It's a Wonderful Life (1946)






An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.


Vintage magazines

2 films complets 15, 01-11 1948

Books with substantial mentioning of It's a Wonderful Life

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller
Movies of the 40s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Eric Smoodin
Regarding Frank Capra, Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930-1960
Durham and London, 2004

Roger Ebert
The Great Movies
2003

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

James Robert Parish
Ghosts and Angels in Hollywood Films, Plots, Critiques, Casts and Credits for 264 Theatrical and Made-for-Television Releases
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1994

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Victor Scherle and William Turner Levy
The Complete Films of Frank Capra
New York - Secaucus, NJ, 1992

Danny Peary
Cult Movies, The Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderful
New York, 1989

Articles on It's a Wonderful Life

John A. Noakes, Bankers and common men in Bedford Falls, How the FBI determined that It's a Wonderful Life was a subversive movie, in: Film History, vol. 10, 1998 pp. 311-319

Reviews

Angie Errigo, It's a Wonderful Life, in: Empire, nr. 187, 2005 pp. 218-219 (DVD review)