James Stewart
Birthday: 1908-05-20
Place of Birth: Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart was an American film and stage actor, known for his distinctive voice and his everyman persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime Achievement award. He was a major MGM contract star. He also had a noted military career and was a World War II and Vietnam War veteran, who rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force Reserve. Throughout his seven decades in Hollywood, Stewart cultivated a versatile career and recognized screen image in such classics as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story, Harvey, It's a Wonderful Life, Shenandoah, Rear Window, Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He is the most represented leading actor on the AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) and AFI's 10 Top 10 lists. He is also the most represented leading actor on the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time list presented by Entertainment Weekly. As of 2007, ten of his films have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry. Stewart left his mark on a wide range of film genres, including westerns, suspense thrillers, family films, biographies and screwball comedies. He worked for a number of renowned directors later in his career, most notably Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, George Cukor, and Anthony Mann. He won many of the industry's highest honors and earned Lifetime Achievement awards from every major film organization. He died at age 89, leaving behind a legacy of classic performances, and is considered one of the finest actors of the "Golden Age of Hollywood". He was named the third Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
Movies
Anatomy of a Murder
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in...
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Vertigo
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of a...
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The Philadelphia Story
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriag...
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The Mortal Storm
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. Aft...
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Rear Window
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinc...
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocc...
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Rope
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the f...
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It's a Wonderful Life
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...
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The Flight of the Phoenix
A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of th...
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The Big Sleep
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a ri...
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Bell, Book and Candle
A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her inst...
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An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Some time after the Mousekewitz's have settled in America, they find that they are still having prob...
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The Shop Around the Corner
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling i...
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Firecreek
A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vi...
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The Naked Spur
A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-...
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Shenandoah
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of th...
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a sma...
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Harvey
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit ...
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Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It With You
The director's son gives interesting anecdotes about Frank Capra's making of the 1938 hit comedy, "Y...
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Airport '77
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passen...
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How the West Was Won
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the en...
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Night Passage
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw, the Utica K...
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Come Live with Me
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writ...
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You Gotta Stay Happy
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face th...
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The Shootist
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly...
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Ziegfeld Girl
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautif...
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Two Rode Together
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages....
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Vivacious Lady
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzl...
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Call Northside 777
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by F...
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You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K...
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The Greatest Show on Earth
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though t...
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Cheyenne Autumn Trail
Structured as a complementary social and historical companion piece to John Ford's final western Che...
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The Murder Man
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When ...
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The Cheyenne Social Club
Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men....
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The Last Gangster
A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has ...
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Cheyenne Autumn
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne....
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a fami...
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Bandolero!
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, in...
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Winchester '73
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting com...
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After the Thin Man
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, an...
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Dear Brigitte
Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the f...
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Broken Arrow
Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the American settlers and Apaches in t...
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Thunder Bay
Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig....
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The Stratton Story
Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined t...
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Destry Rides Again
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the...
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Born to Dance
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their r...
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Strategic Air Command
Air Force reservist Lt. Col. Robert "Dutch" Holland is recalled into active duty at the peak of his ...
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Rose Marie
An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive bro...
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No Highway in the Sky
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor...
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Carbine Williams
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually deve...
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Malaya
After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after...
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La Classe américaine
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an ...
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Take Her, She's Mine
After reluctantly packing up his daughter, Mollie, and sending her away to study art at a Paris coll...
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Wife vs. Secretary
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his att...
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Bend of the River
Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of home...
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The Rare Breed
When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry ou...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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Hollywood Hobbies
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood star...
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It's a Wonderful World
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can ...
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Fools' Parade
When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a gene...
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The Glenn Miller Story
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscu...
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Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas
Christmas abounds with traditions, from neighborhood carolers to lovingly decorated trees, but from ...
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Pot o' Gold
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. B...
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The Far Country
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run af...
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The Man from Laramie
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells ri...
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The Spirit of St. Louis
Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Pa...
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Mr. Krueger's Christmas
Willy Krueger, a lonely and aging widower, lives in a basement apartment with only his cat George fo...
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Breakdowns of 1941
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941....
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The FBI Story
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist s...
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Showbiz Goes to War
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War ...
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Magic Town
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview...
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On Our Merry Way
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where h...
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All Star Party for Lucille Ball
A tribute to Lucille ball, with an humanitarian award for her quest to end juvenile diabetes....
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The Magic of Lassie
Lassie is claimed from his family by a "former owner" and then braves a cross country trip to rejoin...
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The Mountain Road
In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engin...
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The Shopworn Angel
During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He me...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...
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Next Time We Love
A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign cor...
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Small Town Girl
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One ...
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Of Human Hearts
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War...
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The Gorgeous Hussy
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know h...
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Winning Your Wings
Winning Your Wings is a 1942 short American World War II recruitment film produced by Warner Bros....
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC....
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The Jackpot
Bill Lawrence wins a bevy of prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them in order t...
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Tomorrow's Drivers
A look at an American town's efforts to help their children become better drivers....
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No Time for Comedy
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success....
