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You know, there was probably a story in there. SIMON: I don't know if it was just a picture. SIMON: Well, they take - what they do is they sell the rights to the Christmas card, and they turn to the highly underpaid screenwriters who all need good editors and say, turn this Christmas card into a. HOCHMAN: This was a 2-hour-and-10-minute movie. It somehow got into the hands of Cary Grant's agent, and RKO Pictures paid rights to the Christmas card, I guess - $10,000. He couldn't get it published so he turned it into a Christmas card. SIMON: We looked into the background a little bit, a guy named Philip Van Doren Stern wrote this in 1939. STEWART: (As George) Hey - Merry Christmas, Mr. HOCHMAN: I know, but it takes you some time for that to click. SIMON: Well - and there's a guardian angel, Jordana. There are these, like, talking star constellations in the beginning that set you off. But it involves, you know, God and some spirituality. HOCHMAN: You have to wait a long time for it to become clear that it's a Christmas movie. WINSTON: And then it's Christmas, and so it's a Christmas movie.
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WINSTON: It's, you know, there's spring and summer. WINSTON: But here's my question - other than the fact that it ends on Christmas, I don't really see why it's a Christmas movie. And it really - I mean, it really holds up. HOCHMAN: I did, too, when I would see that it was on because I assumed it would be bad. And every time I saw it as a rerun on TBS, I just turned the channel.
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WINSTON: No one in my family has ever mentioned this movie to me ever. And just by that very suggestion, it means that I run away from it and don't read it or watch it. And they say - oh, this was so wonderful. HOCHMAN: It's the kind of thing when - I don't know if you have this experience, Natalie - but a movie comes on or a book is suggested. We're joined in the studio by NPR editors Natalie Winston and Jordana Hochman. Clarence, his guardian angel, shows him what the world might be like if George had never been born. SIMON: George, played by Jimmy Stewart, contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve. That's right next to yours - and in the Kennedy house and Mrs. JIMMY STEWART: (As George) You're thinking of this place all wrong, as if I had the money back in a safe. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE") This week, since 'tis the season, Frank Capra's 1946 classic "It's A Wonderful Life." George Bailey, the small-town banker and community pillar faces a run on his building and loan. Now it's time for Movies We Missed, our effort to revisit classic films through the eyes of people who just never got around to seeing them.