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 purportedly setting the grounds for change in many new theories, one of which is the living systems theory, a theoretical framework for ecology.

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.

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.

As first author, Blainville, 1816 included 3 species Capra rupicapra Linnæus, 1758, Capra pudu and Capra americana.

After the First Monday in October incident, Arthur then retired for good, retreating to her oceanside home in Carmel, California, steadfastly refusing interviews until her resistance was broken down by the author of a book about Capra.

* Fritjof Capra, physicist and author

Mindwalk is a 1990 feature film directed by Bernt Amadeus Capra, based on his own short story, based in turn on the book The Turning Point by his brother Fritjof Capra, the author of the book The Tao of Physics.

He was among several performers Capra wanted but failed to secure for roles in the film.

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.

The feedback was mostly negative, and Capra was so distraught he fled to Lake Arrowhead, and remained in seclusion there for several days.

While domesticated rats are not so far removed from their wild counterparts as to justify a distinct subspecies ( compare Canis lupus familiaris and Capra aegagrus hircus ), there are several significant differences that set them apart, the most apparent of which is colouring.

Nevertheless, Krishnamurti met and held discussions with, several prominent scientists, including physicists Fritjof Capra and George Sudarshan, biologist Rupert Sheldrake, psychiatrist David Shainbert, as well as psychotherapists representing various theoretical orientations.

In 1983, Hal Roach Studios was one of the first studios to venture into the controversial business of film colorization, creating digitally colored versions of several Laurel and Hardy features, the Frank Capra film It's a Wonderful Life, Night of the Living Dead, and other popular films.

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 ).

What is harder to understand is that the book has now gone through several editions, and in each of them Capra has left intact the now out-of-date physics, including new forewords and afterwords that with a straight face deny what has happened.

Capra is a genus of mammals, the goats or wild goats, composed of up to nine species including the wild goat, the markhor and several species known as ibex.

Situated between the mountains and the Massif Ghitu brow, lake gathers the waters of rivers Capra, Buda and several direct tributaries ( River Lady, and Valsan Cernatul, topology, Valea lui Stan and clear ), with a total flow of about 5. 5 m3 / s.

He cast Jean Arthur in the leading role of Bonnie Lee after appreciating her acting in several films made by Frank Capra.

The Lear Center's publishing imprint has published several works of scholarship such as Artists, Technology & The Ownership of Creative Content, Warners ' War: Politics, Pop Culture & Propaganda in Wartime Hollywood, Frank Capra and the Image of the Journalist in American Film, and Ready to Share: Creativity & Fashion in Digital Culture.

The Tao of Physics was followed by other books of the same genre like The Hidden Connection, The Turning Point and The Web of Life in which Capra extended the argument of how Eastern mysticism and scientific findings of today relate, and how Eastern mysticism might also have answers to some of the biggest scientific challenges of today.

Philosopher of science Eric Scerri criticizes both Capra and Zukav and similar books, E. R.

McBride has published sixteen books since 1968, including acclaimed biographies of Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, and John Ford.