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Navy Blue and Gold
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training....
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Frank Capra's American Dream
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard....
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Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
A visit to Buck Jones's new ranch and his horse, Silver, to James Gleason and his dog, to Charles Ru...
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Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions sp...
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Right of Way
Miniature Dwyer is named after her mother, who was making miniature doll houses when Minnie was born...
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Seventh Heaven
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the ...
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Speed
Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to...
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The Ice Follies of 1939
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a...
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is th...
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Rope Unleashed
A short documentary about the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope'. Interviews with screenwriter Art...
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'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
A documentary about Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 film Rear Window....
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Obsessed with Vertigo
A documentary about the making and restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "Vertigo." Narrated...
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Sentimental Journey
After landing his airline flight, a veteran DC-10 captain decides to take a stroll across the airpor...
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A Beverly Hills Christmas
An evening of Christmas music from stars living in Beverly Hills, California....
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Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films
This film covers the early history of post World War II educational films, especially those involvin...
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X-15
X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men w...
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Rat Pack
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Fran...
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Night of 100 Stars III
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy....
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The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth
7-part documentary on John Ford's 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' ] Changing of the Guard The I...
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A Tale of Africa
A pilot crash-lands in the African wilds, and loses his memory. He finds an old man living in the ju...
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CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
CBS honors Lucille Ball with this celebration of her three CBS series: I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show an...
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Harvey
Elwood P. Dowd's constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. To his sister, his ...
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Son of Dinosaurs
The mysterious Dr. Lizardi entrusts Gary and Eric with a dinosaur egg. Now, they must find out ever...
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John Ford & Monument Valley
John Wayne, Henry Fonda and James Stewart discuss working with John Ford...
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That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi...
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All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
A Celebration of the great life of Frank Sinatra with song, dance, and many famous guests....
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Grace Kelly: The American Princess
A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death ...
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The Ultimate Collection starring Johnny Carson - The Best of the 70s and 80s
Classic Carson monologues, visits from Carnac and Art Fern, comedians Eddie Murphy, Garry Shandling,...
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The American West of John Ford
A documentary encapsulating the career and Western films of director 'John Ford' , including clips f...
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The Bloody Hundredth
Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transforma...
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Never-before-heard personal recordings and archival footage tell the story of Louis Armstrong's life...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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Flashing Spikes
An old ballplayer, thrown out of baseball due to a bribery scandal, becomes friends with a young phe...
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist....
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Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
An all-star cast celebrates George Burn's 90th birthday and showcases highlights in Burns' career....
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10,000 Kids and a Cop
A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in L...
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George Burns Celebrates 80 Years in Show Business
An all-star celebrity tribute to celebrate George Burns 80th Anniversary in show business....
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Blow-Ups of 1947
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947....
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Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin
Exploring the life of Grace Kelly, the Hollywood star who became Princess Grace of Monaco. The film ...
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life....
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No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
Biography of Marlene Dietrich using interviews, film clips and rare footage of the actress, includin...
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The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'
The making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'....
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Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Paying homage to two of Hollywood's central icons, the film creates an unparalleled portrait of two ...
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Thunderbolt
Documentary about the U.S. Air Force's P-47 Thunderbolt bomber's role in the Italian Campaign during...
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Important News
In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's fron...
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And Then There Were Four
Driving safety film sponsored as a public service by oil companies. Of five drivers who leave home i...
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Hollywood Goes to Town
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film c...
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirl...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It ...
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Fellow Americans
After Pearl Harbor Lt. James Stewart narrated this film to rouse American support for the war....
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...
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The Romance of Celluloid
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the m...
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind th...
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This Is Bob Hope...
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mas...
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Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
With his naïve air, his rangy and reassuring silhouette, James Stewart symbolizes success, someone w...
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Warner at War
Warner Bros. uses the movies to prepare the US for war and keep up morale on the home front during W...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Fr...
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O...
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...
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Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating...
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All-Star Party for Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds is honored by more than 100 of his fellow celebrities and co-workers....
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The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life'
Tom Bosley hosts a documentary the looks into the story behind how one of cinema's greatest films It...
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James Bond: The First 21 Years
A look back at the first 21 years of Britain's most successful film series....
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I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of t...
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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John Wayne-A Life on Film
Recap of The Duke's career from its beginning in the silent era up to his final film "The Shootist"....
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Mickey's 50
"Mickey's 50" is a 90-minute special that aired on The Wonderful World of Disney on November 19, 197...
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Dark Galaxy
"They are combinations of fragments. There are no stories, it is possible to mount these fragments i...
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All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Frank Sinatra, Goldie Hawn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and many more pay tribute to Ingrid Bergman....
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The All-Star Christmas Show
This 1958 Christmas spectacular was produced by the USO for the entertainment of troops stationed ov...
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The Shirley MacLaine Special: Where Do We Go from Here?
A speculative look forward at the United States' next 200 years....
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Black Baby
A black baby attempts to escape a labyrinth whilst being pursued by a gaggle of giant humanoids...
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That's Dancing!
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie ca...
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