Jimmy returns from World War II
- JP
- 1 hour ago
- 1 min read
How World War II shaped It's a Wonderful Life.
Jimmy Stewart had just returned home from serving as a flight leader in World War II, and this 1946 film was his first movie since witnessing the horrors of war. With this postwar mentality, Stewart and director Frank Capra take a film titled "It's a Wonderful Life" and antithetically crescendo it into a failed suicide attempt. Read the CNN article.