Jimmy Stewart did not even have a place to stay when he got back to Hollywood and had to live with Henry Fonda who offered him a room. Fonda had just come back from service in the Pacific and they both just sort of unwound and neither got any job offers.
Finally, Stewart's former boss at MGM, Louis B. Mayer, approached him with the idea of the movie "The Jimmy Stewart Story." Stewart said no and wouldn't even talk about it.
The only kind of movie he wanted to do was a comedy, saying, "A comedy, I have to make a comedy. The world has seen too much trauma and horror and suffering."
Frank Capra then approached Stewart about "It's a Wonderful Life" about a man about to commit suicide. The meeting went so bad that Stewart got up and walked out. Stewart's agent, Lew Wasserman, then said to his client, "You've got no other offers."
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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