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SUMMARY:IN PERSON- America’s Favorite Holiday Movie: A Look Inside It’
 s a Wonderful Life
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LOCATION:100 Poverty Road, Southbury, CT 06488, United States
ROOM: Kingsley Room A/B
DESCRIPTION:This program will be delivered via Zoom and will be streamed t
 o our Kingsley Room. If you want to watch the program from home, registerÂ
  here.\r\nVoted the most inspirational movie ever made by the American Fil
 m Institute, Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life has been a beloved Ch
 ristmas classic for many generations. The snowbound streets of Bedford Fal
 ls, the desperate travails of George Bailey, and the discovery of Zuzu’s
  petals have become traditional signatures of the holiday season. Yet when
  the film was released in 1946, it was a box-office flop, won no Academy A
 wards, and was largely forgotten—until it was rediscovered through endle
 ss airings on local TV stations beginning in the 1970s and on annual Chris
 tmas eve broadcasts on NBC starting in 1992. This talk will examine the fa
 scinating story of It’s a Wonderful Life, looking at the challenges of h
 ow it was made, its surprisingly dark portrait of small-town life, and how
  it became the ultimate portrayal of holiday goodwill and cheer.\r\nBrian 
 Rose is a professor emeritus at Fordham University. He’s written several
  books on television history and cultural programming, and conducted more 
 than a hundred Q&A’s with leading directors, actors, and writers for
  the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Screen Actors Guil
 d, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Directors Guil
 d of America.\r\nLike all Southbury Public Library programs, this event is
  free to attend and open to anyone regardless of town of residency. Regist
 ration is required. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Southb
 ury Public Library. For more information about this program, please email 
 Rebecca at rrandall@biblio.org or call the reference desk at 203-262-0626 
 ext 130.
URL:https://www.southburylibrary.org/event/person-americas-favorite-holida
 y-movie-look-inside-its-wonderful-life
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