"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. Seneca Falls, New York, claims that when Frank Capra visited their town in 1945, he was inspired to model Bedford Falls after it. The town has an annual ""It's a Wonderful Life Festival"" in December. In mid-2009, The Hotel Clarence opened in Seneca Falls, named for George Bailey's guardian angel. On December 10, 2010, the ""It's a Wonderful Life"" Museum opened in Seneca Falls, with Karolyn"
"to this formerly grand building and the owner's vision of bringing a hotel back to the local community. The Hotel Clarence's has strong ties to the Hollywood hit It's a Wonderful Life,and the residents claim that when Frank Capra visited this small Upstate New York town in 1945, he was inspired to model the movie's Bedford Falls after it. The town has an annual ""It's a Wonderful Life"" festival in December to commemorate its connection to the 1946 Hollywood hit. In an effort to take advantage of this connection, The Hotel Clarence was named after the angel who saves George"
"1946 classic film ""It's a Wonderful Life."" Author Philip Van Doren Stern said in a 1946 interview, ""Incidentally, the movie takes place in Westchester County. Actually, the town I had in mind was Califon, N.J."" The historic iron bridge in Califon is similar to the bridge that George Bailey considered jumping from in the movie. Califon became a regional household name when frequently mentioned by Merv Griffin on his TV show during the 1970s. He and his wife Juliette owned a home in nearby Lebanon Township, which had a Califon mailing address, and, while they were married, they were often"
"south to Oley and Douglassville. By Park Road it is southwest to Reading. Fleetwood is twinned with the town of Fleetwood in Lancashire, in the United Kingdom. It is reported that Jimmy Stewart drew on inspiration from seeing Fleetwood in the snow in helping to craft the vision of Bedford Falls in It's a Wonderful Life. However, this report is dubious, as Stewart acted in the film; he did not direct it. Fleetwood, Pennsylvania Fleetwood, also called in Deitsch, is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,085 at the 2010 census. It was home to"
"Seneca Falls, New York Seneca Falls is a town in Seneca County, New York, United States. The population was 9,040 at the 2010 census. The Town of Seneca Falls contains the former village also called Seneca Falls. The town is east of Geneva, New York, in the northern part of the Finger Lakes District. Seneca Falls is believed by some to have been the inspiration for the fictional town of “Bedford Falls”, portrayed in filmmaker Frank Capra’s classic 1946 film ""It’s a Wonderful life"". The region is the former realm of the Cayuga tribe, who were visited by Jesuit missionaries"
"challenged her to milk a cow on set. ""It's a Wonderful Life"" was shot at RKO Radio Pictures Studio in Culver City, California, and the 89 acre RKO movie ranch in Encino, where ""Bedford Falls"" consisted of Art Director Max Ree's Oscar-winning sets originally designed for the 1931 epic film ""Cimarron"" that covered 4 acres (1.6 ha), assembled from three separate parts, with a main street stretching 300 yards (three city blocks), with 75 stores and buildings, and a residential neighborhood. For ""It's a Wonderful Life"" Capra built a working bank set, added a tree-lined center parkway, and planted 20"
"Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, also known as Wonderful Town, USA, is a 42-episode live half-hour variety television series which aired on CBS from June 16, 1951, to April 12, 1952, in which Faye Emerson visits various cities, mostly in the United States, to focus on the different kinds of music associated with each location. ""Wonderful Town"" is one of several 1950s series in which Emerson, called the ""first lady of television,"" had a starring role. Emerson's third husband, bandleader Skitch Henderson, appeared with her on the series. Because the series was broadcast on location, it was"
"The town is believed by some to have been the inspiration for the fictional town of ""Bedford Falls, N.Y."" portrayed in filmmaker Frank Capra's classic 1940s film ""It's a Wonderful Life"". The region was in the domain of the Cayuga tribe and visited by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th Century. The Cayuga were allies of the British and attacked American settlements from the outset of the revolution. The Sullivan Expedition of 1779 was sent to destroy native villages and kill the warriors. After the war, the village and surrounding land became part of the Central New York Military Tract, land"
"It Was a Wonderful Life It Was a Wonderful Life is a 1993 documentary film about homeless women in the United States. It won the Gold Award at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. It was also nominated for an award by the International Documentary Association and for Best Documentary at the Hawaii International Film Festival. The film follows six homeless women who were once part of the middle class and explores what caused them to become homeless. It was narrated by Jodie Foster. Lou Hall, one of the homeless women in the film, took her own life on November 7,"
