65 Years Ago Today

It's A Wonderful Life made its debut 65 years ago today at the Globe Theatre in New York City.  While the film has become a Christmas classic over the years, it opened to mixed reviews back then.  According to an article in Wikipedia, "Bosley Crowther, writing for The New York Times, complimented some of the actors, including Stewart and Reed, but concluded that "the weakness of this picture, from this reviewer's point of view, is the sentimentality of it — its illusory concept of life. Mr. Capra's nice people are charming, his small town is a quite beguiling place and his pattern for solving problems is most optimistic and facile. But somehow they all resemble theatrical attitudes rather than average realities."1.

If you've grown up or lived for any length of time in the Chicago area and you've never seen this movie then you must never watch TV.

1.Wikipedia It's a Wonderful Life.