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.

Seriously though the first thing he said was "a young Ronald Reagan".

A faked up version is just rubbish

Who is the blonde actress at the end of the clock video?

Sorry to start another one...

James Stewart isn't wearing a white shirt in IAWL either.

I think it could be Hedy Lamarr

Great still from the ad, Girlwhowearsglasses. I'll have what she's having

I'm not sure it's Hedy Lamarr either. She was a bit vampier.

Any help? (not that those are tagged either, but might throw up some leads)

I've played this over several times and - as an aficionado of old movies - I'd say it isn't any movie or actress mentioned so far, including Stanwyck or Maureen O'Hara (Miracle on 34th Street). I have no idea who it is - and I thought I knew every great leading lady of the 30s and 40s. I don't think it's a really well known film at all, to be honest. I did wonder if it was a grown up Deanna Durbin but I don't think it's her either.

did wonder if the guy was Gregory peck, thought maybe they thought they were being clever with the peck reference considering its about a penguin. the bloke is quite slight I think like pick or stewert.

Altogether too gorgeous.

peck I meant

That video isn't available here, it says, Buck, but thanks for trying.

Louise, I just can't let this defeat us

Slight like a young Ronald Reagan, you mean?

Whoops, just realised I missed half the thread! Sorry. I couldn't even see the man properly so haven't a clue about him.

BOF that pic of Hedy Lamarr makes her look like she has GIANT HANDS.

Hedy Lamarr wasn't just beautiful, she was incredibly clever - quote from wiki

"Lamarr was also notable as co-inventor, with composer George Antheil, of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping,[6] which paved the way for today's wireless communications[7][8] and which, upon its invention in 1941, was deemed so vital to national defense that government officials would not allow publication of its details.[9] At the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Sixth Pioneer Awards in 1997, she and George Antheil were honoured with special awards for their "trail-blazing development of a technology that has become a key component of wireless data systems."[6]"

Yes, Hedy Lamarr was an amazing woman, definitely.

could it be a brand new scene created just for the ad - so JL can avoid copyright issues?
in that case it could be anyone

Who is the blonde actress at the end of the clock video?

Did you mean the girl in the white dress with the parasol? I don't know the actress's name but it's a clip from "Picnic at Hanging Rock"

O no I really thought you'd all have worked it out by the time I got to the end of the thread.

I would have thought JL could stump up for a one second shot though, don't you reckon? It would cost more to film something original, probably.

I spotted that too, Louise . Great film. No, I think it's the woman a few clips earlier. I didn't recognise her, but post-60s isn't so much my area really.

No, the tall one with the shorter hair on the clip before that one.

m.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/mediaindex/rm1731692288?photoId=MV5BMTU3NTc1OTY4N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTUwMTExNA

lots of IAWL photos above and it is the obvious choice. DP reckons it would cost more for a mockup than a licence fee to use the clip.