It's a Wonderful Life It's a Wonderful Life It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy comedy-drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift", which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and published privately in 1945. The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his dreams in order to help others, and whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched, and how different life in his
George S. Sandstrom an annular lip integral therewith and extending inwardly from the top of said rim, a flat top ring fixedly to the inside circumference of the said rim over which said head is drawn. The George S. Sandstrom banjolele pictured on the right was made in 1917. It has a bright and surprisingly loud sound. I purchased it from Griffin Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto California. George Sandstrom's instruments had light California Maple necks with a medium dark California maple body. A few were made with the body, and resonator of burled California Redwood. A true California native. George S. Sandstrom