Jimmy Stewart bomber pilot / movie actor was very good friends with pilot 1st Lt Everett L. Bailey. Jimmy Stewart had planned to make a Film together with the pilot 1st Lt Everett L. Bailey After the war, unfortunately it did not come to it, because the pilot 1st Lt Everett L. Bailey of the B-17G "Little Chub", Serial Nr: 42-102446 was shot down by the Swiss Air Force over the Greifensee on April 24, 1944 and died. After the war, Jimmy Stewart made the Film It's a Wonderful Life? A beautiful film he dedicated to 1st Lt Everett L. Bailey.
About the Film It's a Wonderful Life?
George Bailey (James Stewart) has not achieved any of his great goals in life. Actually, he planned to travel the world, but his father's stroke pushed him into the CEO position of his father's company, although he would have so gladly left it behind. When, after several years of marriage and with four children, he still hasn't achieved a single one of the goals he set for himself and, at Christmas of all times, $8,000 is lost from the company coffers, he wants to put an end to his life. Bailey no longer sees a way out ; he now faces prison for embezzlement. The most influential man in town, Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore), does not want to help him, but rather deliver George to the knife. His family and friends, however, have not forgotten him. At their prayers, the angel Clarence (Henry Travers), who has yet to earn his wings, is sent down to prevent George's suicide....
The scene in the bar with James Stewart is uncut in the Film, at the request of the director, James Stewart struggles in this scene with the experiences and the impressions he has experienced during the Second World War in the USAAF.
