It's A Wonderful Life * FIRST TIME WATCHING * reaction & commentary * Millennial Movie Monday

[@scottlinting6308]

This movie saved my life. It came at a time when I was getting Bullied in H.S. and my Parents were getting a nasty divorce. I felt like the burden on my Parents relationship for having Epilepsy. I overheard my Dad say he sees me and sees himself as a failure because I had it. I told no one. Carried that with me as a young Teen. My grades were suffering, I was having a hard time making friends in H.S. and Baseball, my passion, was denied to me, because the coach didn't want any Freshmen on his team no matter how talented I was. Work was stressful and food and paying the bills were tough. I pitched in to help Mom but all of this I kept bottled up inside. One day I decided I was going to slit my wrists and get in a bathtub and bleed out. On that day, one of my teachers brought It's a Wonderful Life. We watched it as our assignment. I began to realize all my thoughts were selfish and that if I followed through with what I had planned I would hurt so many more. The movie made me realize that 1 single individual can had a huge impact in the world and mean so much to so many people. Every Xmas Eve I watch it as a reminder.

[@catherinelw9365]

So glad you watched it! ❤️

[@mjkjelland13]

I've been there myself, I am happy you made it through.

[@edp5886]

I thank God that you watched it.

[@catherinelw9365]

@Penultimate H Uh, that’s how loans work. Time to grow up.

[@garethbattersby]

@Penultimate H he was owning a buildings and loan company. The fact it was a family owned small company meant he was giving lower rates and other benefits that meant lower income families could afford homes etc. If you think he was the bad guy because he had a company that was about loans and mortgages. Youre in for a rude awakening when you're dealing with companies that arnt like George Baileys.

[@davereggi9229]

Zu Zu was a brand of gingersnaps, made in the early 1900's. So Zu Zu was her nickname, maybe she liked gingersnaps. Remember when George said "Zu Zu my little gingersnap, how are you feeling." I hope this helps. Hee haw and Merry Christmas.

[@charlesborden8111]

Zuzu can be used as a nickname for Susan (Suzanne, Susannah, etc.). Common in Eastern European areas that have a higher use of "zee" sounds.

[@seetaniac5184]

I reckon she probably had red hair.

[@HippiMikki]

@@charlesborden8111 Could also work for when kids her age can't quite annunciate words clearly yet. So, Zuzu could be like her trying to say her name was Susan. A friend of mine had a niece that mushed Great and Uncle (he was her great uncle) and always called him Gruncle. :).

[@CrownlessKing88]

Should read the comments first since I mentioned this a minute ago haha.

[@carowells1607]

@@fasbc That’s awesome, I’m so glad to hear that!

[@stillaboveground2470]

Clarence: "Your brother, Harry Bailey, broke through the ice and was drowned at the age of nine." George Bailey: "That's a lie! Harry Bailey went to war! He got the Congressional Medal of Honor! He saved the lives of every man on that transport!" Clarence: "Every man on that transport died. Harry wasn't there to save them, because you weren't there to save Harry.” I get a lump in my throat every time I see that scene.

[@YouLousyKids]

The gut-wrenching performance of those scenes is probably James Stewart wrestling with his own war flashbacks and survivor's guilt, having flown 50 bombing missions over Europe and survived. This was even before "method acting" really took off, but I don't think Jimmy Stewart had to try.

[@UnclePengy]

The string thing is an old tradition: if you had trouble remembering something, supposedly tying a string around your finger would help you remember. It can actually work; when you look at the string and remember tying it, sometimes that connects you to the memory of what you were trying to remember when you tied it.

[@oltyret]

Didn't work for Uncle Billy though.

[@UnclePengy]

@@oltyret No, it didn't. Uncle Billy was an addlebrain, lol

[@TSIRKLAND]

Often when I think of something I need to remember, I will put something in a weird place. Put a basket on the stairs to remind me about laundry, or cross a pen and pencil on top of my phone, so when I wake up and reach for my phone, I find crossed writing implements and think, "Why are there crossed writing implements on top of my phone? Oh, yeah! I need to remember... [whatever it is]." "Why am I tripping over this basket? Oh yeah, the laundry!" It's sort of the same idea: using a mnemonic device to associate one thing with another can help you remember. However, if you are particularly bad at remembering, and are constantly in need of reminders, using the same mnemonic device too often stops working. You become so used to having a string on your finger, you don't even notice it's there. You put the basket on the steps so often, you just step over it and ignore the laundry. So while it can be a useful tool, one must use it carefully.

[@hallieharker4384]

@@TSIRKLAND I used to write myself to-do lists every night for the next day and stick them with a magnet to my metal doorframe. And if I wanted to wear a certain pair of earrings the next day, I would put the earrings in my shoe. Kinda hard to forget them there when you go to put your shoe on!

[@Wanda711]

@@UnclePengy Poor Uncle Billy. I just felt for him, he was such a fragile little featherbrain, he was just shredded after the stress of losing the money and George going ballistic on him. You can see that if George hadn't stayed behind, Uncle Billy would never have been able to fend off Potter and keep the Building and Loan going. And then we hear Mrs. Bailey saying (in the vision of the world without George) that he ended up in the insane asylum after losing the business. That would have happened if George hadn't agreed to stay and run the business.

[@danielallen3454]

Lionel Barrymore is related to Drew, in fact. He is her Great-Uncle.

[@Shogundoxie1414]

I thought he was her Grandfather

[@rustybarrel516]

@@Shogundoxie1414 Her grandfather was John Barrymore, Lionel’s brother.

[@danielallen3454]

@@Shogundoxie1414 No, her grandfather is John Barrymore, which is also the name of her father.

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

And possibly his daughter.

[@mickeyrube6623]

In fact, many of Drew Barrymore's family had names like John Drew, John Barrymore, and John Drew Barrymore. Meaning her name is just two of her ancestors surnames put together.

[@dereksteed2030]

Every time Ashleigh watches a movie she has never seen an Angel gets its wings.

[@bloodyfishheads3316]

An angel gets its 'Beans'

[@mattp6089]

Lotta angels getting wings recently.

[@gawainethefirst]

Ashleigh- “Hey! Get me, Fellas! I’m handing out wings!”

[@alanzlotkowski2695]

Get busy Ashleigh....them angels needs wings!

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

@Derek Steed: Awww man that is such a sweet way to describe it

[@johnk2495]

Oh my Ashleigh, you have no idea how many great "old" movies there are.

[@hippychikforever]

Casablanca!!!!!

[@charlestatum2511]

@@hippychikforever “I’m shocked! Shocked to find gambling going on here!”

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

One of my favorite films is Charlie Chaplin's Gold Rush.

[@LeighMet]

@@charlestatum2511 By the way here are your winnings. why thank you

[@sandyr-w6906]

Another good old movie is "Arsenic and Old Lace" I would Love to see your reaction to that one.

[@leepetrie1661]

"A toats to my big brother, George. The Richest man in Town". One of the greatest movie lines of all time. Get's me every time I hear it.

[@DaveF.]

Jimmy Stewart is a wonderful actor - such a gentle persona who effortless played such mild and loving characters. In real life he was all of those things. As well as being a complete bad-ass. While he only occasionally discussed it, he was a commanded B-24 bomber squadrons during WW2, flying extremely dangerous missions over Germany - starting as a private in 1941, he finished the war a colonel and stayed in the Air Force reserve, flying as observer on bombing missions over Vietnam in the 60s. By that point he was a Brigadier General.

