Episode 14 - It's a Wonderful Life

Dearly Departed Podcast

Mike Dorsey

True Crime, Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Another episode of the Dearly Departed Podcast gets its wings as the hosts reveal the fates of the cast of the holiday film classic It's a Wonderful Life, with stories about stars Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, director Frank Capra, and more! They also discuss legendary producer Robert Evans, Hollywood street performers like the late Christopher Dennis (aka "Hollywood Boulevard Superman"), and other recent Hollywood-related news.

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0:00.0	It's the dearly departed podcast, featuring your host, historian Scott Michaels and filmmaker Mike Dorsey.
0:18.2	And welcome back. It's the dearly departed podcast. It's the holiday special. And I'm Mike Dorsey.
0:27.9	I'm Scott Michaels. And this is Deerly Departed. Here we go. It's a very special, very special day. It's a wonderful day.
0:42.6	Oh my gosh. It is like 70 degrees in California right now. It's hard to get in the holiday spirit. No, but we're not on fire, so we're grateful for that.
0:47.2	No mudslides yet. You're from Detroit, though, where they have real Christmas. Yeah, well, yeah.
0:52.1	You know, the other day I was watching, there was the Hollywood Christmas parade last week, and it was on the news, the guys were saying, you know, the Angelinos
0:57.6	are braving 50 degree temperatures. And I'm like, really, really? We bust out the heavy jackets and
1:03.4	the gloves, man, when it draws three low 60. That's for sure. I mean, I get it. It's a, it's a different climate than what I'm used to with 50. Oh, man. Come on, really? Really?
1:12.7	And because it is the holiday season, we are doing the most holiday of movies, the classic.
1:18.6	It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart.
1:21.7	Yay.
1:25.4	All right. So, you know, we haven't, it's kind of like, it's almost like we're doing holiday related episodes lately, because we haven't done one since Halloween.
1:34.6	Guys, it's been that long.
1:35.5	It's all my fault, you guys.
1:36.5	It's completely all my fault.
1:37.8	Mike is like, let's do it, let's do it.
1:39.5	I'm like, okay, all right.
1:40.5	I also, I was gone. I had to film something for discovery in Dubai last week, so I was out of the country for a week, which pushed us even farther. And how was it? Dubai is the most American, non-America place I've ever been to. You forget that you're in a foreign country. Honestly, it feels like Las Vegas meets Miami. Really? It's really weird.
2:01.2	They have almost all the restaurants, our restaurants.
2:04.6	Like, all they have all our chains.
2:05.7	Like within walking distance of our hotel, there was a cheesecake factory, a chilies, an IHop, Five Guys and Fries.
2:12.3	There was a Shake Shack.
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