It’s a Wonderful World

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It’s a Wonderful World

film by Van Dyke [1939]

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W.S. Van Dyke
Powell and Loy, Eddy and MacDonald
It’s a Wonderful World (1939) was a screwball comedy inspired by Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934); Stewart starred as a fugitive on the run, and Claudette Colbert was a runaway poet (rather than a runaway heiress, as in Capra’s film). Although predictable, the…
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It’s a Wonderful World (1939) was a screwball comedy inspired by Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934); Stewart starred as a fugitive on the run, and Claudette Colbert was a runaway poet (rather than a runaway heiress, as in Capra’s film). Although predictable, the…
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Herman Mankiewicz
… (1931), Dinner at Eight (1933), It’s a Wonderful World (1939, with Ben Hecht), Pride of the Yankees (1942), and Citizen Kane (1941, with Orson Welles). He took much of the story for Citizen Kane from his personal experience with William Randolph Hearst, whose guest he had been on many weekends…
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… (1931), Dinner at Eight (1933), It’s a Wonderful World (1939, with Ben Hecht), Pride of the Yankees (1942), and Citizen Kane (1941, with Orson Welles). He took much of the story for Citizen Kane from his personal experience with William Randolph Hearst, whose guest he had been on many weekends…
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