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Oregon’s Connection to the Holiday Movie Classic “It’s a Wonderful Life”

Publicity for It’s a Wonderful Life.
Publicity for It’s a Wonderful Life.

 

At the beginning of December, the UO Libraries and Cinema Studies presented a public screening of the holiday classic, It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), along with a small complementary exhibit. It’s a Wonderful Life has an important connection to UO: included in Special Collections and University Archives are the papers of the author who wrote the short story that became the basis for the movie’s screenplay. Continue reading