* Frank Capra and Lucille " Lu " Capra were married from 1932 to 1984.

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

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.

* 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 ;

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.

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 ).

An appraisal in 2006 reported: " Although it was not the complete box-office failure that today everyone believes ... it was initially a major disappointment and confirmed, at least to the studios, that Capra was no longer capable of turning out the populist features that made his films the must-see, money-making events they once were.

In later years, Capra thought the fact she and most of the supporting players were unfamiliar to movie audiences helped the public accept them as the down-on-their-luck characters they were meant to be.

Capra, Fleming, and James Whale were three of the few directors who received the credit " A ( insert director's name here ) Production " even though they did not produce their films.

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

However, they are now more commonly considered part of the domestic goat subspecies Capra aegagrus hircus.

Before they leave town, however, Dwight, Jesse's former social worker, shows up to inform Jesse that his birth mother, who abandoned him 8 years ago, was found in New York City, but has died and that she left behind her other son, Jesse's half-brother named Elvis ( Francis Capra ).

Twenty-four years after the film was released, Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg wrote Hollywood in the Forties where they stated that " Frank Capra provided a rather overstated and strained version of Arsenic and Old Lace ".

During 1967 they also toured the USSR, Italy, France and other parts of Europe and recorded an LP with the Chilean painter and poet Juan Capra.

In their density and picturesqueness, they recall the crowds in the movies of Preston Sturges or Frank Capra ".

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

* Submarine 1928 — directed by Frank Capra

Holt became Columbia Pictures ' most reliable leading man, and scored personal successes in three Frank Capra action dramas, Submarine ( 1928 ), Flight ( 1929 ), and Dirigible ( 1931 ), Holt's no-nonsense characterizations were eclipsed by those of younger, tough-talking actors like James Cagney and Chester Morris, but Holt continued to work in low-budget action features, almost always for Columbia, through 1940.

Screwball comedies, such as produced by Frank Capra, exhibited a pleasing, idealized climate that portrayed reassuring social values and a certain optimism about everyday life.

Mammals of Crete include the vulnerable Kri-kri, Capra Aegagrus Creticus that can be seen in the national park of the Samaria Gorge and on Thodorou, Dia and Agioi Pantes, ( islets off the north coast ), the Cretan wildcat and the Cretan spiny mouse.

Her first screen appearance was at the age of 10, when she appeared briefly in Frank Capra ’ s It Happened One Night.

1946 saw RKO Radio releasing It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra.

His rags-to-riches story, having worked his way through college, has led film historians like Ian Freer to consider Capra the " American dream personified.

Capra became one of America's most powerful directors during the 1930s, winning three Oscars as Best Director.

People " flocked to the theaters " during the 1930s and 1940s to see films directed by Frank Capra.

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.

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.