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Groups visiting the museum can hold parties on the set of the Tropicana nightclub where Ricky worked in the show. One of the songs he performed was "Babalu."

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The city of Indiana, Pennsylvania, is home to a museum that honors a local resident who became a famous actor. James Maitland Stewart, better known as Jimmy Stewart, was born and raised in the community. His father's hardware store had been in the family since the eighteen fifties.

Jimmy Stewart appeared on stage and television, but he is best remembered for his work in the movies. He won an Academy Award for best actor in "The Philadelphia Story." He also appeared in seventy-nine other films -- funny ones, sad ones, dramatic ones and musical ones. He even sang in the movie "Born To Dance." The song is called "Easy To Love."

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The Jimmy Stewart Museum is on the third floor of the Indiana Free Public Library. The library is across the street from the building that once was the hardware store owned by the Stewart family. A bronze statue of Jimmy Stewart is nearby, in front of the courthouse.

The museum tells the story of his life in relation to history and the development of the communications and entertainment industries. There is a lot to tell. The actor was also a fighter pilot during World War Two, and later rose to the rank of major general in the Air Force.

The museum displays some of the awards he received going as far back as when he was a Boy Scout. The museum says Jimmy Stewart's life was an example of good character and citizenship. Many of his movies celebrated loyalty and love of family, values he learned as a child growing up in western Pennsylvania.

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Opening a celebrity museum can be risky from a business position.

In two thousand four, a man named David Loehr opened the James Dean Museum in the state of Indiana. He established it in Fairmount, the community where the actor grew up.

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