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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]
The museum is located in the actor's hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania on the third floor of the Indiana Public Library. The museum highlights the movie career of Stewart, including his role in the 1946 Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life, as well as his service as a World War II bomber pilot. It contains numerous artifacts from Stewart's ...
In 1945, Frank Capra visited Seneca Falls, New York to look for inspiration for the town of Bedford Falls. The real town and the fictional town are very similar as they are both mill towns, they both had a grassy median down the main street (Seneca Falls does not anymore), both communities boast Victorian architecture and a large Italian population, and they both have very similar toll bridges.
The iconic 1946 Frank Capra movie "It's a Wonderful Life" may mean more to Seneca Falls, N.Y. than any other town in the world. The town celebrates the movie with an annual festival and now there ...
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 ...
"It's a Wonderful Life" Festival: Films, lectures downtown ... Autograph signings at the It’s a Wonderful Life Museum Gift Shop are free with a purchase and $30 per autograph for outside items.
In celebration of the Frank Capra film, Hawkins and other cast members appear annually at the "It's A Wonderful Life Festival" in Seneca Falls, New York, the town thought to be the inspiration for the movie's setting of Bedford Falls. [2] Hawkins is a 4-year graduate and alumni of Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California (Class of '59).
It's a Wonderful Life Bailey Kids actor Jimmy Hawkins who played Tommy, donates his childhood tap shoes to the It's a Wonderful Life Museum on the opening day of the It's a Wonderful Life Festival ...