[@3DJapan]

He was an amassing actor, even in the scenes when he was angry and yelling.

[@TheCluelessuser]

Apparently he really channeled his PTSD into this movie.

[@jasonliegois2399]

This movie was the first one he made after WWII, and he was definitely suffering from PTSD as a result. He saw a lot of his squadron mates not make it back from missions over Europe.

[@therese1584]

Mr Smith goes through Washington. Absolutely on these times!!

[@stefanlaskowski6660]

@@jasonliegois2399 Except for German submarines, no job in the military during WW2 was more dangerous than being in a bomber crew. The survival rate over the course of the war was like 50%.

[@michaelbuhl4250]

Miracle on 34th Street is another Christmas staple that came out one year later.

[@deeyablo]

This is in my top three Christmas classics.

[@johnmagill3072]

That is my second favorite Christmas movie after this one.

[@kenfreeman8888]

Jimmy Stewart had recently won a best actor Oscar for "Philadelphia Story" when he joined the Army Air Force for World War 2. As a celebrity he was given an easy job but he fought the orders and made sure he served overseas where the danger was. After seeing the horrors of war, he came back home and filmed "It's a Wonderful Life," crying on the bridge, even though the script didn't say to cry.

[@brianmiller6055]

He also continued to serve in the Air Force Reserves and retired as a General. He even was part of a flight crew on B52 on a bombing mission over North Vietnam. Jimmy Stewart was quite a man.

[@md9680]

@@brianmiller6055 You may know this but I'll mention that he starred (with June Allyson) as a Convair B-36 Peacemaker and B-47 Stratofortress bomber pilot in "Strategic Air Command" a few years later. He certainly looked the part in this movie, probably due to his prior Army Air Force experience during WWII.

[@Britcarjunkie]

A helluva man, he flew bombing missions over Berlin, and went back to acting, as if the war never happened.

[@witchking8497]

@@brianmiller6055 He rose from Pvt to Col in 4 years...and he did it the hard way...flying bomber missions over Germany in the ETO not bad for a 33 year old Pvt.

[@wwk68tig]

"The Jimmy Stewart Story" would be a helluva film.

[@sanddab]

"The Shop Around the Corner" is a great 1940 Jimmy Stewart movie set at Christmas time, and Margaret Sullavan is wonderful in it.

[@Hiraghm]

And "You've Got Mail" is a lousy ripoff of it..

[@iChristyD]

Such a good movie ❤️

[@mattlee6806]

Thanks for this suggestion, it was great. Any others? Lol

[@agemoth]

@@mattlee6806 'Rear Window' is a must ! And after that , ' Vertigo', both Jimmy Stewart .

[@worldofborriemoto2026]

Jimmy Stewart made a movie in 1962 called The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. It is one of the great movies of that era.

[@jerryallen3854]

And that movie had that other Great actor in it also.....JOHN WAYNE, 'The Duke'.

[@dragon-ed1hz]

@@jerryallen3854 And Lee Marvin, who played the title role.

[@ingibingi2000]

Jimmy Stewart has a great filmography rear window, vertigo, harvey, liberty valance, mr Smith goes to Washington so on

[@blandis93312]

Zuzu is from the kids trying to say Susan. The dance scene was filmed at Beverly Hills High School and the swimming pool is still in use.

[@Serai3]

It was also the name of a famous cookie, Zu Zu Gingersnaps. He even calls her his little gingersnap at one point.

[@glanemann]

Wrong. Serai3 right.

[@Hiraghm]

God I hope they've changed the water...

[@moonsammy42]

@@glanemann Yeah, I can't find anything to support the character name being Susan. "Zuzu" seems to be her actual name.

[@nancyomalley9959]

I wish my high school had a pool underneath! I didn't even know that was a thing until I saw this movie. Our High School swimming team had to use Echo Park Indoor/Outdoor pools for their meets

[@truckermike1997]

This was Jimmy Stewarts first movie after he came back from WW2. He was suffering from PTSD and they say the parts where he was stressing was not all acting. He was a bomber pilot and flew quite a few missions. Great Movie and great reaction. MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and hubby. Hope you continue to improve health wise and look forward to many more reactions in the future.

[@jasonremy1627]

He did some great military films after WWII, including The Glenn Miller Story and Strategic Air Command.

[@keithralston339]

And ended up a Brigadier General in the Reserves

[@ronitennant1748]

Oh, I didn't know that! Thanks for the info

[@1205sdr]

He flew missions over Germany in a B-24 bomber for 18 months when the survival rate for bomber crews was only 50%.

[@robertrouse4503]

@@keithralston339 a 2-star.

[@joshuamaurer9784]

"What's wrong with garlic?" Nothing. But replace "Garlic eaters" with "Italians".

[@fynnthefox9078]

Lol, I'm part Italian and that doesn't really offend me. I love garlic.

[@joshuamaurer9784]

@@fynnthefox9078 yeah, but the world we live in, someone is going to get offended for you

[@koolmckool7039]

@@joshuamaurer9784 Times were different back then. Back then, Italians were second class, and using that nickname was a way of emphasizing that superiority. Nowadays, Italians are considered just as first class as us. Unfortunately, not everyone is, so you'll have people who are ready to defend those who aren't.

[@ThreadBomb]

Every new wave of immigrants is an underclass, at least at first.

[@isaackellogg3493]

Nothing wrong with watermelon, either, but try calling a certain ethnic group “a bunch of watermelon eaters.”

[@ericjanssen394]

More old-movie explanations: - Drugstores used to have match-lighters, and you'd "get your wish" if it lit on the first stroke, - Tying a string around your finger was to remind you of something(s) you'd forgotten, - Not sure if Potter had polio, but Lionel Barrymore (yes, Drew's great-uncle) was in an accident and played all his 40's movies in a wheelchair.

[@lynnbowers4722]

Also "hot dog" was like "hot damn". Just an exclamation of happy excitement.

[@joegoss30]

And "making love" had a different meaning then --- it was simply courting or "pitching woo" or, at most, making out. The "sex" meaning wasn't common until later.

[@nancyomalley9959]

The tying of strings never really works because you can never remember WHAT you have forgotten-Only that you have forgotten something

[@txbaca4861]

@@nancyomalley9959 Much like a Remembrall 😂

[@gwenking7700]

Lionel suffered a broken hip before he started filming the Dr. Kildare movies. Add to that he had crippling arthritis. He used a wheelchair because it was difficult for him to walk. The man could walk but it was so painful. After then in all his films he is in a wheelchair. Incidentally, he lost the role of Scrooge to his brother John in 1936 and again in 1938 to Orson Wells. It was a roll he had played every year but those.

[@artistexplorer8605]

One of the greatest comedies was the movie "harvey" with Jimmy Stewart

[@Jerome616]

And this girl has the nerve to say older movies don’t have comedy in them 😂

[@Jaytee.]

I LOVE Harvey! Such a great movie! 🐰

[@HenryCabotHenhouse3]

Now, now. Don't set her expectations so high. Ashliegh, Harvey is an old black and white film. You may not appreciate it, but you should still watch it for the few jokes in it. There, see, that's how you lower expectations so she comes out of it with a huge smile thinking it was way better than she thought it would be.

