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- Frank Capra never intended “It’s a Wonderful Life” to be pigeonholed as a “Christmas picture.”
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Nov 10, 2022 · Voted as the ‘most inspirational film of all time’ by the American Film Institute, the film has become a staple of the festive season. However, Frank Capra’s film, which follows a frustrated businessman receiving a visit from an angel, wasn’t an instant hit.
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Director Frank Capra’s 1946 classic It’s a Wonderful Life is sacred in the holiday movie pantheon. It’s not as quotable as A Christmas Story (1983) or as lyrical as 1966’s How the...
Dec 21, 2017 · Every holiday season, millions of people cozy up near a warm fireplace or at least a warm television to watch a familiar black-and-white tale, the 1946 classic “It's a Wonderful Life.” The...
Dec 25, 2019 · The 1946 Oscars saw Frank Capra’s holiday masterpiece overtaken by a film that was even more sentimentally resonant.
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Dec 22, 2018 · Beginning in the mid-1970s, “It’s a Wonderful Life” was transformed from an obscure relic of Old Hollywood into an essential cultural monument representing the two things Capra loved most: America ― and, to Capra’s surprise, Christmas. Its resurrection would be almost as strange as its creation.
Nov 26, 2013 · For It’s a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra, who was trained as an engineer, and RKO studio’s special effects wizard, Russell Sherman, developed their own artificial snow, one befitting the...
Dec 25, 2022 · How It’s a Wonderful Life went from box office failure to Christmas classic. Frank Capra and James Stewart’s tale of a man on the verge of suicide failed to do well in cinemas, but then...
