It's a Wonderful Life

2022 - 12 - 25

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In real-life 'It's a Wonderful Life,' guardian angel is Granny with a flip ... (The Florida Times-Union)

Every morning a South Carolina grandmother texts a message to family and friends. What happened when she accidentally texted a coach in Jacksonville.

On Fridays of football games, she says a prayer for the team. When that now familiar number appears on his phone each morning, he reads the texts and often replies. He brought her some flowers and a bottle of Welch's non-alcoholic cider. A few years ago, he was jet skiing, tipped over and watched his phone go into the water, along with all the texts that at the time weren’t backed up anywhere. She texted back and apologized, saying that text was meant for a granddaughter. “I was really happy and I had engraved my ring for my mom,” Green said. As the driver of a truck for Amazon, he’s particularly busy this time of the year. But he’s more than happy to take some time to talk about Granny and what happened at the end of 2016. But then, instead of the final two digits of her granddaughter’s number, she typed “0 … He figures that errant text was one of the greatest gifts he’s ever received. One of her daughters is a preacher at a church in South Carolina. He realized the text was meant for someone else.

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'It's a Wonderful Life' star Donna Reed quietly kept WWII letters from ... (Fox News)

Donna Reed, who starred as Mary Hatch Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life," died in 1986 at age 64 from cancer. Her daughter Mary Owen is helping to keep the ...

She never took her power and her success for granted." "When the film started coming back on television in the late ‘70s and ‘80s, [my mother] was so happy," said Owen. "So there was the disappointment that it didn’t, even though it was critically successful. "In 1940, Stewart won the Oscar for ‘The Philadelphia Story,’ so he was at the top of his game," Owen explained. "[My mother] had wealth and success and everything that could have gone to her head and make her disrespect her humble beginnings. When Capra met Reed at the MGM lot, he "knew right away" that the Iowa "farm girl" who originally had plans to become a teacher was perfect for the part. [But growing up in Iowa](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/midwest/iowa), she didn’t really know how to swim. [CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER](https://www.foxnews.com/newsletters) "I feel like WWII had an influence on the making of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’" Owen explained. [the holiday classic](https://www.foxnews.com/category/lifestyle/occasions/holiday), "It’s a Wonderful Life," died in 1986 at age 64. And she responded to them." [During the Vietnam era](https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-nation-unauthorized-history-vietnam-war-bret-baier), she served as a co-chairwoman of the advocacy group Another Mother for Peace.

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