How A Christmas Card Gave Us “It’s A Wonderful Life”

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

Today in 1946, the release of the movie “It’s A Wonderful Life.” It took a while for the movie to win its spot in the top ranks of holiday films - and the story on which the movie is based also took a little while to make its way into the world. Plus: that pool built under the gym floor in the movie? That's real. It’s a Wonderful Life was Based on a “Christmas Card” Short Story by Philip Van Doren Stern (Today I Found Out) Jimmy Stewart Owed His Most Memorable Holiday Performance to World War II (HistoryNet) The Pool in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is Real (Aqua Magazine) A mama dollar and a papa dollar a month on Patreon is all it would take to support this show

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