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- To obtain Spencer Tracy for the lead role, when he was under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Liberty Films agreed to pay for use of MGM's production facilities to make the picture, and to pay MGM's parent company a percentage distribution fee.
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Nov 10, 2022 · Frustrated by the major studios, that same year Capra had set up his own independent production company, Liberty Films. He adapted the story into what we now know as It’s a Wonderful Life in 1946, instead lining up James (Jimmy) Stewart for the role of George Bailey.
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It's A Wonderful Life (1946), originally made for Liberty Films, is one of the most popular and heartwarming films ever made by director Frank Capra. Frank Capra regarded this film as his own personal favorite - it was also James Stewart's favorite of all his feature films.
In the purchase, Paramount acquired Liberty's interest in three movies: It's a Wonderful Life, I Remember Mama (which George Stevens was filming at RKO), [N 2] and State of the Union (not yet filmed).
Jan 3, 2012 · – It was the first film made by Frank Capra’s production company Liberty Films. Capra also directed, produced and co-wrote the film. – It is said that the role of Mary was first offered to Jean Arthur, Ginger Rogers, Anne Dvorak, Olivia de Havilland, Laraine Day and Martha Scott before Donna Reed got the part.
Dec 25, 2023 · Although It’s a Wonderful Life was in many ways a deeply progressive, compassionate and anti-capitalist piece of work, it was not immune to the pervasive racial biases of the time.
Dec 21, 2016 · But Munby posits that the subject matter may have just been too dark for a holiday-season audience in 1946: the Depression-era and wartime concerns of It’s a Wonderful Life were still too...
Jan 28, 2020 · Believe it or not, It’s A Wonderful Life was viewed as a not-so-wonderful family film by Hollywood censor Joseph Breen. He felt that many scenes were too racy, overly-romantic or sexually explicit, and he demanded that several shots be cut.
