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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 ...
The town annually holds a Jimmy Stewart film festival as part of the town's It's a Wonderful Life holiday celebration. [29] Environmentalist author Edward Abbey (1927–1989) was born at the Indiana hospital and raised in Indiana and near the Indiana County towns and villages of Saltsburg, Home, and Tanoma.
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]
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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 ...
Pass the popcorn. Local theaters are screening holiday classics, and films that have somehow become associated with the holidays.
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).
The 21st "It's a Wonderful Life" Festival kicks off Friday with a day of lectures, screenings and autograph signings. Festivities: 8 unforgettable holiday activities in Rochester for the whole family.