“Unlock the Surprising Secrets Behind Your Beloved Holiday Movies That You Never Knew!”
In the special, Charlie refuses to get a fake tree because it’s ‘too commercial.’ Audiences began to feel the same way, and the product was phased out by 1969.
The FBI Didn’t Think It’s A Wonderful Life Was So Wonderful
Way back in 1947, the FBI issued a memo in regards to the movie. The FBI noted that they believed that the film was a potential “Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry.”
They even went as far as saying it’s: “rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a ‘Scrooge-type’ so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a common trick used by Communists.”
Richard Donner Considers Scrooged The Point Where Murray Became “An Actor”
Scrooged is mainly a comedy, but it concludes with Murray’s character becoming a changed man. Eventually, Murray has to deliver a dramatic speech in order to make his character’s transformation clear. But, Donner told Philadelphia Daily News that he witnessed something much greater in that scene.
“On the last take I saw something happen to Billy. I saw Billy Murray become an actor.” That added more beef between the director and actor.
A Christmas Story Got Science Right
It’s no surprise that Mythbusters tested whether it was really possible to get your tongue stuck on a piece of cold metal. Long before the myth was busted, kids would be foolish enough to put their tongue on the pole and have it get stuck.
