where is it a wonderful life supposed to take place?
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Frank Capra's classic film It's A Wonderful Life — starring Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey — takes place in the fictional town of Bedford Falls, but some say it's a dead ringer for Seneca Falls in upstate New York.
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The story is set in California, in the fictional town of Virgin River. The river in the story doesn't actually exist, although is thought to be part of the Colorado River, which goes through Utah, Nevada and Arizona.
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1. The book takes place in a fictional place called the Pirriwee Peninsula in Australia, not Monterey, California.
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Though the film takes place in the fictional town of Amity Island in New York, it was actually filmed throughout Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
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While the book takes place in a fictional seaside suburb just north of Sydney, Australia, the mini series adapts Monterey as its hometown. Scenes from Season 1 are shot across Big Sur, Carmel Highlands, Pacific Grove and Monterey, with filming for Season 2 currently in progress.
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It's all in the name; It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia season 13 is of course set in the city of Philadelphia. The centre point of the dark comedy is Paddy's Pub which is owned by the central characters.
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Kids will travel the world with the puppies. Episodes are set in Italy, England, Paris, and China, to name just a few of the locales the globetrotting dogs will visit.
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The book starts in the fictional small town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, which Twain based on his hometown, Hannibal, Missouri. After meeting up on Jackson's Island (which really exists!), Huck and Jim set off along the Mississippi River and pass through Illinois, Kentucky, and Arkansas.
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Although the story is set in Boston, 'A Million Little Things' is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. According to reports, the filming led to ABC Studios spending $27 million in the province.
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"It's a Wonderful Life" is based on "The Greatest Gift," a 1939 short story written by Philip Van Doren Stern. After spending several years trying to sell his story to publishers with no success, Stern self-published his work and sent it to 200 friends as a 21-page Christmas card in 1943.
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Watch on NOW TV On TV meanwhile, It's a Wonderful Life is showing on TCM on Saturday 22nd December at 4.45pm. It is also available to rent or buy on Google Play. It is NOT currently available on Netflix UK.
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The City and the City is set in two fictional cities, Besźel and UI Qoma. They are both located in an undisclosed part of Europe and are twin-cities. Both cities are located in the same area geographically but are perceived as different cities, whose citizens are trained not to be able to see the other since childhood.
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NBC will air It's A Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve at 8 p.m. in all its black and white glory. The 1946 movie has become a timeless classic, which stars James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore and Karolyn Grimes.
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Capra on his own placed Bedford Falls in Upstate New York. Bedford Falls might just be a composite of small towns across America, set in Upstate New York. But the fact is no town in Upstate New York has as many similarities to the town in It's A Wonderful Life as does Seneca Falls.
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The Isla de Corales Resort is the setting where most of the story takes place. This setting has special significance for Greg's mom and dad because they came to the resort for their honeymoon before they had kids.
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In real life, the apartment used as home for the Van der Woodsens is set in the Milan Condominiums at 300 East 55th Street — which isn't technically in the Upper East Side, but we'll let that one slide just because we're happy to hear it exists in the first place, and we weren't daydreaming of a cardboard filming set.
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Fans of TV's Fantasy Island will no doubt find the Fockers' eccentric 'Miami' home strangely familiar, which featured in the show's opening credits. It's the Queen Anne Cottage, in the grounds of the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum, 301 North Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, to the east of Pasadena.