As 'It's A Wonderful Life' turns 75, Karolyn 'Zuzu' Grimes reflects on the film that belatedly chang

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“It’s A Wonderful Life,” Frank Capra’s celebration of faith, family and community released 75 years ago this month, is one of those indelible film classics where it’s not a question of whether you’ve seen it, but how many times.

By her count, Karolyn Grimes, 81, has banked hundreds of viewings.

That’s not surprising: Grimes is one of about 10 surviving cast members of the film, and this time of year, she said, her dance card is “full, full, full” with appearances at screenings, holiday gift shows, movie memorabilia conventions and, most personally rewarding, the annual “It’s A Wonderful Life” festival in Seneca Falls, N.Y., which she has attended for almost two decades.

Her name may be unfamiliar, and having retired from acting when she was a teenager, she is not likely to be recognized when out in public. But when strangers find out who she portrays in the film, “their faces just light up,” she said.

Grimes played George Bailey’s youngest daughter, Zuzu, the “little ginger snap” with the petals, who in the film’s profoundly soul-stirring climax, says perhaps the film’s most-quoted line: “Look, Daddy, teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.”

“I had no clue whatsoever those words would be so special to so many people,” she said. “I’m thrilled I got to say them and that I got to be a part of that scene and that movie.”

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