After recovering at home, Capra then moved out and spent the next few years living in flophouses in San Francisco and hopping freight trains, wandering around the Western U. S. To support himself, he took odd jobs working on farms, as a movie extra, playing poker, or selling local oil well stocks.

He guest starred as himself on October 20 in the episode " Musicale " of ABC's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, a sitcom starring Fess Parker, based on the 1939 Frank Capra film.

Unable to persuade either Abe Burrows or Garson Kanin to update the plot, Capra began working on the screenplay himself.

This is likely not due to Langdon's material, which he had always written himself, but with his inexperience with the many fine points of directing, at which Capra excelled, but at which Langdon was a novice.

Kaltenborn also appears as himself in the 1939 Frank Capra film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

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.

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.

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 ).

The Hollywood Reporter called it " an artistic tour de force ... in all ways, a triumph for Frank Capra.

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.

After touring Germany in the early 1980s, Capra co-wrote a book on Green Politics with ecofeminist author Charlene Spretnak called Green Politics, in 1984.

Stevens famously called her " one of the greatest comediennes the screen has ever seen ", while Capra credited her as " my favorite actress ".

Historically, fine-haired Cashmere goats have been called Capra hircus laniger, as if they were a subspecies of the domestic goat Capra hircus.

The Stagnone Lagoon is a part of Mediterranean Sea in front of Marsala City ( Trapani province, autonomous region of Sicily ); the Lagoon is delimited by an island called Isola Lunga ( formerly stinco di Capra ) because of its geographical long form.

* Villa Almerico Capra called " La Rotonda " cisapalladio. org-a site which provides descriptions, photographs and location maps for each of the villas

The basis of these excellences is found in the very fine, soft, short, flossy under-wool, called pashm or pashmina, found on the shawl-goat, a variety of Capra hircus inhabiting the elevated regions of Tibet.

The Kri-kri ( Capra aegagrus creticus ), sometimes called the Cretan goat, Agrimi, or Cretan Ibex, was considered a subspecies of Wild Goat, but has been recently found to be a feral variety of the domestic goat.

For Litvak's joining the army to help him produce the film series, Capra called him one of the " Hollywood knights " who came to America's " rescue ," and without whose help " no one could have made the Why We Fight films.

Columbia Pictures purchased the screen rights in September 1932, and the studio scheduled the production to begin the following May, although director Frank Capra had misgivings about the project.

Channel 4 calls it " wonderfully improbable and charming " and, although " not a bona fide Capra classic ," it is " cracking fun all the same.

Throughout the pre-production and the early principal photography, the project still retained Kelland's original title, Opera Hat, although Capra tried out some other titles including A Gentleman Goes to Town and Cinderella Man before settling on a name that was the winning entry in a contest held by the Columbia Pictures publicity department.

Capra and Cohn responded, citing the film ’ s review, which mollified Kennedy to the extent that he never followed up, although he privately still had doubts about the film.