Fonda vs. Stewart

[WI_DEM]

Poll question: Fonda vs. Stewart

They were opposites: Fonda, liberal and much married. Stewart, conservative and married only once. But they were the best of friends who could spend hours silently building model airplanes together. They were also great actors. Among their credits:

Fonda:
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Grapes of Wrath
The Ox-Bow Incident
My Darling Clementine
Fort Apache
Mister Roberts
War and Peace
The Wrong Man
Twelve Angry Men
Fail-Safe
Once Upon a Time in the West
On Golden Pond

Stewart:
You Can't Take it With You
Destry Rides Again
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Philadelphia Story
Harvey
Winchester '73
Rear Window
It's a Wonderful Life
Vertigo
Anatomy of a Murder
The Glenn Miller Story
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

[SCDem]

1. I love Harvey and I love Stewarts voice

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. Jimmy Stewart

politics aside, he was a talented actor.

[FunBobbyMucha]

3. Stewart seems like he woulda been nicer, on screen and off.

Fonda strikes me as a guy who was probably pretty gruff in real life. His own daughter and son call him by his first name, an attribute I always find creepy and telling.

To take nothing away from Hank's Tom Joad, Jimmy was the everyman. It's easier for me to imagine JS playing most of HF's roles than the other way around.

Both men were iconic, though. I treasure the memory of getting to see Grapes on a real theater screen (a 1982 revival), something I can't say, unfortunately, about Jimbo.

[President Jesus]

4. Jimmy Stewart's political contributions 1993-1997

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=BEVERLY+HILLS&st=CA&last=Stewart&first=James

i guess I vote Fonda!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. I always thought he was a Democrat.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

7. Remember reading once...

about Fonda and Stewart actually coming to blows on one occasion. I don't know if the story is true or not -- both seemd to be pretty laid back in their temperament.

[glarius]

6. As actors I think Fonda had more range....Stewart was always Stewart

Fonda showed more variety in his portrayals...IMO...

[WI_DEM]

9. I agree with this

to a point. But in the 50's especially for Hitchcock, Jimmy began moving away from his "aw-shucks" image especially in the films he did for Hitchcock and Anthony Mann.

[shekina]

8. Stewart

Good actor, good American, and all around good guy.