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Article: Jimmy Stewart was the American Everyman.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- July 2, 1997
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He was the last of the great, durable male stars from Hollywood's rhapsodized Golden Age _ those prewar years when movies dominated American life and thought and dreams, when moviegoers had religious faith in studio product, when formidable screen heroes were nothing less than icons.
They are all gone now, all those stars recognizable by just one name _ Gable, Tracy, Cooper, Grant, Bogart, Wayne, Holden, Cagney, Fonda, Crosby ...
And James Stewart, who died Wednesday at 89, surely was the one most truly beloved. Why? Although he certainly was tall, he was not larger than life but was scaled precisely to life. Men identified with him wishfully; ...