"held in Upstate New York. In 1969 the Woodstock Festival was held in Bethel, New York, while in 1973 another multiday festival was held at the Watkins Glen International Raceway. Some literary, documentary and cinematic depictions of upstate present a sense of small town, simple lifestyles, such as ""It's a Wonderful Life"", set in a small upstate town (probably based on Seneca Falls) in the 1940s. The population of New York State is 19,746,227, with 11,323,961 living in either New York City or Long Island, leaving only 8,422,266 for the entire rest of the state. This means Upstate NY has"
"A Wonderful Life"", while Schneider described it as """"It's A Wonderful Life"" without the Wonderful."" The film was shot on location in Smithville, Texas. ""Doonby"" was released through crowdsource funding. It previewed during the 64th annual 2011 Cannes Film Festival. It received a limited release in February 2012 to be followed by wider release in the United States during the spring. The film was given wide release on February 17, 2012 by Freestyle Releasing In 2014 distribution company CMD Distribution obtained DVD distribution rights. ""Doonby"" resonated with many pro-life organizations due to its anti-abortion theme. Activist Norma McCorvey ( 1947-2017),"
"1958, the same year that she was divorced from Henderson. She spent her last years in seclusion and died of stomach cancer at the age of sixty-five on the island of Majorca. Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, also known as Wonderful Town, USA, is a 42-episode live half-hour variety television series which aired on CBS from June 16, 1951, to April 12, 1952, in which Faye Emerson visits various cities, mostly in the United States, to focus on the different kinds of music associated with each location. ""Wonderful Town"" is one of several 1950s series in which"
"a sleazy and dangerous place filled with whiskey joints, crime, pawnshops, violence, and seedy entertainment establishments. When George returns to town most of the town has raised a collection to help make up the financial loss, culminating with a massive advance supplied by George's wealthy industrialist friend Sam Wainwright that more than makes up the difference. Mr. Potter Henry F. Potter (commonly referred to as ""Mr. Potter"" or just ""Potter"") is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1946 Frank Capra film ""It's a Wonderful Life"". He occupies slot #6 on the American Film Institute's list of the"
"you two guys? You were here on my wedding night!"" Streaming audio It's a Wonderful Life It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy comedy-drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet ""The Greatest Gift"", which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and published privately in 1945. The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his dreams in order to help others, and whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George"
"Wonderful Town (film) Wonderful Town is a 2007 Thai film written and directed by Aditya Assarat. Set on the mainland north of Phuket Island in the dreary post-tsunami Khao Lak area and Takua Pa town, Phang Nga Province, shooting was completed in December 2006, for which Aditya had secured funding from Singha Beer and Rolex. More money was needed for post-production work, funds were provided by the Thailand Ministry of Culture's Office of Contemporary Art and Culture. ""Wonderful Town"" premiered at the 2007 Busan International Film Festival. It won the festival's top prize, the New Currents Award and a US$90,000"
"It's a Wonderful Life It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy comedy-drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet ""The Greatest Gift"", which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and published privately in 1945. The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his dreams in order to help others, and whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched, and how different life in his"
"noticeably more focused effort. Though it lacks ""Good Morning Spider""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s sprawling brilliance, it's possibly Linkous' most effective, and affecting, collection of songs."" The song ""Piano Fire"" was featured in the 2015 video game ""Life Is Strange"". It's a Wonderful Life (album) It's a Wonderful Life is the third studio album by American musical act Sparklehorse, released in August 2001 by record label Capitol/EMI. The album features appearances by Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, John Parish, Nina Persson and Dave Fridmann. It was the band's most successful album commercially, selling over 63,000 copies. Mark Linkous recorded his first two albums, ""Good Morning"
