My kindergarten teacher was Carol Coombs-Mueller, went to church together, and still connected to her through family. She is the daughter who plays the piano in the movie. I will always have a deep connection to her and thinking about her will forever put a smile on my face.❤
You are adorable and I love your outfit! I very much enjoyed your video, seeing the places where one of my favorite movies was filmed. Thank you for posting!
Keep going many will or cannot get out and about. You are inspirinng good thoughts and memories to people who will never get this chance to see the world without people like you. All the best! Merry christmas
One of my favorite movies and thank you for the details. You do a very nice job with your image match ups and on a side note you are very easy on the eyes.
Great content Kelly, I love seeing where shows actually took place. I`ve been in the industry for 25 years as a makeup artist and still find if the history fascinating. I`m sad so much is gone. I`m near Warner Ranch and my heart broke knowing the Bewitched house, Lethal Weapon house, Partridge Family house and so on were all torn down. Truly sad. Anyways that aside, great content and Merry Christmas!!!
🎄My favorite Christmas movie! This was a wonderful video Kelly. Thank you. I always love when you upload. Happy Holidays and New Year. ~Love&Light♥️Carli xx
Mine too Carli! I’m so glad you enjoyed and thanks for watching! I have a part two of sorts coming next week. Happy holidays and New Year to you as well!🎄✨
I have to say, having seen only half of this video so far tonight, that you are excellent at hosting this, and the voice-overs are great to listen to. Great job, Kelly.
@@kellywoodclark It has been at least forty five years since we started watching it every Christmas, along with the original The Bishop's Wife and White Christmas.
@kellywoodclark There is a Doris Day movie from 1952 called On Moonlight Bay that has some good Christmas scenes and Christmas songs in it. It's a very good feel good family movie in color.
@@bryanspindle4455I haven’t seen that one! I watched some other not fully Christmas Christmas films recently; The Thin Man, Susan Slept here, and The Lemon Drop Kid. I’ll add your suggestion to my list!
wooooooHOOOOOOOOOOOO 🎉🎉🎉 Brava ~ a one & only KWC FILM~ YOU look so beautiful too‼ Kelly NEVER fails to deliver an OUTSTANDING presentation on every level💯 THANK YOU!! Always looking forward to more ENCORE ENCORE👏👏👏
Thank you so much for your kind words! I appreciate your support and enthusiasm so much! And I’m very happy you enjoyed! I have a part two of sorts coming next week!🎄
OMG SCOTT ON TAPE! I love your channel! No joke I probably use the “Gary, Gary where are you?” line weekly because of you 😆 Really appreciate you watching & your commen! I’m starstruck! 😅
Kelly, this is really a great video! Wonderful job! Karolyn Grimes (Zuzu) is a dear friend of mine and I've learned a lot from her about behind the scenes. This was a lot of work to put this together. Congratulations!
Thank you so much!! Oh gosh I actually reached out to her agent to try to have her be a part of this video but she was booked and not in so Cal. I’d love to meet her! It was a labor of love indeed and I appreciate your kind words and watching!!🤗✨
@@kellywoodclark Let's get the two of you together after the holidays. Indeed, she is often out of town for appearances for It's a Wonderful Life. I would also like to get you a personalized photo from her to you. It's a photo of the Christmas tree scene with Jimmy holding Zuzu.
This was great. I have been obsessed with this film since I was a teenager. I have looked at satellite images trying to see the backlot as it was in 1946 and how it lines up with the neighborhood now. So thank you for showing us! Have you seen the “It’s A Wonderful Life Book”? It is the most comprehensive work created about the film that has ever been published. I highly recommend you get it- if you can find it. Amazing, rare photos, interviews and making of information. It’s one of my cherished possessions. Thanks again for this great video!
Also, besides this being THE FIRST movie Stewart made after returning from the war….THE VERY FIRST SCENE was the one with Reed (Mary) in her home by the front door when he is VERY EMOTIONAL …..NO he doesn’t want to settle down, he wants to travel….He’s VERY EMOTIONAL…then it ends with him kissing her. I read that even tho it could be a hard scene….the emotion came somewhat easy because HE WAS DRAWING ON THE WAR DEVASTATION and the hard times he endured in the war. So, I read it.
Thank you for putting this together. I liked the Desilu parts too. I probably should have googled this first but Culver City's big bragging point is they are the first city to get a motion picture studio not Hollywood.
