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Virginia Patton Dies - It's a Wonderful Life's Last Surviving Adult Cast Member Was 97
https://www.msn.com/ ^ | 08/21/2022 | Emily Zogbi

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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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: capra; hollywood; itsawonderfullife; obituary
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To: Jamestown1630

I’ll have to admit, I’m a sucker for the older movies.


41 posted on 08/21/2022 8:19:00 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: Lazamataz

I’m so glad you added your next comment!


42 posted on 08/21/2022 8:21:15 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: FamiliarFace
I’m so glad you added your next comment!

I lied.

43 posted on 08/21/2022 8:25:20 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: gundog
"The niece of General Patton"

Wow, that is fascinating. I never knew. Quite a family!

44 posted on 08/21/2022 8:25:44 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: FamiliarFace
he hope is that we will die holding each other’s hands sometime in our 90’s

I said the same thing with my girlfriend, but then the 1990's passed.

45 posted on 08/21/2022 8:26:34 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: max americana

*** Wonderful Life is for the old timers on Christmas Eve, after they get their medication and opened their presents around 9-sh.***

Bah humbug, and hush your mouth! This “old-timer” doesn’t take any medication, and I bet I’m up later than you on Christmas Eve!!

We have a few other family favorites at Christmas: Home Alone, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, and A Christmas Story (you’ll shoot your eye out!), are also must sees. Oh, and I would be remiss if I forgot to mention Charlie Brown’s Christmas. Love Linus explaining the true meaning of Christmas to everyone. Classic.


46 posted on 08/21/2022 8:28:37 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
"The niece of General Patton" Wow, that is fascinating. I never knew. Quite a family!

Yup. Then there's Dick Van Patten.

47 posted on 08/21/2022 8:28:40 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Lazamataz
It could be worse Laz. You could be Mr. Kamala Harris. There is one.

But when things appear to be unbearable. Remember there are those on Free Republic that love you.

48 posted on 08/21/2022 8:28:42 PM PDT by sport
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To: SkyDancer

I still hate Potter, too.


49 posted on 08/21/2022 8:30:10 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: lee martell

It’s popularity comes from a mundane reason. The movie’s copyright was allowed to lapse. It became public domain and free for TV stations to air. The studio finally got ownership back a few years ago.


50 posted on 08/21/2022 8:34:18 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: sport
But when things appear to be unbearable. Remember there are those on Free Republic that love you.

Not with their clothes off.

And anytime things get unbearable, I simply push the syringe plunger in another 10 units, and everything is GREAT again.

51 posted on 08/21/2022 8:37:19 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Lazamataz

You’re nothing but a big fat liar, aren’t you.


52 posted on 08/21/2022 8:38:16 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: FamiliarFace
You’re nothing but a big fat liar, aren’t you.

AND she knows I'm fat.

(sobbing)

53 posted on 08/21/2022 8:39:48 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Lazamataz

Yeah that’s tough. I don’t think any of us will make it to the 2090’s.


54 posted on 08/21/2022 8:41:04 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: Lazamataz

***(sobbing)***

Here’s a virtual hug for you. 🤗 Sounds like you could use one. 😉


55 posted on 08/21/2022 8:43:03 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: massmike

Virginia Patton (b. 1925) was married to Mr. Moss for 68 years. She is a role model for mothers, wives actresses and every lady. Sure, Christmas is a time for movies, especially Christmas afternoon. “A Star in the Night” (1945) with Rosina Galli is a family favorite ever year.


56 posted on 08/21/2022 8:45:34 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: massmike

Awful film


57 posted on 08/21/2022 8:54:43 PM PDT by newzjunkey (“We Did It Joe!” -The Taliban / “Thanks Joe!” -Putin)
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To: lee martell

“I never got what was so great about that movie,...”

“It is a well made film, full of Christian morals and life lessons.”


58 posted on 08/21/2022 9:01:46 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Jamestown1630

Alastair Sim.


59 posted on 08/21/2022 9:04:31 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Thank you for that link! Wow....75th Anniversary of It’s a Wonderful Life...in theaters!!

We have the colorized and b/w versions, on DVD...streaming, etc.

Not sure if we’ll venture out to a theater...but, very cool they’re doing this.


60 posted on 08/21/2022 9:07:35 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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