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.

After breaking with Capra and the Mack Sennett studio, Ripley again returned to being a gag writer, screenwriter and occasional director, making short films with such comedians as W. C. Fields and Edgar Kennedy.

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.

" According to Barson, " Capra became ensconced as Harry Cohn's most trusted director.

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 serious financial crisis it created for Columbia Pictures damaged the partnership between Capra and studio head Harry Cohn, as well as the friendship between Capra and screenwriter Riskin, whose previous collaborations had included Lady for a Day, It Happened One Night, and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.

Joseph P. Kennedy, the American Ambassador to Great Britain, wrote to Capra and Columbia head Harry Cohn to say that he feared the film would damage “ America ’ s prestige in Europe ”, and because of this urged that it be withdrawn from European release.

Frank Capra recounted that producer Harry Cohn described Jean Arthur's imbalanced profile as " half of it's angel, and the other half horse.

In the mid-1950s, when Hal Wallis offered to buy it as a Paramount Pictures vehicle for Shirley Booth, Columbia head Harry Cohn decided to offer it to Capra instead, hoping he could lure Booth to his studio.

Cohn insisted Capra find a collaborator, but he thought the draft submitted by Harry Tugend was no better, and he dropped the project.

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

During his book sales efforts, and nearly broke, Capra read a newspaper article about a new movie studio opening up in San Francisco.

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

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.

In 1985, Capra, Sr. claimed the decision to film in black and white was made because Three-strip Technicolor was new and fairly expensive, and the studio was unwilling to increase the film's budget so he could utilize it.

In the studio, to ensure authenticity, an elaborate set was created, consisting of Senate committee rooms, cloak rooms, hotel suites as well as specific Washington, DC monuments, all based on a trip Capra and his crew made to the capital.

He moved to Hollywood, California after Bray switched to a publicity film studio in 1927, where he worked briefly for director Frank Capra and was a gag writer for Mack Sennett comedies.

Frank Warner Capra ( March 20, 1934 – December 19, 2007 ), known as Frank Warner, Jr., was an American studio executive.

* Frank Capra, Jr. ( born 1934 ), American film studio manager and film-family member

Capra and Columbia considered Dirigible as a step forward into the big time, with a $ 650, 000 budget, the highest amount the studio had ever invested.

Venison originally described meat of any game animal killed by hunting, and was applied to any animal from the families Cervidae ( deer ), Leporidae ( hares ), and Suidae ( wild pigs ), and certain species of the genus Capra ( goats and ibex ), such as elk, red deer, fallow deer, roe deer, moose, reindeer / caribou, pronghorn, brown hare, arctic hare, blue hare, wild boar, and ibex but its usage is now almost entirely restricted to the flesh of various species of deer.

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

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.

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.

During his first year with Columbia, Capra directed nine films, some of which became highly successful.

During his years at Columbia, Capra worked often with screenwriter Robert Riskin ( husband of Fay Wray ,) and cameraman Joseph Walker.

The film established the names of Capra, Columbia Pictures, stars Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, in the movie industry.

* 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 ;

It was the first film for which Capra received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and the first Columbia Pictures release to be nominated for Best Picture.

Columbia later sold the rights to the story to United Artists for $ 200, 000, and Capra remade the film as Pocketful of Miracles with Bette Davis and Glenn Ford in 1961.

Colbert was reluctant to appear as the " runaway heiress ", Ellie Andrews, in the Frank Capra romantic comedy, It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), opposite Clark Gable and released by Columbia Pictures.

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.

This was the first Capra film to be released separately to exhibitors and not " bundled " with other Columbia features.

Due primarily to the cuts made without his approval, Capra later filed a lawsuit against Columbia, citing " contractual disagreements ," among them the studio's refusal to pay him a $ 100, 000 semi-annual salary payment due him.

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.

In its early years a minor player in Hollywood, Columbia began to grow in the late 1920s, spurred by a successful association with director Frank Capra.

With Capra and others, Columbia became one of the primary homes of the screwball comedy.

Capra had spotted her in a daily rush from the film Whirlpool in 1934 and convinced Cohn to have Columbia Studios sign her for his next film as a tough newspaperwoman who falls in love with a country bumpkin millionaire.

Tiomkin received his first break from Columbia director Frank Capra, who picked him to write and perform the score for his film, Lost Horizon in 1937.

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.

Peter Woit, a mathematical physicist at Columbia University, criticized Capra for continuing to build his case for physics-mysticism parallels on the bootstrap model of strong-force interactions, long after the Standard Model had become thoroughly accepted by physicists as a better model:

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