Capra describes the film as " the ominous prelude of Hitler's holocaust of hate.

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

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

Shortly after his meeting with General Marshall, Capra viewed Leni Riefenstahl's " terrifying motion picture ," Triumph of the Will.

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

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

" Capra simply means " she-goat " and the star-name Capella is the " little goat ", but some modern readers confuse her with the male sea-goat of the Zodiac, Capricorn, who bears no relation to Amalthea, no connection in a Greek or Latin literary source nor any ritual or inscription to join the two.

** Above two volumes republished, minus two letters, as Henry Miller's Hamlet Letters, Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1988.

Although the Bukharan markhor ( Capra falconeri heptneri ) formerly lived in most of the mountains stretching along the north banks of the Upper Amu Darya and the Pyanj Rivers from Turkmenistan to Tajikistan, two to three scattered populations now occur in a greatly reduced distribution.

Because of Ford's involvement with the financing of the film, Capra refused to intervene in any of the disagreements between the two stars, but he suffered blinding and frequently incapacitating headaches as a result of the stress.

" 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.

The Pyrenean ibex ( Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica ) is an ibex, one of the two subspecies of Spanish ibex, extinct since January 2000 except for about seven minutes in 2009.

The truth most likely lies somewhere between these two points, but history shows that Langdon's greatest success was while being directed by Capra, and once he took hold of his own destiny, his original film comedy persona dropped sharply in popularity with audiences.

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

It was a failure upon original release, but after its copyright was not renewed properly in 1974 ( in part due to a lack of interest in doing so by producer Frank Capra ), it became public domain for nearly two decades.

The firm was founded for the merger of two companies, Montreal Floor and Wall Tile ( founded by John Capra in 1927 ) and Olympia Tile by the Reichmann family in 1956.

Cooper had agreed to the part without reading a script for two reasons: he had enjoyed working with Capra on their earlier collaboration, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), and he wanted to work with Barbara Stanwyck.

These two subspecies of ibexes, the < i > Capra pyrenaica hispanica </ i > and the < i > Capra pyrenaica victoriae </ i >, can be found along the Spanish Iberian Peninsula and have even migrated and settled into the coast of Portugal.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

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

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.

Capra married actress Helen Howell in 1923 ; they divorced in 1928.

* In the 1970s, Paramount acquired the rights to the Frank Capra film Broadway Bill, which was originally released by Columbia Pictures – Paramount had remade the film as Riding High in 1950 ;

The hermaphrodite Common Figs are called " inedible figs " or caprifigs ; in traditional culture in the Mediterranean region they were considered food for goats ( Capra aegagrus ).

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

He became a favorite of director Frank Capra, who used him in several films ; in It's a Wonderful Life, Lane played a seemingly hard-nosed rent collector for the miserly Henry Potter ( Lionel Barrymore ), who tried to explain to his employer that many of his tenants were moving out, taking advantage of affordable mortgages provided by the film's protagonist, George Bailey ( James Stewart ).

This carriageway is an avenue between the service blocks, built by the Capra brothers who acquired the villa in 1591 ; they commissioned Vincenzo Scamozzi to complete the villa and construct the range of staff and agricultural buildings.

After the making of first sound film in 1927, he specialized in his fat man roles and was widely sought out by directors, such as Frank Capra and Orson Welles for bit parts ; exemplified by the Match King one of Mae West's suitors in 1935's Goin ' to Town.

** Domestic goat ( Capra aegagrus hircus, sometimes referred to as Capra hircus ; includes feral goat )

It first belonged to the Toaldi family ; it then passed to Enrico Capra, a noble from Vicenza, before becoming the Town Hall until 1913.

Characters in the film include Mr. Potter and the Bailey family ; the film was directed by Frank Capra and starred James Stewart, Donna Reed and Thomas Mitchell, among others.

* The Other California ( Capra Press, 1990 ; second, expanded edition, Univ.

Meanwhile, at Columbia Pictures, Frank Capra made his reputation ( among the industry and filmgoing public alike ; a rarity in those days ) by developing his signature blend of social problem film and screwball comedy.

The new edition of the Spielberg book was published in 2011 by the University Press of Mississippi, which also reprinted his biographies Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success ( 1992 ; 2000 ) and Searching for John Ford ( 2001 ).

According to Capra biographer Joseph McBride, Capra " obviously felt a strong identification with the story of a Jewish immigrant who grows up in the ghetto of New York ... and feels he has to deny his ethnic origins to rise to success in America.

Despite his efforts to rise above the rank of private — he even called upon Frank Capra to intercede on his behalf — he never achieved officer's status or any commendations during his six months of service.

Initially a Progressive Conservative, he was converted to green politics in 1985 after reading Green Politics by Fritjof Capra and Charlene Spretnak, which highlights the rise of the German Greens.

* 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 ).

Capra later wrote that his college education had " changed his whole viewpoint on life from the viewpoint of an alley rat to the viewpoint of a cultured person ".

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

Capra had become " disconnected from an American culture that had changed " during the previous decade.

Capra, however, blames his early retirement from films on the rising power of stars, which forced him to continually compromise his artistic vision.

By 1952, at the age of 55, Capra effectively retired from Hollywood filmmaking and spent his later years working with Caltech, his alma mater, to produce educational films on science topics.

The king granted to this son of his the feudal barony of Bradninch, Devon, which had escheated to the crown from William Capra, listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as holding that barony.

While Leonardo's experimentation followed clear scientific methods, a recent and exhaustive analysis of Leonardo as scientist by Frtijof Capra argues that Leonardo was a fundamentally different kind of scientist from Galileo, Newton and other scientists who followed him in that, as a Renaissance Man, his theorising and hypothesising integrated the arts and particularly painting.

Contemporary ideas from systems theory have grown with diversified areas, exemplified by the work of biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, linguist Béla H. Bánáthy, ecological systems with Howard T. Odum, Eugene Odum and Fritjof Capra, organizational theory and management with individuals such as Peter Senge, interdisciplinary study with areas like Human Resource Development from the work of Richard A. Swanson, and insights from educators such as Debora Hammond and Alfonso Montuori.

Frank Capra receiving the Distinguished Service Medal from U. S. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, 1945

A special plaque next to the Shiva statue explains the significance of the metaphor of Shiva's cosmic dance with quotations from Fritjof Capra: " Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Columbia Pictures originally purchased Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story, variously called The Gentleman from Montana and The Gentleman from Wyoming, as a vehicle for Ralph Bellamy, but once Frank Capra came on board as director – after Rouben Mamoulian had expressed interest – the film was to be a sequel to his Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, called Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington, with Gary Cooper reprising his role as Longfellow Deeds. Because Cooper was unavailable, Capra then " saw it immediately as a vehicle for Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur ," and Stewart was borrowed from MGM.