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Fortunately, Capra, over at Columbia, found in Stewart "the uncommon common man": as a lion tamer of the wild Vanderhof clan in You Can't Take It with You and as Jefferson Smith, patron saint of patriotic lost causes, nurser of noble grudges, in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. David O. Selznick saw Stewart as a worthy partner for Carole Lombard in the intelligent soaper Made for Each Other. Somebody at Universal made him the unlikely western hero of Destry Rides Again, opposite an amused Marlene Dietrich. These moguls may have undervalued Stewart as an appealing young actor who wouldn...
Watch him at work in the 1946 It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra's Christmas confection with the bittersweet center. Stewart, as young George Bailey, is stepping up on one of his shaky soapboxes to tell off crippled town bully Lionel Barrymore. It is the first of many righteous harangues George will deliver, and at first he doesn't realize this one will get him in serious trouble, for he is talking himself into a lifetime sentence in Bedford Falls. Stewart seemed to spend most of his career on the threshold of puberty; the anguished ripple of a high...
...alternative is to take a lesson from Disney and an army of developers, who are betting fortunes on the idea that everyone from young families to retirees wants to eat in a theme restaurant and live in a Frank Capra set, where the paint never peels and families gather after dinner to play Parcheesi. And so contractors are carving a 430-acre town out of cornfields north of Washington, replete with sidewalks and gazebos and town squares and the transplanted totems of an easier age. The deep American nostalgia for rural life may owe more to fantasy than memory...
...Jeanine Basinger, author of "The It's A Wonderful Life Book" and a film studies professor at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, about the claim by certain residents of Seneca Falls, NY, that director Frank Capra had their town in mind when he made his classic Christmas movie...
...found yourself channel surfing in December, you could bet your Christmas bonus you'd find George Bailey doing some reassessing. No longer: It's a Wonderful Life airs just once annually. This year NBC celebrates the 50th anniversary of the film with a showing of director Frank Capra's original cut (Dec. 21). For the less sentimental, Comedy Central offers a spoof that uses the film's footage with new dialogue. Look for Bailey as a Bruce Willis clone...