My pleasure Erik! Thanks for watching! Glad you liked the Desilu mentions! Oh that’s a neat fun fact! I’m guessing MGM would be #2? They were 1924 I believe
I used to live about 7 miles NW of here and delivered pizzas 5 miles due north. It’s all gone, but it does live in memory and that’s what counts. The street Genesee was a street name, I assume on the RKO lot because there is no Genesee street in that region. There’s one about 10 miles SE of here in the LA/BHills area. Thanks for the tour, Stewart should have at least been nominated for the Oscar. He has a lot to doin the film and hits it at about 95%. 👍🏻
Would like to see the intersection where Violet nearly caused a wreck looking stunning in her dress that she only wears when she doesn't care how she looks. :)
Great video Kelly! I Love it!! (Don't forget to disable the Mirror mode on your phone for your face shots. Was trying to figure out what the words "SOIDUTS REVLUC EHT" were.)Keep up the great work. Great research!!! And you are great too!!!
Such a great video! I am convinced that a lot of script names are named after streets in LA. I was working at Paramount, Gower street was my entrance to the lot. I would always wonder if the Cohen brothers used the street name Waring to name their Waring Hudsucker character.
Thanks so much! I think that’d be a pretty safe assumption! And that’s so cool you worked at Paramount! That’s one I’d love to go walk around and take in the history 🥹
Great work. I am so glad there are people out there . That love the movie as much as I do. This is almost historic. I wonder if Donna Reed was a pain to work with .
Interesting and fun video, really enjoyed it. Did you purposefully pan your voice to the left for much of the video? It’s centered when you get to about 7:20. It pans to the left again at 11:20 for a bit.
Very good work! Thank you! One suggestion; when you are filming selfies with your phone, turn off "Mirror Imaging." Culver sign in background was "mirrored," and for that matter, so were you! Still, thank you, and great work!!!
You incorrectly corrected yourself…. Filming was in late 1945, the movie came out in 1946. Thanks for uploading. We just watched it again in cinema(!) last Sunday again.
Of course thanks for watching! In my research I saw summer ‘46 (very famously filmed in the So Cal heat when it was suppose to be winter 🥵) and it came out December ‘46 (which was pushed up from its original early ‘47 release date) And I’m so jealous you saw it in the cinema! I’d love to see it like that!✨🎄
I absolutely loved this video. I’m a huge film history fan myself however I don’t remember the main administration building of the Culver Studios which was of course the Selznick Studios ever being used in Gone With the Wind. What scene was it used? I don’t remember it certainly isn’t Tara
"It's a wonderful life" is really a very dark movie, when you think about it. Depressing, actually, except for the last scene. I like the quality of your video. What camera do you use?
Do you also cry at the end?? It always gets me without fail!🥹😭🔔
Yep, and I have news for you.. The older you get, the more emotional the ending will make you..
Everytime😢
Merry Christmas, Bedford Falls!!!
It’s amazing how many people we meet that have NEVER seen this film. One of our very favorites.
How is that possible?! 😢 And mine too 🤗🤗
My kindergarten teacher was Carol Coombs-Mueller, went to church together, and still connected to her through family. She is the daughter who plays the piano in the movie. I will always have a deep connection to her and thinking about her will forever put a smile on my face.❤
It’s a Wonderful Life is my Christmas Eve movie every year.
I love that movie. I watch it every Christmas.
We’re going in a couple of days to see Wonderful Life at the Paramount theatre here in Austin TX. Love seeing it on the big screen.
This was remarkable. Thanks so much for sharing this video . My favorite actor was Jimmy Stewart and oh how I loved this movie.
Wow thank you for your kind words and for watching! It was my pleasure! He is my favorite of the era too! 🥹
Amazing how you found these places.😊
Fantastic work. The movies of 80s and 90s get all the then-and-now play, but going back to 1946...that probably took some digging.
Haha it did! And thank you! Luckily I love reading and researching old Hollywood so I enjoyed! Thanks for watching! 🤗✨
You are adorable and I love your outfit! I very much enjoyed your video, seeing the places where one of my favorite movies was filmed. Thank you for posting!
Keep going many will or cannot get out and about. You are inspirinng good thoughts and memories to people who will never get this chance to see the world without people like you. All the best! Merry christmas
Love that film such a classic my favourite remember watching this with my dad great story and excellent actors
I love the story too! And it’s only of my favorite Jimmy performances but all around well performed by everyone!