[@Jerome616]

@@HenryCabotHenhouse3 this one has the brains.

[@tackle47]

Best movie ever with a Pooka as a co-star.

[@betsyduane3461]

Garlic eater is a slur he's using for Italians, who were considered lower class at the time.

[@betsyknox4745]

You might try "Arsenic and Lace" and "His Girl Friday" and "Bringing Up Baby". They're old movies that are pretty fun to watch.

[@anneb889]

Cary Grant is so fun!

[@FernFeathers]

Arsenic an old lace is so funny I love it!

[@jray7316]

Yes, I have been thinking of recommending Arsenic and Old Lace. Wonderful little comedy.

[@dialecticsjunkie7653]

"Bringing Up Baby" is the best screwball comedy ever! Oh my gosh!

[@kennethdawson7774]

Both are really funny.

[@kylrean3891]

Miracle on 34th Street is also a great old one.

[@Erik-um1zn]

Just a quick note: When Mr. Potter was referring to George helping out a bunch of "garlic eaters", it was an old time racial slur referring to Italian Americans, who were usually of a minority of a lower socio-econimic class and status.

[@paultanner7671]

Also a minority that upon entry into America immediately formed vast crime syndicates (the mafia) which promoted vice industries such as drugs, gambling and prostitution.

[@Hiraghm]

ethnic, not racial.

[@archangeljmj6008]

@Penultimate H i think you missed the point

[@christhornycroft3686]

@Penultimate H well, Jimmy Stewart and Frank Capra were Republicans. I mean, what do you expect?

[@Heritage367]

George Bailey have loans to people that Potter wouldn't, because he's a racist old shit. The fact that people like Martini were able to flourish indicates George charged reasonable interest rates.

[@rogerrenfrow]

Zuzu is a nickname for Susan.

[@michaelearl6765]

I think it's also a child's mispronouncation of Susan.

[@pjshutout3480]

It was also the name of a popular brand of ginger snaps back then. When George calls her "my little ginger snap," that's a little wink at that.

[@emoedison]

or Suzanne, which was a more popular name in the 40s.

[@cee8mee]

Suzanna

[@PJ818]

Zuzu may be a nickname for Susan, but we know that Ashleigh is having flashbacks to The Exorcist with Zuzu being a like a shortened form of Pazuzu.

[@isaackellogg3493]

I always loved how in the swimming pool scene, the principal, after failing to get the kids out of the pool, goes “Oh well,” and jumps in himself.

[@williammcclanahan4518]

A lot of people never catch who Mary’s date was at the dance . It’s Alfalfa from the little rascals (our gang).

[@daveautzen9089]

Wow, I never heard that before! Thanks for the info!

[@johnmagill3072]

@@daveautzen9089 he was also in a couple of John Wayne movies. The High And The Mighty and Island In The Sky.

[@jamesricker3997]

Alfalfa was later murdered in a Coke deal gone bad

[@johncampbell756]

@@jamesricker3997 "Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer Shot to death by an acquaintance in Mission Hills, Ca, during an argument over $50 that Switzer felt the acquaintance owed him. The acquaintance pleaded self-defense, and the judge ruled the death "justifiable homicide."." www.imdb.com/name/nm0842813/trivia?item=nt0324373

[@mem1701movies]

Why don’t you stop annoying people?

[@tplunke]

Saturday Night Live did a skit many years ago where Uncle Billy remembered that he gave Potter the money and everyone went to Potter's house and beat him up. It was just a dummy in a wheelchair. Potter getting arrested and losing all his money would be more satisfying of an ending.

[@davidkeeton215]

Located here... kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKibaqJmlsuVaKM

[@minnesotajones261]

It's awesome! Dana Carvey portrayed George with a perfect Jimmy Stewart accent! Uncle Billy was Phil Hartman and Old Man Potter was Jon Lovitz... Just find it here on KZbin - you'll piss your pants it's so funny!!!!!

[@Toast960]

I was about to recommend the same thing, lol

[@CorrectFossa]

This was also the 40s, so doing that to a capitalist at the end of your movie would get you blacklisted from Hollywood

[@footofjuniper8212]

@@davidkeeton215 thank you! One of the best skits they ever did!

[@TurbidTG1]

If you like James Stewart, you should watch Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window!

[@keyman6689]

My favorite Hitchcock! So good!

[@Shanyetta23]

This!!

[@catherinelw9365]

She’d go nuts over Grace Kelly’s clothes!

[@tristramcoffin926]

I prefer it to North By Northwest which is good but not half the film Rear Window is however she should see Vertigo first.

[@Cydonia2020]

Rear Window. One of my favorite movies!

[@sharkdentures3247]

This is one of the BEST movies EVER! (fight me if you dare) To this day, I can NOT see the ending without tearing up! It is just SO heartwarming & touching that my tear ducts response is now practically Pavlovian! Hope you all feel better soon! Merry Christmas!

[@christinelagueux8155]

If a flame turns on from the lighter, his wish comes true. The lighter was a cigar lighter. Sometimes it doesn't light.

[@ianpark1805]

Thanks for explaining that. I’d guessed that’s what it must be but we’ve never had - to my knowledge at least - either those lighters or that sort of store in the U.K.

[@thrakkorzog75002]

@@ianpark1805 TBF, I'm pretty sure that was an old timey thing even back when the movie was made.

[@KnightOwl1881]

James Stewart is my all-time favorite actor ( you should add The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Harvey to your watch list ) haha

[@zommoz]

... and don't forget the great Hitchcock movies he was in. Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo and my favorite, Rope.

[@mem1701movies]

And he was a war hero... more of a man than John Wayne who dodged going to war

[@ThePhully]

@@zommoz Rope and Rear Window are among my favorite movies. So incredibly good.

[@marniejane11]

Harvey ❤

[@ClutchSituation]

Your health is more important than fast release of content on KZbin.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

Exactly!

[@TheBTG88]

Saw you on the CBS morning show story on ‘It’s a wonderful Life’!

[@abolishwelfare]

For the Second Annual Jimglebeans, I would heartily recommend “Miracle on 34th Street”. A true classic from the same era of “ It’s a Wonderful Life”.

[@hedgehog1965uk]

Definitely. That's the original B&W one with Natalie Wood, of course.

[@MordicusEgg]

Yeah! Good recommendation! 1947, starring Maureen O'Hara. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_on_34th_Street)

[@paulpeterson4216]

Another horrible Xmas schmaltz bath.

[@danielgarrett979]

Miracle also like Wonderful Life in that it bombed at box office but became a classic on tv.

[@sallyintucson]

@@danielgarrett979 Part of the reason it bombed was because it was released in July. 🤦‍♀️

[@kevenpinder7025]

Nick the bartender was played by Sheldon Leonard. He went on to have a long career as a character actor, then switched over to producing TV shows. The names of "Sheldon" and "Leonard" from The Big Bang Theory derived from him.

[@mem1701movies]

Yeah... he brought us THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW

[@fluxcapacitor007]

Also, this film had the characters Bert and Ernie too. Jim Henson used the names for Sesame Street. :D

[@dhyde9207]

@@fluxcapacitor007 ... common misconception. Just a coincidence.

[@fluxcapacitor007]

@@dhyde9207 Yeah I was always told that he got those names from here, but after your comment I looked it up and apparently Jim Henson said he doesn't recall thinking of this film when he made up those names. Good catch.

