Daily Dialogue — December 15, 2019

“Let me touch you. Are you real?”

— It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), screenplay by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett and Frank Capra, additional scenes by Jo Swerling, story by Philip Van Doren Stern

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Kiss. Today’s suggestion by Rese Hood.

Trivia: Sam makes a fortune in plastics while Harry becomes an engineer at his father-in-law’s glass factory. Both of these come out of director Frank Capra’s own education in chemical engineering. Capra himself was unable to find a job with his background, and like George Bailey, considered himself a failure for many years.

Dialogue On Dialogue: You can track kissing as its own subplot in the movie: George and Mary’s first kiss with the famous phone call scene; their kiss on honeymoon night; then George smothering Mary with kisses grateful to be alive again.

Each one is a totally separate mood, a wonderful story in three acts.