"books that followed the story more closely; however, ""Alice"" is intended to be a modern interpretation, imagining how Wonderland might have evolved over the last 143 years. The mini-series was partially shot in the Kamloops, B.C., Canada area. Alice Hamilton is a judo sensei living with her mother Carol. Her father disappeared when she was ten, and she has spent much of her life looking for him. She invites her new boyfriend Jack Chase to dinner, but is shocked when he gives her a valuable-looking ring as a gift. Jack abruptly leaves, Alice following only to witness Jack being abducted"
"It's a Wonderful Life (TV series) It's a Wonderful Life (simplified Chinese: 好运到) is a Singaporean Chinese New Year 2013 drama. It was telecast on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. It stars Ha Yu , Lin Meijiao , Chen Liping , Huang Wenyong , Elvin Ng , Julie Tan & Paige Chua as the casts of the series. It made its debut on 21 January 2013 and consists of 20 episodes and was screened on every weekday night at 9:00 pm. It was also Huang Wenyong's final drama before his death on 20 April 2013. The series is one"
"It's a Wonderful Life (2007 film) It's a Wonderful Life is a 2007 Hong Kong comedy film written, directed by and starring Ronald Cheng, who makes his directorial debut. The film co-stars Tony Leung, Vincent Kok, Alex Fong, Teresa Mo and Louisa So. The Jade Emperor (Patrick Dunn) is offering a reward for a proposal plan to promote the economy of Heaven. When Thunder God (Ronald Cheng), who known for his cleverness, submits his proposal to the Jade Emperor, Thunder God's girlfriend, the Saint of Nine Heavens (Mia Yam), reveals that thirty years ago, Thunder God once descended to Earth"
"career. In the ""wishing"" scene outside the old Granville house, Capra was surprised to see Reed accurately throw a stone to break a window, a skill she acquired playing baseball with her brothers on their Iowa farm. Mary Hatch Mary Hatch Bailey is a fictional character in Frank Capra's 1946 film ""It's a Wonderful Life"". She is the high school sweetheart and later wife of protagonist George Bailey (played by James Stewart as an adult and Bobby Anderson as a child). Mary is played by Donna Reed as an adult and Jean Gale as a child. She is loosely based"
"The Jimmy Stewart Museum The Jimmy Stewart Museum is a museum dedicated to American actor James Stewart (1908–1997) that is located in Stewart's hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania. The museum is located in the actor's hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania on the third floor of the Indiana Public Library. The museum highlights the movie career of Stewart, including his role in the 1946 Christmas classic ""It's a Wonderful Life"", as well as his service as a World War II bomber pilot. It contains numerous artifacts from Stewart's childhood, military career, and home life, as well as movie posters and memorabilia. Visitors can"
"and the O'Brien family papers; and, an autograph album which belonged to Captain Randolph Owen of Alabama which included autographs of Confederate military leaders imprisoned by Union Forces at Johnson's Island, Ohio after the Civil War. The Terrell Historical Library is located in the original First Baptist Church of Beaumont. Built in 1927 for Jefferson Amusement Company, Jefferson Theatre was built at a cost of $1 million and constructed of the finest materials available at the time. ""It's A Wonderful Life"" 1946 premiere was held at the Jefferson Theatre, with star James Stewart and director Frank Capra in attendance. Julie"
"1992. It Was a Wonderful Life It Was a Wonderful Life is a 1993 documentary film about homeless women in the United States. It won the Gold Award at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. It was also nominated for an award by the International Documentary Association and for Best Documentary at the Hawaii International Film Festival. The film follows six homeless women who were once part of the middle class and explores what caused them to become homeless. It was narrated by Jodie Foster. Lou Hall, one of the homeless women in the film, took her own life on November"
"The Llanview zip code is noted to be 19100 in the January 21, 2009 episode. Llanview Llanview, Pennsylvania is the fictional setting for the long-running American soap opera ""One Life to Live"". The city exists in the same fictional universe as cities from other existing or defunct ABC daytime dramas, including Pine Valley, Pennsylvania from ""All My Children"", Port Charles, New York from ""General Hospital"", and Corinth, Pennsylvania from ""Loving"". The community is supposedly a suburb of Philadelphia, modeled after the actual Chestnut Hill section of the city, though the name ""Llanview"" suggests an inspiration closer to the Welsh settlements"
