James Stewart's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

In the record

James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military aviator. The birth-card coordinate for May 20 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1941 Best Actor — The Philadelphia Story win.

Academy Award record

• 1941 Best Actor — The Philadelphia Story

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

James Stewart's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on James Stewart. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.

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James Stewart in the public record

Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart appeared in 80 films from 1935 to 1991. His films are considered among the greatest of all time. In 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked him third on its list of the greatest American male actors; he received numerous honors including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1980, the Kennedy Center Honor in 1983, as well as the Academy Honorary Award and Presidential Medal of Freedom, both in 1985. Born and raised in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Stewart started acting while at Princeton University. After graduating, he began a career as a stage actor, making his Broadway debut in 1932 in the play Carry Nation. He landed his first supporting role in The Murder Man (1935) and had his breakthrough in Frank Capra's ensemble comedy You Can't Take It with You (1938). He later starred in Capra's political comedy Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), and Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Stewart went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the George Cukor romantic comedy The Philadelphia Story (1940).

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article James Stewart (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 10 of Spades

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about James Stewart, and not a forecast of an Oscar.

Deep wisdom and mental integration

James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military aviator.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: military.

Also on the record

1. After returning home from World War II, he went on to star in Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946), which was a critical and commercial disappointment upon its release, but has since become a beloved classic after its copyright expired in the early 1970s.
2. Stewart went on to star in four films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and Vertigo (1958), as well as Anatomy of a Murder (1959), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).
3. With his private pilot's skills, he enlisted in the US Army Air Forces during the war, seeking combat duty and rose to be deputy commanding officer of the 2nd Bombardment Wing and commanding the 703d Bombardment Squadron from 1941 to 1947.
4. He later transferred to the Air Force Reserve, and held various command positions until his retirement in 1968 as a brigadier general.

Other winners with this card

• Cher — 1988 Best Actress — Moonstruck
• Ginger Rogers — 1941 Best Actress — Kitty Foyle
• Halle Berry — 2002 Best Actress — Monster's Ball
• Helen Hayes — 1933 Best Actress — The Sin of Madelon Claudet
• Jack Nicholson — 1976 Best Actor — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; 1998 Best Actor — As Good as It Gets
• Jessica Chastain — 2022 Best Actress — The Eyes of Tammy Faye

FAQ

What is James Stewart's birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. May 20 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict an Oscar?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do James Stewart's dates come from?

Birth date 1908-05-20 is the day-precision date on James Stewart's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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