“I like the cut of that man’s gibberish!” – The Tick
Stranger
Well, I just find it odd that Mr. Bailey had a stroke at that precise moment. I don’t know what further proof is needed.
Yes, it could have been a traveling salesman joke! 
Ditch digger, dish washer, president of a savings and loan.
Don’t misunderstand, I think it’s an intriguing premise that puts a new spin on the story, but we then wonder why Donna Reed would saddle herself with Jimmy Stewart. Of course, we can wonder the same about Grace Kelly in Rear Window (although marrying a prince in real life didn’t work out all that well, either.)
Stranger
Apparently they had someone ready to knock out the window at the right time but they didn’t need it. Donna Reed had a great arm.
In what way did the marriage not work out well?
You should always trust Tom Bosley.
Also “Room 222” was shot at Los Angeles High, although most of the buildings used for the exterior shots aren’t around any more.
She was pretty much a brood mare for Prince Rainier and his family, and he forebade her from a further film career. He (and allegedly she) had a number of extramarital affairs and were never especially close, even in public.
Stranger
I’ve seen since confirmation on imdb that Tom was correct. My father went to Hollywood High. I must be confusing all three high schools as one. That or dear old Dad was telling some long tales.
The scene when George returns home after rejecting Potter’s crafty offer of employment, when Mary tells George she’s pregnant. Before she tells him the news, when he first walks into their darkened bedroom, he asks her why she ever married him. She says something like, “To keep me from being an old maid.” And he says she could have married anyone else in town, and she says something like, “I didn’t want to marry anyone else in town.” Maybe she was not just blowig smoke.
I did find it odd, though, that she was bound and determined to remind George of the night his father died, with that “George Lassos the Moon” sign, which appears twice in the film. That’s the first thing it would have brought to my mind, if it were me.
I guess it’s theoretically possible, but I’ve never seen an example. “Shy, introverted” people usually have a few frends. People with NO friends are usually assholes.
Well, sure. She’s gotta remind him of what could happen…
From the first Mary and George scene, he’s 12 or 13, she a couple of years younger,He leans down to finish scooping out the ice cream, his deaf ear toward her. She leans over, speaking softly. CLOSE SHOT –– Mary, whispering.
MARY: Is this the ear you can’t hear on? George Bailey, I’ll love you till the day I die.
*She draws back quickly and looks down, terrified at what she has said.*George was literally her first and only love.
CMC +fnord!
It has been mentioned in previous threads about this movie that being an unmarried librarian is not necessarily a bad thing.
Moviemaker Frank Capra, Jr., head of EUE Studios in Wilmington, NC, died on Wednesday, 12/19/07.
But she wouldn’t have known him to fall in love with him in the alternate timeline. He wasn’t even around to save Harry from the lake and go deaf in his ear.
Which takes us back to her assertion that George had saved her from becoming an old maid and that she didn’t want to marry anyone else. She had a gut feeling (I mean one that was not a baby kicking). Sam Wainwright certainly would not have lasted; remember the girl on his neck when he telephoned her house back when everyone thought he and Mary would get together?
My favorite part about that scene is that, obviously George and Mary have no idea that Sam has a high-priced chippie with him. As far as either of them know, Sam’s about to pop the question to Mary. They never hung up the phone.