[@danhuffman4455]

Did you not notice something about the Cabbie and the police officer? Their names were Bert and Ernie. That's where Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street got their names. It's a Wonderful Life was one of Jim Hensen's favorite movies.

[@hedgehog1965uk]

I was just gonna mention that. I was surprised Ashley didn't pick up on it, or maybe she's too young to remember Sesame Street too.

[@ebrowne72]

That's just an urban legend. muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Are_Bert_and_Ernie_named_after_characters_from_It%27s_a_Wonderful_Life%3F

[@hedgehog1965uk]

@@ebrowne72 Oh cool.

[@cosmicslice7267]

James Stewart was one of the greatest actors in history. You should watch "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" and "Harvey".

[@michaelcampion4600]

To your curiosity about the swimming pool under the the Gym Floor, it’s real! It still exist. It’s located at my old High School (Beverly Hills High School) in Beverly Hills. In addition to the pool, diving boards rise out of the floor when the pool is open. Appropriately, it’s called “The Swim Gym”. ✨🏊‍♂️🏊‍♀️😝 I’m glad you’re well . Love your show! ✨👍

[@PheOfTheFae]

We didn't have pools in the schools I went to when I was young but we had cafegymatoriums - cafeteria tables and benches folded out of the walls for lunch, when they were up it was gym class, when it was just benches and no tables it was assembly time with a stage at the end.

[@nico9rd]

Just wanted to say THANK YOU! I suffer from severe anxiety disorder and woke up with an attack this morning. I put on your video and you COMPLETELY took me out of my attack! THANK YOU, ASH! Your videos do more than you know! Hope you guys are getting better!

[@smiller987123]

Zuzu is a nickname, in fact at one point he says Zuzu my little ginger snap. This is in reference to a company named Zuzu that actually made ginger snap cookies back in the day.

[@rreagan007]

Was her real name Zula? I had a great aunt with that name.

[@smiller987123]

@@rreagan007 not sure about that. I believe that Zuzu may have been a common nickname at the time for red heads since the reference to "ginger". Hope that helps. Maybe someone else knows more than me.

[@RP_Williams]

Could be a nickname for Zoey....for example, my 2 year old nephew's nickname is Juju (or sometimes Juju Bean) short for Julian.

[@yermatedave4930]

@@rreagan007 that's awesome. I always wanted a name that started with 'Z'. I bet she was badass. You can't not be badass with a name that starts with Z.

[@darkamora5123]

@@rreagan007 Susan. Oddly you don't find it out in this film, you get it in the gender swapped remake, It Happened One Christmas.

[@stefanlaskowski6660]

This film was considered a commercial flop when it hit the theaters. But years later, one of the TV networks started playing it every Christmas season, and now it's one of the most beloved Christmas films of all time.

[@shannonbryan2191]

Your health is more important to us and I am so happy you're feeling better!

[@jonathanross149]

Agreed!

[@timhonigs6859]

Ditto here too

[@JJPlayes]

Dont know a better way to say this. I hope everyone here stays healthy.

[@williambevins]

Yup!

[@silverwolf5151]

I'm glad you're getting better and wish you guys nothing but the best.

[@bridgetlaw1484]

Hitchcock's "Rear Window" .... great movie with Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly (before she became Princess of Monico) ... it's in color...and Grace has some beautiful clothes... fabulous suspense thriller I think you would love

[@lisaspikes4291]

Oh yes! Rear Window is great! 😃

[@drakocarrion]

Ashleigh saying "this movie being from 1946 made me think it was going to be bad" So old = bad? You need to see more old movies.

[@glenwoodreid5910]

Arsenic and Old Lace

[@vapoet]

@@glenwoodreid5910 Good one. I was thinking Bringing Up Baby and Some Like It Hot.

[@MusicBlik]

Duck Soup, The Manchurian Candidate, Father of the Bride, there are so many good ones of all different genres. Didn't care for Arsenic and Old Lace though.

[@CyberSaiyan13]

To be fair, this movie actually was considered "bad" when it first came out

[@vapoet]

@@MusicBlik Cary definitely overacted and they weren't able to get Boris Karloff to play the brother.

[@randomtryst5487]

Karolyn Grimes, the person who played the part of ZuZu explained the name. Zu Zu Ginger Snaps were launched in 1901 by the National Biscuit Company (NBC) -later called Nabisco. In the movie "It´s A Wonderful Life" her character was named Zu Zu after these cookies. close to the end of the film, when her dad rushes up the stairs and Zuzu greets him, he replies "Zuzu, my little ginger snap!".

[@empmaximus1]

Lastly, "old" movies relied on great stories, not special effects and explosions. Now that we've opened your eyes to B&W's, you must must must must watch Some Like it Hot after the New Year. Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. You will laugh til you pee.

[@keithneale3055]

“Well, you can’t have everything.”

[@twelvehundredmiles5330]

Also, you should watch Arsenic and Old Lace. It’s one of my favorite old movies.

[@michaelceraso1977]

EXC choice for her, SHE will laugh her azz off at CURTIS and LEMMON, I think I read that the DIRECTOR was thinking of SINATRA and HOPE for the roles UNtil he came to senses, THAT is a classic FILM

[@AtlantaTerry]

The studio should have used that as part of their marketing campaign: "You will laugh until you pee!"

[@stevesilsby5288]

"Sabrina" (1954) is a must see. It stars Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn. There's a modern remake that's not nearly as good. Stick with the classics!

[@thepaladinauthoryoutube]

Remember Potter's advisors flat out telling him that his cheap houses and cost cutting was ruining him. George's quality work was more popular and was inevitable going to win the long game. Plus you see him with his declining health. Potter was losing and losing fast. Him trying to get George to kill himself was a big final desperate attempt to pull victory out. The fight was already decided, so all we needed to do was see George overcome this dark trial.

[@wizardsuth]

People given a chance to buy a relatively cheap home are able to save up money to buy a better home later on. Deprive them of a home and they remain poor indefinitely.

[@Hiraghm]

And in the end, George became a Jedi... like his father before him... Nowadays, Potter would win, because price is everything and nobody cares about quality. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJSogKZ9q7ljp6M

[@michaelccozens]

@@wizardsuth Not if your cheap house keeps falling apart and costs more to keep repaired than your initial savings.

[@melissacooper4282]

Like most others I used to think that Mr. Potter didn't get his connupance at the end of the movie. Then I pondered about it and realized that Potter did get his connupance in a manner of speaking. No I'm not talking about the SNL sketch! What I mean is that Potter wanted to see George Bailey ruined and thrown into jail. Either that or dead. Anyway George Bailey didn't go to jail or die. So I'm guessing that Potter was pretty mad when things didn't go the way he wanted.

[@sealofapproval637]

There was a cut scene at the end where Potter died from a heart attack whilst George essentially tells him "serves you right" but ultimately it felt too mean spirited and didn't work with the tone of the rest of the film, so they left it out. Personally I think it works better to play Potter's victory as insignificant next to George's

[@Seantendo]

A real classic is good _despite_ being old. These are the movies that we still talk about for a reason; they stand the test of time.

[@ericfellows7906]

That sarcastic yay for Violet was the funniest thing I've heard you say on this channel. That had me rolling.

