After watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946), President Harry Truman said, "'If Bess and I had a son, we'd want him to be just like Jimmy Stewart.’’ (Not sure if Truman knew that Stewart was a Republican.)
Truman also liked Harpo Marx — here 1950: 
President Truman had no known opinion about that Marx Brothers stalwart Margaret Dumont:
In real life, Margaret Dumont lived, as a child, with her godfather in Atlanta — he was, of all people, Joel Chandler Harris, who wrote “Uncle Remus” books.
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