How lovely you are and your love for the film.... thanks.
Love the maps and photo overlays. Really gives you a sense of where you are!
Perfect! That was my goal 🤗✨
It's sad that most things change. I like how the house survived.
One of my favorite movies and thank you for the details. You do a very nice job with your image match ups and on a side note you are very easy on the eyes.
Thank you! I wanted to try to give a real sense of the then and now! And I appreciate your kind words!☺️🤗
@@kellywoodclark you did a great job.. I am a fan.
Great content Kelly, I love seeing where shows actually took place. I`ve been in the industry for 25 years as a makeup artist and still find if the history fascinating. I`m sad so much is gone. I`m near Warner Ranch and my heart broke knowing the Bewitched house, Lethal Weapon house, Partridge Family house and so on were all torn down. Truly sad. Anyways that aside, great content and Merry Christmas!!!
🎄My favorite Christmas movie! This was a wonderful video Kelly. Thank you. I always love when you upload. Happy Holidays and New Year. ~Love&Light♥️Carli xx
Mine too Carli! I’m so glad you enjoyed and thanks for watching! I have a part two of sorts coming next week. Happy holidays and New Year to you as well!🎄✨
I have to say, having seen only half of this video so far tonight, that you are excellent at hosting this, and the voice-overs are great to listen to. Great job, Kelly.
I love this. Thanks soo much for producing and releasing.
The movie has been an annual thing at my house for at least 20 years!🎄
Yay! I love that! I just watched it the other night, the end always gets me 😭
@@kellywoodclark It has been at least forty five years since we started watching it every Christmas, along with the original The Bishop's Wife and White Christmas.
@@bryanspindle4455love that it’s been such a long standing tradition for you! I watch those other two every year as well! ✨🤗
@kellywoodclark There is a Doris Day movie from 1952 called On Moonlight Bay that has some good Christmas scenes and Christmas songs in it. It's a very good feel good family movie in color.
@@bryanspindle4455I haven’t seen that one! I watched some other not fully Christmas Christmas films recently; The Thin Man, Susan Slept here, and The Lemon Drop Kid. I’ll add your suggestion to my list!
I used to visit my friends house just off Hatteras that was once the RKO ranch and I never knew until now. Wow! Thanks Kelly
wooooooHOOOOOOOOOOOO 🎉🎉🎉
Brava ~ a one & only KWC FILM~ YOU look so beautiful too‼
Kelly NEVER fails to deliver an OUTSTANDING presentation on every level💯
THANK YOU!! Always looking forward to more ENCORE ENCORE👏👏👏
Thank you so much for your kind words! I appreciate your support and enthusiasm so much! And I’m very happy you enjoyed! I have a part two of sorts coming next week!🎄
@@kellywoodclark Heartfelt admiration!
@@ssjb7542thank you! You help keep me going!!🎄✨
Very cool! So detailed and informative!
OMG SCOTT ON TAPE! I love your channel! No joke I probably use the “Gary, Gary where are you?” line weekly because of you 😆 Really appreciate you watching & your commen! I’m starstruck! 😅
If Scott on Tape approves you know it’s good!
This is so cool!! Thank you for posting!! 👍
I enjoyed this very much. EXCELLENT JOB! Thank you for making making this video. Merry Christmas
great work. thank you for that.
Thank you for watching! And my pleasure! 😁
Kelly, this is really a great video! Wonderful job! Karolyn Grimes (Zuzu) is a dear friend of mine and I've learned a lot from her about behind the scenes. This was a lot of work to put this together. Congratulations!
Thank you so much!! Oh gosh I actually reached out to her agent to try to have her be a part of this video but she was booked and not in so Cal. I’d love to meet her! It was a labor of love indeed and I appreciate your kind words and watching!!🤗✨
@@kellywoodclark Let's get the two of you together after the holidays. Indeed, she is often out of town for appearances for It's a Wonderful Life. I would also like to get you a personalized photo from her to you. It's a photo of the Christmas tree scene with Jimmy holding Zuzu.
Great video! Thank you
Thanks for watching!!
Enjoyed your visit!!!
