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Philip Van Doren Stern(1900-1984)

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Philip Van Doren Stern was born on 10 September 1900 in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for La vie est belle (1946) and It Happened One Christmas (1977). He died on 31 July 1984 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.

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La vie est belle

8.6

Writer

1946

It Happened One Christmas

6.1

TV Movie

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1977

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The Nostalgia Critic
7.5
TV Series
- story "It's a Wonderful Life" (uncredited)
- 2010
Beavis et Butt-Head
7.5
TV Series
- story: "It's a Wonderful Life" (segment ": "It's a Miserable Life", uncredited)
- 1995
Clarence
4.4
TV Movie
- characters (uncredited)
- 1990
It Happened One Christmas
6.1
TV Movie
- short story: The Greatest Gift
- 1977
La vie est belle
8.6
- based on a story by
- 1946

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Born
- September 10, 1900
- Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, USA
Died
- July 31, 1984
- Sarasota, Florida, USA
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Story: "The Greatest Gift" (filmed as La vie est belle (1946), Beavis and Butt-Head Do Christmas (1995) (uncredited), Clarence (1990)).

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[on "the Greatest Gift", the short story that inspired La vie est belle (1946)] The idea came to me complete from start to finish--a most unusual occurrence, as any writer will tell, for ordinarily a story has to be struggled with, changed around and mixed up.

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