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...Bailey wants to ensure the intensity of Australia's Twenty20 team is as high as that of the Test team © Getty Images New captain, new format, same attitude. Australia's new Twenty20 captain, George Bailey, has set himself the marker of ensuring the high standards...
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Growing up on his family sheep and crops farm in northern Tasmania, George Bailey played a lot of cricket, tennis and football as a kid, but decided against tennis when he found turning professional would have required him leaving school at 16.
It's a Wonderful Life Clip j.mp click to subscribe - Clarence (Henry Travers) tells George (James Stewart) what's really happening to him, but George doesn't believe it. TM & © Paramount (2011) Cast: James Stewart, Henry Travers Director: Frank Capra MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to More Movie Clips: j.mp Producer: Frank Capra Screenwriter: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Frank Capra, Jo Swerling, Michael Wilson, Philip Van Doren Stern Film Description: This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt guiding force of a bank in the typical American small town of Bedford Falls. As the film opens, it's Christmas Eve, 1946, and George, who has long considered himself a failure, faces financial ruin and arrest and is seriously contemplating suicide. High above Bedford Falls, two celestial voices discuss Bailey's dilemma and decide to send down eternally bumbling angel Clarence Oddbody (Henry Travers), who after 200 years has yet to earn his wings, to help George out. But first, Clarence is given a crash course on George's life, and the multitude of selfless acts he has performed: rescuing his younger brother from drowning, losing the hearing in his left ear in the process; enduring a beating rather than allow a grieving druggist (HB Warner) to deliver poison by mistake to an ailing child; foregoing college and a long-planned ...
It's a Wonderful Life Clip j.mp click to subscribe - George (James Stewart) breaks down and prays to God to let him live again, and his wish is granted. TM & © Paramount (2011) Cast: Ward Bond, James Stewart Director: Frank Capra MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to More Movie Clips: j.mp Producer: Frank Capra Screenwriter: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Frank Capra, Jo Swerling, Michael Wilson, Philip Van Doren Stern Film Description: This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt guiding force of a bank in the typical American small town of Bedford Falls. As the film opens, it's Christmas Eve, 1946, and George, who has long considered himself a failure, faces financial ruin and arrest and is seriously contemplating suicide. High above Bedford Falls, two celestial voices discuss Bailey's dilemma and decide to send down eternally bumbling angel Clarence Oddbody (Henry Travers), who after 200 years has yet to earn his wings, to help George out. But first, Clarence is given a crash course on George's life, and the multitude of selfless acts he has performed: rescuing his younger brother from drowning, losing the hearing in his left ear in the process; enduring a beating rather than allow a grieving druggist (HB Warner) to deliver poison by mistake to an ailing child; foregoing college and a long-planned trip to Europe to keep ...
It's a Wonderful Life Clip j.mp click to subscribe - George (James Stewart) regales Mary (Donna Reed) with all of his dreams for the future. TM & © Paramount (2011) Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed Director: Frank Capra MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to More Movie Clips: j.mp Producer: Frank Capra Screenwriter: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Frank Capra, Jo Swerling, Michael Wilson, Philip Van Doren Stern Film Description: This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt guiding force of a bank in the typical American small town of Bedford Falls. As the film opens, it's Christmas Eve, 1946, and George, who has long considered himself a failure, faces financial ruin and arrest and is seriously contemplating suicide. High above Bedford Falls, two celestial voices discuss Bailey's dilemma and decide to send down eternally bumbling angel Clarence Oddbody (Henry Travers), who after 200 years has yet to earn his wings, to help George out. But first, Clarence is given a crash course on George's life, and the multitude of selfless acts he has performed: rescuing his younger brother from drowning, losing the hearing in his left ear in the process; enduring a beating rather than allow a grieving druggist (HB Warner) to deliver poison by mistake to an ailing child; foregoing college and a long-planned trip to Europe to keep the Bailey ...
