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Jimmy Stewart's wartime diary opens a Hollywood story on Sunday Morning

Lee Cowan meets KJ Apa, Max Casella and Stewart's daughter for a look at the biographical film Jimmy.

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The story behind Jimmy Stewart’s WWII service

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2:16Stewart insisted on active military service rather than a safe Hollywood promotional assignment.
3:28Jimmy dramatizes Stewart's determination to serve, with KJ Apa as Stewart and Max Casella as Frank Capra.
5:22Kelly Stewart Harcourt says her father never discussed his military service with his children.
5:51Harcourt reads her father's diary entries documenting the loss of aircrews over Germany.
6:34Cowan connects Stewart's wartime experiences with the emotional intensity of his performance in It's a Wonderful Life.

"Dad never talked about his military service to us," Kelly Stewart Harcourt tells Lee Cowan. Her father's diary supplies words he didn't share at home, giving CBS Sunday Morning's most-watched new upload a personal connection between the combat pilot and the familiar screen presence.

"The story behind Jimmy Stewart's WWII service" reached roughly 135,000 views in its opening thirteen hours. Cowan traces Stewart's determination to serve actively rather than accept a safer promotional role, then introduces Jimmy, the film dramatizing that chapter. KJ Apa, known for playing Archie Andrews in Riverdale, portrays Stewart; Max Casella plays Frank Capra.

Harcourt, also an executive producer, reads from the wartime diary. The report then returns to It's a Wonderful Life, considering the emotional weight Stewart brought to his first postwar film. It is a movie preview with something more intimate at its center: a daughter encountering the experiences her father kept to himself.

The channel's fifteen-upload week ranged well beyond Hollywood. Luke Burbank examined scientists' efforts to investigate UAP sightings, while Holly Williams visited Larry, Downing Street's resident cat and Chief Mouser. Those two reports follow Stewart's story among the channel's strongest daily draws. Robert Costa's Texas Senate reporting and Mo Rocca's history of Milwaukee's Socialist mayors added electoral stakes and civic history to the mix.

CBS Sunday Morning gained about 10,000 subscribers over the week, although its current daily viewing is below its usual level. Nearby in broadcaster size, BBC World Service and CBC News: The National are drawing above their usual daily audiences. Here, the week's largest new audience gathered around an actor's less familiar life away from the camera.

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