Frank Faylen credited as playing...
Ernie
- [first lines]
- Mr. Emil Gower: [voice-over] I owe everything to George Bailey. Help him, dear Father.
- Giuseppe Martini: [voice-over] Joseph, Jesus and Mary. Help my friend, Mr. Bailey.
- Ma Bailey: [voice-over] Help my son, George, tonight.
- Bert: [voice-over] He never thinks about himself, God, that's why he's in trouble.
- Ernie Bishop: [voice-over] George is a good guy. Give him a break, God.
- Mary: [voice-over] I love him, dear Lord. Watch over him tonight.
- Janie Bailey: [voice-over] Please, God, something's the matter with Daddy.
- Zuzu Bailey: [voice-over] Please bring Daddy back.
- Ernie Bishop: Just a minute! Quiet everybody! Quiet, quiet. Now get this, it's from London.
- Ma Bailey: Oh!
- Ernie Bishop: [Reading the telegram in his hand] Mr. Gower cabled you need cash, stop. My office instructed to advance you up to twenty-five thousand dollars, stop. Hee Haw and Merry Christmas! Sam Wainwright.
- George Bailey: [George walks up to Ernie, who is on the phone, with a newspaper] Hey, Ernie, look at that.
- [Newspaper headline reads "PRESIDENT DECORATES HARRY BAILEY"]
- Ernie Bishop: It's going to snow again.
- [Ernie goes back to phone conversation]
- Violet Bick: Good afternoon, Mr. Bailey.
- George Bailey: Hello, Violet. Hey, you look good, that's some dress you got on there.
- Violet Bick: This old thing? Why, I only wear it when I don't care how I look.
- Ernie Bishop: How would you like to take...
- George Bailey: Yes?
- Ernie Bishop: [to Bert] Want to come along, Bert? We'll show you the town.
- Bert: No, thanks... I think I'll go home and see what the wife's doing.
- Ernie Bishop: Family man.
- Ernie Bishop: [as George is trying to find Mary in the abandoned house] Watch this guy, Bert, he's bats!
- Ernie Bishop: Don't look now but there's something funny going on over there at the bank George. I've never really seen one but that's got all the earmarks of being a run.