When [Jimmy Stewart] won the Best Actor Oscar for "The Philadelphia Story," he remembers, "It was 3:45 [a.m.] when I got home and the phone rang. It was my father: 'I hear on the radio they gave you a prize or something. What is it, a plaque or a statue?' I told him it was a sort of statue. He said, 'Well, send it home to me and I'll put it in the hardware store window.' [His father ran a hardware store in Indiana, Pennsylvania.] So the next day, I got it, packed it up, and sent it. It was there for 20 years."
--John Meroney in the Wall Street Journal, 20 May 1997
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