[@scarebear83]

"What's that skull thing on the desk?" I have watched this movie umpteen million times since my childhood, and never noticed that!

[@damonwebb813]

Me too, tks Ashleigh for pointing that out

[@awkwardashleigh]

I am here to point out the small stuff that probably doesn’t matter. 😂

[@damonwebb813]

@@awkwardashleigh I enjoy the small stuff in movies, and normally pick out those details Must be why I like IMDB (international movie data base) and each movie has a trivia sub topic👍

[@ocularnervosa]

The skull on a chain was a symbol of a secret society like Skull and Bones at Harvard.

[@bobriemersma]

Yeah, back in the day we all had a bronze skull on our desks.

[@brandoncollins1225]

This is my 2nd straight Christmas alone, and I've avoided watching anything to do with this holiday because of pretty bad depression. Your content is the only exception. It's a Wonderful Life is one of my favorite movies of all time, and it never fails to reduce me to tears. Thank you so much for your videos. I'm so happy you're doing better. Happy Holidays everyone.

[@GrisouIII]

You’re not alone, Brandon. Sending you virtual hugs.

[@david.j9.rabbithole808]

Stay strong, brother.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

Stay strong brother, which includes being strong enough to get help when you need it. Plenty of therapists working via zoom these days. Sending my best.

[@danieldunlavey6901]

On my 11th year alone - it does get easier, but I agree - this sort of content really helps, and It's A Wonderful Life is a beautiful film

[@marycasanova8905]

Much love in this time of year. 2 years since I lost my Ed. I know what you mean. Hang tough. You are not alone.

[@Robert-ht7om]

If you're upset about not being able to do enough Christmas movie reactions remember that a lot of people leave their Christmas decorations up way past the 25th so I don't see why you couldn't do the same with your reactions. So glad to see you back🤗

[@quwykxz]

Sage advice! 😄👍

[@lynnevetter]

Amen! lol

[@Lethgar_Smith]

Yeah, that's why England and Canada have "boxing day" The day youre supposed to put your decorations back in the boxes. I always made it a point to take everything down on New Years day. Christmas is 12 months away at that point and Im not doing anything else on New Years day so why not take the decorations down?

[@catherinelw9365]

I agree. Too many people forget that there are 12 Days of Christmas! And I for one, celebrate it for 12 days.

[@catherinelw9365]

@@Lethgar_Smith Boxing day is not the day you take down your decorations. It's the day you put gifts in a box to give to your workers, service people, etc. Way off.

[@Nastyfinger1444]

Since a little boy in the 1960s till the present day as a 61 year old man, I watch this movie several times each year around the holiday season to remind me as to how fortunate I truly am.

[@EndoftheBeginning17]

Another Classic Christmas movie from the same era is "Miracle on 34th St." - there are a ton of old movies that are exceptionally well done, like this, some ARE Cheesy butsome of the dramas are very well done.

[@josephscally6270]

There is a famous John Lennon quote " “Life is What Happens To You While You’re Busy Making Other Plans.” This is what I thought of as I listened to your recent experiences. I wanted to thank you for all your hard work delivering these wonderful reaction videos. They are a delight.

[@E3WEINER]

Fun fact: when the uncle is drunk and crashes off scene the actor had actually tripped and caused things off set to crash. He ad libbed the, “I’m alright. I’m aalllright!”

[@jerryreding7369]

Coming back here because I'm already getting nostalgic and in the mood for an old fashioned Christmas. For another Christmas classic, watch what I consider to be the best version of A Christmas Carol, 1951 starring Alastair Sim.

[@TehZach1993]

Absolutely! The best version!

[@danieldunlap4077]

If you didn't catch it in the beginning, the drugstore's son died from the great influenza pandemic a hundred years ago.

[@Leon-wz1js]

..andt he loop comes around and begins again anew.

[@Hiraghm]

yeah, a real pandemic.

[@Hiraghm]

@@Leon-wz1js only not so much.

[@danieldunlap4077]

@@Hiraghm and if medicine hadn't advanced in 100 years it would probably be just as bad.

[@Leon-wz1js]

@@Hiraghm "real" well, I don't think a pandemic has to be lethal to be considered a pandemic. it just has to affect a significant portion of the population. You could have an epidemic of sniffles that affect everyone, but no toxic reaction. "Significant" being one of those nebulously defined words, that really grates on my nerves.

[@erictaylor5462]

I had one of those "you matter" moments when I found out I saved the life of a girl I had gone to school with, who I never even knew. She lost her leg when she was about 19 and it was having seen me (an amputee) that let her know she would be okay.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

:') Wow!!

[@moeball740]

You never know how many lives may be changed by one act of kindness. I was actually homeless and struggling to finish school (and struggling with serious depression of course) when my big sis stepped in and helped me get through some very difficult times. Years later my wife and I helped a friend who was waitressing to try and get through college and really struggling. We gave her a place to stay and helped with her tuition; she's now an RN at a hospital and putting a nephew of hers through college. I firmly believe in the pay it forward philosophy and think George Bailey was a major practitioner.

[@erictaylor6035]

Damn this guy out here saving lives with my name and all I'm using it for is carryout orders at the local Mexican restaurant...

[@erictaylor5462]

@@erictaylor6035 Do you have my name, or do I have your name? It's actually pretty common. I almost got arrested once because a guy with my name had a warrant. Fortunately the police were smart enough to realize, it's a pretty common name.

[@erictaylor6035]

@@erictaylor5462 funnily enough you are the only other one I've seen!

[@alanzlotkowski2695]

For a great old B&W comedy, watch "Arsenic And Old Lace" starring Carey Grant. You won't be disappointed!

[@sdube001]

That one and for a triple play with 3 greats of the time, I like Philadelphia Story. Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, and Jimmy Steward all in one damned good comedy.

[@ajivins1]

Arsenic and Old Lace is great but maybe a Halloween movie.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

@@ajivins1 I tried for last Halloween, but she didn't do it. So now I'd just want to see it ASAP, rather than have to wait another year, and then maybe get bumped off the list again.

[@alexanderfish4797]

YES!!!!! I second that motion.

[@cass853]

Plus Cary Grant is not only a great actor, but extremely handsome. I look forward to hearing that he "can get it"!

[@ronaldldunn5072]

The bridge is a nod to George's dreams: he wanted to be an architect.

[@STILL-KICKIN]

Ashleigh: “it is the 20’s everyone is supposed to be wholesome”... The “ROARING” 20’s: heh heh heh... oh child if you only knew... 😉

[@RoninRoan89]

People have this false idea that humans were somehow less sinful in the past. They just didn't flaunt it the way modern society does.

[@chadfalardeau5396]

Thats only because they didn't have internet yet

[@Skeezer66]

I don't think there's any century where the 20's were full of wholesome people!! LOL!!

[@acidsupernova]

I remember once hearing someone say, "every generation thinks they invented sex." Yeah, history is not wholesome :)

[@jboogie9469]

People have always been maniacs throughout history. There's just waaaayyy more people now and cameras everywhere. So we see human insanity more than at any point in history but percentage wise, we are no more crazy than before... I will say that the news likes to show us that insanity much more than necessary so they can try to scare us to keep us all in line like nice little lemmings. See, even cynics love this movie

[@tntkff9901]

The string on the finger is an old thing when you wanted to remember to do something, whenever you look at your hand, it would be like, "why did I put this on my finger? Oh yeah, that's right!" .... Didn't always work though...

