Jimmy Stewart

He raised a “traditional” American family in the heart of decadent Hollywood.

He was a lieutenant general in the Air Force Reserves if I recall.

He and best friend Henry Fonda whored their way through the East Coast until Jimmy married his Gloria.

He and Henry Fonda got into a fist fight over politics

[quote]He was a lieutenant general in the Air Force Reserves if I recall.

In fact, he left Hollywood to join at 33.

He was a sloppy bottom.

Why I. Now wait a minute. Now just a minute here boys. Well I. Now, I've got somethin’ to say here. Somethin’ to say on this. So just hear me out, men. I've got somethin' to say here.

A jar of peanut butter.

In the Stewart house, would not last.

Because, my dog, Beau.

Ate it out of my ass.

Jimmy Stewart was a great man.

He lived in better times.

James Stewart was a total bore. He was lucky enough to appear in a dozen good movies. He was good in three of them.

Stewart was an "every man" who made the ordinary Joe feel good when he won the girl.

R6, Horseshit. As commander of the 445th and 453rd Bombardment Groups during WW2, Jimmy Stewart flew several missions into Germany, bombing U-boat facilities in Kiel, and continuing with air raids on Bremen, Ludwigshafen, and Berlin. He was also on several uncredited missions deep in the heart of occupied Europe, eventually receiving the Croix de Guerre for actions in combat.

No he never flew any missions, he was merely affiliated with those groups in order to give the impression he did.

The ground crew gets credit for flying missions even though they might be thousands of miles from the actual scene. No Hollywood star and certainly not Stewart came close to combat.

All his adult life and in his memoirs Dirk Bogarde claimed to have flown sortues over Germany and to have helped free concentration camps.

The man was delusional.

Wrong

Clark Gable flew missions over Germany. Many Years ago I had a neighbour who had been part of the Dambusters (a pilot)and he knew Clarke Gable well. Thought very highly of him, which was more than he thought of most other American pilots. Thought most of them were prima donnas who went out of their way to get other people killed.

David Niven had been in the army before his Hollywood career and joined what became the intelligence service. He lead numerous missions behind enemy lines.

He was a racist.

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Stewart's distinguished military career:

Despite his all American image, he knocked up Marlene Dietrich during that Destry movie, and she had an abortion.

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[quote]I had a neighbour who had been part of the Dambusters

I had a friend="I bet the friend was a made up friend"

Again all this is made up publicity by the armed forces to convince people that all Americans are equal and serve. No they never did. The only ones that saw combat were those like Rory Calhoun who became famous AFTER they left the service.

R17 is an idiot.

The affair and resulting pregnancy/abortion with Dietrich has been noted in numerous publications, including the most recent Stewart biography.

"But this was only the first of many other affairs Dietrich would have with both men and women. (A year later, for instance, she was in love with James Stewart, whose child, she told Remarque, she aborted while Stewart was in a relationship with Olivia de Havilland.)"

He didn't like working with black actors. And he was a serious right-winger.

[quote] she was in love with James Stewart, whose child, she told Remarque, she aborted while Stewart was in a relationship with Olivia de Havilland

Slut. And I'm not referring to Marlene.

He lost his virginity to Ginger Rodgers, according to kenning I read.

His voice makes me want to dig him up and destroy his corpse.

Was watching an old episode of the Jack Benny show the other night featuring Mr. & Mrs. James Stewart. The gag was the couple were supposed to be out celebrating their wedding anniversary when El Cheapo Benny and his common date barge in.

The Stewarts struck me as old California up to their necks. Came as no surprise JS supported both Nixon and Regan.

Amazing how these lies come and get perpetuated. WW2 was a time when people stood up and did the right thing, something many of the writers about would never comprehend.

To the original question - Jimmy Stewart was quite handsome early on, but he is quite elderly now and not hot at all. I always thought he had a BD smile.

There never was suspense when he was in a Hitchcock film as far as whether he'd survive. No Oscar nominations when he starred for Hitchcock, although many feel he deserved one for "Rear Window".

He was No.1 at the box office for a year, or so; and in the Top 10 many times.

He and Fonda were roomies when they started their careers.

[quote] He and Fonda were roomies when they started their careers.

That must have been odd: Jimmy can't get a sentence out while Henry remains stoic.

