
It isn’t hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote. Thanks in part to Stewart’s biography, Harte is now considered an important author in Gold Rush Era California, and his works are read to capture some of the flavor of the time.
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“I don’t have any theories about acting, and I don’t think about how to do it, except that an actor shouldn’t take himself too seriously, and shouldn’t try to make acting something it isn’t. Stewart emphasizes the beauty of Harte’s work, and its powerful evocation of the 1850’s California as a special place and time in human history. “I’m from the Spencer Tracy school: Be on time, know your words, hit your marks, and tell the truth,” he wrote. I didn't know a lot about that time and place in history (1860-1880 in San Francisco) or those people (Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ina Coolbrith, Charles Warren Stoddard) so it was very interesting to read about post-Gold Rush California and the amazing people who lived and wrote there. But he didn’t let his obligations to his craft cloud his judgment. James Garner said he believed it was an actor’s job to do what was best for the character and the audience. He marched on Washington with Martin Luther King when it was not a popular thing to do.” His father was also one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange. His father later added the e to the family name. The author was born Francis Brett Hart after his grandfather, Francis Brett. … (And) he was truly an exemplary human being. Writer Francis Bret Harte was born on August 25, 1836, in Albany, New York. “He had a very different mindset and went about things, even in the industry, much differently than other people did,” Gigi Garner told Fox News recently.



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Despite being a massively successful actor, his daughter said he never gave up on his principles. The producers say there was never any thought of shooting the series right in Dawson City, despite the fact that the picturesque Yukon town retains much of the look it had back in the gold rush. There’s a familiar trope in pop culture of the homespun actor who scores a big hit and loses their moral compass. Daughter: James Garner Was a True Hollywood Maverick
