'Anatomy of a Murder'

Question: Was Jimmy Stewart that great, or did he have an insatiable ability to pick the right parts working for the right directors?

Or was it all luck? Did Stewart peak at a time when it was damn-near impossible to work for a crappy director doing a crappy movie?

Chances are there were crappy movies being made and crappy directors making them, but never would a man like Stewart lower himself to do those kinds of movies. Whereas, today, we have our top-notch actors and actresses doing crap all the time to merely pay the bills.

Or do we?

I guess Phillip Seymour Hoffman isn't doing romantic comedies, but what was the last really good film Al Pacino or Robert DeNiro were in?

Maybe I'm putting Stewart on a pedestal that he shouldn't be on. He did do a voice over for "Goof Troop."