![]() ![]() ![]() I can tell you that I get so many calls and letters from people who love this movie, they want to share, they want to talk, but I also get calls and letters from people who hate it, and want to beat up on me because I like it. How much interaction do you have with fans of the film? To raise money for Frank’s collection, because universities are neither rich nor generous, to put it nicely, I thought, “This film is very beloved, and I have all this material that people would like to see and know, and so I’m going to do this book as a fundraiser to care for his collection,” because we had to process everything, and it’s, again, expensive to take care of an archive. We had a couple of other things at Wesleyan, among them Elia Kazan’s papers, so I began the Wesleyan Cinema Archives that way. I could do whatever I wanted with them, and I in turn gave them to Wesleyan to place them in an archive, which I then started. ![]() He gave them to me and trusted them to me, no strings attached. At that time, he had asked me to become the curator of his papers. I like his work, period, but I really liked It’s a Wonderful Life. I liked him very much, he liked me, we got along, and I’d always really liked the film. I was very good friends with Frank Capra. ![]() What was it about ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ that made you want to write this book? ![]()
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