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George desperately appeals to Potter for a loan. When George offers his life insurance policy as collateral, Potter, aware of the misplaced currency, says George is worth more dead than alive, and phones the police to have him arrested. George gets drunk at a local bar, and is involved in a fight before he leaves and goes to a nearby bridge, thinking of suicide. The film's narrative catches up to the time of the opening scene. Before he can jump, Clarence dives into the river just before George does, causing George to rescue Clarence, rather than killing himself.

George does not believe Clarence's subsequent claim that he is George's guardian angel. When George says he wishes he had never been born, Clarence decides to grant his wish and show George an alternate timeline in which he never existed. Bedford Falls is named Pottersville, and is a less congenial place. Gower has recently been released from prison for manslaughter , because George was not there to stop him from putting poison in the pills. The Building and Loan has closed down, as George never took over after Peter's passing.

George's mother does not recognize him; she reveals that Uncle Billy was institutionalized after the collapse of the Building and Loan. In the cemetery where Bailey Park would have been, George discovers the grave of his brother. Clarence tells him all the soldiers on the transport died, as Harry was never there to save them, because George had never saved Harry from drowning. Mary, who works at the library, never married; when George says he is her husband, she screams for the police, causing George to flee and the local policeman to give chase.

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George, now convinced that Clarence is really his guardian angel, runs back to the bridge and begs for his life back; the alternate timeline changes back to the original reality. George runs home to await his arrest. Harry arrives and toasts George calling him "The richest man in town". A bell on the Christmas tree rings, and his daughter recalls a story that says the sound means that an angel has just earned his wings, signifying Clarence's promotion. The contention that James Stewart is often referred to as Capra's only choice to play George Bailey is disputed by film historian Stephen Cox, who indicates that " Henry Fonda was in the running".

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Although it was stated that Jean Arthur , Ann Dvorak , and Ginger Rogers were all considered for the role of Mary before Donna Reed won the part, this list is also disputed by Cox as he indicates that Jean Arthur was first offered the part, but had to turn it down for a prior commitment on Broadway before Capra turned to Olivia de Havilland , Martha Scott , and Ann Dvorak. Ginger Rogers was offered the female lead, but turned it down because she considered it "too bland". In Chapter 26 of her autobiography Ginger: My Story , she questioned her decision by asking her readers: A long list of actors were considered for the role of Potter originally named Herbert Potter: Warner , who was cast as the drugstore owner Mr.

Gower, actually studied medicine before going into acting.

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He was also in some of Capra's other films, including Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. DeMille 's The King of Kings Also on Gower Street was a drugstore that was a favorite for the studio's employees. After being unsuccessful in getting the story published, he decided to make it into a Christmas card, and mailed copies to family and friends in December Capra produced the film with his independent motion picture production company Liberty Films.

Dalton Trumbo had written a draft that was different from the final film. In Trumbo's draft, George Bailey is an idealistic politician that slowly grows more cynical as the story progresses, then tries to commit suicide after losing an election. The angel shows him Bedford Falls as it would have been not if he had never been born, but as it would have been if he had gone into business instead of politics.

Actually, the town I had in mind was Califon, N. Stewart's father ran a small hard-ware store where James worked for years. Reed demonstrated her rural roots by winning an impromptu bet with Lionel Barrymore when he challenged her to milk a cow on set. Pigeons, cats, and dogs were allowed to roam the mammoth set to give the "town" a lived-in feel. RKO created "chemical snow" for the film to avoid the need for dubbed dialogue when actors walked across an earlier movie snow that was made of crushed cornflakes. The first is the swimming pool that was unveiled during the famous dance scene where George courts Mary.

It is located in the gymnasium at Beverly Hills High School and is still in operation as of [update]. As the camera focuses on George, smiling at his uncle staggering away, a crash is heard in the distance and Uncle Billy yells, "I'm all right! According to Bobby Anderson, H. Warner slapped him for real in the scene between Mr. Gower and little George and made his ear bleed, reducing him to tears, but hugged him after the scene was shot. Dimitri Tiomkin had written "Death Telegram" and "Gower's Deliverance" for the drugstore scenes, but in the editing room, Capra elected to go with no music for those scenes.