[@weirds0up]

If someone tells you that they don’t like “It’s a Wonderful Life” then I wouldn’t turn my back on them or leave them alone with pets or children

[@Eidlones]

I've never watched it because I loathe that lil girl saying in the most irritating way possible "everytime a bell rings, an angel gets its wings". I cringe everytime I hear it.

[@alanzlotkowski2695]

Around such a person, I keep one hand on my wallet....and the other on my pistol!

[@mickeyrube6623]

Haha! Dude growing up I knew so many people that hated this movie!

[@theradgegadgie6352]

I have to admit I don't like it, because of how mean-spirited and selfish everyone is. It took forty years and George being on the point of topping himself for anyone to give a shit about him, except for his wife.

[@moeball740]

If someone doesn't like the movie, maybe their name is Potter.

[@bravehome4276]

Love your reviews (my daughter just introduced me to you). Couple of trivias: 1. Lionel Barrymore is a great-uncle of Drew. 2. When Lionel played Potter, he was already much of his time in a wheelchair in real life. He suffered from continually worsening arthritis making it painful for him to walk, but mainly the wheelchair was from breaking a hip twice that continued to cause him even greater pain through his life. You were right about the assumption that Potter had polio though. 3. As mentioned in another comment below, a scene where Potter gets his comeuppance by Clarence was filmed, though edited out in this release. 4. The gym with the pool under it was filmed in a real school that had this arrangement already. 5. The movie did very poorly at the box office when first released. People were expecting a pre-War Capra film (Capra enlisted right after Pearl Harbor -- at age 44 -- and made what is considered some of the best film documentaries about WWII in a series entitled Why We Fight), and the serious (to some depressing) tones in parts of the film put audiences off. Of course, over the years, those pre-War expectations have passed, and we now recognize this movie for what it is -- Capra's crowning masterpiece.

[@otherstar1]

A little more trivia: one of the boys (his character's name is Freddie Othello) who throws the switch on the pool is Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer best known for playing Alfalfa in "The Little Rascals."

[@bravehome4276]

@@otherstar1Yes. It's a crime (literally) what eventually happened to him.

[@alexanderromalo7153]

Ashleigh: I suspect you would enjoy most of Frank Capra's (the director) earlier films. I'd recommend "Mr. Smith goes to Washington" and/or a few of the others.

[@Hiraghm]

She might like "Born Yesterday" for that matter (the original with Judy Holiday).

[@gregall2178]

I'd like to see her do "Sullivan's Travels".

[@wiredtardis]

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington still might be my favorite Jimmy Stewart performance along with Rear Window and Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

[@josephalaniz6080]

During WW2 Jimmy Stewart had to fight for the right to fly bombers over Germany. The movie studios didn't want him to get hurt. But he was such a good pilot that they had to let him fly. He flew several missions and never got shot down. After the war he suffered PTSD of course they didn't know what it was. The scene on the bridge was real for him. He made his peace with God. He said this movie saved him.

[@fjanson2468]

He flew all the missions. Then they made him the squadron commander and told him he couldn't lead flights anymore at that rank. It didn't stop him from flying like they expected, he would assign someone else to lead and he would fly his wing. He wouldn't let other men do what he would not do himself. He knew every pilot, many were close friends, and every mission several would not come back. I devastated him by the end of the war. This movie did indeed save him from himself. Hollywood wanted to make a movie of his war years and he forbid it, and told them never to bring it up again. One of the truly greatest men that walked the walk, and was genuinely humble to the end.

[@josephalaniz6080]

@@fjanson2468 they don't make him like that anymore

[@betsyduane3461]

He's not Biff, he's a great friend to George, keeps trying to help him.

[@weirdbeard2244]

I just read that Frank Capra’s whole family was into glass and plastics, so Frank initially thought of himself as a failure for not being able to make a living with it. So, Sam’s not Biff, he’s just another person that George (wrongly) feels is successful while he isn’t.

[@WoodsToLiveBy]

Yes, Sam's a good friend; not Biff at all. He's just 1) got an annoying catchphrase, and 2) had the monetary success George envies. But throughout the film and the end, he helps George out (or tries) in big ways. He's mostly in the story to remind George of what he feels he's missed out on by staying in Bedford Falls.

[@krashd]

And he was never really interested in Mary, her mother was just trying to set them up because he was successful but he lives in NYC and Mary didn't want to leave Bedford Falls.

[@martypringle9201]

Also, the whole 'Hee Haw' refers to turn of the century (1900s) 'comic strip' or 'funny pages' characters they'd know. Sam also uses the phrase, “See you in the funny pages (papers)”. The newspapers from the early 1900s through the end of the century and somewaht today, also had a section, usually near the back, where they printed cartoons and comic strips to cheer folks up so they would buy the paper again the next day. On Sundays, many newspapers even had a whole special section devoted to just comic strips, often printed in color. Both this section and the daily comics pages were known as “the funny pages,” “See you in the funny papers” is a jocular farewell that dates, as far as anyone has been able to determine, to the early years of the 20th century (1900s). “See you” was a common casual farewell in the US at least by the late 1890s, although it may be somewhat older. “See you in the funny papers” almost certainly dates back to the early 1920s because the term “funny papers/pages/sheet” itself apparently didn’t appear in print until roughly that time. A glossary of humor published in 1926 included “See you in the funny sheet,” and William Faulkner also used the phrase in his 1929 novel 'The Sound and the Fury'. One reason that “See you in the funny papers” sounds so dated to us today is because “funny papers/pages/sheets” was eventually largely replaced by the term “comics” for that part of the newspaper, a process that probably began in the 1940s and was complete by the 1960s. The term means “I will see you (or your likeness) when I read the funny papers, as you are a bit of a cartoon-y character”.The interesting thing about “See you in the funny papers” is that originally it may not have been a very friendly thing to say. Saying “See you in the newspaper” or “See you in jail” when parting, for example, carried the sardonic implication that the person being addressed would next be heard of for committing a crime or attaining some other newsworthy notoriety. Similarly, the original intent of “See you in the funny papers” was probably to imply that the speaker considered the person either so ridiculous or so odd in appearance as to belong in a comic strip (thus making the saying roughly equivalent to “Say hi to the Katzenjammer Kids for me”). By the 1940s, however, “See you in the funny papers” had become so common that it lost whatever hostile edge it had and became a good-natured humorous farewell. Sam, since childhood, a signature comic book gesture of flapping one of both of his hands with his thumbs in his ears mimicking a braying donkey with big ears while shouting "Hee-haw!", which his friends all imitate in response. (Sam keeps his unique calling card in his adult years.) It was a very common slang farewell by people born in the 1900s-1930 ish era.

[@christinadoxstader3004]

Love this movie. Never fails to make me cry, especially the ending. George is a good man and all he wanted was things to go his way just once. Well George, being a good man is its own reward in the end. All the people he helps sees the kind of man he is and when he really needs their help they get together and make it happen. Capra specialized in over the top schmaltz and I love it. Would recommend Mr Smith Goes to Washington as well, also starring Jimmy Stewart.

[@christinadoxstader3004]

Also, not to be grotesque, but a lot of George's problems go away if he just gets rid of Uncle Billy.

