35mm IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE @ the Million Dollar Theater, DTLA

Part of our HOLIDAY HULLABALOO 2025 series

Saturday, December 20, 2025, Million Dollar Theater

LOCATION: The Million Dollar Theater, 307 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013

10a IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946, co-wri & dir by Frank Capra, w/ Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Paramount 130mns, USA, 35mm)

For any screenings with 35mm prints, always be prepared that we may have to use a DCP.digital backup just in case.

You can get two for one (two tickets for the price of one) to any individual movie or get the CHRISTMAS CLASSICS DOUBLE FEATURE pass (best deal) while supplies last.

Also plan to visit the historic Grand Central Market just next door for breakfast, lunch, or early dinner before, between, or after the movies. You can bring in food and drink from the market into the theater!

10a It's A Wonderful Life (1946) 35mm Has any movie so overlooked upon its release received the kind of all-time classic status (entirely deserved) as Frank Capra's holiday masterpiece IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE? Released in 1946 as the first movie that Capra, Jimmy Stewart, and many others involved made after returning from World War II, Life didn't set fire to the box office the way everyone hoped it would. Yet, through the quirks of licensing and television, the movie gained a huge following over the decades as generation after generation watched it on TV during the holiday season. And now 80 years after its making, it is still one of the most beloved movies from Hollywood's classic period.

Maybe that's because it's about the importance of core decency and goodness as the real foundation of the holidays. Small town good hearted George Bailey considers ending it all on Christmas Eve night so his family can get the insurance money only to be visited by a guardian angel who shows him what life would have been like for his friends and family had George never existed. We see a life, we see America, we see history all through the prism of one person's life choices from child to adult.

Jimmy Stewart and Frank Capra both considered this their favorite movie they ever made. This is what the holiday feeling is really about. Bring your family, see this classic in a movie palace, on a beautiful 35mm print.

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