So glad you enjoyed!😄
This was great. I have been obsessed with this film since I was a teenager. I have looked at satellite images trying to see the backlot as it was in 1946 and how it lines up with the neighborhood now. So thank you for showing us! Have you seen the “It’s A Wonderful Life Book”? It is the most comprehensive work created about the film that has ever been published. I highly recommend you get it- if you can find it. Amazing, rare photos, interviews and making of information. It’s one of my cherished possessions. Thanks again for this great video!
Also, besides this being THE FIRST movie Stewart made after returning from the war….THE VERY FIRST SCENE was the one with Reed (Mary) in her home by the front door when he is VERY EMOTIONAL …..NO he doesn’t want to settle down, he wants to travel….He’s VERY EMOTIONAL…then it ends with him kissing her. I read that even tho it could be a hard scene….the emotion came somewhat easy because HE WAS DRAWING ON THE WAR DEVASTATION and the hard times he endured in the war. So, I read it.
I did enjoy learning about the past. Thank you. 🎄MC☃
So happy to hear it! Thanks for watching!!
Sad that they are just memories 😢😢😢😢
True! But talking about them is what keeps their memories and legacy alive 💖
Enjoyed this video. Thank you.
Thank you for doing this.. It's a Wonderful Life is my favorite film..I love your references and pictures.
Praying GOD Bless you!
Oh this looks so fun. Cant wait to watch!! You make me want to drive down to LA haha. (I live in northern CA)
Yay!! I hope you enjoy! And sounds like you have a road trip in your future 😆😉
Fascinating video! Thank you so much, Kelly!
I'm going to have to go look for this house.
Thank you very much for this video.
So fun !! Happy Holidays!!🌲🌲
Glad you enjoyed and happy holidays to you as well!✨🤗
Excellent video: investigation labor, editing, dialogue, etc. And you are a beautiful lady. Greetings from Mexico
Oh thanks for saying so! It was certainly a labor of love so I appreciate your kind words and I thank you for watching! 🤗
Thank you for putting this together. I liked the Desilu parts too. I probably should have googled this first but Culver City's big bragging point is they are the first city to get a motion picture studio not Hollywood.
My pleasure Erik! Thanks for watching! Glad you liked the Desilu mentions! Oh that’s a neat fun fact! I’m guessing MGM would be #2? They were 1924 I believe
LOVE Mr Potter! Wish I was him!😁😁😁😁
You need to find the bridge Clarence and George jump off of. I believe it was on the RKO Ranch.
I’m curious about that one because I didn’t see it on the map of the sets at the ranch…I must do a deep dive!
Great video. Had to subscribe
Aw thanks for watching and subbing! Happy you’re here!! 🤗🤗
Great movie,classic.❤😊
We laughed we cried we loved it 😂😂😂❤❤❤
I used to live about 7 miles NW of here and delivered pizzas 5 miles due north. It’s all gone, but it does live in memory and that’s what counts. The street Genesee was a street name, I assume on the RKO lot because there is no Genesee street in that region. There’s one about 10 miles SE of here in the LA/BHills area. Thanks for the tour, Stewart should have at least been nominated for the Oscar. He has a lot to doin the film and hits it at about 95%. 👍🏻
Would like to see the intersection where Violet nearly caused a wreck looking stunning in her dress that she only wears when she doesn't care how she looks. :)
Haha love that scene! It woulda be somewhere around where I showed where Jimmy Stewart ran!
Fantastic Kelly💖
Very interesting vlog. I loved it and your beauty as well. Keep up the fantastic work. Bye. Gilcortez from Texas ❤
Great video Kelly! I Love it!! (Don't forget to disable the Mirror mode on your phone for your face shots. Was trying to figure out what the words "SOIDUTS REVLUC EHT" were.)Keep up the great work. Great research!!! And you are great too!!!
Hey! Thanks for watching and your kind words! I’m all about that research! Haha wait that’s a thing you can turn off?! 😅
That took some research, thank-you! Just found your channel and subscribed 😁
Excellent work, looking forward to more. Subscribed
Awesome tour, thanks
WOW!!!..........................your really pretty!!!!................sweet walk tooo
Is the audio extremely quiet for anyone else?
Hmm it sounded fine to me, I checked on the phone and tv
I like your style!...excellent video!
This is one of my favorite movies
Great job! Thank you!
That was so funny I recognized that intersection in La Canada and I had friends that lived on Martini's street.
I enjoyed your video
Thanks I appreciate you watching!!
