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My new favourite Christmas movie! 🥰🎄

So well done on so many fronts! Hot dog, James Stewart is an amazing actor! He was swell and showed subtle emotions, and overall such a joy to see him act.

I didn't realize the concept was used in Simpsons until after I watched it. It seemed a bit familiar, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

One of the best moments is when Clarence jumps in because he KNOWS it'll save George 😭

I just read that the story is adapted from a short story, "The Greatest Gift", which was loosely based on "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens 😁

Such a wonderful movie 😏

For this style of reaction, you need your own copy to watch the movie.  You can set picture in picture by right clicking twice on the video and selecting "Picture in picture". The right clicking twice is a bit tricky, because you have to right click, then move your cursor so it's not on the menu, then right click again

- Vero 🥰

Thank you so much everyone for your support, you are amazing!!

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It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | Reaction and Commentary | First Time Watching

Reminder that you need your own copy of the movie to watch along with me since this is solely my reaction. The video is there so you can have an idea when the scene changes in case you need to sync up, but it is HEAVILY blurred so I don't have any copyright issues. Enjoy!!

Comments

Scott Howard

Oh good, I'm glad you did this one. I'm sure you saw that the swimming pool is still in existence and still being used. I don't know if I really believe that. The other funny thing I know about this is when the Uncle has that scene where he walks away from the house and he's kind of drunk and he goes off scene and you hear a big crash in the back ground. That was unscripted, a set worker dropped a tray of tools while they were filming and the actor, with good presence of mind, saved the scene by apologizing. He was a great character actor, in a lot of really good stuff, the one that comes to mind is Stagecoach with John Wayne. Anyway that's probably in the IMDB stuff I can't remember where I read that. I think I saw it in an interview. Stewarts acting in this was his best.

ded cowbowee

Another great Jimmy Stewart film is "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", a great western with John Wayne and Lee Marvin.

Danny Steele

James Stewart is a amazing actor who is often cast as an everyman. I would suggest that you watch him in Rear Window(1954) where he plays opposite the stunningly beautiful Grace Kelly and was directed by the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock. Stewart plays a photojournalist who is recovering from a recent injury and gets embroiled in a mystery. Vertigo(1958) another Hitchcock film where plays opposite of Kim Novak. For a less serious film watch Harvey in which Stewart plays an extremely nice rich guy claims to see a rabbit that is invisible to every one else so they think Stewart’s character is crazy . The movie is good and kinda fun. Another funny one is The Philadelphia Story which has an awesome cast of Stewart with Cary Grant( whose career was made in screwball comedies) and Katharine Hepburn ( whose career basically speaks for itself as one of the best actresses ever and icon).

Cliff Adams

It is difficult to find any Frank Capra film which does not have the greatest characters. Many wild plots, but the people are beyond memorable.

Matt D

Classic movie. Has one of the best endings ever.

Chris Gronau

Jimmy Stewart was one of the first (if not the first) A-list Hollywood actors to join the military during World War II. He enlisted in the US Army several months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the US officially entered the war, he somehow managed to get an officer's commission in the US Army Air Corp even though he was too old for flight school (the fact he already had a commercial pilot's license and his own plane undoubtably helped...). He went on to become a highly decorated B-24 bomber pilot flying 20 combat bombing missions over Europe. By the time the war ended, he had reached the rank of colonel in the US Army Air Corp. After the war, he stayed in the Air National Guard and reached the rank of Brigadier General before he retired. One interesting bit of trivia about this movie. It was a complete flop. It came out shortly after the end of WWII. So many people had died during the war, that nobody wanted to see a happy, upbeat movie. In fact, it flopped so badly that, in 1974, the studio didn't bother to renew its copyright and the film entered the public domain. This meant that TV stations could show it for free, so they started airing it frequently, especially around Christmas time. This airplay turned it into a beloved Christmas classic and it's now considered one of the best movies ever made.