In the case of It's a Wonderful Life, that miracle actually came many years after the film's initial debut. When the movie bowed in 1946, it was such a flop that it ended up closing down the ...

No film is a failure if it has fans What’s long delighted film historians is the fact that when “It’s a Wonderful Life” debuted, it was largely deemed a wash. The film, whose signature ...

“It’s a Wonderful Life” will enjoy just that at the b.o ... Capra may not have taken here the stride forward in film-making technique he achieved in “It Happened One Night,” but ...

THE 75-year-old classic movie is an American drama production. It's a Wonderful Life has always been associated with Christmas but is it an actual Christmas movie? When the film was first released ...

In 2006, the American Film Institute ranked “It’s a Wonderful Life” first on its list of the 100 most inspiring motion pictures ever made. To judge from the enduring popularity of the 1946 ...

and made her movie debut in the musical Thank Your Lucky ... Patton, a niece of World War II General George Patton, came to It’s a Wonderful Life director Frank Capra’s attention via a USC ...

The one-time lost Christmas classic "It's A Wonderful Life" staged an unlikely comeback in the 1970s and 1980s by becoming a December TV staple, after underperforming at the box office and failing ...