'A TIMELESS MESSAGE'- OUR INTERVIEW W KAROLYN GRIMES (ZUZU IN 'IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE'
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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'A TIMELSS MESSAGE' Our 2018 interview with and a special message from Karolyn Grimes, who played Zuzu in the classic movie 'Its A Wonderful Life', with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed.
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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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