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Margaret Howard, Countess of Nottingham

Margaret Stuart (or Stewart) (c. 1591 – 4 August 1639) was the daughter of James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, and Elizabeth Stuart, 2nd Countess of Moray.


305th Air Mobility Wing

During this period, the 305th also figured prominently in the filming of the 1955 James Stewart and June Allyson film, Strategic Air Command, a portion of which was filmed in and around both the 305th Bombardment Wing and 306th Bombardment Wing areas and their B-47 aircraft at MacDill AFB.

Abe Lastfogel

During World War II, Lastfogel mounted USO-Camp Shows with more than 7000 performers, including Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore and James Stewart, to two hundred million soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines around the world.

Amerika Haus Berlin

Many prominent guests to the city made stops to this exhibition, including actor James Stewart (July 2, 1962), author John Steinbeck (December 13, 1963), and politicians Robert Kennedy (Spring 1962), Heinrich Lübke (February 3, 1963), and Richard Nixon (July 23, 1963).

Andrew Honeyman

Answering Naphtali, a Covenanter pamphlet of 1667, Honeyman became involved in a polemic exchange with James Stewart, one of the presumed authors.

Barrie Chase

She played Farida in the 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix (starring James Stewart and Richard Attenborough), in a dream sequence.

Central Airlines

Worth oilman F. Kirk Johnson, former City Councilman R.E. Harding, Jr., Don Earhart and actor James Stewart; Stewart remained on the board for many years.

Coffman engine starter

The starter became famous as a plot device in the 1965 movie The Flight of the Phoenix, in which pilot Frank Towns (James Stewart) has a limited number of cartridges with which to start the makeshift aircraft's engine.

Davis Grubb

His 1969 novel Fools' Parade would also be made into a motion picture starring James Stewart.

Earl Castle Stewart

To raise money, in 1615 he resigned the feudal barony of Ochiltree and the peerage to his first cousin, Sir James Stuart, the son of James Stewart, Earl of Arran, younger son of the second Lord Ochiltree.

Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton

Moreover, Arran's influence over the king was still supreme, and Arran was strenuously supported by the French party.

Family Theater

In its ten-year run, well-known actors and actresses, including James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Irene Dunne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Shirley Temple, Barbara Whiting Smith, Raymond Burr, Jane Wyatt, Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Gene Kelly, Kate Smith, William Shatner and Chuck Connors, appeared as announcers, narrators or stars.

Felix Jackson

Jackson moved to Hollywood in the late 1930s, writing the screenplay for Destry Rides Again (1939) a western starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich.

Gilmore Field

It was featured in a 1949 movie called The Stratton Story, starring James Stewart and June Allyson, the true story of a promising pitcher (Monty Stratton) whose career was curtailed due to a hunting accident that left him with an artificial leg.

I Love You Truly

The song was also sung by Bert (Ward Bond) and Ernie (Frank Faylen) as they serenaded George (James Stewart) and Mary Bailey (Donna Reed) on their wedding night in the leaky "old Granville place" (house) in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life.

James Stewart House

James Stewart, Jr., House, Christina, Delaware, listed on the NRHP in New Castle County, Delaware

James Stewart-Mackenzie

James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie (1784–1843), Scottish politician and colonial administrator

James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond

before=The Earl of Suffolk

James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray

On 31 August 1536 he had a charter of the lands of Tantallon and others.

Notable media depictions of Moray include Patrick McGoohan's portrayal of James Stewart (pre-Regency) in the 1971 film Mary, Queen of Scots.

Along the way Moray captured houses belonging to supporters of Queen Mary, including Lord Fleming's Boghall, Skirling, Crawford, Sanquhar, Kenmuir, and Hoddom where the cannon were deployed, and Annan where he rendezvoused with Lord Scrope the Captain of Carlisle Castle to discuss border matters.

