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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 ...
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 ...
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.
A Wonderful Life is a 1986 musical with a book and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Joe Raposo.. Based on the classic 1946 Frank Capra film It's a Wonderful Life starring James Stewart, the story closely follows the original plot, set in 1945, telling the story of a suicidal man whose guardian angel reveals to him how different the world and everyone whose life he has touched would be if ...