The movie, "It's a Wonderful Life" is the only movie known to have been taken from a greeting card.

The original author tried unsuccessfully to have the story published, so he used it one year in his Christmas Cards.  One of the recipients was interested in the story as a screenplay, and bought the rights for $10K.  His efforts went nowhere for years, but then Frank Capra had heard about it and thought it was promising.  He paid the same $10K for the story to the purchaser of the rights and hired a team of writers to work on it.

** Bonus:  In the scene where Uncle Billy is drunk and leaving a "Welcome Home" party for Harry at Ma Bailey's house, he staggers off camera and George (Jimmy Stewart) turns to go in the house.  A huge "crash" is heard, followed by Billy saying, "I'm alright!!  I'm all ... right!"  George smiles and heads back in.  In fact, that noise was caused by a stagehand accidentally knocking over a stack of equipment.  It was the actor playing Billy who had the quick wit to ad lib the "I'm alright!"  Capra thought it was a great ad lib and left it in.  He even gave the stagehand praise for improving on the film's sound "quality."      

You can't sneeze without blinking.

I'm going to prove this wrong next time I sneeze

Actually there is some use in this fact.  I heard on YouTube that if you're traveling at 60mph and sneeze, you'll drive 100 ft with your eyes closed.

I'm going to prove this wrong next time I sneeze

Actually there is some use in this fact.  I heard on YouTube that if you're traveling at 60mph and sneeze, you'll drive 100 ft with your eyes closed.

I admit there are exceptions to every rule ...

In Hollywood, there used to be a set of strict rules and guidelines that all motion picture companies agreed to follow called the Hays Code,  The Hays Code is actually the "Motion Picture Production Code,"   

The code was created in 1930 to help rehabilitate the image of the movie industry after a number of Hollywood scandals, including the murder and alleged rape of actress Virginia Rappe. Religious groups also called for censorship of the content seen on film, and the conservative publisher and film magazine journalist Martin Quigley helped recruit Jesuit priest Father Daniel A. Lord to help write a code to list what would be appropriate and inappropriate for movies.  Enforcement of the code wasn't very prominent until about 1934.

In "It's a Wonderful Life," a rule in the Hays Code is violated but almost never mentioned.  The Code requires that no character can profit from his/her crime.  Anyone who breaks the law must be eventually arrested or meet some other suitable justice.  In the movie, Mr. Potter is accidentally handed a newspaper by Billy containing an $8,000 bank deposit.  He keeps the money, even though he knows full well who it belongs to and how it accidentally came into his possession.  To keep the money was pure theft -- a crime.

Some argue that his motivation for keeping the money was to take over the Building and Loan, and that plan in the end was thwarted -- thus, no "profit".  So, the $8,000 was a means to an end, not an intentional crime per se.  Nevertheless, failing to bankrupt the Building and Loan did not punish Potter for the theft of $8,000.  In fact, the movie never reconciles the loss of the money, thus we assume Potter kept it.  Had he sent someone over to return the money after learning that the Building and Loan had been rescued, then the Code would have been followed.

In general, the code is pretty apparent in most Hollywood movies that were shown on TV.  In fact, in "It's a Wonderful Life," when George is on the phone yelling at Zuzu's teacher for his daughter catching cold, the original line in the film says, "...sending her home half-naked..." .  When it aired on TV, they dubbed over that to say, "...sending her home in the rain...".

Like I said .... "strict!"