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"A feller emerged up if you ask me the other day and said 'I have no idea whether this means anything to you but you've given me and my children a lot of fun over time.' And I thought to him, 'Does indeed it signify anything if you ask me? It means everything if you ask me. That is the ballgame. That's it.' And I think that if I have done that to that man, and maybe one or two more...then I'm pleased with that." - Jimmy Stewart A whole lot of ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most important information, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to rate on the lives of America's most significant women and men in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. When the American Film Institute set up its top 100 celebrities of all time at the close of the 20th hundred years, Jimmy Stewart rated third, behind only Humphrey Bogart and Cary Give. There is a certain inevitability to these three celebrities ranking at the top of the list; in the end, they were the dominant encounters of Hollywood during the height of the era known as traditional Hollywood cinema, a time before the starting point of tv when the movies still enjoyed relatively uncontested supremacy over American entertainment. The acceptance of Stewart, Give, and Bogart also expands well beyond the success of some of their individual videos, reflecting their much broader cultural value as monuments of Hollywood during its Golden Era. In fact, if the list was reconstructed today, it is entirely possible that Stewart would ranking first.
