'A TIMELESS MESSAGE'- OUR INTERVIEW W KAROLYN GRIMES (ZUZU IN 'IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE'

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0	Well, come back, everyone, to 1,001 Heroes, Legends, Histories, and Mysteries podcast.
0:05.8	This is your host, John Hegedorn.
0:08.4	We're talking today with Carolyn Grimes, who played Little Zoozoo Bailey in the classic
0:12.6	movie It's A Wonderful Life, and she was one of the youngest actors on the set, and
0:17.4	certainly one loaded with Charmin Grace.
0:20.3	Her tale is one that only came to the public eye in recent years.
0:24.2	She played the part of Little Zoozoo Bailey, George Bailey's youngest daughter, who is
0:28.5	best known for the lines that closed the movie, and left people with tears in their eyes
0:32.9	and reaching for clean-exes.
0:35.3	Carolyn, we're very glad to have you with us today at 1,001 Heroes Podcast.
0:40.3	Well, thank you, thank you for having me.
0:43.4	I know that all our fans are anxious to hear your story, and I'm hoping you can start
0:47.6	at the beginning how you first became a child actor and what your experience was in Hollywood.
0:54.2	Well, I started pretty early.
0:55.6	My mother, I was an only child, and she was a stage mom, and she gave me every lesson possible.
1:03.6	I danced, I sang, I did drama, I started piano when I was three, the violin, when I was five.
1:12.2	I did everything.
1:13.5	She pushed me out there, and she got me an agent, and the agent liked me.
1:18.2	She sent me on some interviews, and by golly, I got some parts, and that's how it all started.
1:23.1	I was four years old when I started.
1:27.1	I'd already done four movies before it's a wonderful life, so I was kind of a veteran by then.
1:35.1	It was just another job.
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