I read when the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" first came out

[Bandit]

The FBI (J Edgar Hoover) listed it as Communist Propaganda..America has come quite a ways really although sometimes it sure doesn't seem like it..

[itsrobert]

1. Strange that Jimmy Stewart was a republican

I guess republicans aren't all bad. Just on the wrong side of history.

[eShirl]

3. Republicans have changed a lot since those days. n/t

[soleft]

6. Every year when I watch A Christmas Story, I feel like I understand them a little better

Because somewhere underneath the ignorance, fear and resistance is the wish for that sweet simple ideal.

[NNN0LHI]

2. I am sure all of the Charlie Chaplin movies were listed that way too

[Turbineguy]

4. Yeah,

He was against Nazis so he must have been a commie pinko!

[book_worm]

5. Most Capra films were looked at that way by Hoover, for instance,

"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" where the small town poet played by Gary Cooper becomes a millionaire he wants to give his money away by giving people land to farm on and of course that was deemed as a communist idea.

[2Design]

7. every year I watch that - it reminds me of repbukes and bailey represents the dems

the mean banker who is willing to screw george when he has his money wrapped in a newspaper like old dead fish - he is cheney and the rest of them all rolled into one

[Wednesdays]

8. I think it's the ultimate pro-New Deal movie

I posted a thread about it:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4682241

[earth mom]

9. To me, "It's a Wonderful Life" is at the core of what it means to be a dem.

Anyone who doesn't like the movie or understand it, is a freeper in my book.