]Seated on a lawn wearing a gingham dress with a lacy pinafore apron, with sprinklers dousing the garden behind her, he Girl (Kathryn McGuire) fed scraps of food to her large cocker-spaniel dog.Bedford Falls comes slowly into focus.It is the year 1919 and young native George Bailey (Bobbie Anderson) is 12 years old - born, raised, and educated in Bedford Falls.Back in the office of theDaily Planetin Metropolis, Lois, Jimmy, and Perry White were speaking about Superman""s unusual "disappearing act" (with Lois uncertain about where he was since he left her to return to the Fortress), when suddenly, the trio of Kryptonite villains (accompanied by Luthor) crashed in and smashed up the offices and furniture."The musical tragedy took a realistic and close look at the backstage world of a ballerina.In some ways, the characters inThe Red Shoesresembled those in Busby Berkeley""sGold Diggers of 1935 (1935), and the plot line was reminiscent of heCinderellafairy-tale of a young girl and a pair of slippers.