Those changes, along with others, led to a falling out between Tiomkin and Capra. Tiomkin had worked on a lot of Capra's previous films, and was saddened that Capra decided to have the music pared or toned down, moved, or cut entirely. He felt as though his work was being seen as a mere suggestion.

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In his autobiography Please Don't Hate Me , he said of the incident, "an all around scissors job". The products and advertisements featured in Mr. In an earlier draft of the script, the scene where George saves his brother Harry as a child was different. The scene had the boys playing ice hockey on the river which is on Potter's property as Potter watches with disdain. George shoots the puck, but it goes astray and breaks the "No Trespassing" sign and lands in Potter's yard. Potter becomes irate, and the gardener releases the attack dogs, which causes the boys to flee.

Harry falls in the ice, and George saves him with the same results. Another scene that was in an earlier version of the script had young George visiting his father at his work. After George tells off Mr. Potter and closes the door, he considers asking Uncle Billy about his drugstore dilemma.

Billy is talking on the phone to the bank examiner, and lights his cigar and throws his match in the wastebasket. This scene explains that Tilly short for Matilda and Eustace are both his cousins not Billy's kids, though , and Tilly is on the phone with her friend Martha and says, "Potter's here, the bank examiner's coming. It's a day of judgement. George decides he is probably better off dealing with the situation by himself. Capra had filmed a number of sequences that were subsequently cut, the only remnants remaining being rare stills that have been unearthed.

Feeling that an overly religious tone did not have the emotional impact of the family and friends rushing to rescue George Bailey, the closing scenes were rewritten. Capra found the film's original cinematographer Victor Milner slow and pretentious and re-hired Joseph Walker , who was warned by Harry Cohn to return to Columbia Pictures to shoot a film for one of the studio's female stars.

Joseph Biroc was trained by Walker himself to be his replacement. Although having worked with three cinematographers had been difficult for Capra, it turned out very well in Walker's opinion, because the scenes each had shot were so different that he felt that Biroc's didn't have to match his or Milner's visual style. According to a book, "A spate of movies appeared just after the ending of the Second World War, including It's a Wonderful Life and Stairway to Heaven , perhaps tapping into so many people's experience of loss of loved ones and offering a kind of consolation. Director Capra's inventiveness, humor, and affection for human beings keep it glowing with life and excitement.

Bosley Crowther , writing for The New York Times , complimented some of the actors, including Stewart and Reed, but concluded that "the weakness of this picture, from this reviewer's point of view, is the sentimentality of it—its illusory concept of life. Capra's nice people are charming, his small town is a quite beguiling place and his pattern for solving problems is most optimistic and facile. But somehow, they all resemble theatrical attitudes, rather than average realities. The film was supposed to be released in January , but was moved up to December to make it eligible for the Academy Awards.

This move was seen as worse for the film, as did not have quite the stiff competition as If it had entered the Awards, its biggest competition would have been Miracle on 34th Street. On May 26, , the FBI issued a memo stating, "With regard to the picture 'It's a Wonderful Life', [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a 'scrooge-type' so that he would be the most hated man in the picture.

This, according to these sources, is a common trick used by Communists. Potter gets away with robbery without being caught or punished in any way". In , It's a Wonderful Life was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry. In June , AFI revealed its 10 Top 10 , the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres, after polling over 1, people from the creative community. It's a Wonderful Life was acknowledged as the third-best film in the fantasy genre.

Somewhat more iconoclastic views of the film and its content are occasionally expressed. In , film critic Manny Farber wrote, "To make his points [Capra] always takes an easy, simple-minded path that doesn't give much credit to the intelligence of the audience", and adds that there are only a "few unsentimental moments here and there".

It is a story of being trapped, of compromising, of watching others move ahead and away, of becoming so filled with rage that you verbally abuse your children, their teacher, and your oppressively perfect wife. In a Salon. In the "Pottersville" sequence, he wrote, George is not seeing the world that would exist had he never been born, but rather "the world as it does exist, in his time and also in our own".

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We all live in Pottersville now. The film's elevation to the status of a beloved classic came three decades after its initial release, when it became a television staple during Christmas season in