"Last Word"-It's A Wonderful Movie
Wednesday, December 20, 2006SUSIE GHARIB: And finally tonight, 60 years later, it's still a wonderful movie. Today is the 60th anniversary of the first showing of director Frank Capra's classic movie "It's a Wonderful Life." The film, starring James Stewart and Donna Reed, premiered at the old Globe theater in New York on this date in 1946 at a private screening for charity. It opened in general release the next day. Stewart's character, George Bailey, finds the meaning of life by learning what the world would have been like without him. The film has become a Christmas classic. But Paul, Capra didn't intend it that way. It was the first movie he made after serving in World War II and he just wanted it to celebrate the lives of ordinary Americans who try to do the right thing for their families and friends.
KANGAS: Mr. Capra certainly did the right thing for movie-goers.
GHARIB: I love that movie.
KANGAS: A great one.
