hello, violet.
i'm still thinking.
you like every boy.
i'll take chocolate.
i don't like coconuts.
a new magazine! i never saw it before.
is this the ear you can't hear on? george bailey, i'll love you till the day i die.
hello. you look at me as if you didn't know me.
you've passed me on the street almost every day.
uh-huh.
neither am i.
beautiful.
do i look as funny as you do?
well, why don't you say it?
eighteen.
too young or too old?
sir, my train, please.
you may kiss my hand.
as i was lumbering down the street.
oh, no, don't. i love that old house.
oh, no, george, don't. it's full of romance, that old place. i'd like to live in it.
uh-huh.
what'd you wish, george?
buffalo gals, can't you come out tonight.
oh, no.
if i told you it might not come true.
i'll take it. and then what?
over here in the hydrangea bushes.
please give me my robe.
i'd like to have my robe.
ouch!
george bailey! give me my robe!
shame on you. i'm going to tell your mother on you.
i'll call the police.
i'm going to scream!
what are you doing, picketing?
yeah, so i noticed. have you made up your mind?
have you made up your mind?
about coming in. your mother just phoned and said you were on your way over to pay me a visit.
didn't you tell her?
i'll be downstairs, mother.
well, are you coming in or aren't you?
tuesday.
do you like it?
oh, i worked there for a couple of vacations, but i don't know.  i guess i was homesick.
yes, and my family and.  oh, everything. would you like to sit down?
would you rather leave?
well, then, sit down.
thank you.
"and dance by the light"
it was nice about your brother harry, and ruth, wasn't it?
don't you like her?
oh, it's just marriage in general you're not enthusiastic about, huh?
it's george bailey, mother.
i don't know. what do you want?
he's making violent love to me, mother.
what did you come here for?
oh, why don't you go home?
good night!
i'll get it.
hello.
hee-haw! hello, sam, how are you?
oh, well, that's awfully sweet of you, sam. there's an old friend of yours here. george bailey.
yes, old moss-back george.
wait a minute. i'll call him. george!
he does so. he asked for him. geo.  george, sam wants to speak to you.
mother's on the extension.
we can both hear. come here.
we're listening, sam.
i'm here.
he says it's the chance of a lifetime.
george.  george.  george.
good old bert.
i feel like a bootlegger's wife. look!
after that, who cares?
george, let's not stop. let's go!
please, let's not stop, george.
how much do you need?
welcome home, mr. bailey.
remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? this is what i wished for.
oh, who cares. bread! that this house may never know hunger.
salt! that life may always have flavor.
nice meeting you.
have fun.
buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight, won't you come out tonight, won't you come out tonight.
hi.
to keep from being an old maid.
i didn't want to marry anybody else in town. i want my baby to look like you.
my baby.
george bailey lassos stork.
hello darling.
how do you like it?
did you bring the wreath?
the merry christmas wreath for the window.
is it snowing?
where's your coat and hat?
what's the matter?
go on, pete, you're a big boy. you can put the star up. way up at the top. that's it. fill in that little bare spot right there. that's it. isn't it wonderful about harry? we're famous, george. i'll bet i had fifty calls today about the parade, the banquet. your mother's so excited, she.
better hurry and shave. the families will be here soon.
come on out in the kitchen with me while i finish dinner.
have a hectic day?
all right, darling, you're excused. now go upstairs and see what little zuzu wants.
oh, she's got a cold. she's in bed. caught it coming home from school. they gave her a flower for a prize and she didn't want to crush it so she didn't button up her coat.
just a cold. the doctor says it's nothing serious.
yes, i called him right away. he says it's nothing to worry about.
just a teensie one – ninety-nine, six. she'll be all right.
george, what's wrong?
where're you going?
i'll get it. hello. yes, this is mrs. bailey.
oh, thank you, mrs. welch. i'm sure she'll be all right. the doctor says that she ought to be out of bed in time to have her christmas dinner.
yes.
george!
hello, mrs. welch. i want to apologize.  hello.  hello.  she's hung up.
george.
george, why must you torture the children? why don't you.
bedford, two-four-seven, please.
yes, janie, pray very hard.
you too, tommy. hello, uncle billy?
i don't know you! let me go!
that man – stop him!
hello. george! darling!
george, darling! where have you been?
oh, george, george, george.
oh, george, george!
you have no idea what happened.
well, come on, george, come on downstairs quick. they're on their way.
come on in here now. now, you stand right over here, by the tree. right there, and don't move, don't move. i hear 'em now, george, it's a miracle! it's a miracle!
come in, uncle billy! everybody! in here!
mr. martini. how about some wine?
what's that?