20 Things You Didn't Know About It's A Wonderful Life

…At least not until a few decades after it was released.

Karolyn Grimes, who portrayed Zuzu Bailey, delivers the famous line “every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings” during the final scene. In a 2013 interview with Vanity Fair, she admitted that she never actually watched It’s A Wonderful Life until the late 1970s. Her mother always advised her not to watch her own movies because it would be prideful. Grimes said:

I never took the time to see the movie. I never just sat down at watched the film.

However, she claimed to make up for all the lost opportunities having seen it ‘500 times’, and her favourite scene being when George is praying at Martini’s.