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. 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,