Short story 'The Greatest Gift' written in 1943 by Philip Van Doren Stern. Cary Grant became interested in playing the lead and it was bought by RKO who then sold it to Capra's Liberty Films with whom they had a distribution deal. The screen play was written by husband and wife team Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, with Frank Capra and Jo Swerling.
Special mention to H.B. Warner as the pharmacist who strikes young George Bailey in his bad ear before breaking down with gratitude. The kids are well cast: Robert J. Anderson as George, Jean Gale becomes Donna Reed, Jeanine Ann Roose as Gloria Grahame (who's terrific hysterical in scene where she's arrested).
It's medically proven to clear all olfactory passageways.
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