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Film: It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
Played by: Henry Travers (left)
Distinguishing features: Genial manner; old-fashioned clothes; occasional appearance as small star or twinkle of light.
Typical line: “Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?”
What to give him for Christmas: Wings. It’s all he ever talks about
You know what’s not Christmassy? Trying to top yourself on Christmas Eve and leave your family to face disgrace and poverty. So George Bailey isn’t sufficiently Christmassy for this list, giving way to the optimistic and rather sweet Clarence, an angel-in-training who figures out the perfect way to get our George back on the straight and narrow, at some risk to his own afterlife. First Clarence throws himself off a bridge, forcing the suicidal George to put aside his own plans and leap to the stranger’s aid, and then he gives George a glimpse of a world where he’d never existed and puts his problems in perspective. Job done. No wonder bells are soon ringing and Clarence is soon winging about. We assume.
10/10
