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Capra's and personality
He notes that the English word " capricious " derives from it, " evoking the animal's skittish temperament ", adding that " the name neatly expresses two aspects of Frank Capra's personality: emotionalism and obstinacy.

Capra's and when
Capra's synopsis: " Showing the gallant and victorious defense of Britain by Royal Air Force, at a time when shattered but unbeaten British were only people fighting Nazis.

Capra's and directing
Few of the studio heads or crew were aware of Capra's engineering background until he began directing The Younger Generation in 1929.
Capra wrote of this period and recalled the confidence that Cohn placed in Capra's vision and directing:
Capra's directing style relied on improvisation to a great extent.

Capra's and him
It would become Capra's last important film and, although he directed five more films over the next 14 years, his successful years were now behind him.
Capra's basic themes of championing the common man, as well as his use of spontaneous, fast-paced dialogue and goofy, memorable lead and supporting characters, made him one of the most popular and respected filmmakers of the 20th century.
During the golden age of Hollywood, Capra's " fantasies of goodwill " made him one of the two or three most famous and successful directors in the world.

Capra's and for
They eventually settled in an Italian ghetto in Los Angeles, where Capra's father worked as a fruit picker and young Capra sold newspapers after school for the next 10 years, until he graduated high school.
Capra also directed a film for MGM during this period, but soon realized he " had much more freedom under Harry Cohn's benevolent dictatorship ", where Cohn also put Capra's " name above the title " of his films, a first for the movie industry.
Capra's final theatrical film was with Glenn Ford and Bette Davis, named Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ), a remake of his 1933 film Lady for a Day.
Capra's final film, Rendezvous in Space ( 1964 ), was an industrial film made for the Martin Marietta Company and shown at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
As for Capra's subject matter, film author Richard Griffith tries to summarize Capra's common theme:
In 1944, Ivens made Know Your Enemy: Japan for Frank Capra's U. S. War Department film series Why We Fight.
Many of these stories have their backgrounds in movies, for example Topolino nel favoloso regno di Shan Grillà ( 1961 ) is based upon Frank Capra's Lost Horizon ( 1937 ); not to talk about all the stories starring Snow White or the Seven Dwarfs, obviously based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ).
With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).
Capra's first choices for Apple Annie and Henry D. Blake, Marie Dressler and W. C. Fields, could not be cast for the same reason.
The " Apple Annie " story transformed into Capra's Lady For A Day ( and Pocketful of Miracles ) has long been considered a natural source for a stage musical and a number of prominent writers, including Jerry Herman, David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr ; the team of John Kander and Fred Ebb have all worked on unfinished and unrealized adaptations.
Colbert was noticed by the theatrical producer Leland Hayward, who suggested her for a role in Frank Capra's film For the Love of Mike ( 1927 ), now believed to be lost.
Capra's " first, last and only choice " for the pivotal role of the eccentric Longfellow Deeds was Gary Cooper.
She then joined Glenn Ford and Ann-Margret for the Frank Capra film A Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ) ( a remake of Capra's 1933 film, Lady for a Day ), based on a story by Damon Runyon.
The first film was shown on the giant screen was Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea of General Yen starring Barbara Stanwyck and the Music Hall became the premiere showcase for films from the RKO-Radio Studio.
In Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life ( 1946 ), George Bailey ( center, played by James Stewart ) is shown by his guardian angel how the world would have been radically different for the worse if Bailey had never existed.
Along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, also released in 1934, Twentieth Century is considered to be a prototype for the screwball comedy.
Seneca Falls is believed by some to have been the inspiration for the fictional town of " Bedford Falls, N. Y ." portrayed in filmmaker Frank Capra's classic 1940s film " It's a Wonderful Life ".
Frank Capra's Academy Award-winning movie series Why We Fight, the installments The Battle of China and Prelude to War describe the Tanaka Memorial as the document that was the Japanese plan for war with the United States.
After being nominated in 1957 and 1958, in 1962 Glenn Ford won a Golden Globe Award as Best Actor for his performance in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles.
Mitchell's first credited screen role was in the 1923 film Six Cylinder Love. as Tom Blue in the trailer for The Black Swan ( film ) | The Black Swan ( 1942 ) Mitchell's breakthrough role was as the embezzler in Frank Capra's 1937 film Lost Horizon.

Capra's and with
After World War II, however, Capra's career declined as his subjects were more out of tune with the mood of audiences.
Nonetheless, McBride insists that The Younger Generation " abounds with parallels to Capra's own life.
Although the project had an excellent pedigree with stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, the film was not a success, and Capra's eyebrow-raising statement, " I think State of the Union was my most perfect film in handling people and ideas " has few adherents today.
Although It's a Wonderful Life and State of the Union were successful shortly after the war ended, Capra's themes were becoming more out of step with changes within the film industry and with the public mood.
Film historian Michael Medved agrees with and understands Capra's impressions, noting that he walked away from the movie business because " he refused to adjust to the cynicism of the new order.
The film was based on a stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night ( released the same year ) is considered to be the defining film of the screwball comedy genre.
Capra's synopsis: " Dealt with who, what, where, why, and how we came to be the U. S. A .— the oldest major democratic republic still living under its original constitution.
A fifth film with Hepburn came in 1948, Frank Capra's political drama State of the Union.
Noted reviewer Graham Greene was effusive that this was Capra's finest film to date, describing Capra's treatment as " a kinship with his audience, a sense of common life, a morality ..." Variety noted " a sometimes too thin structure the players and director Frank Capra have contrived to convert (...) into fairly sturdy substance.
For Best Picture and Best Director it lost to Frank Capra's You Can't Take It with You.
Soon, director Frank Capra's association with Columbia would help vault the studio toward Hollywood's major leagues.
* Republic took its original " Liberty Bell " logo from M. H. Hoffman's Liberty Pictures ( not to be confused with Frank Capra's short-lived Liberty Films that produced his It's a Wonderful Life, ironically now owned by Republic ).
The film is a remake of Frank Capra's film of the same name, with a screenplay by Larry Kramer.
Monty imbued that plot with elements of Frank Capra's 1934 film It Happened One Night and the 1941 Humphrey Bogart film The Maltese Falcon.
Even now, Capra's book, with its nutty denials of what has happened in particle theory, can be found selling well at every major bookstore.
In only his tenth movie, he co-starred with one of the " grand dames of the silver screen ," Barbara Stanwyck, in Frank Capra's critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful The Miracle Woman ( 1931 ), and the movie's failure to attract an audience disappointed Capra tremendously.
Along with Marshall Herskovitz, Zwick runs a film production company called The Bedford Falls Company ( inspired by the name of the town featured in Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life ).
A vaudeville performer, Taylor made his film debut in 1938, playing cheerful ex-football captain Ed Carmichael in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It with You.
Lister settles down with a woman who looks exactly like Kristine Kochanski in Bedford Falls, which looks exactly like the Bedford Falls in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, Lister's favourite movie.

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