Question: The Spirit of St. Louis is a film which starred an actor who was contracted as a major contract player with whom?

Context articles: List of St. Louis Cardinals no-hitters
History of the St. Louis Cardinals (1875–1919)
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
U.S. Route 66 in Missouri
Betty Grable filmography
James Stewart
Jerry Wilkerson
Spirit of St. Louis Airport
Spirit of St. Louis (train)
The Spirit of St. Louis (film)

The St. Louis Cardinals are a Major League Baseball franchise based in St. Louis Missouri.
 They play in the National League Central division.
 Also known in their early years as the "St. Louis Brown Stockings" (1882), "St. Louis Browns" (1883–98), and "St. Louis Perfectos" (1899), pitchers for the Cardinals have thrown 10 no-hitters in franchise history.
 A no-hitter is officially recognized by Major League Baseball only “when a pitcher (or pitchers) retires each batter on the opposing team during the entire course of a game, which consists of at least nine innings”.
 No-hitters of less than nine complete innings were previously recognized by the league as official; however, several rule alterations in 1991 changed the rule to its current form.
 A no-hitter is rare enough that one team in Major League Baseball has never had a pitcher accomplish the feat.
 A perfect game, a special subcategory of no-hitter, has yet to be thrown in Cardinals history.
 As defined by Major League Baseball, “in a perfect game, no batter reaches any base during the course of the game.”
The St. Louis Cardinals, a professional baseball franchise based in St. Louis, Missouri, compete in the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB).
 As the game of baseball garnered interest in the United States in the 19th century, professional baseball in St. Louis became rooted chiefly in one disestablished Major League club – named the Brown Stockings, the same as the Cardinals' earliest name – which is loosely connected, but does not fall within the scope of, today's Cardinals.
 The Brown Stockings became St. Louis' first fully professional baseball club when they gained accession in the National Association (NA) in 1875.
 However, the NA folded after that season.
 That winter, with five other former NA teams, St. Louis established a new, eight-team league called the National League (NL) and began play the next season.
 Despite early success, Brown Stocking players were found to be connected to game fixing scandals, which forced bankruptcy and the club's expulsion from the NL.
 This scandal also abrogated their professional status but some members maintained play as a semi-professional team, primarily operated by outfielder Ned Cuthbert, until 1881.
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (also called The St. Louis Bank Robbery, the film title in the opening credits) is a 1959 heist film.
 The film stars Steve McQueen as a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery.
 The film is based on a 1953 bank robbery attempt of Southwest Bank in St. Louis.
 The film was shot on location in St. Louis in 1958 with some of the men and women from the St. Louis Police Department, as well as local residents and bank employees, playing the same parts they did in the actual robbery attempt.
 Steve McQueen was quite unknown when filming began, because he would get the role of Josh Randall in the famous TV series Wanted Dead or Alive only some months later.
U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66) is a former east–west United States Numbered Highway, running from Santa Monica, California to Chicago, Illinois.
 In Missouri, the highway ran from downtown St. Louis at the Mississippi River to the Kansas state line west of Joplin.
 The highway was originally Route 14 from St. Louis to Joplin and Route 1F from Joplin to Kansas.
 It underwent two major realignments (in the St. Louis and Joplin areas) and several lesser realignments in the cities of St. Louis, Springfield, and Joplin.
 Current highways covering several miles of the former highway include Route 100, Route 366, Route 266, Route 96, and Route 66.
 Interstate 44 (I-44) approximates much of US 66 between St. Louis and Springfield.
This is a complete filmography of Betty Grable, an American actress, dancer, and singer.
 As a major contract star for 20th Century-Fox during the 1940s and 1950s, she starred in a succession of musicals and romantic comedies.
James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (May 20, 1908July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military officer who is among the most honored and popular stars in film history.
 A major Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player, Stewart was known for his distinctive drawl and down-to-earth persona, which helped him often portray American middle-class men struggling in crisis.
 Many of the films he starred in have become enduring classics.
Jerry Oliver Wilkerson (September 5, 1943 in Texas – June 2, 2007) was a St. Louis, Missouri artist known for his contemporary pointillistic style of painting, and as a supporter of local business and talent.
 After completing his BS at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, in 1966, Wilkerson obtained his MFA (1968) from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
 He settled in St. Louis following military service in the Army from 1968 - 1970.
 Wilkerson exhibited at galleries in St. Louis, Kansas City, New Orleans, New York City, and Carmel, California.
 His works are represented in several public collections including the St. Louis Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, the Tucson Museum of Art, and the Evansville Museum of Arts and Science in Evansville, Indiana.
 The major theme of his work is food — including lobsters, burgers, a Warholesque Campbell's Pork and Beans can, bananas, cherries, apples, pears, fortune cookies, and cups of coffee.
 Wilkerson died of cancer at age 63.
Spirit of St. Louis Airport (IATA: SUS, ICAO: KSUS, FAA LID: SUS) is a public airport located 17 miles (27 km) west of the central business district of St. Louis, in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
 It is owned by St. Louis County and named after the famous "Spirit of St. Louis" aircraft.
The Spirit of St. Louis was a named passenger train on the Pennsylvania Railroad and its successors Penn Central and Amtrak between New York and St. Louis, Missouri.
 The Pennsylvania introduced the "Spirit of St. Louis" on June 15, 1927, replacing the "New Yorker" (eastbound) and "St. Louisian" (westbound); that September its schedule was 24 hr 50 min each way.
The Spirit of St. Louis is a 1957 aviation biography film in CinemaScope from Warner Bros., directed by Billy Wilder, produced by Leland Hayward, that stars James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh.
 The screenplay was adapted by Charles Lederer, Wendell Mayes, and Billy Wilder from Lindbergh's 1953 autobiographical account of his historic flight, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954.