The Top Classic Movies From The Last Century

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Frank Capra did it once again with It's a Wonderful Life. This take on a Christmas-time film explores the role of an overworked father in 1919. James Stewart's character falls into a time-warped alternative dimension where he doesn't exist. 

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The More You Know

  • On the set of one of the Pirates of the Carribbean films, Johnny Depp spent £40,000 on 500 coats for the cast and crew.
  • The names of the taxi driver and the policeman in everybody’s favourite Yuletide outing, It’s A Wonderful Life, are Bert and Ernie. The writers working on Sesame Street at the time claim it’s merely a coincidence.
  • For 'Fight Club' (1999), Brad Pitt had pieces of his front teeth chipped off to play Tyler Durden. He also took soap-making classes, boxing, taekwondo, and grappling lessons with Edward Norton to prepare for the role.
  • In classic Hitchcock movie North by Northwest, Cary Grant was actually older than his on-screen mother, Jessie Royce Landis.
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