“It’s a Wonderful Life” is arguably the greatest holiday film in American cinematic history. Frank Capra, the legendary film director, stated in his autobiography that it was his greatest film. In fact, he thought it was the greatest film ever made.
The premise of the film is that a man so down on himself that he wishes he had never been born gets a glimpse of how the world would have been without him. The premise of this article is not what if the film had never been made, but rather the fact that it almost wasn’t—and how after it was made, it was nearly lost to memory.
