Holiday Movie Fun Fact: H. B. Warner from "It's A Wonderful Life,"

[elperromagico]

who played Mr. Gower the druggist, also played Jesus Christ in Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings (1927).

[BrklynLiberal]

1. How about this piece of trivia...Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street were

named after characters in "It's a Wonderful Life".
Ward Bond was Officer Bert and Frank Faylen was Ernie Bishop, the Taxi Driver.

[Spinzonner]

4. And Frank Faylen played DObie Gillis's father

in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis "

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5. The neighbor who says, "Why don't you kiss 'er 'stead

of talkin' her to death?!?" went on to play the first mayor of Mayberry on The Andy Griffith Show.

[cruadin]

7. I always wondered if that was just a bizarre coincidence...

or if Sesame Street took the names from that movie.
In the immortal words of Bart Simpson, "Coool."

[ClassWarrior]

2. Kind of like Elsa Lanchester...

The Bride of Frankenstein... and the nanny who quits the Banks household at the beginning of Mary Poppins. Blew me away.

NGU.

[elperromagico]

3. How about this one? Max Von Sydow, who played Jesus in

George Stevens' The Greatest Story Ever Told, appeared nearly 30 years later in the film version of Stephen King's Needful Things as the human incarnation of... Satan.

Talk about versatility. :P

[ashmanonar]

6. random fact:

Max Von Sydow also played a bit part in the 1984 movie Dune, the part of Duke Atreides...

heh, sorry, i had to...hmm, another movie with a messianic character...a messianic character who is NOT jesus christ...:headbang:

[nytemare]

8. I told my 16 and 15 year old nieces I would give them 5 bucks if

they could find "Zuzu" on the Chrismas tree. It only took them a couple minutes to figure out and hand me the "It's a Wonderful Life" ornament. I was so proud.