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Jimmy Stewart’s Family Photos Unearthed: Look Back at the Actor’s Life in Pictures

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Apr 3, 2025 4:11 pm·

By CAROL DITTBRENNER

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Jimmy Stewart‘s daughter Kelly Stewart-Harcourt looks back at remarkable memories with her father throughout the actor’s life, including special moments and some never-before-seen family photos. The It’s a Wonderful Life star was married to Gloria Hatrick McLean for over 40 years and a proud dad to their four kids.

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Home Was Where Jimmy’s Heart Was

Jimmy with his wife Gloria and their children Ronald, Michael, Judy and Kelly, in front of their home at 918 N. Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills. “It wasn’t big and fancy; it was really cozy inside,” says Kelly. “I think that’s what mom and dad liked about it.”

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A Family Affair

“When they had friends over, everybody went to the library,” says Kelly, with her parents and sister Judy. “It was the really cozy place, and that’s where all the photographs were, the family albums and everything.”

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Remembering Her Parents

“Mom would spend a lot of time out in the garden with the dogs,” says Kelly. “And Dad would be in the library reading the newspaper.”

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Precious Moments

Jimmy and Gloria holding their newborn twins, Kelly and Judy, in 1951.

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Holiday Cheer

“In the library one Christmas. Note Christmas cards on table,” shared Kelly with her mom, brother Michael, sister Judy and brother Ronald.

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The Family’s Travels

“The things we did together were travel as a family,” says Kelly, here on a 1968 trip to London with her parents and sister.

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Jimmy With His Boys

Jimmy adopted Gloria’s sons from a previous marriage, Ronald and Michael.

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A Family Man

“My dad always picked roles that were true to himself,” says Kelly, here watching home movies with Jimmy at the projector. “He never played a horrible villain. He never played super selfish.”

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Picture-Perfect Marriage

Gloria and Jimmy, here sharing a dance at a party, were married for 45 years. “I never saw them fight,” says Kelly.

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