[quote]To the original question - Jimmy Stewart was quite handsome early on, but he is quite elderly now and not hot at all.

He is quite DEAD now. 17 years on.

[quote]I always thought he had a BD smile.

What's BD?

Dietrich's daughter Maria Riva also reveals her mother had an abortion during the Destry period after getting pregnant by her then-lover who was her leading man at the time ... she never named Stewart, but the math adds up.

I always thought that Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda knew each other before they came to Hollywood? College chums?

It seemed amazing to me that two buddies would go on to be a couple of the most durable and famous leading men in film history.

Post first - then Google - that's my motto.

R32 There's always at least one, isn't there?

[quote]The two meet when both were starting out in summer stock theater in the New England area, Stewart just having graduated from Princeton and Fonda having come from the regional theaters in the Midwest.

Along with Josh Logan, Stewart and Fonda moved into an apartment in New York City. After honing their skills on Broadway, Stewart eventually followed Fonda out to Hollywood once the movies came calling, and they once again were roommates in their early movie years.

Wasn't there another clump that started out together in the 60's? Dustin Hoffman, Robert Duvall, maybe DeNiro? Even Babs was an acquaintance.

IT was Duvall, Hoffman, and Gene Hackman. They were all California-born struggling actors who often roomed together in the late '50s. DUvall got his big break in 1962 in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Hoffman and Hackman continued to struggle through the '60s until they both hit it big in the same year (1967) -- Hoffman in THE GRADUATE and Hackman in BONNIE AND CLYDE, They both also got Oscar nominations.

"There never was suspense when he was in a Hitchcock film as far as whether he'd survive. No Oscar nominations when he starred for Hitchcock, although many feel he deserved one for "Rear Window"."

Never understood how Grace Kelly's character could possibly be in love with Jimmy Stewart's character in "Rear Window".

Josh Logan was gayer than a Joan Crawford film festival, while Fonda and Stewart were notorious pussy hounds, which must have made for an odd living arrangement when they were roomies.

Jimmy Stewart once told Johnny Carson that when he was filming a kissing scene with Jean Harlow in "Wife vs. Secretary", he got an erection.

It was in "Beowulf," r26?

Tyrone Power as a Marine pilot flew cargo and rescue missions to Okinawa and Iwo Jima.

[quote]Came as no surprise JS supported both Nixon and Regan.

And once again, the Republicans of his day were not the raving religious racists we have today. And most of Hollywood supported Reagan because he was one of them.

Sy Bartlett was another Hollywood/USAF hero. He was a staff officer in the 8th Air Force, and was a first hand witness to the early part of the war when we had yet to develop the P-51 and the US Bombing raids took place with no air cover.

More Air Force guys died in those raids than Marines killed in the numerous island landings in the South Pacific. Planes would just rain from the sky after getting hit by anti-aircraft fire and from attacks by German fighter planes.

Sy wrote Twelve O'Clock High from his experience, one of the few films that got veteran approval for its honesty about men in war.

As for Jimmy, he encouraged his step son to join the Marines during Vietnam. 1st Lt. Ronald McClean died during an ambush in the DMZ. He was buried in Forest Lawn Glendale, where Jimmy and Gloria eventually joined him.

[quote]And once again, the Republicans of his day were not the raving religious racists we have today. And most of Hollywood supported Reagan because he was one of them

Nixon was known to think badly of blacks and Jews, and the "n" word escaped Reagan's mouth more than once...Walter Brennan too. Brennan danced when he found out MLK had been assassinated.

Lyndon Baines Johnson and his so-called Great Society. He fought for and signed the Civil Rights Act that JFK dragged his heels on for three years. Yet, if you listen to LBJ's audio recordings, he drops the "n" word constantly.

Jimmy Stewart wasn't in Wife vs Secretary. Either of them.

Wasn't DL fave Maragaret Sullivan part of the Fonda/Stewart/Logan menage?

I cannot watch his movies....he bores me to tears...horrid wooden actor. He ruins It's A Wonderful Life...

stuttering mess

R46 Stewart was most certainly in WIFE VS. SECRETARY. He played Jean Harlow's boyfriend. It's a supporting role.

He plays himself over and over in every role.

A still shot of Stewart and Harlow in "Wife vs. Secretary".

