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It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift", self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol. [4]
Mary Hatch Bailey is a fictional character in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life. She is the sweetheart and later wife of protagonist George Bailey (played by James Stewart as an adult and Bobby Anderson as a child). Mary is played by Donna Reed as an adult and Jean Gale as a child.
"The Greatest Gift" is a 1943 short story written by Philip Van Doren Stern, loosely based on the Charles Dickens 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, which became the basis for the film It's a Wonderful Life (1946). It was self-published as a booklet in 1943 and published as a book in 1944.
It's a Wonderful Life had a big budget for the time ($3.7 million), so it's no wonder that the crew put a lot of time and effort into constructing the town of Bedford Falls. The set took two ...
When does 'It's a Wonderful Life' air? "It's a Wonderful Life" airs on Christmas Eve, Tuesday, Dec. 24 from 8-11 p.m. ET. How to watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' on TV "It's a Wonderful Life" will be ...
Philip Van Doren Stern was born in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, into a family of humble means.His Pennsylvania-born father, Isadore Ullman, was a traveling merchant of Bavarian Jewish [1] descent, who came to Wyalusing from West Virginia with his New Jersey-born wife, the former Anne Van Doren.
Grimes signed their posters from “It’s a Wonderful Life,” and “The Bishop’s Wife,” among the 16 movies she acted in as a child. Others came for the film’s message of hopefulness amid ...
Liberty Films was an independent motion picture production company founded in California by Frank Capra and Samuel J. Briskin in April 1945. [1] It produced only two films, the Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946), originally released by RKO Radio Pictures, and the film version of the hit play State of the Union (1948), originally released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.