TCM GREATEST CLASSIC FILMS: LEGENDS - JAMES STEWART (4FE)

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• Genre: Action
• Plot: THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940); Bickering gift-shop workers Alfred and Klara each have a romantic, secret pen pal known only as Dear Friend. Neither suspects their secret Dear Friend might be a familiar face. Margaret Sullivan and James Stewart star in this enchanting valentine from director Ernst Lubitsch.; ; THE STRATTON STORY (1949); Stewart portrays Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton, who loses a leg in an accident just as his careeer is on the rise, and whose triumph over despair and disability leads him to pitch again. Winner of the 1949 Oscar for Writing, this is sports biography at its best.; ; THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS (1957); Director Billy Wilder re-creates the struggles and success of Charles A. Lindbergh (Stewart), the pioneering aviation hero. Stewart, himself a pilot, sought the role and was initially turned down, but his persistence paid off, and an epic entertainment was born.; ; THE FBI STORY (1959); In this inside story of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Stewart is Agent Chip Hardesty, who tangles with everything from the Ku Klux Klan to a bomber to Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, Ma Barker and John Dillinger. Vera Miles costars.
• Runtime: 8:05
• Media Format: Movie