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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God bless Virginia!
In our little town we have a one screen theater. They show “It’s a Wonderful Life” almost every year sometime during the Christmas season. It’s a pretty cool place to watch it.
Love that....RIP, indeed!
She had a wonderful (and long) life.
She was also the niece of General George Patton, Jr.
I can’t stand the movie and avoid it at XMAS.
There were a few years it was on all the time on every channel because the copyright had lapsed and stations could show it without paying for it. Then RKO finally renewed it.
Potter was a Capitalist and Bailey was a Socialist
I knew that you would find a way to handle it.
lmaoooooooooooo!!!!!!!
Now, THAT would be a theater I’d love to watch IAWL, on the big screen, at Christmastime.
Sounds very quaint and I imagine your town knows how to celebrate Christmas, in a beautiful way.
I hated it that Potter got away with his crime
Not in the alternate ending....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw89o0afb2A
Alistair Sim....1951....
Zuzu is still alive and appears at movie conventions.
An absolute masterpiece of movie making.
LOL....another classic!
You got your wish.
Always thought Scott was physically miscast as Scrooge (who should be wizened) but that version was truer to Dickens’ vision then any others I’ve seen.
Incidentally, we recently lost the actor who played Cratchit (David Warner).
So selling homes to hard-working, contributing members of society is ‘socialism’?
how about it...
This was the last ADULT cast member.
I forget ZUZU’s real name but she lives (lived?) near us and my wife bought a photo of the scene with Jimmy Stewart giving her the flower petal which she signed for her. One of our favorite movies.
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