thefilmarchive.org DVD: www.amazon.com November 22, 1951 Charles Gerstle Levison (January 26, 1905 -- July 9, 2007), better known as Charles Lane, was an American character actor seen in many movies and TV shows, and at the time of his death may have been the oldest living professional American actor. Lane appeared in many Frank Capra films, including You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). He was a favored supporting actor of Lucille Ball, who often used him as a no-nonsense authority figure and comedic foe of her scatterbrained TV character on her TV series I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour and The Lucy Show. Lane spent a short time as an insurance salesman before taking to the stage at the Pasadena Playhouse. Actor/director Irving Pichel first suggested that Lane go into acting in 1929, and four years later Lane was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild. He became a favorite of director Frank Capra, who used him in several films; in It's a Wonderful Life, Lane played a seemingly hard-nosed rent collector for the miserly Henry Potter (Lionel Barrymore), who tried to explain to his employer that many of his tenants were moving out, taking advantage of affordable mortgages provided by the film's protagonist, George Bailey (James Stewart). Lane also appeared in the 1949 film Mighty Joe Young, as one of the reporters cajoling Max O'Hara (Robert Armstrong) for ...
Actors George Keating and Anna Hammonds perform a scene from Joe Landry's play in the 2010 production of the four-star classic, "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play". Directed by Rachel Rockwell. Produced by Fox Valley Repertory. Playing at Pheasant Run Resort November 25 through December 23, 2011. Visit www.foxvalleyrep.org or more information. Video by www.stagechannel.com
On Christmas Eve 1946, George Bailey (James Stewart) is deeply depressed, even suicidal. Prayers for George are heard by the angels. Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers), an Angel Second Class, is sent to Earth to save him—and thereby earn his wings. Joseph, the head angel, reviews George's life with Clarence. As a 12-year-old boy in 1919, George (Bobby Anderson) saved the life of his younger brother Harry (Todd Karns) after he fell through the ice on a pond, though George got an ear infection that impaired his hearing in one ear. Later, as an errand boy in a pharmacy, George stopped his boss, local druggist Mr. Gower (HB Warner), from mistakenly filling a child's prescription with poison while grief-stricken over the death of his son from influenza. From childhood, George's greatest ambition has been to see the world and design bridges and skyscrapers. However, he repeatedly has to sacrifice his dreams for the well-being of others. He puts off going to college to help in the family business until Harry graduates from high school and can replace him at the Bailey Building and Loan Association, vital to many of the disadvantaged in town. On Harry's graduation night in 1928, George discusses his future with Mary Hatch (Donna Reed), who has had a crush on him since she was a little girl. Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell) and Harry then break the news to George that his father has had a stroke. Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore), a heartless slumlord, seizes the opportunity to try to ...
Please share this video! www.facebook.com Jana Stanfield's "George Bailey" Music Video (Official) The amazing Jana Stanfield performs her original song "George Bailey" (Jana Stanfield/Deanna Walker) from the CD "What Would You Do This Year If You Had No Fear." Watch and see why this is many people's favorite song from her new CD. Inspired by one of Jana Stanfield's favorite movies, "It's A Wonderful Life," and her passion for traveling the globe doing Keynote Concerts, the song "George Bailey" was born. The video for "George Bailey" features personal footage from Jana Stanfield's travels all over the world. What would you do this year if you had no fear? No more waiting! Get Jana's Holiday Deals Here: www.JanaStanfield.com Video produced by Andrew Rozario www.parkerrozario.com Interested in going on one of Jana's Volun-Tourism Trips? Please visit www.janastanfield.com ABOUT JANA STANFIELD You've heard her music on 20/20, Entertainment Tonight, Oprah, the movie 8 Seconds, and radio stations nationwide. Her compositions are sung by Reba McEntire, Andy Williams and others, and Jana has shared stages with fellow performers ranging from Kenny Loggins to The Dixie Chicks. Keynote Concerts, Inc. is the name of Jana's speaking business. For the past 15 years, Jana has made her living as a Keynote speaker at conferences and corporate events. Relatively Famous Records has become one of the most successful companies of its kind. Jana started the company on her dining room table as ...
George Bailey tries to figure out just exactly what Mister Potter's point is.
Atta boy, Clarence!
The music video for George Bailey by Carolyn Sills (www.carolynsills.com)... featuring Carolyn Sills on vocals/bass, Dennis Pierce on guitars and Andy Pierce on drums, piano and percussion. Animation by Rob Ludacer (www.robludacer.com), brought to you by Silent Stereo Records (silentstereorecords.com). "What is it you want Mary, what do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down..." Happy holidays everyone!
