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Dec 25, 2016 · Though escapism has never entirely lost its value, American movie-going was significantly down in 1946. While It’s a Wonderful Life had one of the strongest box office openings of the year, it still failed to make a profit and recoup its $2.3 million budget. Much like how Hollywood operates today, director Frank Capra and his fellow producers ...
The company's art director, Brian Holmes, prepared 10 minutes of colorized footage from It's a Wonderful Life for Capra to view, which resulted in Capra signing a contract with Colorization Inc., and his "enthusiastic agree[ment] to pay half the $260,000 cost of colorizing the movie and to share any profits" and giving "preliminary approval to making similar color versions of two of his other ...
Taking only $3.3 million at the box office, It’s a Wonderful Life’s failure to recoup the $3.78 budget left Liberty Films in dire straits and Capra was forced to sell the company to Paramount Pictures.
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- It's a Wonderful Life all began with a Christmas card. After years of unsuccessfully trying to shop his short story, The Greatest Gift, to publishers, Philip Van Doren Stern decided to give the gift of words to his closest friends for the holidays when he printed up 200 copies of the story and sent them out as a 21-page Christmas card.
- Cary Grant was set to star in It's a Wonderful Life. When RKO purchased the rights, they did so with the plan of having Cary Grant in the lead. But, as happens so often in Hollywood, the project went through some ups and downs in the development process.
- Dorothy Parker worked on the script for It's a Wonderful Life. By the time It’s a Wonderful Life made it into theaters, the story was much different from Stern’s original tale.
- It's a Wonderful Life screenwriters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett walked out on the project. Though they’re credited as the film’s screenwriters with Capra, the husband and wife writing duo were not pleased with the treatment they received from Capra.
- It’s A Wonderful Life Initially Bombed At The Box Office. Given its reputation as being, you know, the biggest and best Christmas movie of all-time, you might think that 1946's It's A Wonderful Life would've made a killing at the box office.
- It’s A Wonderful Life Is Based On A Short Story For A Christmas Card. Based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren, It's A Wonderful Life had a curious method of reaching the silver screen.
- The Script Was Initially Considered Too ‘Racy’ While the movie deals with dark themes related to indecency, suicidal idealization, and financial instability, It's A Wonderful Life is a broadly accessible movie, one that has become a staple of holiday watches for a reason.
- Robert J. Anderson, Who Played Young George Bailey, Was Actually Slapped, Resulting In His Ear Bleeding. More often than not, when you see violence portrayed in a film, it's all make-believe.
Dec 2, 2016 · “Each man’s life touches so many other lives.” Grimes, 76, estimates that at this point, she has seen It’s a Wonderful Life 500 times. And it never gets old: “I absolutely love it ...
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Dec 20, 2016 · Budget: $3.18 million. Gross: $3.3 million [2] It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas supernatural drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift" self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A ...
