ABSTRACT
In the film It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), George Bailey (played by JamesStewart) is feeling suicidal after misplacing an $8,000 loan. To save him,Clarence, his guardian angel, gives him an opportunity to see how his prosperous town of Bedford Falls would have turned out if he had never been born. George learns that if he had not been born, his wife Mary would have instead become a bitter old maid, and Bedford Falls would have become run-down because the family-owned Bailey Loan Company would have gone out of business. Realizing that he meant so much to a great many people, George decides not to throw his life away.
