It's a Wonderful Life: The Story Behind America's Favorite Christmas Movie w/ Eric Smoodin
The Road to Now · Benjamin Sawyer
December 17, 20241h 5m
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Show Notes
Dr. Eric Smoodin, film historian at the University of California- Davis and author of Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity and American Film Studies, 1930-1960, joins Bob and Ben for the history of the people, the industry, and law that made Frank Capra's 1946 film It's A Wonderful Life into one of America's quintessential Christmas films.
This is a rebroadcast of episode 292 which originally aired on December 11, 2023. This reair was edited by Ben Sawyer.