Stewart was miscast in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope" as an intellectual sophisticate who was the idol of two young gay thrill-killers. The movie is still fascinating, however.

Hitchcock thought Stewart appeared too old in "Vertigo" and blamed him for the movie's weakness at the box office. Therefore, he replaced him with Cary Grant in his next movie, "North by Northwest," which put Hitch back on top.

R52 but Grant was three years older than Stewart...

Stewart didn't understand Rope according to the screenwriter.

R53 Yes, but Grant had more youthful vigor on the screen. At least that's what Hitchcock thought, and I tend to agree. BTW, I think Stewart was excellent in Vertigo, and his somewhat weak appearance suited his character.

Apparently he was drinking a lot during the production of Rope. It was described in a book on hitchock.

I always heard that he was a really bad racist. Not typically racist for the time period, but like super racist.

[quote] A still shot of Stewart and Harlow in "Wife vs. Secretary".

A, a, a, still shot! That's, a, that's what I told Johnny Carson happened when I hugged Jean.

I haven't seen too many films starring Jimmy Stewart, but I have seen "Rear Window" and it is absolutely fantastic. If you haven't seen it, I can't recommend it enough.

Racist Repug.

[quote]He plays himself over and over in every role.

That's true of a lot of old-time Hollywood actors. They all played a specific type, and the studios didn't want them stretching too far away from that established persona because they knew the fans didn't want to see it.

R59, Grace Kelly looks radiant in it! As for the mispairing of Kelly and Stewart, I like to imagine what it would have been like if portrayed as a gay relationship:

The older Stewart being in a relationship with a dazzlingly beautiful, presentable young man but who is actually secretly into older bears like the gay Burr. He's a voyeur who tries to cover it by saying he's observing and has suspicions about Burr.

Converting it into "gay terms", I then covert it back into "hetero" using mental Google translate, and it makes more sense in my feeble mind. Many Hitchcock films had gay subtext, and so does this one, so I add my own mental image about Kelly and Stewart to help explain the apparent disparity. Funny that I don't have to do that with Cary Grant in Hitchcock or Grant with Audrey Hepburn.

And don't forget the amazing Thelma Ritter, one of the best character actresses who ever lived.

I used to teach at Princeton as an instructor in the early 90s, and what used to amuse me was every time the university wanted to give an award or have someone open a new building they;d always suggest turning to him first. Then other people had to remind them they had honored him the last four times and maybe they'd better find someone else for a change.

Stewart told Hitchcock he didn't want Grace Kelly. He did indeed think she was too sexy for him. Hitchcock said nonsense.

I thought they worked. Love that movie.

For an actor who seemingly had a very limited range, he played a remarkably wide range of roles over a career spanning 50 years. A small sampling:

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

You Can't Take It With You

The Shop Around the Corner

Destry Rides Again

The Philadelphia Story

It's a Wonderful Life

Rope

Harvey

The Greatest Show on Earth

The Glenn Miller Story

Rear Window

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Spirit of St. Louis

Vertigo

Bell, Book and Candle

Anatomy of a Murder

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

Inumerable classic Westerns

And he introduced the Cole Porter it "Easy to Love" in Born to Dance

"Hitchcock thought Stewart appeared too old in "Vertigo" and blamed him for the movie's weakness at the box office."

Stewart's age worked pretty well in "Vertigo". Straight men of that age will get completely irrational over younger women, and lose the ability to think critically.

His relationship with the younger Kelly in "Rear Window" is much less believable. She's half his age and amazingly lovely, yet he's the one acting like she's not good enough for him? Hitch should have cast someone older and less glammed up to play the girlfriend.

I like how he gave his Oscar to his Father who displayed it in the front window of his hardware store for years.

His father sounded like an asshole too. The fruit never falls far from the tree.

[quote]Never understood how Grace Kelly's character could possibly be in love with Jimmy Stewart's character in "Rear Window".

I never understood how movie audiences ever believed a woman would fall for him. Even worse in the movies where he used that stumbling, bumbling, stammering act of his. It might work if he was extremely good-looking, but he was average at best.

To me, Jimmy was not handsome at all.

[quote]Inumerable classic Westerns

R66, he was especially good in westerns directed by Anthony Mann.

His singing voice in that [italic]Lassie[/italic] musical was terrible.

he was hot.

