Episode 48: The Whole It's A Wonderful Life Movie Story

Tracing The Path: The Connected 20th Century
19/11/2023 35 min Temporada 1 Episodio 48
Episode 48: The Whole It's A Wonderful Life Movie Story

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Did you know "It's A Wonderful Life" started out as a dream? And then as a Christmas card?  How did it beat the odds to become an American classic? The story starts back in 1876 and involves Amadeo Giannini, Philip Van Doren Stern, Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart, World War II, the Council on Books in Wartime, Jimmy the Raven, Cary Grant, Republic Pictures, Columbia Pictures, The Greatest Gift and the 1906 San Francisco Earth Quake. 

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