Its a wonderful life cast

1946 film by Frank Capra

This article is about the 1946 film. For other uses, see It's a Wonderful Life (disambiguation).

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmasfantasydrama film produced and directed by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift", self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol.^[4] The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his personal dreams in order to help others in his community and whose thoughts of suicide on Christmas Eve bring about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody.^[4] Clarence shows George all the lives he touched and what the world would be like if he had not existed.

Although it was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, It's a Wonderful Life initially received mixed reviews and was unsuccessful at the