[@dabe1971]

09:45 That's no crow - that Jimmy the Raven. Starred in loads of films and Frank Capra, the director, cast him in most of his films. He's also the bird that lands on the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz !

[@awkwardashleigh]

A FAMOUS BIRD?

[@dabe1971]

@@awkwardashleigh He was insured for $10,000 by the studio back then, somewhere around £130,000 today !

[@firstenforemost]

@@awkwardashleigh Speaking of which, have you seen The Wizard of Oz (1939)? Hint, hint.

[@Salta0monte]

@@firstenforemost In the UK in the 70s Wizard of Oz was on every year once a year, Christmas day morning.

[@dabe1971]

4:01 The strings on the fingers is a prompt for someone who has a bad memory. You tie one on when you have a task you need to remember so it hopefully jogs your memory as to what you needed to do. It's fallen out of favour somewhat since we have reminders on phones.... Oh and Mr Gower is defintely not alright - the actor had been drinking on set and actually did cause the young Georges ear to bleed as he hit him too hard !

[@31Mike]

Something that 'Millennials' would be wise to learn is that some of the greatest movies ever made, were made before 1960.

[@Hiraghm]

I'd say most of them were...

[@ericjanssen394]

Millennials believe that movies before the early 80's were "broken" if they didn't have modern conveniences like color and CGI. Or, that previous generations were just physically and socially different in a "weird" way, and simply didn't see color, like dogs.

[@gawainethefirst]

@@ericjanssen394 imagine that. A cinematic medium where the lack of spectacle meant you had to tell a coherent, and cohesive story.

[@sweetcinnamonpnchkin]

@Eric- I was raised on “old” movies. And I’m 33. I do tend to compare older movies with modern ones. Older ones tend to do more of the “show don’t tell”.

[@The100Stevieboo]

Im 31 i love this movie rear window, psycho, mr Smith goes to Washington, Rope, to kill a mockingbird and many more maybe you are talking about gen z but i am a millennial and i love old movies

[@seetaniac5184]

That’s Jimmy the Raven. Jimmy the raven was a raven who appeared in more than 1,000 feature films from the 1930s through the 1950s. He first appeared in You Can't Take It with You in 1938, after which director Frank Capra cast the bird in every subsequent movie he made. - Wikipedia

[@FromRussiaWithLuv007]

If you like James Stewart... you should check out “Mr Smith Goes to Washington”

[@hedgehog1965uk]

And "Harvey" about an imaginary six foot-tall rabbit.

[@justaguyandsomemovies6492]

And rear window

[@KingNothing22]

@@justaguyandsomemovies6492 Vertigo

[@clairekane4157]

And The Philadelphia Story.

[@FromRussiaWithLuv007]

@@clairekane4157 James Stewart January?

[@Skeezer66]

The Bert and Ernie in this movie are where Sesame St's B&E got their names. There's a SNL skit where they show the "unseen" clip where George and the mob go to Potters and beat him up, LOL!!! I hope these reactions will get you over the idea that 'old movies are bad'!! They're some of the best ever! Take it easy for another week, get better!!!

[@lauriesandt5371]

That SNL skit was the GREATEST! So funny 🤣🤣

[@joncorso8264]

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[@joncorso8264]

Hilarious!

[@moeball740]

I still can't believe the Hays code at the time allowed the movie to end with Potter stealing the $8000 and getting away with it!

[@2wingo]

For anyone who cares, good times are probably right around the corner for the Bailey family. WWII is over, and America is coming out of the Great Depression into the prosperity of the 1950's, with a lot of people buying land and houses. A man like George, with an established reputation in the local real estate market as a trustworthy builder and lender, will have a hard time NOT profiting from the coming boom.

[@827dusty]

Not the 1950s, this is set in the 1940s.

[@jamezkpal2361]

@Frank Castle My dad came home from war a decorated hero but in his mind he was joe average. He got so much support from the community he was able to marry a brilliant woman and raise 11 children. Community is so important.

[@jamesmoyner7499]

@Frank Castle Plus he will finally be able to leave the town and go see the world.

[@paultanner7671]

Yea but then his grandkids and great grandkids and beyond are living in a corrupted degenerate hellhole where they're demonized as having 'white privilege'.

[@thekpmckay]

@@paultanner7671 WTF? Relax Francis.

[@LisaLynn71]

This is one of those feel good Christmas Movies, My family watches this every single year..

[@Hiraghm]

"That's a good face" Jimmy Stewart was one of the best Americans we ever had. And I say that without sarcasm or hyperbole. Making this movie, he had just come back from flying bomber missions over Europe during WWII... after leaving his movie career to sign up. He's made a lot of good "everyman" movies... Among them "Flight of the Phoenix" where he plays a washed-up pilot who has to save his passengers after a crash in the desert. "Firecreek" is a personal favorite of mine; it's about a town-full of losers... and Jimmy decides he'd rather die that be a loser anymore. Of course there are classics like "Vertigo" and "The Glenn Miller Story", and the infamous "Cheyenne Social Club" (where he inherits a brothel); "Harvey" and "Shenandoah". Oh! And "The Spirit of St Louis" where he plays Charles Lindbergh (If you don't know who Charles Lindbergh was, go slap every one of your teachers). So many, many great movies... particularly relevant to today... "Mr Smith Goes to Washington".... where an innocent and honest man becomes a senator, and the corrupt body destroys him.

[@eddieevans6692]

Don't forget Rear Window!

[@mountainbikemayhem1833]

Jimmy Stewart is quite possibly one of the greatest actors ever... LEGEND

[@CasperC1451]

You need to quit having a bias against old movies :). Some of the greatest movies of all time are 70 years or older. In fact I would say today’s films are weaker because they rely too much on effects and flash over and actual story. Also glad you are back and feeling better

[@sweetkiss119]

I agree 100 percent. But she’s a millennial. They are automatically biased against anything that came out before they were born. At least she’s open enough to at least give them a try. Most millennials just make fun of older movies and shit all over them. But yeah that whole “omg it’s so old it’s gonna suck” bs gets real old real fast. I do t always agree with ashleighs opinions on some of my fav movies but again at least she’s giving them a chance. 👍

[@paulgunderson4721]

Completely agree. I love many old movies.

[@CasperC1451]

@@sweetkiss119 yes but my comment was based on her often saying something like “when I saw this was from 19- I thought I would hate it”. That’s my point. Don’t keep assuming pre-1990 means a movie sucks

[@marycasanova8905]

1939 was the best year for movies. The wizard of oz, Gone with the wind, Casablanca, The women, You can't take it with you...So many amazing films. You might like The Women. You never see a single male on screen. It's about how women deal with each other. Very advanced for it's time.

[@sweetkiss119]

@@CasperC1451 exactly I agree. Gotta have an open mind cause you never know what great things you might be missing. But when I was younger I wasn’t that open to older things either.

[@alexius23]

When Mr.Potter referred to George Bailey’s customers as “garlic eaters” that was a slur against Italian-Americans.

[@Spikeelsucko]

and against garlic, I'll find any excuse to use it

[@Seereene1]

I caught that...back in those days Italian immigrants were treated like the Mexicans and So Americans of today.

[@peytondoss7200]

Fuckin liberals will try to label everything racist.

[@alexius23]

@@Seereene1 nearly every ethic group was despised by “mainstream” American culture

[@Dajaphil]

Hi Ashleigh. Glad you are on the mend. You commented that older movies may not be too funny. On of my all time favorites is Arsenic and Old Lace 1941 with Cary Grant. Every time I watch it, I still howl.

