Screwball comedies, such as produced by Frank Capra, exhibited a pleasing, idealized climate that portrayed reassuring social values and a certain optimism about everyday life.

Venison originally described meat of any game animal killed by hunting, and was applied to any animal from the families Cervidae ( deer ), Leporidae ( hares ), and Suidae ( wild pigs ), and certain species of the genus Capra ( goats and ibex ), such as elk, red deer, fallow deer, roe deer, moose, reindeer / caribou, pronghorn, brown hare, arctic hare, blue hare, wild boar, and ibex but its usage is now almost entirely restricted to the flesh of various species of deer.

Her first screen appearance was at the age of 10, when she appeared briefly in Frank Capra ’ s It Happened One Night.

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

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

Capra was born Francesco Rosario Capra in Bisacquino, Sicily, a village near Palermo.

He was the youngest of seven children of Salvatore Capra, a fruit grower, and the former Sarah Nicolas.

Capra emigrated to the United States with his family in 1903, when he was six.

In the army, Capra caught the Spanish flu, and was later medically discharged to return home to live with his mother.

Living at home with his siblings and mother, Capra was the only member of the family with a college education, yet was the only one who remained chronically unemployed.

Capra recalled that he " hated being a peasant, being a scrounging new kid trapped in the Sicilian ghetto of Los Angeles ... All I had was cockiness — and let me tell you that gets you a long way.

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

According to Capra, it was he who invented Langdon's character as an innocent fool living in a " naughty world.

Capra and Langdon later had a falling out, and Capra was fired.

There were many in Hollywood who considered sound a threat to the industry and hoped it would pass quickly ; McBride notes that " Capra was not one of them.

The chief cinematographer who worked with Capra on a number of films, was likewise unaware.

In many of Capra's films, the wise-cracking and sharp dialogue was often written by Riskin, and he and Capra went on to become Hollywood's " most admired writer-director team.

" The first of those was Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), for which Capra won his second Best Director Oscar.

Critic Alistair Cooke observed that Capra was " starting to make movies about themes instead of people.

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

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.

Being 44 years of age, he was not asked to enlist, but, notes Friedman, " Capra had an intense desire to prove his patriotism to his adopted land.

Capra's job was to head a special section on morale in order to explain to soldiers " why the hell they're in uniform ", writes Capra, and were not " propaganda " films like those created by the Nazis and Japan.

He worked on other Capra films during the following decade, including the comedy, You Can't Take It With You ( 1938-AA winner for " Best Picture ); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939-AA winner for " Best Picture "); Meet John Doe ( 1941 ); and It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ).

From the beginning, Capra ran into difficulties that resulted in serious cost overruns.

Frank Capra ran into Bernds one day, and made Bernds promise to talk with Cohn that evening.

When director Frank Capra and writer Robert Riskin adapted it for the screen in 1938, the film won the Best Picture Oscar and Capra won for Best Director.

However, Curtiz would not win, as Frank Capra took the Oscar for You Can't Take It With You.

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

For State of the Union ( 1948 ) Capra changed studios, working for the only time for MGM Pictures.

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.

" Capra fretted that the film was released to indifferent reviews and initially only did so-so business.

For a period of time the only existing copy was a 35mm print owned by Capra, until he made a duplicate negative from it and donated a newly minted print to the Library of Congress.

" Capra fretted that the film was released to indifferent reviews and initially only did so-so business.

When Ronald Colman, his first and only choice for the role of Robert Conway, proved to be unavailable, Capra decided to wait and made Mr. Deeds Goes to Town instead.

According to a 1986 Variety interview with Frank Capra, Jr., his father had wanted to shoot the film in color, but because the only suitable stock footage he intended to incorporate into the film, such as scenes from a documentary about the Himalayas, was in black and white, he was forced to change his plans.

Almost all wild goat species are allopatric ( geographically separated )— the only geographical overlaps are the wild goat ( Capra aegagrus ) with the East Caucasian tur ( Capra cylindricornis ), and the markhor ( Capra falconeri ) with the Siberian ibex ( Capra siberica ).

Astor markhor ( Capra falconeri falconeri ) has large, flat horns, branching out very widely, and then going up nearly straight with only a half turn.

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.

Ford was paid $ 350, 000 up front, but Capra received only $ 200, 000.

" In Films in Review, Elaine Rothschild stated " this unbelievable and unfunny comedy proves only that director Frank Capra has learned nothing and forgotten nothing in the 28 years that intervened between the two pictures.

On the other hand, a look at Langdon's filmography shows that Capra directed only two of Langdon's 30 silent comedies.