James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray

To prevent Bothwell from obtaining shelter with the Earl of Moray, a distant cousin and ally, Moray was induced by Lord Ochiltree, who was specially deputed by the King, to come south on the condition of receiving a pardon.

Jeanne Stuart

She then had a three-year relationship with American actor James Stewart.

John Belton

The thriller stars James Stewart as an action-seeking photographer who is chair-ridden due to his fast-paced career and Grace Kelly, playing Lisa Carol Fremont, as Jeffries' ritzy, high-fashion love interest.

Lauri Peters

Her film roles found her romantically involved with teen idol singers Fabian and Cliff Richard, and acting alongside James Stewart and Sidney Poitier.

Luminalia

The production was unusual in that the comic and grotesque figures in the anti-masques were played by "gentlemen of quality," including the Duke of Lennox and the Earl of Devonshire.

Majczek and Marcinkiewicz

The details of the case were used as the basis of the 1948 movie Call Northside 777 starring James Stewart and Lee J. Cobb.

Mapback

One of the most significant is #262, Rope as by Alfred Hitchcock -- actually written by Don Ward -- with a cover featuring James Stewart.

Marilyn Horowitz

But it was Jimmy Stewart’s Mr. Smith Goes To Washington that would pique Horowitz’s interest in understanding how to develop good characters and make a difference through storytelling.

Monty Stratton

His comeback attempt was the subject of the 1949 film The Stratton Story which starred Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson, with big-leaguers Gene Bearden, Bill Dickey and Jimmy Dykes in cameo appearances.

Ormond Pursuivant

The office was probably instituted around the same time as the creation of James Stewart, second son of James III of Scotland, as Marquess of Ormonde in 1476.

Peter Costa

Outside the poker world, Costa's favourite movie is Groundhog Day, and he is a big fan of James Stewart.

Samson Raphaelson

All directed by Lubitsch, the three were Trouble in Paradise, Heaven Can Wait, and Raphaelson’s favorite, The Shop Around the Corner, which had starred James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan and which Kael wrote was “as close to perfection as a movie made by mortals is ever likely to be; it couldn’t be the airy wonder it was without the structure Raphaelson built into it.” (The story was remade in 1998 as You've Got Mail, with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.)

Shaver Transportation Company

Henderson also was used in the film Bend in the River in 1952, which was filmed in Oregon and on the Columbia River, and starred James Stewart.

The Gate of the Year

The poem was included in the closing moments of the 1940 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Frank Borzage film The Mortal Storm, starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Robert Young.

The Golden Globe

As the novel progresses, both in the present and in flashback, the character is more fully identified as Elwood P. Dowd and said to look very much like actor James Stewart, who played a character of the same name in Harvey.

The Lavender Hill Mob

The scene where Holland and Pendlebury run down the Eiffel Tower steps and become increasingly dizzy and erratic, as does the camera work, presages James Stewart's condition in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, made seven years later.

The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Frank Morgan.

The Stratton Story

This is the first of three movies that paired stars Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson, the others being The Glenn Miller Story and Strategic Air Command.

The Toy Wife

There was a schedule conflict during the production, which forced director Richard Thorpe to withdraw from the direction of The Shopworn Angel (1938), a drama film starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart.

Todd Karns

Todd Karns (January 14, 1921 – February 5, 2000) was an American actor perhaps best remembered for playing Harry Bailey, the younger brother of George Bailey (James Stewart) in the Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life.

Tom Slick

Tom Slick was a friend of many celebrities, including Hughes and fellow flier Jimmy Stewart.

United Airlines Flight 629

The bombing of United Flight 629 is depicted in the opening segment of the 1959 movie The FBI Story, starring James Stewart and Vera Miles.

Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland

He was the son of James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland and Cecilia of Dunbar daughter of Earl Patrick of Dunbar.

Yellow Jack

James Stewart had his first dramatic role in the 1934 Broadway play.

Zu Zu Ginger Snaps

George Bailey (played by James Stewart), her father, refers to her as "my little gingersnap."


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