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| | JS Online: Holiday classic not wonderful for writers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In hiring Goodrich and Hackett, Capra knew what he was getting: In his autobiography, he called them "perceptive, human writers." The writers, in turn, knew what they were getting - or thought they did. |
 | | Later, at a party while the film was being shot, Goodrich and Hackett heard an anecdote from Beulah Bondi, who played the mother of George Bailey, Stewart's character. |
 | | Goodrich and Hackett were so bitter after working with Capra that for many years they said they had made a point of never seeing "It's a Wonderful Life." But they later admitted that like millions of others, they had finally seen it - on television. |
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