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“And Jimmy Stewart was the perfect guy to embody it.”
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“Her debut novel, Woodworking , was longlisted for the 2025 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.”
“Yet, the George we see through the vast majority of It’s a Wonderful Life is a guy who’s got it made.”
“Potter, George says: What’d you say just a minute ago?”
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“He yearned for freedom, excitement, and self-determination—everything a man in his country is supposed to want.”
“Is my flight going to be delayed?”
“During her journalism career, she served as the critic-at-large for Vox and the first TV editor of the A.V.”
“It couldn’t have helped that two of its screenwriters, the married couple of Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, “were very close to known Communists,” and that prior work on the script included a draft by the legendary Dalton Trumbo, later blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and Clifford Odets, a former member of the Communist Party whose career was tarnished after he cooperated with HUAC (to a debatable extent).”
“But the intensity of its consumerism and the import of its traditions also have a habit of freaking people out.”
“Through George , It’s a Wonderful Life is the tale of an American dream held, lost, and then reincarnated.”
“* It’s a Wonderful Life was Stewart’s first movie after his World War II hiatus, and it feels like the exact midpoint between the two Jimmys—the all-American boy and the unsettled man.”
“But even through these darker turns he never stopped being Jimmy Stewart , his characters’ menacing sides glossed over.”
“As Roger Ebert wrote in Awake in the Dark , praising Hanks and Stewart simultaneously: “The central triumph of Tom Hanks as a movie actor is that, most of the time, we believe he thinks a lot like us.”