Bedford Falls is the fictional town in which Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 short booklet The Greatest Gift, and RKO Pictures 1946 film adaptation It's a Wonderful Life, are set.
Top: Genesee Street looking toward the courthouse. Bottom: Genesee Street looking toward the Station. Shots used in the film Cimarron (1931).
On-set photograph of Jimmy Stewart in the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life. The scene, which shows a street sign indicating nearby towns, was not used in the film.
Stewart and Reed, as George Bailey and Mary Hatch, danced near the opening in the floor in the Beverly Hills High School gym
Bedford Hills, New York
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Bedford Falls (It's a Wonderful Life)
…inspiration for the town of Bedford Falls. The name Bedford Falls derives from both Seneca Falls and a hamlet in Westchester County, New York, called Bedford Hills. Evidence that Bedford Hills served as the geographic inspiration for Bedford Falls comes from a photograph of a scene that was not included in the…
Bedford Hills post office
Old Bedford Hills station next to the Bedford Hills Metro-North station