A litle known fact about "It's a Wonderful Life" is that it bombed at the box office when it first came out as America didn't want to see a movie that contained a suicidal man. It was not an uplifting movie for that time period.

There was a certain predijuice about italian Americans. I remember being called a WOP by a classmate who ironically was Italian himself. Italian immigrants got this derogatory label as when they first came to America, as they were "without passport", (WOP).