Friday, June 25, 2010

Doubles Anyone?

It seems that the most popular past-time in the Golden Age of Hollywood was without a doubt tennis! I bet you could find at least one photo of every star back then playing tennis, or at least holding a tennis racket. To help prove that theory, here is a photo of Jimmy playing tennis. I wonder who his opponent was?



Original caption: 10/3/36-Hollywood, California: Tennis keeps James Stewart in trim for his vigorous leading roles in M-G-M pictures. Here he is returning a fast one during a game on a Hollywood court.

And for even further proof of my theory (well, sort of), in this next photo we not only have Jimmy but also Henry Fonda playing an indoor version of tennis, table tennis, in 1948:

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