Jimmy Fucking Stewart

happy 100th...

jesus ally was pushing like 45 different memes in this thread alone

i have never been a fan of this dude tho no matter how much i like vertigo

Those Anthony Mann westerns are really good.

how's that possible, max?

i have never been a fan of this dude tho no matter how much i like rear window

8 votes for Harvey and only 3 for The Shop Around the Corner?

Bad show, ILX.

still haven't seen The Mortal Storm, and Harvey getting more votes than Anatomy of a Murder = disgraceful.

But... but... Harvey is brilliant. And Stewart in it is wonderful!

i can't even think of a better actor than stewart, much less one who appeared in so many astonishing movies.

love this dude so much.

Rear Window: Great Hitchcock or Greatest Hitchcock?

I've never gotten through Harvey, so I am slackjawed about this:

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Steven Spielberg will soon be seeing imaginary rabbits.

The filmmaker will direct as his next film a contemporary adaptation of Mary Chase's play "Harvey," about a (DRUNK) man and his friendship with an invisible, six-foot tall rabbit.

20th Century Fox and DreamWorks will co produce the project. Novelist Jonathan Tropper ("The Book of Joe") has written the adaptation for the new version.

"Harvey" was first adapted for the screen in 1950 with James Stewart in the starring role as Elwood P. Dowd. He received an Oscar nomination, while Josephine Hull took the prize for her supporting role.

No casting for the remake is in place yet; filming is set to begin early next year. Spielberg was last in theaters with 2008's "Indiana Jones" sequel.

I bought a pristine copy of Anatomy of a Murder last week -- still underrated as an "exploration" of how Stewart manipulated his aw-shucks persona for selfish ends (i.e. overturning a murder conviction on specious grounds).

No casting for the remake is in place yet

Please got don't let it be Mike Myers or Jim Carrey (or even worse, Mike Myers WITH Jim Carrey as Harvey, made visible to the audience for added gurning hilarity!)

'the mortal storm' isn't that great except for margaret sullavan's death scene which is of course classic. he was always great with margaret sullavan.

'the mortal storm' isn't that great

As Trinere once sang, wrong!

yeah, mortal storm is pretty good iirc

is it really possible that Spielberg would have any Elwood P Dowd but Tom Hanks?

Yeah, when I read that it seemed pretty obvious to me the role is for Tom Hanks.

i dunno 'the mortal storm' ranks with anti-fascist things like '3 comrades' and is to be more applauded for its message than the finished product. but they both have margaret sullavan and i love margaret sullavan so they are both pretty good. i wonder what the rules were on the accents in these movies, some people have them, some don't, was it a case that if you couldn't quite fake it they just told you to skip it? frank morgan as doddering old "jewish" college professor is great.

Tom Hanks would be a fine choice, assuming the movie needs to be remade at all, which it does not.

Oh Jesus... a visible Harvey would be one of the worst butcherings of a movie I've even heard of.

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I'm pretty sure Harvey didn't need to be made the first time. If you want funny drunks, WC Fields is the man, no rabbit crap.

You don't understand. Harvey has Jimmy Stewart.

we need a Margaret Sullavan poll!

xp And he's not funny in the same way at all. He's a little bit obviously insane. WC Fields is more like, you want to buy him another drink, instead of back slowly away.

Come to think of it, the real danger of a Harvey remake, even with Tom Hanks, and even with the very best intentions, is that it would make it all too sad.

Harvey pretty much IS a proto-Hanks movie, all "high concept," etc.

I don't know how high concept it is. He's a complete souse who has gone totally mad. Bu he does charm. Oh yes he does.

Oh. I see what you mean.

Worse thing about the remake will be the CGI rabbit.

NO NO NO if there's a rabbit it falls apart!

Jeff Wells' blog says Hanks rejected it; Will Smith next?

Re Anatomy: his trademark marblemouth pronunciation is used to maximum effect when he keeps on emphasizing a certain word not heard in movies up until then, the aural equivalent of holding up a piece of evidence with tweezers.

His reactions in The Shop Around the Corner as he watches Margaret Sullavan read his letter = classic.

You know, it's about time somebody started a Fuck You, Jimmy Stewart thread. That guy was just pure evil.

It's time I started a Suggest Ban Clemenza thread.

I'm kidding; hope you are too.

i'm pretty sure i have stated this elsewhere but love love love the man in philadelphia story and cannot stand him in anything else

If you've seen Harvey and still feel that way, my gob is smacked

did nobody mention that the guy was a friggin Brigadier General and kickass pilot who flew dozens of missions in WW2

I've always thought it's kinda interesting that Cary Grant, Stewart's co-star in Philadelphia Story, often played very sophisticated characters and Stewart often got the folksy roles, but in real life Stewart graduated from Princeton with an architecture degree, whereas Grant came from a working-class background.

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Yeah, I know, but I just thought it was an interesting bit of persona/person discord, especially considering that Stewart the person was often conflated with his roles, like when Harry S. Truman said he would've wanted a son "just like Jimmy Stewart" after seeing It's a Wonderful Life.