While walking Mary home a car pulls up and George is informed that his father has had a stroke. He drops by his brother Harry's graduation party at the high school, where he is re-introduced to his friend Marty's eighteen-year-old sister, Mary Hatch. In June 1928, George (played by James Stewart) is preparing for an overseas trip. Gower tearfully thanks George, who promises that he will never tell anyone what happened. When he returns to the store, Gower angrily berates him for not delivering the capsules, until George blurts out Gower's mistake. He seeks advice from his father, who is president of the Bailey Brothers Building & Loan, but his father is meeting with Henry F. A visibly distraught Gower directs George to deliver medicine to a customer, but George realizes that, in his distress, he had inadvertently put poison into the capsules. Gower's drugstore, where he finds a telegram informing Gower that his son has died in the Spanish flu pandemic. In May 1920, George returns to his job at Mr. George develops an infection which deafens him in his left ear. Harry breaks through the ice and George jumps into the freezing water to save him. In the winter of 1919, George (aged 12, played by Bobby Anderson) and his friends Bert, Ernie Bishop, Marty Hatch, Sam Wainwright, and his brother Harry are sledding on a frozen river. The character was portrayed by Pete Davidson in a 2020 television special. George finds through Odbody's angelic power and gift what life would be like if he didn't have his wife, Mary, his children and friends, and what their lives and the social structure of Bedford Falls would be like without him.īailey is played by James Stewart as an adult and Bobby Anderson as a child, and is loosely based on George Pratt, a character in Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 booklet The Greatest Gift. Eventually, due to difficulties in keeping the building and loan solvent, Bailey falls into despair so deep that he contemplates suicide, until his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody, gives him a valuable perspective on the worth of his life.

The character is a building and loan banker who sacrifices his dreams in order to help his community of Bedford Falls to the point where he feels life has passed him by.

George Bailey is a fictional character and the protagonist in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life.

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