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Article: HE WAS, WELL, A PIECE OF AMERICANA; FOR HEART, FEW ACTORS EQUALED JIMMY STEWART; APPRECIATION : MORE THAN FETCHING.(L.A. LIFE)(Obituary)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- July 3, 1997
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Byline: Bob Strauss Daily News Film Writer
There was the charming, drawling stutter. But there was also the fearsome, obsessive gaze.
There are lots of reasons why Jimmy Stewart was America's most beloved movie actor. There are just as many reasons why he was one of the best.
Few actors matured on screen quite as interestingly as did Stewart, who died Wednesday of cardiac arrest at the age of 89. And it's hard to think of any who went the psychological distance he did during the three decades of his best work. From shy, boy-next-door types to the earnest conscience of Capraesque optimism to the disturbed, damaged antiheroes of Hitchcock ...
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Article: JIMMY STEWART 1908 - 1997 ``DECENT, HARD-WORKING ...
The Virginian Pilot;
July 5, 1997 ;
700+ words
... ... how he wanted to be remembered, Jimmy Stewart once said, ``As a decent ... next door, came back changed. Jimmy Stewart's death, of cardiac arrest ... We may well mourn the loss of Jimmy Stewart's screen persona more than we ...
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