"I never understood how movie audiences ever believed a woman would fall for him."

That's one of the things that I love about "Vertigo". Yes, a much younger and better-looking woman falls for him, but she doesn't think he's a hot stud or anything, she motivated by guilt and desperation.

Yes, guilt and desperation make men like Stewart look good.

Also found it hard to accept Marilyn Monroe's character paired with David Wayne's character in "How to Marry a Millionaire" and with Joseph Cotten's character in "Niagara".

And in "Bell, Book, and Candle," bewitching free spirit Kim Novak uses witchcraft to lure Stewart away from the alluring and bitchy Janice Rule, leaving me to wonder, "Uh, why are these women fighting over him?" His character was so stodgy and Stewart, at 50, looked wan and old.

Cary Grant supposedly wanted to do this film, and even though he was 4 years older than Stewart, he would've been more believable as a romantic leading man that women in their 20s would fight over. Ironically, Grant was cast in "North by Northwest" and couldn't do BB&C. Stewart desperately wanted the lead in NbNW, but after the failure of "Vertigo," Hitchcock deemed him too old.

What does (did) his politics have to do with anything?

I would have enjoyed Cary Grant in Bell, Book & Candle, especially with Novak and Rule. Stewart was wrong for that role.

You are so right, R79.

R78, OP asked for gossip about Stewart. The info about his politics is in response to that.

[quote]His relationship with the younger Kelly in "Rear Window" is much less believable. She's half his age and amazingly lovely, yet he's the one acting like she's not good enough for him? Hitch should have cast someone older and less glammed up to play the girlfriend.

Maybe they should have dumped him and cast an attractive actor.

Norman Rockwell man on screen. He had that persona all to himself as a lead, and tweaked it as necessary. Very watchable as a type now all but vanished.

[quote] Even worse in the movies where he used that stumbling, bumbling, stammering act of his. It might work if he was extremely good-looking, but he was average at best.

It worked precisely because he was average. People identified in him their own bumbling averageness. Gary Cooper was an average man distilled into nobility; Jimmy Stewart was an average who stumbled upon greatness.

If I want to see average, I'll walk around my neighborhood. I prefer to watch attractive people in movies.

Millions of his fans grew up with him and he was very attractive, even handsome and somewhat sexy, as a young leading man in the 1930s and early 1940s.

So his growing old and mature looks were very relatable to them.

My mother absolutely loathed him, so I was probably influenced somewhat.

Why did she loathe him, R87?

She said he was goofy-acting, R88.

Google "jimmy stewart racist" and you will get many search results. He must have had some redeeming values if Henry Fonda was his friend.

Maybe he always paid for dinner.

[quote] She said he was goofy-acting

That seems a very minor reason to loathe someone. Your mother would have been a prized DL poster.

There was a lot more, R91. I didn't feel like going into her rant. You know how DL regularly has threads about actors you can't stand to watch for no discernible reason? I think Stewart was that for her.

[quote] There was a lot more, [R91]. I didn't feel like going into her rant. You know how DL regularly has threads about actors you can't stand to watch for no discernible reason? I think Stewart was that for her.

Thanks, R92. That's why I wrote that she'd be a great DLer.

She probably would have been, R93.

Walter Brennan was the real racist. Apparently he was vicious and unrepentant about it.

True R95. He danced a jig the day MLK was murdered, and said that all civil rights activists at the time were commie rabble-rousers. They say he died a nasty death from emphysema...oh well.

When he was young James Stewart was cuuuuuuute. Very sweet looking. Not macho, not 'hot', but so personable in Mr Smith era work.

Only proves that talent and character don't always go hand in hand. Both Stewart and Brennan gave some great performances (notably in It's a Wonderful Life and The Westerner).

R13 you are very much mistaken (again). Gable was so depressed over the loss of Carole Lombard, he volunteered for the most dangerous missions; some thought he had a deathwish.

Stewart grew up in the small town of Indiana, Pennsylvania, located about 50 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in the years before WWI. Like many of his social and economic class, he would have a bias towards Republicans. The family hardware business was prosperous enough to send Stewart to boarding school (Mercersburg) as well as to Princeton, where he started out as a architecture major.

Stewart's daughter was a primatologist who worked with Dian Fossey. The two women had a falling out and Fossey felt that Stewart's daughter was a rich girl slumming as a scientist.

