Noisy snow won't work!
Frank Capra used a new form of snow while filming It's a Wonderful Life during a July heat wave. It allowed live dialogue in falling snow,
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Judy Miller shares stories and photos from her sleuthing in the Donna Reed Archives in Denison, Iowa.
The famous bridge
There has long been speculation that Seneca Falls inspired key scenes in the film It's a Wonderful Life. And it started with a haircut.
Her only film
Jeanine Ann Roose, whose first job was on The Jack Benny Program at the age of 8, played the role of Violet Bick in It's a Wonderful Life.
A message from the snowflakes
All good stories have a twist. Join Mike Rowe for a different take on a Hollywood event involving Donna Reed that you thought you knew.
It's Wonderful Life Trivia
'It's a Wonderful Life': Cary Grant Almost Played George and 15 Other Surprising Facts you may not have known.
It's a Wonderful Life actress dies
Virginia Patton Moss, the last surviving adult cast member of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ dies at 97.
She only wanted $17.50
Director Frank Capra took Ellen Corby aside and asked her to make a slight change in the script. She did and it produced a memorable scene.
The censors objected
Jimmy Stewart was nervous about the phone scene kiss in It's a Wonderful Life but it was done in one take. Then the censors stepped in.
The villainous Mr. Potter
Lionel Barrymore's radio role of miserly Scrooge led directly to his being cast as Mr. Potter in It's A Wonderful Life (1946).
Cast in two of Donna's notable movies
Ward Bond played Bert, the cop, in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946). He starred in 23 films.
It started as a short story
Philip Van Doren Stern sent a short story, The Greatest Gift, to 200 of his friends as a Christmas card. We know it as It's a Wonderful Life
Is it my last movie?
Donna Reed once commented that she didn't know if she would ever make another movie after filming Frank Capera's, "It's a Wonderful Life."
Her niche as a minor actress
Mary Treen, a popular minor actress, appears with Donna Reed in It's a Wonderful LIfe and in three episodes of The Donna Reed Show.
Donna's first role off the MGM lot
It's hard to imagine another actress in the role of Mary in It's a Wonderful Life, but Donna Reed was not the only one considered.
From screen to airwaves
James Stewart and Donna Reed reprise their classic film roles in this Lux Theatre broadcast of It's a Wonderful Life.
A guardian angel
Henry Travers' most famous role was the guardian angel Clarence Odbody in the 1946 film classic It's a Wonderful Life.
Goal reached!
A Central New York family’s LEGO replica of “It’s a Wonderful Life” has received enough votes to be considered for an official LEGO set.
A lucky clerical snafu
It's a Wonderful Life appeared in theaters on January 7, 1947. It went into the public domain in 1974 and became a Christmas favorite.
Jimmy returns from World War II
He had just returned home from serving in World War II and this 1946 film was his first movie since witnessing the horrors of war.
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