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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]
Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian-American film director, producer, and screenwriter who was the creative force behind several major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s.
William Edmunds (Michele Giuseppe Pellegrino; September 18, 1886 – December 7, 1981) [1] was an Italian-American stage and screen character actor, typically playing roles with heavy accents (generally Italian, Spanish, and French), most notable as Mr. Giuseppe Martini in It's a Wonderful Life.
Receiving mixed reviews, It's a Wonderful Life only made back $3.3 of its $3.7 million budget at first. It placed 26th in box office sales for all films released in 1947—right ahead of Miracle ...
"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 broadcast on NBC.
CHRISTMAS 2023: Frank Capra’s eternal Christmas fable ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ has come to embody seasonal warmth and goodwill in the hearts of millions. Behind the scenes, though, things ...
George Bailey is a fictional character and the protagonist in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life.The character is a building and loan banker who sacrifices his dreams in order to help his community of Bedford Falls to the point where he feels life has passed him by.
Grimes in It's a Wonderful Life, 1946. She married, had two children, divorced, married again to a man with three children, and then had two more children with her second husband. [10] Renewed interest in It's a Wonderful Life in the early 1980s led Jimmy Stewart to wonder what had happened to the little girl who had played 'ZuZu'. Grimes was ...