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From Combat Pilot to Hollywood Icon, the Untold Story of Jimmy Stewart
Aaron Burns, director of the upcoming film Jimmy, had always loved Jimmy Stewart the way most people do — through the movies. It was a Guideposts article, written by Stewart himself, that stopped him cold. The man who played George Bailey had flown 20 combat missions against the Nazis, left Hollywood behind for three years to serve his country, and carried a flight log in his own handwriting marking the planes of his fallen comrades. The prayer in Martini's Bar in It's a Wonderful Life, it turns out, was not just a scene. It was the beginning of something real.
Timeless storytelling…
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