Help me identify this film from the John Lewis advert?

[BOFster]

It's driving me crazy

Here's a link to the John Lewis advert- take a look at the old movie showing on the television at 1 minute in, please.

Everybody thinks it's from It's A Wonderful Life, the embrace you can see at 3:21 in this clip:



But it really really isn't.

[Stuffofawesome]

Its a wonderful life ?

[BOFster]

Nooooooooooo



Look! Look at the link. It's not Donna Reed, and it's not from that film.

Incidentally, I just watched the whole YouTube clip from IAWL and cried my eyes out for the hundredth time

[LizzieMint]

Ha ha, great first answer!
I've no idea, but maybe you could tweet john Lewis and ask them?

[whatsagoodusername]

I thought it was It's A Wonderful Life too. I'll have to look again now.

[wingcommandergallic]

The Bishop's Wife?

[Annunziata]

Is it the one with the plane and the bar and We'll always have Paris?

[Girlwhowearsglasses]

Maybe it's faked up and they could to get clearance?

[HearMyRoar]

You mean Gone With the Wind Ann?

[Gremlingirl]

I don't they had planes in Gone With The Wind! You mean Casablanca, I think.

[BOFster]

Ooh, I'll have to look up The Bishop's Wife now.

Interesting that it might be made up, I hadn't thought of that...

I have tweeted, but to no avail

She looks far too happy for a start, Donna Reed is overcome by a mixture of anger, relief and the raging horn at that point surely.

[Xiomara]

I don't think it's Casablanca because the man isn't wearing a coat.

[BOFster]

It's not Casablanca either- that was Ingrid Bergman, and I know I'd recognise her.

I can't say I recognise the actress, but mini on another thread suggested Barbara Stanwyk, and she does look pretty similar. Hmm.

[Trapper]

Notorious?

Looks like Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman kissing on the balcony to me.

[Girlwhowearsglasses]

It's not that I don't think - I'd have to see proper screen shots but the version of IAWL he's got a child hanging off him in shot. They could have cropped the shot for be as though. Pretty sure you're meant to think it's that film

[TheWoollybacksWife]

It doesn't look like Loretta Young so I don't think it is the Bishop's wife.

[BOFster]

It isn't Bergman though, and the man's neck isn't thickset enough to be Cary Grant.

[Trapper]

Maybe not then. The plot thickens!

[DoughnutSelfie]

I thought The Bishops Wife but nope

Still wracking brains

[Xiomara]

The clothes the man is wearing are wrong for Cary Grant too.

[BOFster]

Trapper, I think this is the kiss you mean! and it isn't it. But my word it's fantastic

[wingcommandergallic]

Miracle on 34th Street. Sure of it.

[BOFster]

My autocorrect seems to delight in inserting random exclamation marks. I think it's trying to tell me I've used them too often

[BOFster]

Ooooooh, there's a contender...looking it up now.