Jimmy Stewart is Delightfully Funny, FULL Interview on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show 1989

okay [Music] one other resolution I made for 1989 is to let the band play more numbers on the show but not starting tonight Jimmy Stewart is here what can you say about this man he's a marvelous actor and he's just a marvelous person and he does the best impression of Jimmy Stewart I've ever heard where do you walk in Jimmy Stewart I can't think of anybody I'd rather start the New Year's Eve New Year's with than you well suggest good to see you I feel the same way yeah Happy New Year do you make any resolutions I was asking the audience or did you give that up I forgot did you ever use to make resolutions yeah like what smoke and cigarettes you quit that yeah talking faster anytime you need a straight man just give me a call I guess I'll sit here and set this stuff up all night long I don't want to talk about personally what you did but I find it fascinating you were you were down in Palm Springs over the weekend and I guess we're with the the President and mrs. Reagan is that telling tales out of school yeah are they happy to be coming back to California and leaving Washington or did he mention it no I didn't ask him yeah didn't he introduce you at some affair in Washington once with the wrong rank your general in the Air Force right but he upped you didn't he once or by mistake cause you of no life I was out on a tour with him but I think he was running for governor and he had a he had a friend an assistant that was a assistant came to me and said Ronny introduced you as a major-general and why didn't you why don't you correct him yeah I just said well it sounded so good here a brigadier general he up you right now when did you first get interested in flying ed flies and I'm a licensed pilot we had and don't have your experience of course but when did you first get the bug to learn the flying when I first came out here in 1935 you know and I've sort of been interested in flying a since there was that high and I one of the first things I did but I came out working for MGM one of the first things I did was go out to mines field now this was a little field not mine field never heard of it and if you if you're taken off to the east any time and you look down south you'll see one small building sort of adobe type building that was sort of the building and the control tower and everything else for Mayans field well that was considered way out in the country as a way very nice they grew asparagus and celery and shouldn't stuff and it's just a tarmac runway yeah almost a thousand feet long not quite and rabbits a you know they like the celery too so their placement so when you're taking off yet not only had to sort of watch what you were doing had watch so you can't see to pilot rabbit at ten o'clock I mean this is the days of what they call the the Barnstormers where guys went around I remember when I grew up in the Midwest these guys would come out and put on air shows and you could pay like two dollars and go for 20 minutes or something well done here shops would say that was a long time now that was after the first war yeah and most of them had there was a airplane that we built that never sort of a training airplane for the war but never got into the war really called the Jenny Curtiss Jenny yeah and a lot of the Flyers from the war bought these airplanes and barnstormed around land and I would determine to got a flight and one day it because every once in a while they'd land the Bennett's had a farm right south of town and a nice big field where they could land flat and and not once every month and I really wanted that but my father didn't he didn't they care for it at all he didn't like the idea and I saved the money it was ten it started out ten bucks for five minutes and then that one went up 10 bucks for ten minutes a night but I'd saved 20 bucks so I thought I got that three for a good ride you know and I but I couldn't couldn't get past my dad until one one guy came into the hardware store and he'd landed and he was but he wanted to buy some stuff from the hardware and my dad started top with him that sort of got it got to like him and he said oh yeah and the guy said well why don't you bring your boy down I'll give him a good ride on the safe ride don't worry about it so that that changed the thing and my dad said all right let's let's let's go and now I said I have the money you don't have to be and I thought I thought he did something I was sort of a I don't know how to explain it but on the way down we stopped stopped and picked up the family doctor on the way to the airport on the way to the airport from my ride and from then on I was I was stuck on fly what did the studio was think in those days when you were flying I don't imagine they encouraged it today when you're under contract out here no they were pretty good about it they were pretty good about it they didn't they didn't didn't say much I had a very good friend Leland Hayward yeah who didn't fly for a long time and we he got me more and more understood than fine okay we're gonna take a short break here and we're coming right back stay where you are Jim don't you get the urge some time to grab your accordion and go over and play with a band I'm afraid to do it yeah have you retired officially now from accordion playing yes I think so I think one of the last places you played it was on this show I think maybe yeah but you used to play it when you were working back on Broadway and you went to used to play it in the tea room part-time no this was up but before I got to went to Broadway this up in a stock company called a university player yeah that Josh Logan and he started it and they had to place up in Falmouth Massachusetts and when I graduated from Princeton Josh came up and said why don't you why don't you come up and I've been on a couple of triangle shows at Princeton and sort of attended a little sort of acting was fun I yeah I said why don't you come up there to Falmouth and you can paint scenery and you know we'll give you a little parts and the players who are you doing everything and you can play your accordion and the tea room tea room was right next to a little theater and so I thought nice idea so I went up and I started working there everything's done I played them back after about the fourth the time I played the accordion in the tea room Josh came up and said I guess maybe you better stop playing the accordion in the tea room several people came up and said that your courting plan spoiled their out what was the one you were in a one Broadway show that didn't last too long what was well that was neared that you know what the Broadway in those days was a busy place it was the right in the bottom of the depression right but everybody wanted a you know the price was literally the highest price was three bucks and ten cents but we're walks intense ever getting what now fifteen sixty dollars a ticket on Broadway for some of the show something I asked him like that ridiculous but this so we were all busy well you know you could get these little parts and all around because the shows were coming in one by one but I hooked onto one and I don't know I should have known better but I I i think i was miscast i played the part of an Austrian count [Laughter] they just didn't seem to God the opening night things that weren't going very well but I had a scene in a room where there was a knock at the door and a guy was to come in we were having a big scene about something and the cue came and the door didn't open and then I saw the knob turning he couldn't get the door oh and I didn't know what to do so I went over and talked on the telephone for a while supposedly but he was but then he got mad and he started maybe if he'd lift that if he'd lift the door up yeah well he lifts the whole south wall of the set and when it came down three pictures fell down then he finally finally got the door open and came in but the door stayed open so he had to go door wouldn't close I I went back the telephone I really didn't know what to do he finally got and finally did they they they brought the curtain down and we had the biggest applause well not well nobody had to be fifty so almost fifty years ago and you remember that 3034 yeah and you remember that do you remember any line at all as you did as the Austrian count any woman at all I don't remember the door how you how your daughters that wonderful one Kelly is married Lipton government outside of Cambridge she's here she's the mountain gorilla girl right at the Brazilian Rwanda she and her husband were Joe and fossa inward would actually spent five years there and it's wonderful how they've been lecturing all over the place that Bab they spent five years with the gorillas and everything's gone she talks about all the time at home everything's going better with the gorillas did the day they were very near to extinction right nobody paid any attention to that poached them people cut off their heads and her hands and put them as pictures above the saddle and they they're still poaching but I think it had to do something with Dian Fossey and with sort of this getting to know the gorillas and getting and the country of Rwanda itself the government right has started getting interested in and they're now in favor of protecting the gorillas gun and the and the whole gorilla population has increased in the last two to three years it's amazing what a few people can do if they get the word out now yeah they they've cut out that the poachers they really get them and poaching is just almost stuck and it's a wonderful thing but Kelly's been here and she fitted her brother and but going to visit her sister up and Captain Sisko then the whole bunch of them are going scared well that's great wonderful time I thank you for coming again tonight you always make this a special night when you show up well I look forward to it every time any time you want to kill some time come over and see us we thank you Jenny on happy [Applause]

Channel: Johnny Carson

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Length: 14min 4sec (844 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 10 2014