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He went on to enjoy a movie career lasting more than 50 years.When Stewart Granger decided acting was the career for him, he had to drop his real name for obvious reasons - it was James Stewart.Ten years after his first steps on a soundstage at Elstree, Stewart became a big screen heart-throb in a series of movies for the famous Gainsborough Studios and was a massive hit in films such as The Man in Grey.When I met Stewart towards the end of his life, he remarked: "I must have been a good actor, as I had to do love scenes with Phyllis Calvert, and we did not like each other. "Those films were utter rubbish, but very popular, and I enjoyed meeting James Mason, who was a great actor and became a lifelong friend."It was not long before Hollywood snapped him up and MGM offered him a long-term contract. He said: "It was a pleasure to enjoy the Californian sun after the bleak post-war years working in Islington."Stewart enjoyed an immediate hit with King Solomon's Mines, and he embarked on a six-month affair with co-star Deborah Kerr. He soon found himself cast in swashbucklers such as The Prisoner of Zenda and brought the idea of Ivanhoe to the MGM bosses.He said: "I was lined up for the lead role, but then the grey suits decided they needed to boost the flagging career of their long-term star Robert Taylor, so I was replaced."Gossip columnist Hedda Hopper wrote a book suggesting Stewart and old friend Michael Wilding were having an affair, which they both found amusing, but they took legal action and received an apology.Stewart returned to Borehamwood to star at MGM in Beau Brummell and Bhowani Junction and told me: "I was unhappy with my career. Much of what I was doing was well-paid rubbish."By the Sixties, work offers tended to be more in European movies or on television.Stewart said: "Cary Grant decided to retire at the top when he realised his female co-stars were young enough to be his daughter and he was never going to age into character roles. "Acting is my life, and I never took all that heart-throb fan magazine stuff seriously, so I prefer to carry on."Stewart continued to act, making his Broadway debut in 1989. By this time he was white-haired and suffering from a lung illness and the beginnings of prostate cancer.He died aged 80, in 1993. Stewart represented the type of screen hero out of fashion nowadays but, for a generation of ladies, he was the George Clooney of his day.