"Bob Holness lived in the town as a child and attended Herne Bay Primary School until moving to Ashford. Nicki Chapman, the judge on the UK television series ""Popstars"" and ""Pop Idol"", was born and raised in the town. Originally from London, Daniel Tammet, the subject of the UK documentary ""The Boy with the Incredible Brain"", has now moved to the town. He is an autistic savant with outstanding abilities in mathematics, sequence memorising and language learning. Lydia Cecilia Hill (1913–1940), known as Cissie Hill, lived at Westcliff; she was a favourite of Ibrahim of Johor and former dancer. The"
"and Raposo worked for many years to put together a musical version of ""It's a Wonderful Life"", but just as the musical's book was completed, a controversy arose over the rights to the underlying Stern story that delayed production of the show. During this delay, Raposo died of cancer in 1989. ""A Wonderful Life"" was performed initially at the University of Michigan in 1986. The first professional production took place at the Wagon Wheel Playhouse in Warsaw, Indiana, in 1988, followed by a staged reading at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, New Jersey, in 1990. It was produced at Washington,"
"Miracle Village, a small community of sex offenders, located in the middle of sugar cane fields near rural Pahokee, Florida. The isolated community, which though small is the largest such community in the United States, formerly housed sugar cane workers, now replaced by machines. It was chosen because of its isolation, because laws in Florida, which takes pride in being the harshest state for sex offenders, restrict, sometimes severely, where they can live. (See Julia Tuttle Causeway sex offender colony.) There are six actors; all play more than one character. All are based on real residents of Miracle Village, although"
"Wonderful Life (2005 TV series) Wonderful Life () is a 2005 South Korean television series starring Kim Jaewon, Eugene, Lee Ji-hoon, Han Eun-jung and Jung Da-bin. It aired on MBC from March 7 to April 26, 2005 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. Han Seung-wan (Kim Jaewon) travels to Singapore to visit his first love, Lee Chae-young (Han Eun-jung). At the airport, he bumps into a young woman named Jung Se-jin (Eugene), and they accidentally swap passports. While Se-jin is on her way to the address listed on Seung-wan's passport, she meets Min Do-hyun (Lee Ji-hoon), who"
"parents. Grizzly Peak Films also filmed ""Sasquatch Mountain"", a feature-length film for the Science Fiction Channel about a Yeti, in Flagstaff and nearby Williams. In December 2007, talk show hostess Ellen DeGeneres selected Flagstaff as the winner of her show's ""Wish You Were Here"" contest. Flagstaff has five sister cities: Flagstaff, Arizona Flagstaff is a city in and the county seat of Coconino County in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In 2015, the city's estimated population was 70,320. Flagstaff's combined metropolitan area has an estimated population of 139,097. The city is named after a ponderosa pine flagpole made"
"of film. Wonderful Life (1964 film) Wonderful Life (US: Swingers' Paradise) is a 1964 British film made as a vehicle for pop star Cliff Richard and is the third (although the least successful) in a series of film musicals that included ""The Young Ones"" and ""Summer Holiday"". Written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass, directed by Sidney J. Furie, choreographed by Gillian Lynne, it also stars Susan Hampshire, Una Stubbs, Melvyn Hayes, Richard O'Sullivan, Gerald Harper and The Shadows. The movie was filmed in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria city in Spain, and the ""desert"" scenes shot on Maspalomas sand"
"Wonderful Life (1964 film) Wonderful Life (US: Swingers' Paradise) is a 1964 British film made as a vehicle for pop star Cliff Richard and is the third (although the least successful) in a series of film musicals that included ""The Young Ones"" and ""Summer Holiday"". Written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass, directed by Sidney J. Furie, choreographed by Gillian Lynne, it also stars Susan Hampshire, Una Stubbs, Melvyn Hayes, Richard O'Sullivan, Gerald Harper and The Shadows. The movie was filmed in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria city in Spain, and the ""desert"" scenes shot on Maspalomas sand dunes on"
"Llanview Llanview, Pennsylvania is the fictional setting for the long-running American soap opera ""One Life to Live"". The city exists in the same fictional universe as cities from other existing or defunct ABC daytime dramas, including Pine Valley, Pennsylvania from ""All My Children"", Port Charles, New York from ""General Hospital"", and Corinth, Pennsylvania from ""Loving"". The community is supposedly a suburb of Philadelphia, modeled after the actual Chestnut Hill section of the city, though the name ""Llanview"" suggests an inspiration closer to the Welsh settlements of Upper Merion Township and Lower Merion Township north west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The name"