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 added that in his opinion, " practically all the Hollywood filmmaking of today is stooping to cheap salacious pornography in a crazy bastardization of a great art to compete for the ' patronage ' of deviates and masturbators.

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.

An annual " It's a Wonderful Life " celebration that Capra attended in 1981, during which he said, " This is one of the proudest moments of my life ," was recounted in The New Yorker.

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 ).

" 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.

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

According to legend, Tsuburaya's work on The War at Sea ... was so impressive that General MacArthur's film unit is said to have sold footage of the film to Frank Capra for use in Movietone newsreels as actual footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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.

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

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

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.

Lost Horizon is a 1937 American drama-fantasy film directed by Frank Capra.

But perhaps that is inescapable, for there can be no truly satisfying end to any fantasy ... Mr. Capra was guilty of a few directorial clichés, but otherwise it was a perfect job.

He is tied with Frank Capra and behind John Ford, who won four Oscars in this category.

Fritjof Capra ( born February 1, 1939 ) is an Austrian-born American physicist.

Capra is the author of several books, including The Tao of Physics ( 1975 ), The Turning Point ( 1982 ), Uncommon Wisdom ( 1988 ), The Web of Life ( 1996 ), and The Hidden Connections ( 2002 ).

Fritjof Capra is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy located in Berkeley, California, which promotes ecology and systems thinking in primary and secondary education.

The film director Frank Capra is interred in the Coachella Valley Cemetery.

Among those destinations is the La Quinta Resort and Club, a resort dating to 1926 and famous as the spot in which director Frank Capra penned the screenplay of Lost Horizon.

The house is often said to be directly inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra " La Rotonda " near Vicenza, due to the fact that architect Colen Campbell had offered Lord Burlington a design for a Villa very closely based on the Villa Capra for his use at Chiswick.

* 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 ).

For Capra, the journey, which took 13 days, remained in his mind for the rest of his life as one of his worst experiences:

They eventually settled in an Italian ghetto in Los Angeles, where Capra's father worked as a fruit picker and young Capra sold newspapers after school for the next 10 years, until he graduated high school.

Capra later became a gag writer for Hal Roach's Our Gang series and then writer for slapstick comedy director, Mack Sennett, where he began writing scripts for comedian Harry Langdon.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 recalls some of his personal reasons for enlisting:

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

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.

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

From 1952-1956, Capra produced four science-related television specials in color for The Bell Laboratory Science Series: Our Mr. Sun ( 1956 ), Hemo the Magnificent ( 1957 ), The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays ( 1957 ), and Meteora: The Unchained Goddess ( 1958 ).

In 1957, Capra was awarded the George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.

Out of six nominations for Best Director, Capra received the award three times.

“ There would be no enduring conflicts — harmony, no matter how contrived and specious, would ultimately triumph in the last frame ... In true Hollywood fashion, no Capra film would ever suggest that social change was a complex, painful act.

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.

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.

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.

Capra himself was not called to testify, although he still became a prime target of the committee due to his past associations with many Hollywood blacklisted screenwriters.

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.

" Through the filming, Capra claimed, Colbert " had many little tantrums, motivated by her antipathy toward me ," however " she was wonderful in the part.

Through the filming, Colbert felt that the script was weak, and Capra claimed, Colbert " had many little tantrums, motivated by her antipathy toward me ," however " she was wonderful in the part.

Lane appeared in many Frank Capra films, including You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ) and It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ).

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 ).

Damavand rivers and slopes are famous for the beautiful Brown Trout ( Salmo trutta ), Red Sheep ( Ovis orientalis ), Wild Goats ( Capra aegagrus ), and many singing native and migratory birds.

The Tao of Physics was completed in December 1974, and the implications of the November Revolution one month earlier that led to the dramatic confirmations of the standard-model quantum field theory clearly had not sunk in for Capra ( like many others at that time ).

Many distinguished teachers have led short courses there, such as David Abram, Patch Adams, Fritjof Capra, Deepak Chopra, Christian de Quincey, Stanislav Grof, Hazel Henderson, James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, Humberto Maturana, Wolfgang Sachs, Arne Naess, Rupert Sheldrake, Vandana Shiva, Brian Goodwin and many others.

She became a favorite of Columbia director Frank Capra and appears in many of his productions.

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.

In the 1920s he worked closely with Frank Capra churning out screenplays for many movies.