It's a Wonderful Life

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St. Louis has a cinematic connection to a Christmas classic, “It's a ... (fox2now.com)

Two people in the movie were from St. Louis: Frank Faylen, who played Ernie Bishop, a taxi driver, and Mary Treen, who played Cousin Tilly at the bank. Both ...

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'It's a Wonderful Life' still draws fans to movie theaters — decades ... (KSL.com)

ATLANTA — The one-time lost Christmas classic "It's A Wonderful Life" staged an unlikely comeback in the 1970s and 1980s by becoming a December TV staple, ...

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Blackhawks and Cinema Blend: It's A Wonderful Life (Yardbarker)

The opportunity to write about my favorite movie doesn't happen often. Here's a tie in to the last 7 months covering the Chicago Blackhawks.

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<em>It's a Wonderful Life</em>, Continued (National Review)

A novel imagines what might have happened to George Bailey and his family after that fateful Christmas in 1945. Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful ...

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It's a Wonderful Life? The grim backstory behind the feelgood ... (The Independent)

The making of the festive classic is explored in a new book, It's a Wonderful Life (BFI Film Classics) by Michael Newton. Those hoping that the warm, humanistic ...

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The Wonderful Life of “It's a Wonderful Life” - Aish.com (Aish)

In a 1947 memo on "Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry," the agency quoted an informant's belief that the malignant character of Henry Potter, ...

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How the Biggest Whoops in Cinematic History Revived 'It's a ... (Collider.com)

It's hard to believe, but It's a Wonderful Life was initially a box office bomb and lived in relative obscurity until a copyright error.

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