[@jeffreymoore6742]

This movie was like the wizard of oz, didn’t make money but became popular when shown on TV every year

[@cass853]

It was so unpopular when it was first released that the studio neglected to renew the copyright and it entered the public domain early. The networks started playing it because they did not need to pay royalties. That brought it to a new audience which embraced it and it became a classic.

[@ToylandChairman666]

@@cass853 I remember hearing the film was public domain, but I don't think it is anymore. It turned out the short story it's based on was still copyright, so someone must have took advantage of a loophole.

[@LA_HA]

Speaking of witch... haha. Wizard of Oz.

[@betsyduane3461]

The bridge is because George was still wanting to be an engineer.

[@SmackDab]

I never noticed that before!

[@melissacooper4282]

I've noticed it! I didn't notice the skull on Potter's desk until Ashleigh pointed that out.

[@melanieleblanc4562]

Zu Zu is traditionally a nickname for Susan or similar names. It made sense that they used her nickname because she was the baby

[@TheNeonRabbit]

Zuzu is also a Czech name which means "Lily".

[@lordshmee]

I recently turned 40 and one of the things I’ve been really, REALLY learning lately is that people have always been people. Even in “the old days” they were more or less the same as we are now. They knew what was cool and what wasn’t. They may have had different slang and whatnot, but people have been the same for probably 50000 years. I guess what I’m saying is that I need to start watching more old movies 😝

[@davidzieglmeier1020]

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” - Terry Pratchett

[@rhinehold4268]

OMG I love Sir Terry Pratchett SO MUCH, the man is one of my personal idols... RIP

[@zimnizzle]

I love this line. Terry Pratchett is so great.

[@jameswilson8433]

So, who wants "Hogfather" for Jingle Beans?

[@HemlockRidge]

@@jameswilson8433 I DO! I DO!

[@simonoleary9264]

AND CATS, CATS ARE NICE!

[@cammybaby01]

Zuzu was a nickname for Susan. When thinking about 10 cents a dance, remember that a house was 5000 dollars. So a 10 cent dance then would be like $5 a dance now.

[@MordicusEgg]

10 cents in 1946 money adjusted for 2020 purchasing power is just over $1.41 It's still a pretty good deal, I guess if you're inclined to dance.

[@cammybaby01]

@@MordicusEgg thank you for exactness. I have been proven slightly wrong.

[@jonathan-d4d]

That phone scene between George and Mary was surprisingly steamy. They had great chemistry together.

[@Hiraghm]

Yeah, that was before she lost her mind.

[@jonathan-d4d]

@@Hiraghm Don’t know what you mean. When did she lose her mind?

[@dsflixfan1]

I felt the kiss at the fire place, in the old house, was better. "Welcome home Mr. Bailey."

[@solicitr666]

Donna Reed was seriously hot.

[@ChrisMaxfieldActs]

8:52 "garlic eaters" was a racist way of referring to Italian-Americans in the Twenties and Thirties, by people like Potter, who thought they did not count as white.

[@BrettMoxey]

If you like the older films, you would love the 1955 film, the Court Jester with Danny Kaye. The Pellet with the Poison's in the Vessel with the Pestle! Not a Christmas film, but lots of fun.

[@kemowery]

Yeah, the Court Jester is brilliant (and has one of the best sword fights in movie history, IMO).

[@Glittersword]

Lord any of Danny Kaye's movies are great. Another is Hans Christian Anderson.

[@erich4191]

Trivia for millennials-Bert and Ernie, on Sesame Street, were named after George’s friends, the taxi driver and policeman.

[@timothylockard3846]

This has been repeated many times...but from what I've read, it's not true. Just a coincidence.

[@Chillum2u]

check out the youtube video "it's a wonderful life: 50 things you don't need to know - it has another explanation for the names

[@sparky6086]

@@timothylockard3846 You're probably right, because "It's a Wonderful Life" didn't re-enter the public consciousness until 1974, when it began regular play on TV, because it's copyright had not been renewed due to an oversight or a clerical mistake, so stations could play it for free. Not that it was in the public consciousness much in the first place, since postwar audiences were looking for a different type of film, not many people saw or remembered it. The characters/puppets on Sesame Street, named Bert & Ernie, were created in the late 1960's. It seems plausible to people nowadays, that the Bert & Ernie puppets were named after these movie characters, because Bert & Ernie are not such common names any longer, but during the time depicted in the movie, they were very common names. When the Sesame Street puppets were named, there were still a lot of those Bert & Ernie's walking around.

[@ThatSchmoGuy]

Please never underestimate the entertainment value of golden age cinema.

[@vapoet]

She NEEDS to see Casablanca.

[@thatoneguyagain2252]

@@vapoet Yes YES YESSS ! ! ! ! ! Casablanca is brilliant - anyone who loves movies HAS to see it !

[@cindyknudson2715]

I believe Zuzu was a pet name for her. Zuzu was a brand of gingersnap cookies. When George comes home at the end of the movie he even calls her his little gingersnap.

[@GrimmGhost]

That crow was a raven. "Jimmy " the Raven was in most, if not all, of Frank Capra's (the director) films. Donna Reed had her own TV show (The Donna Reed Show). Shelley Fabares played her daughter, she sang "Johnny Angel" a #1 hit song in 1962. The first duo of Bert and Ernie. The cop and the Taxi driver.

[@dabe1971]

Yep, the dance hall where the film was made did really have a pool under the floor - and it still has I believe. It's the Beverley Hills High School established in 1927

[@mikeking7710]

"I wish I had a million dollars. Hot Dog!", "Hot Dog" was just an exclamation, like "Oh Boy".

[@anastasiabell]

Now you just have to watch The Shop Around the Corner - another Christmas classic with James Stewart. Also Mr Smith Goes to Washington is a MUST.

[@eddiewillers1442]

Jimmy Stewart, B&W, Rabbits....you HAVE to review "Harvey".

[@dionbram]

For another really old movie you should watch "Some like it hot" with Marilyn Monroe, it is still funny today.

[@scottcubed]

I personally prefer 'How to Marry a Millionaire" for Marilyn, but you can't go wrong with 'Some like it Hot.'

[@jamesricker3997]

Make sure she watches the unedited version With the homosexual joke at the end

[@johncampbell756]

Best final line.

[@MravacKid]

That movie has the greatest ending scene in the history of cinema. :)

[@GirlWithAnOpinion]

Well.....Nobody's perfect!

[@Viscount1881]

There actually was a scene written for the end where Potter has a heart attack after Clarence tells him what awaits him after death, but it was cut because it seemed a bit dark to end the film on. And fun fact, Old Man Potter was part of the inspiration for Mr. Burns on The Simpsons. Frank Capra films are fantastic - another great one (also with Jimmy Stewart) is "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington". Glad you enjoyed this, and even gladder that you're doing better!

[@alfredcreecy4315]

If you watch Mr. Smith Goes to Washington you should watch it for the 4th of July.

[@saracarr3382]

What a great reaction! 😂😂 girl something about you saying “talk about makin like rabbits” and “there’s that bed, know what I’m sayin?” About George Bailey just got me!! I love this movie, an absolute classic. Will definitely check out more of your videos!