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Happy heavenly birthday to Jimmy Stewart, who was born today in 1908, 118 years ago, in Indiana, PA. He appeared in more than 80 films over his five-decade career, most famously It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), No Time For Comedy (1940), You Can't Take it With You (1938), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and The Philadelphia Story (1940), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Macaulay "Mike" Connor. Jimmy served in WWII as a pilot, and was promoted to second lieutenant in 1942. He flew in 20 combat missions and won two Distinguished Flying Crosses and four Air Medals. Jimmy, who'd been a "confirmed bachelor" for years, married Gloria Hatrick McLean in 1949, and they remained married for 45 years until her death. Jimmy adopted Gloria's two sons, Ronald and Michael, and together they had twin daughters, Judy and Kelly, in 1951. Jimmy died in 1997 at age 89 of a heart attack. His last words were "I'm going to see Gloria now.

Liverpool, 1963

Hollywood power couple Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg photographed by Edward Steichen for Vanity Fair in 1932.

GREGORY PECK as JOHN BALLANTYNE Spellbound — 1945, dir. Alfred Hitchcock