(TYPICAL AGE WEAR WITH ONE MINOR EDGE TEAR. INK IS LIGHTISH)
HUMORESQUE, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE,
GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT & BODY & SOUL
ARE JUST A FEW OF JOHN GARFIELD'S CLASSIC FILMS...
Comforted Sidney Poitier on his first plane ride by telling him to
put a handkerchief over his face and think about nothing.
Won a state-wide debating contest sponsored by the New York Times as a boy.
Was producer Irene Mayer Selznick's first choice to play Stanley Kowalski in the Broadway premiere of "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Wife Roberta Seidman was his childhood sweetheart.
His 6-year old daughter Katharine died of an allergic reaction in 1945. Garfield never got over the loss.
When his Warner Bros. contract expired in 1946, he did not re-sign with the studio, opting to start his own independent production company instead. He was one of the first Hollywood actors to do so.
Blacklisted in the early 1950s for his left-wing sympathies, he refused to name names in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in April 1951. He was found dead of a heart attack in the apartment of a former showgirl on May 21, 1952, the day after Clifford Odets, testifying before HUAC, reaffirmed that Garfield had never been a member of the Communist Party. His funeral in New York was mobbed by 10,000 fans.
Buried at Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
Tom Destry Jr.: Well, you will fool 'em, Wash. We'll fool 'em together.
Washington Dimsdale: The only way to do that is fill 'em full of lead.
Tom Destry Jr.: No, no, no, what for? You shoot it out with 'em and for some reason or other, I don't know why, they get to look like heroes. But you put 'em behind bars and they look little and cheap, the way they oughta look.
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Tom Destry Jr.: Oh, I think I'll stick around. Y'know, I had a friend once. Used to collect postage stamps. He always said the one good thing about a postage stamp: it always sticks to one thing 'til it gets there, y'know? I'm sorta like that too.
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Tom Destry Jr.: He reminds me of a little kid I used to know. He done in both his pa and ma with a crowbar. The judge said to him, he said, "Do you got anything to say for yourself?" and the kid said, "Well I just hope your honor has some regard for the feelings of a poor orphan."
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10x8 B/W PORTRAIT
SIGNED BY JAMES STEWART US$55
20 May 1908
Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
2 July 1997
Los Angeles, California, USA
He was the first movie star to enter the service for World War II, joining a year before Pearl Harbor was bombed. He was initially refused entry into the Air Force because he weighed 5 pounds less than the required 148 pounds, but he talked the recruitment officer into ignoring the test. He eventually became a Colonel, and earned the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Croix de Guerre and 7 battle stars. In 1959, he served in the Air Force Reserve, before retiring as a brigadier general.
The James Stewart Museum was dedicated in Indiana, Pennsylvania on 20 May 1995
Recipient of an American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. [1980]
Attended Princeton University. Graduated in 1932 with a degree in architecture.
When Stewart won the Best Actor Oscar in 1940, he sent it to his father in Indiana, Pennsylvania, who set it in his hardware shop. The trophy remained there for 25 years.
The word "Philadelphia" on the Oscar that Jimmy received in 1941 for The Philadelphia Story (1940) is misspelled. Ironically, the Oscar was kept in the window of Jimmy's father's hardware store located on Philadelphia Street in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
James was named Best Classic Actor of the 20th Century in an Entertainment Weekly on-line poll. [September 1999]
He held the highest active military rank of any actor in history. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps and rose to the rank of colonel; after the War, he continued in the US Air Force Reserve becoming a brigadier general (1- star). Two former actors outranked him: John Ford was an actor before becoming a director and a rear admiral (2-star) in the US Naval Reserve; President Ronald Reagan was Commander-in-Chief, but he made his last theatrical TV appearance in 1965.
Never took an acting lesson, and felt that people could learn more when actually working rather than studying the craft.
Came from an acting family. Her father, John Defferin Rutherford, was a Metropolitan Opera singer and her mother, Lucille Mansfield, was a cousin of actor Richard Mansfield and herself a former silent screen actress.
On stage from age 4 in a local production of "Mrs. Wiggs Of the Cabbage Patch."
Stepmother of Debbie Dozier.
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Personal quotes
"It's titillating to do an occasional film, but really, I don't need it. Oh, I suppose, if you were a Helen Hayes, it might mean something if you left the business. You'd be depriving the show world of something. I'm depriving that world of nothing".
(October 2004) Guest of Honor at the Margaret Mitchell Birthday Celebration in Jonesboro, Georgia in celebration of "Gone With the Wind" (1939) where she signed autographs and shared memories for hundreds of fans at the event.
Had an illegitimate daughter by Clark Gable. For years this was covered up in Hollywood, and was presented as an adoption. The daughter's resemblance to both parents is uncanny. The daughter Judy Lewis later dabbled in acting before becoming a psychologist. Judy Lewis wrote a book "Uncommon Knowledge" with the truth of her parentage.
Interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in same crypt with father, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
His death was reported on the front page of the Times in London and Buckingham Palace expressed its condolences on his demise
Created an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1949
Cousin of Lucile Fairbanks.
Nephew of Robert Fairbanks.
Cousin-in-law of Owen Crump.
He had a lifelong, cultivated interest in international affairs. In 1941, FDR appointed him a special envoy to South America.
He held the Silver Star and the Legion of Merit with V for valor in combat device from the U.S. government for his combat service in PT boats and gunboats.
Host/narrator of the syndicated radio show "The Silent Man" (1951-1952).
His father was his best man at his marriage to Mary.
Daughters, Daphne, Victoria, and Melissa.
Was awarded the British Distinguished Service Cross, the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre with Palm for his services during World War II.
Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 196-197. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Brother-in-law of Hal Le Sueur.
Host of an entertaining introductory film shown to visitors of the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum in Washington D.C.
Quotes
"The trouble with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. is that he likes everything he sees - and he sees everything." - Clemence Dane
I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping...
"I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy."
[speaking in 1990] "I suppose many people don't even know if I'm still alive - well, perhaps I'm not."
Her breasts are the namesakes for 'The Jane Russell Peaks' in Alaska.
Bob Hope once introduced her as "the two and only Jane Russell".
Measurements: 38D-25-36 (definitive for majority of her career), 36D-26-36 (during The Outlaw (1943)), 38D-25-39 (on set of The Paleface (1948) in 1948), 38 1/2D-25 1/2-38 1/2 (for "Photoplay" pin-up in 1953), 39D-26 1/2-37 1/2 (at her bustiest in mid-1950s), 37-27-37 (self-described in 1990), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
Howard Hughes is reported to have said of her stardom, "There are two good reasons why men go to see her. Those are enough." (Source: quoted in the book "The Humour of Sex" by Robert Hale.)
Her three adopted children are Tracy, Thomas and Buck.
Leonardo DiCaprio visited Jane while filming The Aviator (2004) in order to find up close and personal what Howard Hughes was really like.
In 2006 (at age 84), Jane put together a musical show entitled "The Swinging Forties" that plays twice a month at the Radisson Hotel. The show features herself and about a dozen local Santa Maria residents, including a choir director, lay preacher and retired police officer. She formed the show out of boredom and because there was nothing much going on in town for the older folks to do.
