One of the highlights of Stewart's career was when she was "so honored to work with the wonderful James Garner in "My Fellow Americans": the producers not being able to decide at callbacks between me and Neva Howell, but we had become friends as we waited at casting and rode to and from the Biltmore Estate set with Location Casting Director, the dear Shirley Crumley, so by the time we headed back to the casting trailer to go on tape "one more time", we bemoaned the fact that only one of us would be able to do it and wished we could share the experience together. One of us said "it's too bad they can't cast both of us" and Shirley, in her infinite wisdom and thinking outside the box said, "why don't the two of you do the scene together once after you've done it again individually, just for fun, to show them something different?". She asked in the moment if we needed to rehearse it -- we looked at each other with gleams in our eyes and said, "Nah" and then jumped right in. She and the camera assistant couldn't stop laughing. The next thing we knew, the writers in LA had changed the scene to use both of us. When we got to set, Director Peter Segal and Producer Jon Peters came to us with congratulations, saying "we've never turned one character into two based on the quality of the auditions!". We hung out all day with Jack Lemmon, his poodle Chloe and James and when we first did our scene, James said, laughing, "you ladies should take that act on the road!" and Jack said, "you're the funniest gals I've seen since the Pigeon Sisters in the Odd Couple!" and that meant a lot coming from him!".
