Clarence Odbody, Angel 2nd Class, is assigned to save George in order to earn his angel wings. Odbody is loosely based on "a stranger", a character in Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 booklet The Greatest Gift. I'm all right!" Clarence Odbody (born May 1653) is a fictional angel in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life, where he was portrayed by Henry Travers, and in the 1990 sequel, Clarence, where he was played by Robert Carradine.. Odbody is loosely based on "a stranger", a character in Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 booklet The Greatest Gift. Clarence Odbody is the secondary protagonist of It's a Wonderful Life.He is the guardian angel of George Bailey, whose life he reviews with the head angel Joseph (for this reason, he is not shown for most of the film).He is an Angel Second Class, which is why he doesn't have his wings yet for 200 years of trying. It was as if I was being escorted by Clarence Odbody or Tinkerbell. George expresses a wish that he had never been born, and Clarence grants his wish in order to show George what the world would be like if he had never existed. As the camera focuses on George, smiling at his uncle staggering away, a crash is heard in the distance and Uncle Billy yells, "I'm all right! A helplessly existential look at It's a Wonderful Life. The scene had the boys playing ice hockey on the river (which is on Potter's property) as Potter watches with disdain. Although Harry vows to decline the offer for his brother's sake, George cannot deny him such a great opportunity and keeps running the Building and Loan. The play opens with George Bailey contemplating suicide and then goes back through major moments in his life. Billy is talking on the phone to the bank examiner, and lights his cigar and throws his match in the wastebasket. She reveals that Uncle Billy was institutionalized after the stock market crash. It was first performed on December 15, 1993 at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. After berating his uncle for endangering the Building and Loan, George goes home and destroys his corner of the living room. The Last Temptation of Clarence Odbody. He also owns a copy of Mark Twain's book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. You’ll feel expansive by the end of it! If you have an hour and you are feeling small, I would definitely recommend an hour with the Google Earth. You probably know the story. Despite initially performing poorly financially because of high production costs and stiff competition at the time of its release, the film has come to be regarded as a classic.In Bedford Falls, New York, on Christmas Eve 1945, George Bailey is suicidal. George discovers that his war-hero brother, Harry, had drowned in a frozen lake as a child, as George was not there to save him. At age 12, George saves his younger brother Harry, who fell through the ice on a pond, costing George the hearing in one ear. Later, he catches a potentially deadly mistake made by his boss the druggist, who was distracted by the news of the sudden death of his son in the On Harry's graduation night in 1928, George discusses his dreams of travel and building things with admiring classmate Mary Hatch. He apologizes to his frightened wife and children, then leaves.Before he can jump, Clarence jumps in the river and pretends to be drowning. Mary and Uncle Billy rally the townspeople, who donate more than enough to cover the loss. 83 likes. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?" Wendell Jamieson, in a 2008 essay for The film's popularity continues, and it currently holds an 8.6 out of 10 rating on the In a 1997 review, film historian James Berardinelli commented on the parallels between this film and the classic The Academy Award win in the Technical Achievement category was for developing a new method of creating artificial snow.A clerical error at NTA prevented the copyright from being renewed properly in 1974.Due to all the above actions, this is one of the few RKO films not controlled by Director Capra met with Wilson Markle about having Colorization, Inc., Three colorized versions have been produced. Each man's life touches so many other lives. It’s A Wonderful Country. Equipment on the set had actually been accidentally knocked over; Capra left in Thomas Mitchell's impromptu The products and advertisements featured in Mr. Gower's drugstore include In an earlier draft of the script, the scene where George saves his brother Harry as a child was different. Consequently, the hundreds of servicemen Harry would have saved are also dead. Clarence Odbody (born May 1653) is a fictional guardian angel in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life, where he was portrayed by Henry Travers, and in the 1990 sequel, Clarence, where he was played by Robert Carradine. Suddenly, George's uncle, Billy, informs him that his father had a When Harry graduates, he brings home a wife, whose father has offered Harry a job.