It's a Wonderful Life greatest movie list, number 20 on its revised 2007 greatest movie list, and placing number one on its list of the most inspirational American films of all time. Capra revealed that this was his personal favorite among the films he directed, and that he screened it for his family every Christmas season. On Christmas Eve 1945, in Bedford Falls, New York, George Bailey contemplates suicide. Prayers for him reach Heaven, where Clarence Odbody, Angel 2nd Class, is assigned to save George, in return for which he will earn his angel wings. To prepare him for his mission, Clarence is shown
George S. Bolster George S. Bolster George S. Bolster (1913–1989) was an American photographer from Saratoga Springs, New York. Bolster is noted as the creator of the "George S. Bolster Collection" of 375,000 negatives, chiefly from the Saratoga Springs area from the period 1855–1980, taken by himself and other photographers. The collection is now in the Saratoga Springs History Museum. Bolster was born in Saratoga Springs in 1913 and exhibited an early interest in photography. He graduated from St. Peter's Academy in Saratoga Springs and opened a photography studio. In 1958 he took over the business of another well-known Saratoga Springs photographer, Harry