It's a Wonderful Life you two guys? You were here on my wedding night!" Streaming audio 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
George S. Sandstrom George S. Sandstrom During the early 1900s George S. Sandstrom, of Oakland, California, made what is called a Banjo ukulele, or banjolele. A combination of a ukulele and a banjo, which at the time sold for about $2.00. On December 12, 1917 George Sandstrom of Oakland California filed patent application number 206746. He was awarded patent number 1354268, titled "Banjo," on September 28, 1920. The patent specifications describe George Sandstrom's invention, in part, as "...a tightening device for banjo heads and other musical instruments having an open circular rim, a flexible head interposed within the opening of the said rim,