Such a great video! I am convinced that a lot of script names are named after streets in LA. I was working at Paramount, Gower street was my entrance to the lot. I would always wonder if the Cohen brothers used the street name Waring to name their Waring Hudsucker character.
Thanks so much! I think that’d be a pretty safe assumption! And that’s so cool you worked at Paramount! That’s one I’d love to go walk around and take in the history 🥹
Great Video Great movie
At the beginning, I thought that might be the tree...
...but I must've been thinking of two other trees.
Great work. I am so glad there are people out there . That love the movie as much as I do. This is almost historic. I wonder if Donna Reed was a pain to work with .
This is very interesting, I have always been a fan of this movie, thank you for sharing this. How did you find these locations?
Interesting and fun video, really enjoyed it. Did you purposefully pan your voice to the left for much of the video? It’s centered when you get to about 7:20. It pans to the left again at 11:20 for a bit.
Really nice video packed full of interesting facts but the audio was a bout half of what it should have been.
Thanks for watching and I appreciate that feedback! I’ll work on it!!
fun stuff on this classic film. Excellent presentation. Audio was very low. Had to really crank my volume up to hear.
Thank you for this ! I just subscribed and wanted to say you remind me of a young Annette Bening.
Love the movie
I once drove from Oregon to New Bedford, MA because I was sure that was the town Bedford Falls was supposed to be about. It was not.
Very good work! Thank you! One suggestion; when you are filming selfies with your phone, turn off "Mirror Imaging." Culver sign in background was "mirrored," and for that matter, so were you! Still, thank you, and great work!!!
I thought I was looking at Alyssa Milano, absolute spot on look alike, and a really great orator, thank you.
Ity's a shame. That RKO Backlot along with many others are now gone! History we can never see!
I knnnnnow! Woulda been very cool to see as it was!!
It’s my understanding that It’s a Wonderful Life was Jimmy Stewart’s favorite movie he did.
You incorrectly corrected yourself…. Filming was in late 1945, the movie came out in 1946. Thanks for uploading. We just watched it again in cinema(!) last Sunday again.
Of course thanks for watching! In my research I saw summer ‘46 (very famously filmed in the So Cal heat when it was suppose to be winter 🥵) and it came out December ‘46 (which was pushed up from its original early ‘47 release date) And I’m so jealous you saw it in the cinema! I’d love to see it like that!✨🎄
❤
🎄✨🎄
Good job
I absolutely loved this video. I’m a huge film history fan myself however I don’t remember the main administration building of the Culver Studios which was of course the Selznick Studios ever being used in Gone With the Wind. What scene was it used? I don’t remember it certainly isn’t Tara
Interesting video about one of my very favorite Christmas movies... but the audio here is absolutely horrible. I can't hear much of what she says.
Your phone has two buttons on the left side. Hit the top one a couple times
"It's a wonderful life" is really a very dark movie, when you think about it. Depressing, actually, except for the last scene. I like the quality of your video. What camera do you use?
That expression is very Hitchcock
Yessss! Maybe that’s why he cast him later in Rope (and the others)
Bedford Falls had no palm trees 🌴
That’s why all the shots at the train are tight because there were palm trees right there!
Nice scarf
Hey Kelly - Did anyone ever tell you that you could pass for a young Faye Dunaway ?
I thought all the filming was done on a stage. Never thought they used an actual neighborhood.
Why cant more women dress and behave like this lovely classy
woman? What a breath of fresh air.
Imagine all that exposure to asbestos in the artificial snow! 😢
11:10. It’s a shame that those former buildings were torn down
Hee-Haw! Sam Wainwright!
George Bailey
Ma Bailey ran a boarding house, not a boarding school.
That was your main takeaway?😭 And I know I’ve seen the film many times I just misspoke in the moment 🤗🤗 Thanks for watching!
Thank You Kelly for sharing your interest and passion about movies and their filming locations. " Preserve and Honor that which came before Us. " NJM
@@BobHartung-o5imy pleasure Bob! Thanks for watching! I love that quote 😊
Did Jimmy Stewart later ever regret in stating it was a poor career choice to act in this film?
You're audio level is way too low.
Yikes, turn up your volume
It sounds fine to me
louder please Until then BYE I watch Daze of Jordan the Lion GREAT SOUND
Your sound is horrible
Sounds fine to me
How depressing