STEWART, James Maitland (1908-97)
Price: $65.00
Description:American actor and military officer; among the most honored and popular stars in US film history.
SIG – Vintage marker pen signature on a pale green 3″x5″ card. Accompanied by a 7″x5″ sepia-tone glossy reprint image from It’s A Wonderful Life (1947).
A major Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player, Stewart was known for his distinctive drawl and down-to-earth persona, which helped him often portray American middle-class men struggling in crisis. Many of the films he starred in have become enduring classics.
Stewart was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition for The Philadelphia Story (1940), and received an Academy Lifetime Achievement award in 1985. In 1999, Stewart was named the third-greatest male screen legend of the Golden Age of Hollywood by the American Film Institute, behind Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant. The American Film Institute has also named five of Stewart’s films to its list of the 100 best American films ever made.
Stewart also had a noted military career and was a WWII and Vietnam War veteran and pilot, who rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the US Air Force Reserve, becoming the highest-ranking actor in military history.