I have watched that movie every year since 1951. I am really tired of it, but, we have a tradition. Me, I say I have to bake and stay in the kitchen with some wine and a good book. I will not ruin it for the kids. Hubby loves the movie.
Silly movie, the angel bit talking with each other in the cosmos. The rest of it’s a nice story though, with the notable and glaringly sexist exception of the notion that his girlfriend would end up a single, sad, worthless spinster if he’d not been there to marry her and make her life worthwhile.
The tequila was then combined with cheap, corn-syrup sweetened margarita mix and a couple cans of the local supermarket off-brand diet lemon lime soda. Drink up boys & girls.
The world’s most expensive bottle of whiskey sold for £848,750 in Edinburgh. The world’s most expensive bottle of wine sold for $500,000 in Napa Valley (a Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon 1992). As it had been a charity auction, one might consider a French Cheval-Blanc 1947 sold for $304,375 as the really most expensive wine ever sold so far.
According to the article in the link below, “In 1923, Dalí was suspended from the academy for criticizing his teachers and allegedly starting a riot among students over the academy’s choice of a professorship. That same year, he was arrested and briefly imprisoned in Gerona for allegedly supporting the Separatist movement, though Dalí was actually apolitical at the time (and remained so throughout most of his life). He returned to the academy in 1926, but was permanently expelled shortly before his final exams for declaring that no member of the faculty was competent enough to examine him.”
Templo S.U.D. over 5 years ago
What was wrong with that post-WWII Christmas film back then?
Bilan over 5 years ago
So Salvador Dali failed and it’s a Wonderful Life failed, but a bottle of tequila gets a quarter mill???
Aussie Down Under over 5 years ago
It’s A Wonderful Life was on Aussie TV today. Enough said about Christmas programming .
Breadboard over 5 years ago
Some movies are like some wines …….they taste better with age ;-)
tkcoker over 5 years ago
As far as I am concerned “It’s a wonderful life” is still a failure. I can’t stand that movie.
Smokie over 5 years ago
I have watched that movie every year since 1951. I am really tired of it, but, we have a tradition. Me, I say I have to bake and stay in the kitchen with some wine and a good book. I will not ruin it for the kids. Hubby loves the movie.
PMark over 5 years ago
It flopped so bad that the studio allowed the copyright to expire; which is why it is played so often — no royalties need be paid.
joefearsnothing over 5 years ago
I’ll bet art school wanted Dali to learn to paint realism! ;o}
joefearsnothing over 5 years ago
Maybe that’s 24k gold on that tequilla bottle! ;o]
J Short over 5 years ago
Unfortunately, the bottle was consumed by the son and a bunch of 16 year olds while his parents were away.
Huckleberry Hiroshima over 5 years ago
Silly movie, the angel bit talking with each other in the cosmos. The rest of it’s a nice story though, with the notable and glaringly sexist exception of the notion that his girlfriend would end up a single, sad, worthless spinster if he’d not been there to marry her and make her life worthwhile.
sousamannd over 5 years ago
Good for that art school. Dalis works are weird and are artless baloney.
gozar over 5 years ago
The tequila was then combined with cheap, corn-syrup sweetened margarita mix and a couple cans of the local supermarket off-brand diet lemon lime soda. Drink up boys & girls.
Spock over 5 years ago
The world’s most expensive bottle of whiskey sold for £848,750 in Edinburgh. The world’s most expensive bottle of wine sold for $500,000 in Napa Valley (a Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon 1992). As it had been a charity auction, one might consider a French Cheval-Blanc 1947 sold for $304,375 as the really most expensive wine ever sold so far.
DaveQuinn over 5 years ago
it is in the public domain so it can be broadcast as often as they wish. No royalties to pay.
pearlsbs over 5 years ago
According to the article in the link below, “In 1923, Dalí was suspended from the academy for criticizing his teachers and allegedly starting a riot among students over the academy’s choice of a professorship. That same year, he was arrested and briefly imprisoned in Gerona for allegedly supporting the Separatist movement, though Dalí was actually apolitical at the time (and remained so throughout most of his life). He returned to the academy in 1926, but was permanently expelled shortly before his final exams for declaring that no member of the faculty was competent enough to examine him.”
https://www.biography.com/people/salvador-dal-40389
Printer over 5 years ago
Love the color version we watch it every year.