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 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 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.

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 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.

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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.

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

Capra describes it as " presenting a general picture of two worlds ; the slave and the free, and the rise of totalitarian militarism from Japan's conquest of Manchuria to Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia.

" 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.

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

Capra returned to Harry Cohn's studio, now renamed Columbia Pictures, which had then been producing short films and two-reel comedies used as " fillers ", which played between main features.

Cohn rehired Capra in 1928 to help his studio produce new, full-length feature films, in order to compete against the major studios.

Capra would eventually do twenty films for Cohn's studio, including all of his classics.

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

" 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.

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.

Capra began to embody messages in his subsequent films, many of which conveyed " fantasies of goodwill.

In addition to his three directing wins, Capra received directing nominations for three other films ( Lady for a Day, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Life ).

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.

" One colonel explained the importance of these future films to Capra:

When his career ended, Capra regarded these films as his most important works.

When he returned to Washington to give his report, Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave Capra his commendation for " virtually single-handedly forestalling a possible Communist take-over of Indian films.

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.

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.

One such filmmaker, Frank Capra, created a seven-part U. S. government-sponsored series of films to support the war effort entitled Why We Fight ( 1942-5 ).

In many of the films, Capra and other directors spliced in Axis powers propaganda footage going back twenty years, and recontextualized it so it promoted the cause of the Allies.