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June 19, 2013
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Stamp honors Jimmy Stewart
(2007-08-07)
(wnmu) - U.P. residents are celebrating the upcoming release of a stamp honoring Hollywood actor Jimmy Stewart. Otto Preminger took Stewart and other cast members to the central Upper Peninsula to shoot the 1959 film "Anatomy of a Murder. The U.S. Postal Service is to unveil the commemorative stamp August 17. Starting this week, Ishpeming and Michigamme residents are marking the upcoming release with a series of events.


"Anatomy of a Murder" featured Stewart as a lawyer defending an Army lieutenant against a murder charge. It also starred Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, and George C. Scott.
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