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Granger Is Getting There
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everything else as well as the acting. If Huth declares one of his notions impracticable, then Stewart has got to know precisely why. "Must get things clear in my own mind," he remarks as he hustles off to the set.
It's typical of the energy and enthusiasm and almost ruthless determination which Stewart brings to everything he does. From the moment he first reads his script, he lives, eats, breathes and talks nothing else but that film. It's reasonable to suppose he dreams about it too. Without any relaxation, he devotes himself singleheartedly to making it The Perfect Picture, and the work he puts in on the job is nobody's business. It isn't just by lucky chance that he's climbed up to be Britain's Number Two Box Office star among the male sex, very close behind James Mason in the popularity polls.
He says himself he gets this concentrated doggedness from his Scottish ancestors, though he was actually born in London himself on May 6 in 1913, his name being James Stewart. While he was studying at Epsom College he played in open-air Shakespeare and liked it so much he decided to become an actor. Characteristically, he set off to learn just everything about acting by playing in small provincial repertory theaters for three years before he came to town. While he was at Birmingham, he married pretty little yellow-haired Elspeth March, who had just arrived from her dramatic school to gain her first experience on the stage. He was twenty-one and she was eighteen, and their combined salary was so small they lived in a one-room apartment, ate cheap meals out of cans and sat in the park Sunday afternoons reading plays they borrowed from the public library because they couldn't afford regular outings.
Stewart^ admits he hated it, but he never felt it was going to be a permanent state because he's always had supreme confidence in himself and all the time he was working tirelessly and unremittingly towards his goal of fame. In 1937 he brought his wife to London and here they both managed to get some small supporting parts on the West End stage. Flora Robson happened to see him one evening and offered him a leading role as the young lover in her production of "Autumn." When he got an invitation to make a screen test shortly afterwards, it was Flora who advised him to call himself Stewart Granger since the name of James Stewart was' already celebrated in the film world.
The test proved so successful Stewart got a supporting part in "So This Is London," and a new vista opened before him. He quickly realised the potentialities of success on the screen, which had far richer rewards to give than had the stage, so he ended his theater work and signed a film contract instead. He started to act in a picture with Clive Brook and then came September, 1939, and war with Nazi Germany. Immediately Stewart enlisted in the Black Watch.
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