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51st IPL T20: Chennai Super Kings win toss, elect to bat
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...a senior executive at IBM, George Bailey often coached Japanese electronics companies to break free of the low-margin business of churning out new gizmos every few months. He encouraged them instead to think holistically about how to use technology—and software—to...
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...and regain ground Sony has lost to rivals such as Apple and Nintendo. TOKYO -- Sony announced Friday the appointment of IBM's George Bailey to a newly created post of senior vp and Chief Transformation Officer, with a brief to help restructure the struggling...
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that everyone and everything would be better without him. He wishes he had never been born. In this tale, George gets a glimpse of what he wished for. Dramatically Changed Ministries (DCM) presents a story inspired by the 1949 all time Christmas classic, 'It's a Wonderful Life'. DCM's got there name from what they do best, they get stories from inspiring movies, shows, musicals, plays, or a combination of, writes them to include a message of hope, love and faith. DCM's goal through its ...
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Whenever Dick Cheney grants one of his throaty interviews to FOX News, my mind jumps instantly to Frank Capra's iconic film "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946). While some vice presidents fade into obscurity and others become presidents, Cheney has chosen
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Its April 15th and that means time to bend over and take it. Whether youve hired a shifty accountant or youre stuck wading through the governments insane, out of date, confusing tax system which you dont understand and filling out wrong could get
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Cinema Blend
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George talks with Bailey about his reprovation on the exam
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I've had George Bailey on my mind of late. You remember Frank Capra's everyman from "It's a Wonderful Life?" I keep picturing the scene where he's just wrecked his car, his life in shambles and he's standing at the rail of that bridge contemplating
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The St. George Spectrum
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John: Favorite movie? Casablanca.
Berg: Searching for Bobby Fisher.
Chris: You know mine, It's a Wonderful Life. And the other --
John: Gotta say, once you realize George Bailey dies in the middle, it's a totally different movie.
Chris: ... what?
John:
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Kung Fu Monkey
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A REARGUARD innings of the highest quality by George Bailey allowed Tasmania to scramble to 7-178 against South Australia at tea on day one of the Sheffield Shield match at Adelaide Oval.
Resuming after lunch at 6-81, the Tigers lost their seventh
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The Australian
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The Story of My Life - Broadway opened its doors to this little musical, giving it maximum exposure after its early days off Broadway in Canada and at the Goodspeed in Connecticut. That may have been a mistake. For I call it “little” in the sense that
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D.C. Theater Scene
http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/02/23/story-of-my-life-shipwrecked-and-ruined/
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PLAINFIELD — The closest comparison Plainfield Area Humane Society Director Susan MacWhinney-Ciufo could think of to best describe her emotions was the memorable ending of the 1946 film classic "It's a Wonderful Life."
In the movie, protagonist George
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PLAINFIELD — The closest comparison Plainfield Area Humane Society Director Susan MacWhinney-Ciufo could think of to best describe her emotions was the memorable ending of the 1946 film classic "It's a Wonderful Life."
In the movie, protagonist George
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...of Schenectady, N.Y., Sarah Brady of Attleboro, and Rebecca Bailey Schley of South Strafford, Vt.; three sons, George Duff Bailey of Chappaqua, N.Y., Leonie Howard of Sharon, and Thomas G. of Watertown; two brothers, Bruce of Concord and Donald of Boston;...
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As Slumdog Millionaire marches toward its seemingly inevitable best picture win at the Academy Awards - it's the obvious popular favourite in a bland batch of nominees - those of us who've managed to resist the movie's ingratiating charms are more
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James Rocchi can be found at his personal website, The Rocchi Report.
In the course of this column, I'm going to tell you three things you don't know right now. They're not secrets, exactly, but they all have a point, I assure you, and they all
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NEVER FORGOTTEN: "Cylindel Sun God" portrayed by McDonald Ward and designed by Alvin Bailey in 1970 for George Bailey's band, Tears of the Indies.
On August 14, 1970, at just 35 years old, masman George Aldwyn Bailey succumbed to a heart attack on the
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At the Cygnet's Rolando Theatre, 6663 El Cajon Blvd., through Dec. 28; for tickets and information, visit cygnettheatre.com or call (619) 337-1525.
Review: When “It's a Wonderful Life” was over, I was delighted. The actors were extremely talented;
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How popular is It’s a Wonderful Life?
