Frank Capra had supreme confidence in the story, Jimmy Stewart not so much. But, he felt it to be his last shot at his movie career. His performance as George Bailey in the bleak days as Old Man Potter was about to do him in was filled with a rage and an on-the-edge-performance. This was no doubt partly because of his war experience.
Donna Reed, who played his wife recalled: "This was not a happy set. These guys were very tense (Capra and Stewart). They would go off and huddle."
The shooting of the movie started at the beginning of 1946 and went on into June, way longer than anticipated. It was a very expensive, exhausting production, costing $3 million in the end.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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