It's A Wonderful Life Frank Capra

References

  1. ^ The original budget had been set at $3 million.[2]
  2. ^ It was not a true "Christmas card", but rather, a 24-page pamphlet.[15]
  3. ^ The project went through many hands, including Howard Hughes', who reportedly was interested.[19]
  4. ^ Photographs of parts of the RKO set can be seen on retroweb.com.[46]
  5. ^ "Mugging Main Street" was reprinted in Farber on Film, Library of America, 2009, pp. 307–309.
  6. ^ Capra's re-editing of the original score by Dimitri Tiomkin was restored to the Tiomkin version by Willard Carroll in the 1980s and released on a CD in 1988.[88]
  7. ^ The United States copyright of The Greatest Gift will expire in 2038, 95 years after its publication.
  8. ^ Voyager Company's Hard Day's Night, released in May 1993, slightly predated the Kinesoft product. It was originally advertised as an audio CD.
  9. ^ Note the spelling difference for "Oddbody".
  10. ^ Welles signed on for projects like this in the 1970s so he could fund his own projects, including F for Fake, the then-unfinished The Other Side of the Wind, and his documentary, Filming Othello.[114]
  11. ^ Local televisions stations do occasionally replay the movie.

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