Guardian angel serve as an Hypothesis to salve many doubts, whereof common Philosophy affordeth no solution: By the 19th century, the guardian angel was no longer viewed in Anglophone lands as an intercessory figure, but rather as a force protecting the believer from performing sin. A parody appears in Byron's "Don Juan": "Her guardian angel had given up his garrison" (Canto I, xvii). Clarence Odbody, the guardian angel in the 1946 film "It's a Wonderful Life", "earned his wings" through bringing awareness that life was worth living to the film's protagonist, George Bailey. Guardian angel A guardian angel is an angel that
A Wonderful Life (musical) A Wonderful Life (musical) A Wonderful Life is a 1986 musical with a book and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Joe Raposo. Based on the classic Frank Capra film "It's a Wonderful Life" starring James Stewart, the story closely follows the original plot, set in 1945, telling the story of a suicidal man whose guardian angel reveals to him how different the world and everyone whose life he has touched would be had he never been born. The film was, in turn, based on a 1938 short story by Philip Van Doren Stern called "The Greatest Gift". Harnick