It's a Wonderful Life as Mother Bailey. Philip Grecian's 2006 radio play based on the film "It's a Wonderful Life" is a faithful adaptation, now in its third incarnation, that has been performed numerous times by local theatres in Canada. "The Last Temptation of Clarence Odbody" is a novel written by John Pierson. The novel imagines the future lives of various characters if George had not survived his jump into the river. Scenes from the film are seen in the documentary "", where Abacus Federal Savings Bank founder and chairman Thomas Sung talked about how "It's a Wonderful Life" influenced him. The film was
George S. Wise of the Aztec Eagle, the highest award given to a foreigner in 1949. Rise married Florence Rosenberg, who died on January 11, 2013 at the age of a hundred. He died in Miami Beach, Florida on July 2, 1987 after suffering from heart failure for several months. Upon hearing of his death, former Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin described Wise as "the dearest man I ever met". The Wise Observatory and the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University is named after Wise. George S. Wise George Schneiweis Wise (April 6, 1906 – July 2,