karolyn grimes played debbie in the bishop's wife.
karolyn grimes played debbie in the bishop's wife.
who played debbie in the bishop's wife?
karolyn grimes
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karolyn grimes (born july 4, 1940) is an american actress. she is best known for her role as zuzu bailey in the classic 1946 frank capra film "it's a wonderful life". she also played debbie in the 1947 film "the bishop's wife".









































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grimes was born in hollywood, california. at age 5, she studied piano and violin at the boyd school for actors.
karolyn grimes
debbie feels she needs to provide more for baby jack and sarah after sarah begins her chemotherapy after her transplant and decides to set up a delivery firm, sleeping with newcomer dom (wil johnson) to get his contacts. after it is revealed that dom's boss, pete, does drug work, he tries to get debbie to do drugs runs for him and threatens sarah, so debbie terminates the contract. debbie hires robbie lawson (jamie shelton) as her assistant and they begin selling cheap vodka. their biggest orders were from eric and val pollard (charlie hardwick) and debbie even tries to rip off chas in the woolpack. when the seller's price goes up, debbie and robbie set up a meeting with an old friend of robbie's, kirk, who is very interested in debbie. whilst debbie is meeting kirk, jack and sarah almost die when andy's girlfriend, kerry wyatt (laura norton), accidentally sets fire to dale view. debbie swore to pay kerry back and almost kills her in the street. kirk's interest in debbie continues even though robbie reveals he is engaged to a woman named charlene. kirk states that charlene will have him for the rest of their lives and he deserves to have debbie while he can and kisses her. debbie becomes wary, remembering previous times with engaged men, like michael. debbie gets closer to belle and is horrified when belle drinks half a bottle of her dodgy vodka and is left with possible brain damage. the dingles throw debbie out and andy takes the children away. she stays with zak, gets her life back on track and gets closer to cameron when he comforts her. cameron feels sorry for debbie when andy takes the children, leading to them kissing briefly. cameron persuades debbie not to run away with jack and sarah because everyone has turned against her. cameron feels a strong vibe towards her and accidentally, the pair sleep together. just after sleeping with cameron, he tells debbie "that it felt right" in his opinion, and she is horrified that he wants her to cheat on chas, like he did to her. debbie denies it and says that it was a stupid mistake and that all she cares about is her kids before telling cameron to leave but debbie knows she still loves him. cameron continues to fight for debbie and after she angrily admits trying to kill chas, cameron realizes that it took a lot for her to confess, so he thinks she still trusts him. he follows her home from the café, unaware that gennie is hidden upstairs with a dictophone, taping their conversation. cameron confesses that he killed carl. debbie says she still loves him and they can get through it together, as she believed that he was with chas while she was giving birth to jack, but realizes that cameron was "threatened" by carl and killed him in "self-defence". debbie and cameron kiss and head to tell chas they are back together and while kissing in the street, they notice gennie leave tug ghyll. the pair chase her, leading to gennie's car crashing down a ravine. cameron pulls a hurt gennie out of the car while debbie calls an ambulance. debbie asks if gennie will be alright, he nods before returning to gennie and kills her. later, debbie tells the police that she found gennie after driving by and debbie, jai and the police, go to the woolpack and tell brenda, bob, nikhill and chas about gennie's death.
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