Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1956)

got the kids in his corner? Drawling Jim Stewart! \( lo lover boy. But who’s i I as, for example, little in common with 111 i’ony Curtis, Bob Wagner or Tab |j [unter. Jl , Characteristically, Jim received the jj ews that he was box-office king at , , ome one evening, while mulling over jj problem. The problem was: What 5, rice extravagance? Jim was sitting in le den of the Stewart home in Bev|i rly Hills, deep in thought. He kept unning his hands through his hair — i„ iffiich has turned quite white but at |,( |be moment was a shade of orange, I ' aving been dyed for his role as Charles I Lindbergh in “The Spirit of St. Louis.” Quite understandably, this particular shade revolted Jim, and it temporarily dissuaded him from appearing in public any more than necessary. The den is the Stewarts’ favorite gathering place, and Jim was at perfect ease as he considered the inanity of spending money hand over fist. On the subject Jim’s (not Jimmy, please) reasoning runs like this: You can drive only one car at a time. Moreover, taken one at a time, cars can have no more than four wheels and one engine. One car is apt to be as good as another. Therefore, with all due respect to the Mercedes-Benz, why a Mercedes-Benz? The Stewarts have a car apiece — an Oldsmobile and a Ford station wagon — which they have long deemed sufficient. Similarly, Jim feels a man would look silly wearing one suit over another, purely to demonstrate that his wardrobe is expensive and over-stocked. Jim doesn’t have many suits. He has many dollars — a subject he prefers not to dwell on — but not many suits. How Continued 57 I