah Bondi, Guy Kibbee, Charles Coburn, John Carradine, Ann Rutherford, Leatrice Joy Gilbert, Charley Grapewin, Leona Roberts, Gene Lockhart, Clem Bevans, Arthur Aylesworth, Sterling Holloway, Charles Peck, Robert McWade, Minor Watson.
16. VIVACIOUS LADY (1938). RKO. Directed by George Stevens. Produced by Pandro S. Berman. Screenplay by P. J. Wolfson, Ernest Pagano, Anne Morrison Chapin (uncredited) (from a novelette by I. A. R. Wylie). Principal cast: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison, Beulah Bondi, Charles Coburn, Frances Mercer, Phyllis Kennedy, Franklin Pangborn, Grady Sutton, Jack Carson, Alec Craig, Willie Best.
17. THE SHOPWORN ANGEL (1938). MGM (Loew’s Inc.). Directed by H. C. Potter. Produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Screenplay by Waldo Salt, Howard Estabrook (uncredited) (from the story “Private Pettigrew’s Girl” by Dana Burnet). Principal cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon, Hattie McDaniel, Nat Pendleton, Alan Curtis, Sam Levene, Eleanor Lynn, Charles D. Brown.
18. YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938). Columbia. Directed by Frank Capra. Produced by Frank Capra. Screenplay by Robert Riskin (from the stage play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart). Principal cast: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller, Spring Byington, Samuel S. Hinds, Donald Meek, H. B. Warner, Halliwell Hobbes, Dub Taylor, Mary Forbes, Lillian Yarbo, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Clarence Wilson, Josef Swickard, Ann Doran, Christian Rub, Bodil Rosing, Charles Lane, Harry Davenport.
19. MADE FOR EACH OTHER (1939). United Artists. Directed by John Cromwell. Produced by David O. Selznick Production Company. Screenplay by Jo Swerling (jokes contributed by Frank Ryan) (from a story idea by Rose Franken). Principal cast: Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Lucile Watson, Harry Davenport, Ruth Weston, Eddie Quillan, Alma Kruger, Esther Dale, Renee Orsell, Louise Beavers, Ward Bond, Olin Howland, Fern Emmett, Jackie Taylor, Mickey Rentschler, Ivan Simpson.
20. THE ICE FOLLIES OF 1939 (1939). MGM (Loew’s Inc.). Directed by Reinhold Schünzel. Produced by Harry Rapf. Screenplay by Leonard Praskins, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf (from a screen story by Leonard Praskins). Principal cast: Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres, Lewis Stone, Bess Ehrhardt, Lionel Stander, Charles D. Brown, Roy Shipstad, Eddie Shipstad, Oscar Johnson.
21. IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD (1939). MGM (Loew’s Inc.). Directed by W. S. Van Dyke II. Produced by Frank Davis. Screenplay by Ben Hecht (from a screen story by Ben Hecht and Herman J. Mankiewicz). Principal cast: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee, Nat Pendleton, Frances Drake, Edgar Kennedy, Ernest Truex, Richard Carle, Cecilia Callejo, Sidney Blackmer, Andy Clyde, Cecil Cunningham, Leonard Kibrick, Hans Conried, Grady Sutton.
22. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939). Columbia. Directed by Frank Capra. Produced by Frank Capra. Screenplay by Sidney Buchman (from the story “The Gentleman from Montana” by Lewis R. Foster). Principal cast: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Eugene Pallette, Beulah Bondi, H. B. Warner, Harry Carey, Astrid Allwyn, William Demarest.
23. DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (1939). Universal. Directed by George Marshall. Produced by Joe Pasternak. Screenplay by Felix Jackson, Gertrude Purcell, Henry Myers (from a screen story by Felix Jackson, from the novel by Max Brand). Principal cast: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger, Brian Donlevy, Allen Jenkins, Warren Hymer, Jack Carson.
24. THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940). MGM. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Produced by Ernst Lubitsch. Screenplay by Samson Raphaelson, Ben Hecht (uncredited), (from the play Parfumerie by Miklós László). Principal cast: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart, William Tracy, Inez Courtney, Sarah Edwards, Gertrude Simpson.
25. THE MORTAL STORM (1940). MGM. Directed by Frank Borzage. Produced by Sidney Franklin (Frank Borzage, Victor Saville, both uncredited). Screenplay by Claudine West, Andersen Ellis, George Froeschel (from the novel by Phyllis Bottome). Principal cast: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Frank Morgan, Irene Rich, Maria Ouspenskaya, William T. Orr, Robert Stack, Bonita Granville, Gene Reynolds, Russell Hicks, William Edmunds, Ward Bond, Dan Dailey, Esther Dale, Sue Moore, Granville Bates.
26. NO TIME FOR CO
MEDY (1940). Warner Bros. Directed by William Keighley. Produced by Hal B. Wallis. Screenplay by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein (from the play by S. N. Behrman). Principal cast: James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Charles Ruggles, Genevieve Tobin, Louise Beavers, Allyn Joslyn, Clarence Kolb, Robert Greig, Frank Faylen, Robert Emmett O’Connor.
27. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940). MGM. Directed by George Cukor. Produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart, Waldo Salt (uncredited) (from the play by Philip Barry). Principal cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young, Virginia Weidler, John Halliday, Mary Nash, Henry Daniell, Lionel Pape, Rex Evans, Russ Clark, Hilda Plowright, Lita Chevret, Lee Phelps.
28. COME LIVE WITH ME (1941). MGM. Directed by Clarence Brown. Produced by Clarence Brown. Screenplay by Patterson McNutt (from an original story by Virginia Van Upp). Principal cast: James Stewart, Hedy Lamarr, Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Donald Meek, Barton MacLane, Edward Ashley, Ann Codee, King Baggot, Adeline de Walt Reynolds, Si Jenks, Dewey Robinson.
29. POT O’ GOLD (1941). Released in Great Britain as The Golden Hour. United Artists. Directed by George Marshall (dance director Larry Ceballos). Produced by James Roosevelt (Globe Pictures). Screenplay by Walter DeLeon (from a screen story by Monte Brice, Andrew Bennison, and Harry Tugend, based on a story idea by Haydn Roth Evans and Robert Brilmayer). Principal cast: James Stewart, Paulette Goddard, Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights, Charles Winninger, Mary Gordon, Frank Melton, Jed Prouty, Dick Hogan, James Burke, Charlie Arnt, Donna Wood, Henry Roquemore, Larry Cotton, William Gould, Aldrich Bowker.
30. ZIEGFELD GIRL (1941). MGM. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Produced by Pandro S. Berman (musical numbers directed by Busby Berkeley). Screenplay by Marguerite Roberts, Sonya Levien (from a story by William Anthony McGuire). Principal cast: James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Tony Martin, Jackie Cooper, Ian Hunter, Charles Winninger, Edward Everett Horton, Philip Dorn, Paul Kelly, Eve Arden, Dan Dailey Jr., Al Shean, Fay Holden, Felix Bressart, Rose Hobart, Bernard Nedell, Ed McNamara, Mae Busch, Renie Riano.
