{"id":1757293,"date":"2022-11-30T15:18:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T20:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757293"},"modified":"2022-11-30T15:18:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T20:18:51","slug":"its-a-wonderful-life-to-hit-theaters-this-christmas-season-to-mark-its-75th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-a-wonderful-life-to-hit-theaters-this-christmas-season-to-mark-its-75th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s A Wonderful Life\u2019 To Hit Theaters This Christmas Season To Mark Its 75th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-a-wonderful-life-to-hit-theaters-this-christmas-season-to-mark-its-75th-anniversary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757293&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cIt\u2019s A Wonderful Life\u201d is returning to the big screen in December and just in time for the Christmas season to mark the classic movie\u2019s 75th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>In an announcement from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fathomevents.com\/events\/It&#039;s-a-Wonderful-Life-75th-Anniversary-presented-by-TCM\">Fathom Events<\/a>, Turner Classic Movies shared it will bring Frank Capra\u2019s great Christmas movie back to theaters for two days, December 18 and again on December 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmbraced as a cherished holiday tradition by families around the world, Frank Capra\u2019s heart-warming masterpiece now celebrates 75 years with this big-screen event,\u201d a description on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fathomevents.com\/events\/It&#039;s-a-Wonderful-Life-75th-Anniversary-presented-by-TCM\">movie site<\/a> read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorge Bailey (James Stewart) sets aside his dreams of world travel to run his father\u2019s small community bank, and protect the people of Bedford Falls from greedy businessman Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore),\u201d it added. \u201cWhen a costly mistake pushes George to the brink of despair, a visit from a kindly angel (Henry Travers) will show George how the life of one good man can change the world forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>IT\u2019S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CYem6cOO4z\">pic.twitter.com\/CYem6cOO4z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Leighton (@JamesL1927) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesL1927\/status\/1596914092551573505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film originally opened in theaters in the United States on January 7, 1947, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0038650\/\">IMDb<\/a>. Despite its popularity over the years, the movie was not a box office success when it came out. The themes of the film dealt with dark subjects like suicide and greed, but also love and faith. As one writer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.123helpme.com\/essay\/Theme-Of-Its-A-Wonderful-Life-FJ478AAK7T\">noted<\/a>, the fact this movie has grown in success over the years says a lot about how our culture has changed.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart, an Army Air Corps squadron commander who was grounded by PTSD after 20 combat missions over Europe in a B-24,\u00a0had just returned from war and was Capra\u2019s first pick to play Bailey. However, the actor initially wanted to nothing to do with the dark tones of the film, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/movies\/ct-jimmy-stewart-book-mov-1202-20161201-column.html\">Chicago Tribune<\/a> noted. It was only as a last resort \u2014 and a lack of any other offers \u2014 that Stewart finally agreed to take on the role.<\/p>\n<p>Author Robert Matzen writes about Stewart\u2019s battle with the role in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mission-Jimmy-Stewart-Fight-Europe\/dp\/0996274057\">Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe war had changed Jim [Stewart] down to the molecular level,\u201d Matzen wrote. \u201cHe could never begin to articulate what those four-and-a-half years, including fifteen months in combat, had done to him. One thing he could do was express a bit of it on-screen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the film\u2019s showing on NBC on Christmas Eve brought in more than three million viewers, proving the movie continues to entertain generation after generation, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/christmas-classic-its-a-wonderful-life-returns-theaters-75th-anniversary\">Washington Examiner<\/a> noted. For available showtimes in theaters near you, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fathomevents.com\/events\/It&#039;s-a-Wonderful-Life-75th-Anniversary-presented-by-TCM\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a Wonderful Life\u201d is returning to the big screen in December and just in time for the Christmas season to mark the classic movie\u2019s 75th anniversary. In an announcement from Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies shared it will bring Frank Capra\u2019s great Christmas movie back to theaters for two days, December 18 and again &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1757296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}