Mary Hatch

Mary Hatch-Bailey is the tritagonist of the 1946 Frank Capra film It's a Wonderful Life. She's George Bailey's high school love interest and eventually wife.
She was portrayed by the late Jean Gale as a child and the late Donna Reed as an adult.
==Biography==
Not much is known about Mary's early life or childhood. Although it's suggested that Mary had a mischievous in her early life considering her Sam did an impression of a young Mary badgering Marty during the graduation dance scene.
Though what is known is that Mary had first met George when she was 9 years old. George was an employee at a drug shop owned by Mr. Gower at that time. Mary ordered a chocolate sundae but rejects George's offer of coconuts on top. George calls Mary "brainless" and tells her that coconuts came from Tahiti, the Fiji Islands, and the Coral Sea. He had big dreams to explore and see the world, as he bragged about being nominated as a member of the National Geographic Society.
Mary's immediately drawn by this and whispers into George's deaf ear, that she would love him until she died. She overhears the news about Mr. Gower's son's death and finds out about the fatal mix between the poisonous cyanide, but she stays quiet over the whole thing and doesn't tell anyone about the accident.
Nine years passed since Mary got to see George again. They reconnected at Harry's high-school graduation party, when Mary abandoned her previous date Freddie to go dancing with George.
The two lovers enter a Charleston dance contest, while Mary's jealous rival secretly plots his revenge. He opens the gym dance floor to reveal a swimming pool underneath. George and Mary didn't notice and they both fall in.
After the dance, George and Mary walk home together wearing a weird assortment of borrowed clothes. They sing an off-key duet of "Buffalo Gals" under the light of a new moon. Then George sweet-talks her, calling Mary "the prettiest girl in town" while distancing himself slightly.
They pause in front of the old deserted Granville house, and George accidentally steps on Mary's bathrobe belt.
George threatens to hurl a rock through one of its windows. He wanted to make a wish - which would only come true if he broke a window. Mary didn't want him to and admits that she'd like to live in that old house. He throws a rock anyway and his aim is accurate - he breaks a window on the second floor. Then, he loudly describes his wishes to see the world and build magnificent buildings.
Mary interrupts George by picking up a rock and silently makes a wish of her own. She throws her rock through another window. She refuses to tell George what her wish was (it was to repair and live in the old Granville house) and then continues down the street singing "Buffalo Gals." George asks about her deepest wishes and then offers her a poetic, imaginative fantasy about lassoing the moon and bringing it down to Earth so that she can eat it.
George accidentally steps on Mary's robe again and teases her with it. Just then Harry and his uncle Billy pull up and George abandons Mary after finding out his father had a stroke and died.
Mary then spends the next four years outside of Bedford Falls to attend college. After she finishes Mary returns to Bedford Falls, and George's mother encourages him to call on her considering how fond she was of George. George tried to avoid Mary but she ended up coming across her house. George felt a bit uncomfortable meeting up with his high-school again. Mary had prepared a nostalgic reunion for them, thinking about their walk together four years earlier and showing romantic interest. George asks why she didn't go back to New York with her friends, and Mary claims she was "homesick" for Bedford Falls. Mary's mother comes across the conversation and sends George back home, but George came back because he forgot his hat. She lets George know that mutual friend Sam is on the phone, making George slightly jealous. Sam accuses George of trying to steal Mary from him, but Mary couldn't say anything because her mother was listening. Mary's unable to tell George about the offer and drops the phone. George states he doesn't want to get married. But their love for each other gets the best of them, and they kiss.
Soon afterward, Mary and George get married and get ready to go on a honeymoon trip using $2000 of hard-earned money. But they notice a large mob of people outside the Bank and Loan who were trying to withdraw their funds, George immediately gets out of the car to take action on the crisis. Unfortunately the Bank and Loan no money left to pay the people with, leaving George and Mary with no choice but to use their honeymoon money they had saved up. Mary personally offers their money to pay everyone with. After George used their money to pay everyone and keep the bank open, he forgot about the honeymoon and Mary made up for not being able to go on their honeymoon by improvising an imaginative honeymoon composed of a romantic candlelight dinner in the broken down Granville house.
George and Mary help an Italian family, the Martinis, move into their new home in Bailey Park, where four-room frame houses have been constructed for immigrant families. Mary and George offer a brief speech at the Martinis' doorstep during a housewarming party.
A few years passed, as George has built a housing development named Bailey Park with dozens of nice homes, most of the people living there used to work for Mr. Potter. Potter is told how George's establishment threatens his own business, and he reacts with disgust. George's generosity toward the local townspeople makes prospects look dim and cash flow is low, but he became the most beloved man in town.
After George is called into Potter's office for his offer which George turns down, he enters his bedroom where Mary is sleeping. George begins to wonder why Mary would ever agree to marry someone like him. Mary responded by saying she was pregnant and wanted the baby to look like him.
As Mary had her first two kids, she would care for and look after them, while also repairing the Granville house into a true home. During World War II, she had two more kids but would help run the USO.
On Christmas Eve, Mary and her kids were decorating the house for Christmas. When George comes home, Mary immediately notices something was off with George and goes to see what the problem was and comfort him. When George unjustly yells at the kids, Mary comes to their defense and calls him out of it. Then when he leaves, Mary calls his uncle Billy and encourages the children to offer prayers for their troubled father. 
But Mary went one step further. After Mary called George's uncle Billy (and her uncle-in-law), she gets informed about how he had misplaced $8000 and George was at risk of going to prison, and Mary immediately takes action. She and Billy spend the whole night going around town and telling them what was about to happen to her husband. The town people all pitched in without hesitation and helped to pay off the missing $8000. 
When Mary returned to the house, she ran onto the stairs to help George. Mary has brought together nearly his George's friends, relatives, depositors and citizens of Bedford Falls to the house.
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