" It consisted of two segments that parodied A Christmas Carol directed by Tony Kluck and It's a Wonderful Life directed by former DreamWorks Animation director Mike deSeve, as well as Christmas-themed music videos ( taken from the first Christmas special ) and several segments in which Butt-Head answered fan mail dressed as Santa Claus while whipping a reindeer-costumed Beavis.

Examples of this style of film include It's a Wonderful World ( 1939 ), The Shop Around the Corner ( 1940 ), Sabrina ( 1954 ), Annie Hall ( 1977 ), When Harry Met Sally ... ( 1989 ), Pretty Woman ( 1990 ), and Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ).

* 1946 – The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.

1946 saw RKO Radio releasing It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra.

Other leading films included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Meet John Doe ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and State of the Union ( 1948 ).

In addition to his three directing wins, Capra received directing nominations for three other films ( Lady for a Day, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Life ).

Although It's a Wonderful Life is his most well-known film, Friedman notes that it was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ) which most represented the " Capra myth.

However, the only picture completed by the studio was It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ).

Although It's a Wonderful Life and State of the Union were successful shortly after the war ended, Capra's themes were becoming more out of step with changes within the film industry and with the public mood.

An annual " It's a Wonderful Life " celebration that Capra attended in 1981, during which he said, " This is one of the proudest moments of my life ," was recounted in The New Yorker.

Some lesser known features were included in this deal as well, such as It's a Wonderful Life.

* In 1947, the studio acquired Frank Capra's production company, Liberty Films, which produced only 2 films in the 1940s: It's a Wonderful Life, released originally by RKO Radio Pictures, and State of the Union, released originally by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( the latter made under Paramount ownership ).

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" It's a Wonderful Life " ( 1946 )

* Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra ( 1946 ), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder ( 1944 ), Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli ( 1944 ), Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles ( 1941 )," The Great Dictator directed by Charlie Chaplin ( 1940 ).

** Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, and Thomas Mitchell, is released in New York.

A famous example of this theory is It's A Wonderful Life.

* It's a Wonderful World ( 1956 )

It's a Wonderful Life is an American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, that was based on the short story " The Greatest Gift ", written by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1939, and privately published by the author in 1945.

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It's a Wonderful Life: The Complete Script in its Original Form.

* Rodgers, James W. It's A Wonderful Life: A Play in Two Acts.

" Reclaiming the Real: It's a Wonderful Life ( Frank Capra, 1946 )".

* Capp, Al, Life Magazine ( March 31, 1952 ) " It's Hideously True !!...

He is well known as a player in the original Twilight Zone ( 1959 to 1964 ), especially in the episode " It's a Good Life " ( November 1961 ), where he played a child who terrorizes his town with his psychic powers.

He later played an adult Anthony, whose daughter ( played by his daughter, Liliana Mumy ) has similar powers, in episode " It's Still a Good Life " ( February 2003 ) of the second revival of The Twilight Zone.

" The same episode features the actor who played his father on the Twilight Zone's episode of " It's a Good Life.

" Slant Magazine also gave the album three out of five stars, saying " It's Marianne Faithfull's substance-ravaged voice that comes to mind most often while listening to songs like " Honey " and " For Once in Your Life.

" She also appeared on an episode of It's a Great Life as " the blonde in the mink coat.

Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote a particularly scathing review, stating that " It's impossible to know what Francis Coppola's Life Without Zoe is.

A number of other films have been made on or about Shetland including A Crofter's Life in Shetland ( 1932 ) A Shetland Lyric ( 1934 ), Devil's Gate ( 2003 ) and It's Nice Up North ( 2006 ), a comedy documentary by Graham Fellows.

In 2007 he formed Freebass with fellow bassists Peter Hook ( ex-New Order and Joy Division ) and Mani ( The Stone Roses and Primal Scream ); he remained active in the group until 2010 and appears on its only album, It's A Beautiful Life ( 2010 ).

As detailed by his wife in It's Been a Good Life, Asimov intended to write a sequel, but his attempts were fruitless.

`` It's been going since 1908 when I was a junior in college.

It's extremely accurate for an auto, and the test rifle I tried was completely trouble-free in functioning.

It's the Valmet ( about $170 ), a 12-gauge over/under very much like the old Remington 32 -- which was so fine a gun that today a used one still brings high prices.

When asked how this was different from being a good Protestant, the boy answered, `` It's the same thing ''.

It's still unbelievable that it was murder.

It's at the far end of the county and the last time I came here was for a hit and run manslaughter -- about seven months ago.

Frankie was fairly glutted with ideas, as he had hinted upon his arrival: `` It's really tremendous when you think Ella Fitzgerald is coming from Australia.

It's the old story, war or no war, and more than one viewer may recall Hollywood's `` Titanic '', several seasons back, when the paramount concern was for the marital discord of a society dilettante.

According to Davis, " It's great triumph was to prove that the sum of two even numbers is even ".

For example, the cut song " It's Always A Woman " was included at this concert.

According to McCallum, " It's my unproven gut feeling that that brain tumor was said to curtail talks about the tour and play the sympathy card.

The single, " Don't Dream It's Over ", was released in December 1986 and reached number one on the New Zealand Singles Chart and number eight in Australia.

" Don't Dream It's Over " was named the seventh best Australian song of all time in 2001.

In 1987, Crowded House won the American MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist for their song " Don't Dream It's Over ", which was also nominated for three other awards.

In 2009, " Don't Dream It's Over " was ranked number fifty on the Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, voted by the Australian public.

Al Sharpton, former Pentecostal minister, now a Baptist minister and Civil rights leader, during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 said that asking whether gays or lesbians should be able to get married was insulting: " That's like saying you give blacks, or whites, or Latinos the right to shack up – but not get married [...] It's like asking ' do I support black marriage or white marriage '...

In It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It, Adams recounts having been attacked for the alleged political content of his work, although in the case of one such strip ( where oil drilling kills a unicorn ) he excuses himself by saying " I just thought the image was funny.

It's a tool for mass production of expert systems and was the first operational declarative language, later becoming the best selling AI language in the world.

An early proponent of the electric Spanish guitar was jazz guitarist George Barnes who used the instrument in two songs recorded in Chicago on March 1, 1938, " Sweetheart Land " and " It's a Low-Down Dirty Shame ".

It's called F wave because it was initially recorded in the foot muscles.

It's about participation on a big level, the point was that we didn't want to produce things that would cheapen the art.

The first of these, It's Always Fair Weather ( 1956 ) co-directed with Donen, was a musical satire on television and advertising, and includes his famous roller skate dance routine to " I Like Myself ", and a dance trio with Michael Kidd and Dan Dailey which allowed Kelly to experiment with the widescreen possibilities of Cinemascope.