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The Greatest Gift
December 25, 2024
The greatest Christmas movie ever made, by virtually universal acclamation, is Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946). In the aftermath of the Second World War, Capra, a World War II veteran, crafted, with lead actor and fellow World War II veteran Jimmy Stewart, a holiday tale of a despairing small-town man who realizes at Christmastime that his seemingly insignificant life has actually made a vital difference in the lives of thousands of other people.
Today, It’s a Wonderful Life is #21 on the Internet Movie Database’s list of the top 250 films of all time. It’s not just a great Christmas movie; it’s a great movie. And yet, of the millions of viewers who have viewed and cherished the movie during one Christmas season after another, relatively few have read the modest little short story that inspired Capra’s classic film.
How fortunate it is, then, that back in 2014, the good people at Simon & Schuster offered the world a Christmas gift, in the form of a fresh, red-bound reprinting of Philip Van Doren Stern’s 1943 short story “The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale.” It is a lovely little story, and the unlikely saga of how it became the basis for one of the best-loved films ever made could constitute a small Christmas miracle
Today, It’s a Wonderful Life is #21 on the Internet Movie Database’s list of the top 250 films of all time. It’s not just a great Christmas movie; it’s a great movie. And yet, of the millions of viewers who have viewed and cherished the movie during one Christmas season after another, relatively few have read the modest little short story that inspired Capra’s classic film.
How fortunate it is, then, that back in 2014, the good people at Simon & Schuster offered the world a Christmas gift, in the form of a fresh, red-bound reprinting of Philip Van Doren Stern’s 1943 short story “The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale.” It is a lovely little story, and the unlikely saga of how it became the basis for one of the best-loved films ever made could constitute a small Christmas miracle