Top 10 James Stewart movies ranked and Rear Window missed out on No 1.
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The Hollywood star best known for playing the everyman with his famous drawl starred in 80 films across his epic career. Working with the likes of Alfred Hitchcock and John Wayne over the decades, his Top 10 films have been ranked by fans on IMDb. Check out the full list below in which Rear Window missed out on No 1 in favour of a film that once confessed was “nothing phenomenal”, but turned out to be his favourite.
10. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Stewart stars opposite Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in this rom-com about a socialite who is about to get married when her ex-husband and a tabloid journalist appear. Suddenly, she must decide which of the three men she really wants to be with. Nominated for six Oscars, this film was remade as the 1956 musical High Society starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra.
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9. Harvey (1950)
Based on Mary Chase’s 1944 play of the same name, Stewart stars as a man whose best friend is a púca taking the form of a 6ft 3 invisible rabbit called Harvey. As a result of his presumed delusions, the man’s sister tries to have him sectioned.
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8. Rope (1948)
This Hitchcock classic famously takes place in real time, edited to appear as four single long takes across 80 minutes. The plot follows a couple hosting a dinner party who strangle a friend to death with a rope as part of a philosophy exercise, before hiding the body in a chest and welcoming their guests. One is the dead man’s fiancée and the other is the college professor played by Stewart, whose lectures inadvertently inspired the killing.
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7. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
This rom-com stars Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as two employees at a leatherwood shop in Budapest in the lead-up to World War 2. The pair can’t stand each other before realising that they’re actually falling in love through their anonymous letters.
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