Frank Capra
Born:
1897-05-18
From:
Bisacquino, Sicilia, Italia
Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). His films often deal with rags-to-riches stories wich has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified".
Acting
Frank Capra: Mr. America
Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique
Hollywood's Second World War
Five Came Back
Hollywood sul Tevere
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Why We Fight
Frank Capra's American Dream
The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life'
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
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The Men who Made the Movies: Frank Capra
Dear Mr. Gable
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The Screen Director
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
Another Romance of Celluloid
It Happened One Night
Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Directing
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Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
Rendezvous in Space
Pocketful of Miracles
A Hole in the Head
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays
Hemo the Magnificent
Our Mr. Sun
The Fallbrook Story
Here Comes the Groom
Riding High
State of the Union
It's a Wonderful Life
Here Is Germany
Know Your Enemy: Japan
War Comes to America
Two Down and One to Go
Your Job in Germany
Our Job in Japan
G.I. Journal
Why We Fight: The Battle of China
Arsenic and Old Lace
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
Tunisian Victory
Attack in the Pacific
Production
Pocketful of Miracles
A Hole in the Head
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The Unchained Goddess
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays
Hemo the Magnificent
Our Mr. Sun
The Fallbrook Story
Here Comes the Groom
Riding High
State of the Union
It's a Wonderful Life
Know Your Enemy: Japan
Your Job in Germany
G.I. Journal
Arsenic and Old Lace
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
The Negro Soldier
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Meet John Doe
You Can't Take It with You
Lost Horizon
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Broadway Bill
Writing
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The Unchained Goddess
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays
Hemo the Magnificent
Our Mr. Sun
Westward the Women
It's a Wonderful Life
Know Your Enemy: Japan
Forbidden
Flight
The Burglar
Say It with Sables
The Swim Princess
That Certain Thing
Fiddlesticks
His First Flame
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Saturday Afternoon
Cold Turkey
Lucky Stars
The Iron Nag
Sneezing Beezers
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Good Morning, Nurse
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The Marriage Circus