Politicians renamed the Indiana County Airport as the Jimmy Stewart Airport. Some other politicians have proposed renaming the local university, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, as James Stewart University.

There is a Jimmy Stewart Museum in Indiana, PA. The featured guest at the museum gala in 2014 was Carol Burnett, who described herself as one of Jimmy Stewart's biggest fans. One year, Shirley Jones who co-starred with Stewart in Cheyenne Social Club was the guest of honor at the museum gala.

It may be hard to believe women falling for him on screen but as already mentioned, he cut quite a swathe through Hollywood movie stars before settling with Gloria. Not just starlets - major stars. I don't get it either.

Most of Hollywood did NOT support Reagan because he was one of them. First of all, it was the 1980s, and there were a whole bunch of New Hollywood who didn't consider him one of them; very liberal (Warren Beatty's generation). Secondly, many of his contemporaries thought he was gormless and couldn't believe he could get himself elected president.

I believe Walter Brennan was racist but how is it known he danced a jig when MLK was assassinated? Did he spread it around?

R24 Was he like John Wayne or was he just old-fashioned? Isn't it possible for someone to be conservative in an innocent way?

[quote]I believe Walter Brennan was racist but how is it known he danced a jig when MLK was assassinated? Did he spread it around?

He didn't dance a jig, how ridiculous.

It was a polka.

R102, supposedly, cast and crew on the set of "The Guns of Will Sonnett" witnessed him cackle with delight when MLK and RFK were assassinated, and breaking out in a spontaneous jig when he heard about MLK. Brennan was convinced that the civil rights and anti-war movements were being orchestrated by nefarious Commies, so he viewed MLK and RFK as puppets of the Soviets or Red China.

"Will Sonnett" Producer Aaron Spelling later described Brennan's politics as being "to the right of Rush Limbaugh."

Who was the mother of James Stewart's daughter?

I've worked with a few women who were like the Kelly character in "Window." They knew their own moment of opportunity was limited and needed a breadwinner. (Think Nancy Reagan.) She set out to trap him and closed the deal while he was trapped in his chair. Routine method for women like that in NYC, esp. in the 1940's to the early 70's, when men stopped thinking they had to marry a woman if she brought a night case to his place with a sexy negligee.

I thought Stewart was cute in an aw shucks kind of way. He was certainly the boy next door.

But R107, the Kelly character in "Rear Window" was rich! If she was out to trap a breadwinner, it'd have been someone who was wealthy by the standards of spoiled socialites, not a photographer who rents a crummy little apartment.

No, their relationship just isn't believable, she is out of his league on all possible fronts.

I love some of his movies but HATE that he was such a vile racist. I can't stop watching Rear Window or Spirit of St. Louis (in which he played ANOTHER racist) though.

I read somewhere that after his son died in Vietnam, he hated anti-war protesters and become a very bitter old man and I'm guessing very right wing. Not sure about the specifics of his politics, but kind of sad anyway.

Do you have any idea how much that crummy little Greenwich Village walk-up in REAR WINDOW would go for in today's market, r109?

My Dog Beau.

[quote] I can't stop watching Rear Window or Spirit of St. Louis (in which he played ANOTHER racist) though.

Talk about too old for the part. Lindbergh was 25 when he crossed the Atlantic. Stewart was 49 when he played him in the movie.

He was definitely too old, it was ridiculous, but I have a soft spot for this movie, even though it bombed at the box office - probably because he was too old to be believable.

I would've done him!

I never believed women could fall for Stewart in the movies, but they did in real life, so he must have had something. He had a long on and off affair with Ginger Rogers but it seems like more friends with benefits. She once said if she wasn't in love with Jimmy Stewart she SHOULD be because he was the nicest man in Hollywood. He apparently told his wife, Gloria, that in his bachelor days, he'd had a fling with Jean Harlow but didn't carry it on to the extent of an affair because she and her family were too mobbed-up, and Stewart already had trouble keeping mobsters out of his business (the mobsters were Zwillman and Seigel). Florence Rice, a very pretty southern deb type blonde who was in a bunch of B movies, and support in some A movies, said of all her leading men, Stewart was her idea of a hunk. The interviewer him/herself was like "For REAL?" at that one. And Loretta Young's daughter, Judy (who is now deceased) is quoted saying she thought her mother's relationship with Tyrone Power was manufactured by the studio but that her mother told her herself she wished she could have married Jimmy Stewart, but he never asked her.

