You didn’t honestly think we were going to feature 12 films from Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas without talking about this one, did you? Clarence (Henry Travers), an angel who hasn’t earned his wings, learns all about the life of George Bailey (James Stewart) so that he can help the man on the darkest night of his life. George dreamed of seeing the world, but wound up staying in his small town of Bedford Falls, N.Y., to run his father’s Building and Loan company, lest the city’s crotchety rich man Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) take over everything. George falls in love with Mary (Donna Reed) and raises children with her, and under his direction, the Bailey Building and Loan builds homes for lots of working-class people in town who never thought they could afford one.
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12 Films of Christmas: It’s a Wonderful Life
