[1][2] As a young man, he operated the Playmakers Theatre in Atlanta from 1924 to 1927, and then made his stage debut with a company playing Huntington, West Virginia.

He made his Broadway debut in 1931 in Ladies of Creation at the Cort Theatre, the start of a lengthy Broadway career including plays such as Brigadoon (1950 production) The Crucible (1953, original cast) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955, original cast), and through More Stately Mansions (1967–68), a play by Eugene O'Neill.

[3] Stewart also debuted in movies in 1931, with film appearances including in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and In the Heat of the Night (1967).

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