Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood producer's wife, who was not among the top ten the year before. The rest of the latest ten-best-dressed were mostly old familiars who had been on & off various lists for years-e.g., Mrs. Harrison Williams, the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart...
...Wonderful Life. A wonderful, hokum-filled fable in which Producer-Director Frank Capra and Actor James Stewart stage a triumphantly sentimental Hollywood homecoming (TIME...
...Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), ex-Signal Corps colonel who bossed the making of such outstanding wartime documentaries as San Pietro, has lost none of his civilian cunning at whipping up top-drawer entertainment. He is still one of Hollywood's most talented moviemakers. Actor James Stewart, who worked his way up without ballyhoo from buck private to Air Forces colonel (and bomber-wing commander), has also boosted his rank as an actor. Having put aside his aggressively boyish, aw-shucks screen mannerisms, Stewart's first postwar performance is certain to be eyed respectfully by the people...
...Stewart plays a small-town boy who yearns to run away, explore far, exotic places and make his name in the big city. But family and dull duty hold him down to his father's piddling building & loan business. With a sense of deep frustration, he plunges into his small-town rut, half-angrily marries the girl (Donna Reed), battles the villainous local banker (Lionel Barrymore), befriends his fellow men, shoulders the whole town's troubles. When he winds up, despite all his do-gooding, broke and disgraced, he seriously considers throwing his "useless" life into the river...
...unskilled hands, this moral fable might have been dully preachy. Director Capra's inventiveness, humor and affection for human beings keep it glowing with life and excitement. Stewart's warm-hearted playing of what might have been a goody-goody role is a constant delight. And if Director Capra's Christmas-cheer ending is slightly hoked up to make it richer and happier than life, that is the way many a good fable...