A federal judge in Alaska has thrown out the Trump administration’s lawsuit seeking to block certification of the state’s Senate election results in this week’s midterm elections if the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason wrote in a 20-page order Sunday that the Justice Department did not have proper…
It’s trite but true; Jimmy Stewart played the Everyman better than everyone. He had the gawky innocence to be an idealistic senator, in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”; an eccentric with a six-foot-tall rabbit pal in “Harvey”; and a depth, in “Rear Window” and “Vertigo,” that even Alfred Hitchcock found mysterious. But it was director…
In this web exclusive, Hollywood historian Sam Wasson, author of the biography “Frank Capra: A Life,” talks with Lee Cowan about Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed’s emotional performance in Capra’s 1946 film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” and how the director created a timeless classic – even if it wasn’t the box office giant he’d hoped…
Harper We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Returning to movie screens after his service in World War II, actor Jimmy Stewart was nervous about appearing in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” – a film now acknowledged as one of his very best. In his biography of the…
