Karolyn Grimes
Karolyn Grimes
Karolyn Grimesis an American actress. She is best known for her role as "Zuzu Bailey" in the Frank Capra classic It's a Wonderful Life. She also played "Debbie" in the 1947 Christmas film, The Bishop's Wife starring Cary Grant, David Niven, and Loretta Young...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth4 July 1940
CountryUnited States of America
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.
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Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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Like for instance, there's a point where Mary and George are asked to go to Florida with Sam Wainwright and his wife. Very subtly, (Mary) rubs her tummy -- and that night she tells him she's on the nest.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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Everybody has some sorrow, worry, and everybody asks God for help.
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My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.
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I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.
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In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.