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JIMMY, the untold true story of America’s most-beloved actor and the iconic role that saved him, focuses on the most transformative season in Jimmy Stewart’s life—from winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in The Philadelphia Story to enlisting and becoming a combat pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps at the beginning of World War II. He flew twenty missions over Europe, rising to the rank of colonel by the end of the war, only to return home broken and disheartened. Then George Bailey and It’s a Wonderful Life came calling…
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00:00Dear father and dad, I'm not a great man. I'm at the end of my role, but I...
00:11Show me the way.
00:15You are a star. And America needs stars right now.
00:21How does it feel to be a legend, James?
00:23It's the best feeling in the world.
00:24Black skies are coming, Jim.
00:26Mark my words, we'll be at war before Christmas.
00:29Don't I have the right to serve my country just like anyone else does?
00:33America can't afford to lose Jimmy Stewart.
00:35War, you're just not cut out for it.
00:38And make peace with the fact that you are what you are.
00:42Just an actor.
00:43I've done this scene in so many movies.
00:46But this isn't a movie. This is my life.
00:49What the audience needs is the truth.
00:53The question is, are you brave enough to give it to them?
00:59Some day I'd like to be able to look at myself in the mirror and see a good man looking back at me.
01:05They're looking back at me.
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