Posted on 08/21/2022 7:05:05 PM PDT by massmike
It's a Wonderful Life star Virginia Patton Moss is dead at the age of 97.
The last surviving adult cast member of Frank Capra's classic holiday film, Moss passed away on Aug. 18 in Albany, GA, as reported by Variety. Moss was credited in the film under her maiden name, Patton.
Moss starred in 1946's It's a Wonderful Life as Ruth Dakin Bailey, the wife of Harry Bailey (Todd Karns) and the sister-in-law of the main character George Bailey, portrayed by James Stewart. Moss was the last living adult actor who had worked on the film, though several It's a Wonderful Life actors who appeared in the film as children are still alive, such as Karolyn Grimes, who shared a tribute to Moss on her personal Facebook.
"We have another angel!" Grimes wrote. "Virginia Patton Moss. She was 97 years old. She is now with her beloved Cruse. She will be missed!"
Born in Cleveland, OH in 1925, Moss began acting while attending the University of Southern California. She appeared in a variety of short films leading up to her casting in It's a Wonderful Life, where she would go on to appear in just four more films before marrying her husband, Cruse W. Moss, in 1949 and retiring from acting. Moss would go on to appear as Doris Green in 1947's The Burning Cross and starred as Ginny Long in the 1948 Western Black Eagle. Her last on-screen credit was as Millie Dale in the 1949 comedy The Lucky Stiff, wherein she starred alongside Dorothy Lamour, Brian Donlevy and Claire Trevor.
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One of my favorite movies.
I’m glad she had such a long life, and I hope to see her in Heaven.
Zuzu would have been the youngest. I’m surprised Moss (not old mossback george) was the last surviving member.
I never got what was so great about that movie, but I suppose much of its’ popularity has to do with the Christmas Tradtion in your family. It is a well made film, full of Christian morals and life lessons. My family usually watched other programs and movies during Christmas Season.
We enjoyed the Donna Reed Show when she started that later.
Yup. The family watches it before Die Hard every Christmas.
Well, we still have Zuzu (Karolyn Grimes, 82).
Are you alluding to ‘reading comprehension’ or some such non-woke construct? :)
RIP.
i have the movie and i never really thot harry was married.
The niece of General Patton
I love this movie. I watch it during Christmas season but could watch anytime it airs
It truly is a wonderful life
It was explained to me that it was a tribute to all the people who kept the the nation running during the war. The folks that had important work to do on the homefront and what the lives of others around them would be like if they weren’t there to do it.
It didn’t do well at the box office on its release. It’s reputation slowly built to become a holiday classic.
Several years ago I met Zuzu. She lived in Olathe Kansas and sold some of her memorabilia at a thrift shop I liked to visit. Nice lady.
Thank you, bagster.
My favorite version of “It’s a Wonderful Life” is a stage play that recreates a 1940’s radio show complete with sound effects and commercials.
One of our favorites, and we watch it every year at Christmas time.
: )
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