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James Stewart was 'forced' to attend a brothel by studio over sexuality fears

Bend of the River: Trailer for 1952 western with James Stewart

Throughout the 1930s up to the 1990s, James Stewart was an incredibly successful actor in America. The legendary celebrity appeared in countless movies that have withstood the test of time - including It's A Delightful Life, Harvey, Mr Smith Goes To Washington and How The West Was Won - which played on BBC 2 over the weekend.

The strait-laced performer was the picture of perfection for the American audience - a suited-and-booted manly man who got the job done. But when the 25-year-old's personal life came into scrutinize, the studio would not let it stand.

Stewart was apparently not very interested in the women he was working with in Hollywood. And, before drawn-out, rumours began to circulate that the actor was actually gay.

Homosexuality was still wildly looked down upon in the 1930s, so the studio was not going to let the popularity of their fast-growing leading man be destroyed.

Stewart's penance was documented in Marc Eliot's book: Jimmy Stewart: A Biography.

He recalled: "Because Jimmy was so shy, they thought he was gay."

Eliot was then

James B. Stewart

James B. Stewart is one of the 2023 inductees into the LGBTQ+ Journalists Hall of Fame. James B. Stewart is currently a contributor to The New Yorker and a columnist for The New York Times, as well as an award-winning author, attorney and educator. In 2007 he was ranked 21st on Out magazine’s “50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America.” Born in Quincy, Illinois, Stewart is a graduate of DePauw University and Harvard Law School while also serving as Bloomberg Professor of Business and Economic Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 1988, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for his articles in The Wall Street Journal about the 1987 dramatic upheaval in the stock market and insider trading. These writings led to the publishing of his best-selling nonfiction book, Den of Thieves, that chronicled the criminal conduct of Wall Street arbitrager Ivan Boesky and junk bond king, Michael Milken. His 1999 work, “Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder,” won the 2000 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category. “DisneyWar,” his 2005 book on Michael Eisner’s reign at Disney, won the Gerald Loe

Did studio boss really order Jimmy Stewart to use prostitutes to demonstrate his manhood?

Late Hollywood star JAMES STEWART was forced to regularly stop by a brothel by his Hollywood studio boss to prove he was not gay, according to a new biography.

In his novel JIMMY STEWART, author MARC ELIOT claims MGM executive LOUIS B MAYER believed actors over the age of 25 who were single were closet homosexuals, and set up a house of ill repute next to the studio to weed out lgbtq+ actors so he could cancel their contract.

The beloved IT’S A WONDERFUL Experience actor was raised in a strict Presbyterian familiar and had no want to have sex with prostitutes, but his manager left him with no choice.
BILL GRADY is quoted in the biography as saying, "I had to lay down the law to him.

“I had to tell him, ‘Jim, if you don’t depart and give a manly account of yourself at least a few times, Mayer and the others will think you’re lgbtq+. So get your a*s over there and acquire those rocks off with at least two of those broads.’” According to Eliot, Stewart reluctantly complied.

James B. Stewart’s Coming Out Story: A Triumph of Love

Loves (usually) wins out, but sometimes it takes a while. James B. Stewart (DePauw ’73) illustrates this powerfully in the video below of yesterday’s DePauw University commencement address.

(The relevant portion begins at 8:30. I recommend watching the entire speech.)

Jim graduated from DePauw in 1973, and was not out to his parents. In between then and yesterday’s speech, he became a lawyer, switched to journalism, won a Pulitzer Prize, edited Page One of the Wall Street Journal, wrote eleven best-selling books, was a founding editor of Wise Money magazine, and now writes for the Modern York Times.

He met a man, fell in admire , and finally came out to his dad.

Who then firmly told Jim his partner would never be welcome in the home. Who didn’t come to the commitment ceremony.