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Frank Capra and James Stewart on set of It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
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Dimitri Tiomkin -Main Theme (It’s A Wonderful Life: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
James Stewart and Donna Reed in It’s a Wonderful Life [1946]
George Bailey’s bleak Christmas Eve was actually shot during a series of 90-degree days in June and July 1946 on RKO’s ranch in Encino, California. The days were so hot — as Jimmy Stewart makes evident here, wiping away an only-in-Hollywood mix of perspiration and artificial snow — that Capra gave the cast and crew a day off during filming to recuperate from heat exhaustion. In the famous scene on the bridge, George Bailey is clearly sweating — although Stewart’s wonderful acting convinces us that fear and anxiety might well be the reason for that. | On the Set of It’s a Wonderful Life
“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?” - It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
“…I didn’t give a film-clip whether critics hailed or hooted Wonderful Life. I thought it was the greatest film I had ever made. Better yet, I thought it was the greatest film anybody ever made. It wasn’t made for the oh-so-bored critics, or the oh-so-jaded literati. It was my kind of film for my kind of people…
A film to tell the weary, the disheartened, and the disillusioned; the wino, the junkie, the prostitute; those behind prison walls and those behind Iron Curtains, that no man is a failure! …
A film that said to the downtrodden, the pushed-around, the pauper, “Heads up, fella. No man is poor who has one friend. Three friends and you’re filthy rich.”
A film that expressed its love for the homeless and the loveless; for her whose cross is heavy and him whose touch is ashes; for the Magdalenes stoned by hypocrites and the afflicted Lazaruses with only dogs to lick their sores. …
And my kind of people saw the film. And it touched their hearts…”
~ Frank Capra, from his autobiography The Name Above the Title (1971)