All that said, I can't see it either. Maybe he was a popular date in his bachelor days because the stars he took out to all the hot spots where photographers and gossip columnists hung out were really having affairs with other people and he was a good beard? Supposedly he also dated Marlene Dietrich!

Robert Wagner once said the Jimmy Stewarts did his favorite thing ever with their Hollywood property - bought the lot next door and made it into a garden.

I threw him outta my bar for bringing in that pixie angel.

I liked him in the Westerns from the 1950s in which the annoying parts of his screen persona were minimized.

He was a hardcore Rethuglican. Very conservative.

[quote]r29 I always thought he had a BD smile.

[quote]r32 What's BD?

"Butt Demon". It's a phrase used here a lot.

In fact, nationwide*.

* [italic]Interestingly, "nationwide" is actually a word often used to describe tired, worn out bottoms.

[quote]r38 Never understood how Grace Kelly's character could possibly be in love with Jimmy Stewart's character in "Rear Window".

Nevertheless, it didn't stop her from spreading her legs for him in real life.

It was Her Way.

He could be petty. He blamed Donna Reed for the relative failure of "It's A Wonderful Life" (it only broke even and won no awards even though Capra saw it as Oscar-bait. He was oblivious to the obvious---that the film was Capra-corn. His scenes with Reed in the first half of the movie are the only non-cliche ridden part of the movie. Reed disliked him (and the unwatchable June Allyson--who got a part with Stewart--with bhis support--that Reed wanted).

I was in Indiana PA a few months ago and was happy that every time you cross the street, Jimmy Stewart’s voice comes out of a metal box affixed to the lamp post.

^ Does the voice sputter something like "Well, come on n-n-now, see? Walk, you hear? Walk!"

^^haha, yes it shore does. A very folksy street crossing experience it is.

The posters here who have such a hard time conceiving of Kelly's attraction for Stewart in Rear Window must be very young or very ignorant. He comes from a different world than she and is probably unlike anyone she's known. I'm including the "bored rich girl falls for the rough-edged, travelled man" routine here - think Billy Joel's Uptown Girl. Also, it's easy to pine after the unobtainable. He comes to respect her more after she proves her mettle and shows bravery, more like he is. It's interesting how the relationship develops and is quite true to what can happen between two people in real life.

R107 is just talking out his ass, as is so often the case here.

[quote]r107 I've worked with a few women who were like the Kelly character in "Window." They knew their own moment of opportunity was limited and needed a breadwinner.

Except Lisa makes more money than Jeff does, what with her steady job at a fashion magazine, ordering catered dinners from the 21 Club, etc.

He's just a freelance photographer with an ugly apartment.

Jimmy allegedly spent a weekend alone with Cole Porter early in his career in order to secure the role and the song "Easy to Love" in the 1936 MGM film "Born to Dance".

I believe it!

Where on earth did you hear or read that, r129? I thought I knew all the Cole Porter fuck stories, but I've never heard that one!

But R95, didn't anyone go visit Walter Brennan and get him to repent for his sins?

Was Walter Brennan truly unrepentant until the time he faced the wrath of God?

R13-Is that so?

I thought he looked gorgeous in Rear Window so I don’t know what you all are talking about. Piercing blue eyes, black hair, tan, lanky, traditionally handsome features. If you saw someone like that in real life you would do more than a double take. His cornball persona gets in the way of looking at him objectively.

I watched ol' Jimmy Stutter last night in The Man Who Knew Too Much.

R133, if you disregard the very 50s Brylcreemed hair, yes, he's quite striking. Especially if you like the smoldering, intense types.

R95 The unrepentant Walter Brennan should have his Oscar taken from him if he refuses to repent.

[quote] The unrepentant Walter Brennan should have his Oscar taken from him if he refuses to repent.

"Oscar?" He has THREE, dear.

The unrepentant Walter Brennan should have his three Oscars taken from him if he refuses to repent for his sins.

This man can play Jimmy Stewart in the unlikely event there's a biographical movie Jimmy Stewart.

Well, technically he doesn't have them anymore. He's been dead for decades.

Didn't he raise money to Save the Elephants or something?