“2. jimmy was a fighter pilot in wwii and bombed the shit out of nazis”
Is killing people really something that makes someone better than other people? :/
If they’re killing Nazis – Absolutely!
But not all people fighting for the Germans were necessarily that bad. Surely a lot of them would have been perfectly decent people only fighting because they had to? And even many of those that were bad were probably like that because of indoctrination or because they didn’t fully comprehend what was really going on?
That’s why I specified Nazis. If Jimmy Stewart was bombing the shit out of innocent Germans, that would not make make him better, but the list above also specified Nazis.
jimmy also never made a war film after his war time experiences. he felt it wasn’t a subject to be treated as entertainment, unlike certain 4F stars like john wayne. after the war jimmy’s acting was noticeably more complex, reaching for the dark side in vertigo and the psychological westerns of anthony mann. and i read that jimmy rarely left his room and had to be coaxed into eating daily, after the death of his wife until his own death 3 years later :( for a fun look at jimmy fighting the forces of facism, see frank borzage’s the mortal storm
jimmy was a poet and dog lover
Curtis Francis
aka 10 reasons why jimmy stewart is better than you
1. there is a boy scout badge named after jimmy: the james m. stewart good citizenship award
2. jimmy was a fighter pilot in wwii and bombed the shit out of nazis
3. president harry truman once said that if he had a son he’d like him to grow up to be like jimmy
4. unlike all these movie stars getting married willy nilly, jimmy was married for 45 years until his wife’s death. he never remarried because he’s not a fucking mook
5. jimmy stole part of a yeti’s corpse and smuggled it into america
6. jimmy’s #1 hobby was building model airplanes
7. as if being the best actor ever and destroying nazis wasn’t enough, jimmy has a degree in architecture
8. jimmy’s summer job during university: magician’s assistant
9. jimmy rah rah rahed himself on. not only was he a football and track star, but he was head male cheerleader at princeton
10. jimmy once punched henry fonda in the face for being a democrat