Outside of directing, Capra was also active within the film industry, engaging in various political and social issues.

On May 5, 1936, Capra was also host of the 8th Academy Awards ceremony.

" Amassador Bowles also conveyed gratitude to Capra for " one helluva job.

" At the event ceremony, director John Ford announced that Capra had also received the Order of British Empire ( OBE ) on the recommendation of Winston Churchill.

Most of the films were directed by Frank Capra, who was daunted yet also impressed and challenged by Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film Triumph of the Will and who worked in direct response to it.

The name is also used frequently in popular culture, for example in the Frank Capra film Meet John Doe.

Capra also used multiple cameras to cover every scene from several angles, and by the time shooting ended, he had used 1. 1 million feet of film.

Lorre also branched out ( without Greenstreet ) into comedy with the role of Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace, filmed by director Frank Capra in 1941, released in 1944, and starring Cary Grant and Raymond Massey.

* Villa Almerico Capra ( also known as " La Rotonda "), located just outside the downtown area ;

He adopted the name " Robert Capa " around this time-in fact " cápa " (" shark ") was his nickname in school and also he felt that it would be recognizable and American-sounding since it was similar to that of film director Frank Capra.

These archives also hold the papers of Ingrid Bergman, Frank Capra, Clint Eastwood and others.

Capra has stated publicly his interest in ESports and is also a longtime player of both World of Warcraft and StarCraft.

Capra has also branched out into film production.

Capra had also approached Jack Benny and Ronald Reagan before going with Cary Grant.

The proper name is Villa Almerico Capra, but it is also known as La Rotonda, Villa Rotonda, Villa Capra and Villa Almerico.

During 1967 they also toured the USSR, Italy, France and other parts of Europe and recorded an LP with the Chilean painter and poet Juan Capra.

Just like in other parts of Europe, Italian Neoclassical art was mainly based on the principles of Ancient Roman and Ancient Greek art and architecture, but also by the Italian Renaissance architecture and its basics, such as in the Villa Capra " La Rotonda ".

The Tao of Physics was followed by other books of the same genre like The Hidden Connection, The Turning Point and The Web of Life in which Capra extended the argument of how Eastern mysticism and scientific findings of today relate, and how Eastern mysticism might also have answers to some of the biggest scientific challenges of today.

There is also one nightclub, Capra Neagră ( The Chamois ), adjacent to a pizza place which plays a mixture of Europop and dance music.

The film proved to be the final project for both Capra and veteran actor Thomas Mitchell but also featured the film debut of Ann-Margret.

He also convinced Coppola to drop the musical idea in favor of doing a homage to the films of Frank Capra, especially Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ).

Amadeo Giannini and the " Bank of Italy " were also the basis for the classic 1932 Frank Capra movie American Madness which was an original screenplay titled Faith by Robert Riskin.

1946 saw RKO Radio releasing It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra.

People " flocked to the theaters " during the 1930s and 1940s to see films directed by Frank Capra.

After splitting with Langdon, Capra directed a picture for First National, For the Love of Mike, ( 1927 ).

During his first year with Columbia, Capra directed nine films, some of which became highly successful.

Capra directed his first " real " sound picture, The Younger Generation, in 1929.

In 1941 Capra directed Meet John Doe ( 1941 ), considered by some to be Capra's most controversial movie.

Capra directed two films at Paramount Pictures starring Bing Crosby, Riding High ( 1950 ) and Here Comes the Groom ( 1951 ).

The films were directed by Academy Award-winning director Frank Capra and narrated by Academy Award winning actor Walter Huston.

* Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra ( 1946 ), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder ( 1944 ), Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli ( 1944 ), Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles ( 1941 )," The Great Dictator directed by Charlie Chaplin ( 1940 ).

It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite ( Claudette Colbert ) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter ( Clark Gable ).

Colbert's first film, For the Love of Mike ( 1927 ), had been directed by Frank Capra, and it was such a disaster that she vowed to never make another with him.

It's a Wonderful Life is an American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, that was based on the short story " The Greatest Gift ", written by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1939, and privately published by the author in 1945.

Category: Films directed by Frank Capra

Lady for a Day is a 1933 American comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra.

Category: Films directed by Frank Capra

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role.

Although the latter has some similarities to Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, including starring Jean Arthur and being directed by Capra, its 1939 screenplay was actually based on an out-of-print novel, The Gentleman from Montana and was an entirely unique and unrelated project.

* Lady for a Day ( 1933 )— Adapted by Robert Riskin, who suggested the name change from Runyon's title " Madame La Gimp ," the film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director ( Frank Capra ), Best Actress ( May Robson ), and Best Adaptation for the Screen ( Riskin ).

Frank Russell Capra ( born Francesco Rosario Capra ; May 18, 1897September 3, 1991 ) was a Sicilian-born American film director.

His rags-to-riches story, having worked his way through college, has led film historians like Ian Freer to consider Capra the " American dream personified.

Capra phoned them saying he had moved from Hollywood, and falsely implied that he had some experience in the budding film industry.

The studio's founder, Walter Montague, was nonetheless impressed by Capra and offered him $ 75 to direct a one-reel silent film.

Capra, with the help of a cameraman he knew, made the film in two days and cast it with only amateurs.

After that first serious job in films, Capra then began focusing his efforts to finding similar openings in the film industry.

" His films soon established Capra as a " bankable " director known throughout the industry, and Cohn raised Capra's initial salary of $ 1, 000 per film to $ 25, 000 per year.

The film established the names of Capra, Columbia Pictures, stars Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, in the movie industry.

The film became a turning point for Capra, however, as he began to conceive of an additional dimension to his movies.

Although It's a Wonderful Life is his most well-known film, Friedman notes that it was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ) which most represented the " Capra myth.

Capra pleaded with Cohn to allow the film to be distributed and remembers the intensity of their decision making:

Cohn and Capra chose to ignore all the negative publicity and demands, and released the film as planned.

After the first completed film was viewed by General Marshall along with Army staff, Marshall approached Capra: " Colonel Capra, how did you do it?

In January, 1952, Capra was requested by the U. S. Ambassador to India to represent the U. S. film industry at the International Film Festival to be held in India.

" In his autobiography written in 1971, Capra expressed of his feelings about the shifting film industry:

Film critic John Raeburn discusses an early Capra film, American Madness ( 1932 ), as an example of how he had mastered the movie medium and expressed a unique style:

His grandson, Frank Capra III, is a Hollywood director and worked as an assistant director in the 1995 film The American President, which referred to Frank Capra in the film's dialogue.

Director / actor John Cassavetes contemplating Capra ’ s contribution to the art of film quipped: “ Maybe there really wasn ’ t an America, it was only Frank Capra .” Capra ’ s films were his love letters to an idealized America — a cinematic landscape of his own invention.