It’s widely beloved. The American Film Institute has named it the No. 1 “inspirational” film of all time, as well as the 11th best film ever. It came in fourth in a Chicago Tribune poll of favorite movies, behind
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The Week
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There’s a wonderful scene in Frank Capra’s holiday masterpiece, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” when Lionel Barrymore’s Mr. Potter tries to buy out Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey.
The nasty, gnarly Potter offers the credulous George a big salary, the finest
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MSNBC
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Sometimes I forget -- in my depression, in my financial difficulties this holiday season -- that one of the most famous characters in cinematic history faced the same situation 62 years ago, Christmas 1945. In fact, he was suicidal from being
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One of the best things about old movies is that they're, well, old. Among other pleasures, they offer a unique form of time travel, immersing us in bygone styles of dress and speech, quaint habits and notions. Hollywood classics, in particular, provide
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In It's a Wonderful Life, when George Bailey gets his wish to never have been born, he becomes a witness to the dramatic changes in his Bedford Falls community if, indeed, he had never lived. George is humbled to see how many lives he had touched and
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Charlotte Creative Loafing
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...Stewart is delivering lines from the Christmas classic, "It's a Wonderful Life." It's the bank run scene. Stewart, playing George Bailey, is frantically attempting to calm the nerves of depositors at the Bailey Building and Loan, who are clamoring to withdraw...
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Salem Statesman-Journal
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There’s a wonderful scene in Frank Capra’s holiday masterpiece, It’s a Wonderful Life, when Lionel Barrymore’s Mr. Potter tries to buy out Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey.
The nasty, gnarly Potter offers the credulous George a big salary, the finest
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Conde Nast Portfolio
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Joe Queenan gets it so wrong in his swipe at It's a Wonderful Life (Don't get cute, 24 December). We recently watched the film and were struck not by the similarities to the current sub-prime disaster but by the alternative economy that is at the heart
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Guardian Unlimited
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It was Christmas 1983 and I remember it like it was yesterday. You see, that was the year that Santa brought my first VCR. (For those kids out there under the age of 10, that stands for Video Cassette Recorder and was something we used to watch movies
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
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It's a Wonderful Life is a Hollywood classic if ever there was one, no doubt watched by many of you as the snow piled up outside and Christmas Day approached.
But it's fair to say that the film, starring Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey, is more relevant
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
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“It’s a Wonderful Life” was made for an audience that understood the suffering that total self-sacrifice could require and didn’t scorn it. It’s no mistake that the movie’s action culminates with the return of George Bailey’s brother, a soldier, from
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There's a particularly terrifying moment very late in the totemic and chronically misunderstood It's A Wonderful Life when Jimmy Stewart's George Bailey rings the bell of Ma Bailey's boarding house in Pottersville, the alternative upstate New York town
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Huffington Post
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It's A Wonderful Life is a heartwarming classic film — but it now seems to have wrecked our economy. Whoops!
Portfolio is taking another look at It's a Wonderful Life and they're wondering if the villain of the film — the cold sensible businessman, Mr.
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Consumerist
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Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder:
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A long-delayed sequel to the classic James Stewart Christmas movie 'It's a Wonderful Life', finds a new hero, Brian Cowen, getting a taste of what the world would have been like if he had never been born, writea
Frank McNally .
On a TV in the corner
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Irish Times
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23-Dec-2008
Written by: Mic Mell
The classic film has great relevance to today’s economic climate.
Frank Capra's classic film is a holiday staple. and is especially relevant today as a lesson.
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This post is a BizzyBlog Christmas Tradition.
“I want to live again! I want to live again!” George Bailey cried as he stood on a snow-covered iron bridge, the dark swirling river below. With help from Angel Second Class Clarence Oddbody, George had
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...moral hazard, and an economic recovery will not happen unless a sense of fairness is restored. In "It's a Wonderful Life," George Bailey calmed his worried depositors by assuring them that if they kept their faith in the institution, times would improve and...
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Austin American-Statesman
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WASHINGTON, December 22, 208—Boycott The New York Times editor Don Feder today called The Times “the Grinch that trashed a Christmas classic” in response to its sardonic December 19 critique of the beloved film, “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
“[New York
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Bluemont, Va. - In the Year of the Bailout, some of us found our inner George Bailey.
This year, as big corporations streamed to Washington for handouts, families like mine – with no groveling rights before Congress
– struggled to scrape by. Many of
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Christian Science Monitor
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