Christmas Movies Jimmy Stewart

Directed by kieth merrill.

Christmas movies jimmy stewart. With james stewart donna reed lionel barrymore thomas mitchell. Directed by frank capra. Stewart plays willie krueger a lonely old man enduring a christmas alone in his basement apartment with his cat george.

Considered by many myself included to be one of the greatest films ever made the perennial classic it s a wonderful life starring jimmy stewart has become a fixture of the christmas season. An elderly widower relies on his daydreams and faith to get through a lonely christmas. An angel is sent from heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

Willie krueger wants nothing to do with being alone at christmas. We never learn why he is alone and why there is no family about him save only that he was once married but that his wife has passed on.