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Photo by Dino Palomares

When James Stewart ’32 auditioned for the 1929-30 Triangle show The Golden Dog, his line delivery was too quiet, so his role was limited to an accordion specialty act.  But he landed the lead in the next year’s show, The Tiger Smiles, written by his friend and future Broadway director Joshua Logan ’31.  Upon graduation, and knowing that his architecture major would be unlikely to produce income in the midst of Great Depression, Jimmy Stewart began a stage and film career that spanned 60 years and 80 films, including It’s A Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Rear Window, and The Philadelphia Story, for which he won the 1940 Academy Award for Best Actor.  Stewart also served admirably in World War II and remained in the Air Force Reserve for over twenty years.   When the University awarded Stewart the Woodrow Wilson Award in 1990,  he had to deliver his acceptance speech twice in order to accommodate the 2,300 alumni who came to hear him.

• To learn more about Jimmy Stewart, see icon #4, and Café Vivian picture #88.
  
  
• To learn more about Princetonians in the arts, see quotation #24, 29, and 36, and Café Vivian picture #55, 67, 88, and 94.
  
  
• To learn more about Woodrow Wilson Award winners, see quotation #8, 16, 17, 19, 21, and 33, and Café Vivian picture #17, and 122.
  
  
• To learn more about the Triangle Club, see icon #4 and 10, quotation #1, 22, and 36, and Café Vivian picture #5, 13, 42, 82, 103, 115, and 130.
  
  
• To learn more about Princeton during World War II, see quotation #7, and Café Vivian picture #65, 82, 88, 113, and 120.
  
  
• To learn more about notable Princeton undergraduate alumni, see icon #4, 5, and 10, quotation #3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 33, 36, and 41, and Café Vivian picture #1, 5, 7, 15, 17, 39, 41, 55, 57, 59, 74, 76, 84, 88, 99, 101, 102, 107, 110, and 123.

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