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...actors, was the attainable best of us. So his death last week, of a blood clot in the lung, provoked a surprisingly profound melancholy in his fans and friends. "I know he was elderly, and we had to expect it," says Doris Day, his co-star in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much, "but I still can't believe it. And I can't stand it." Now only Katharine Hepburn, Stewart's blithe siren in The Philadelphia Story, is left to exemplify the glamour and idealism of Hollywood in its golden...
...from Laramie--in which Stewart often played a bitter Moses leading settlers to the far country he could never call home? Or the slick rural attorney in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, a little too comfortable with the trial's lurid voyeurism? Or the hero of Hitchcock's Vertigo, a broken gent for whom an obsession with a corpse is the most fulfilling romantic release? Or the frontier lawyer in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, uneasy with the heroic legends printed about...
...sanctified edginess in Stewart's movie parts took on the tinge of bitterness, despair. His typical character--the complicated man with a questionable past--was pretty much in a bad mood for the whole '50s. The Capra hero played by Stewart had been a figure of wild gestures; the Hitchcock hero was a man in moral traction, drawn to look at evil and wonder at its awful seductions. This was daring stuff. It took a bold man to twist and extend his star quality from sunny Jim into the darker shades of his mature roles. It took an extraordinary actor...
Hollywood rules. Moviegoers in almost every foreign country prefer American films to their own. They love our action pictures, with their size and tempo and assurance, and all those pretty people realizing outrageous dreams. Our directors know how to fulfill Alfred Hitchcock's aim: to make the Japanese audience scream at the same time as the American audience. Perhaps they know it too well. A manic roteness now envelops action films; the need to thrill has become a drab addiction. Isn't there more to moviemaking than having your finger on the pulse of the world public...
...Vertigo." Re-released on video, a reincarnated Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart really rocked the house--and the belltower -- in Hitchcock's celluloid delight...