Frank Capra's Why We Fight ( 1942 – 1944 ) series was a newsreel series in the United States, commissioned by the government to convince the U. S. public that it was time to go to war.

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

He notes that the English word " capricious " derives from it, " evoking the animal's skittish temperament ", adding that " the name neatly expresses two aspects of Frank Capra's personality: emotionalism and obstinacy.

His son Frank Capra, Jr. – one of the four children born to Capra's second wife, Lucille Capra – was the president of EUE Screen Gems Studios, in Wilmington, North Carolina, until his death on December 19, 2007.

The film was based on a stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night ( released the same year ) is considered to be the defining film of the screwball comedy genre.

In 1944, Ivens made Know Your Enemy: Japan for Frank Capra's U. S. War Department film series Why We Fight.

* In 1947, the studio acquired Frank Capra's production company, Liberty Films, which produced only 2 films in the 1940s: It's a Wonderful Life, released originally by RKO Radio Pictures, and State of the Union, released originally by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( the latter made under Paramount ownership ).

Many of these stories have their backgrounds in movies, for example Topolino nel favoloso regno di Shan Grillà ( 1961 ) is based upon Frank Capra's Lost Horizon ( 1937 ); not to talk about all the stories starring Snow White or the Seven Dwarfs, obviously based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ).

Frank Capra's seven-film series Why We Fight is said to have been directly inspired by and America's response to Triumph of the Will.

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

** Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, and Thomas Mitchell, is released in New York.

* February 22 – Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, is released.

A fifth film with Hepburn came in 1948, Frank Capra's political drama State of the Union.

Colbert was noticed by the theatrical producer Leland Hayward, who suggested her for a role in Frank Capra's film For the Love of Mike ( 1927 ), now believed to be lost.

Noted reviewer Graham Greene was effusive that this was Capra's finest film to date, describing Capra's treatment as " a kinship with his audience, a sense of common life, a morality ..." Variety noted " a sometimes too thin structure the players and director Frank Capra have contrived to convert (...) into fairly sturdy substance.

For Best Picture and Best Director it lost to Frank Capra's You Can't Take It with You.

She then joined Glenn Ford and Ann-Margret for the Frank Capra film A Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ) ( a remake of Capra's 1933 film, Lady for a Day ), based on a story by Damon Runyon.

The song was later used in Frank Capra's propaganda film, The Battle of China.

The book's issues are detectable from a slightly different perspective in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and Scrooge is likely an influence upon Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Soon, director Frank Capra's association with Columbia would help vault the studio toward Hollywood's major leagues.

The first film was shown on the giant screen was Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea of General Yen starring Barbara Stanwyck and the Music Hall became the premiere showcase for films from the RKO-Radio Studio.

In Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life ( 1946 ), George Bailey ( center, played by James Stewart ) is shown by his guardian angel how the world would have been radically different for the worse if Bailey had never existed.

Along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, also released in 1934, Twentieth Century is considered to be a prototype for the screwball comedy.

Seneca Falls is believed by some to have been the inspiration for the fictional town of " Bedford Falls, N. Y ." portrayed in filmmaker Frank Capra's classic 1940s film " It's a Wonderful Life ".

* 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 ).

The most notable Robin Hood films are the lavish Douglas Fairbanks 1922 silent film, the 1938 triple Academy Award winning Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn as Robin ( which contemporary reviewer Frank Nugent links specifically with Ivanhoe ), and the 1991 box-office success Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with Kevin Costner ).

In 1961, multiple Academy Award-winning director Frank Capra cast Falk in the comedy Pocketful of Miracles.

The films were directed by Academy Award-winning director Frank Capra and narrated by Academy Award winning actor Walter Huston.

The Lilian M. Gilbreth Lectureships were established in 2001 by the National Academy of Engineering, to recognize outstanding young American engineers, while the highest honor bestowed by the Institute of Industrial Engineers is the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award, for " those who have distinguished themselves through contributions to the welfare of mankind in the field of industrial engineering ".

His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 after receiving seven previous Oscar nominations, one of them being in the same year.

The film won eight Academy Awards out of 13 nominations, including for Picture, Best Director ( Fred Zinnemann ), Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor ( Frank Sinatra ) and Supporting Actress ( Donna Reed ).

* Academy Award for Directing-Robert Z. Leonard ( lost to Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town )

The highlight of his career was an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Informer ( 1935 ), based on a novel by Liam O ' Flaherty ; Frank Tashlin's 1938 cartoon Have You Got Any Castles?

On Mars, Jim Marlowe and Frank Sutton travel to the Lowell Academy boarding school for the start of the academic year.

Will Rogers presented the Academy Award for Best Director, and when he opened the envelope he simply announced, " Come up and get it, Frank!

The film was nominated for two Academy Awards ; Best Sound Effects Editing and for Best Sound ( Donald O. Mitchell, Frank A. Montaño, Rick Hart and Scott D. Smith ).

* 1967: Academy Award for Best Art Direction ( Robert Clatworthy, Frank Tuttle )

* 1967: Academy Award for Best Original Score ( Frank DeVol )

North by Northwest was nominated for three Academy Awards for Film Editing ( George Tomasini ), Art Direction ( William A. Horning, Robert F. Boyle, Merrill Pye, Henry Grace, Frank McKelvy ), and Original Screenplay ( Ernest Lehman ).

Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay but lost to Frank Butler and Frank Cavett for Going My Way.

Nineteen actors appearing in Zinnemann's films received Academy Award nominations for their performances: among that number are Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn, Glynis Johns, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Gary Cooper and Maximilian Schell.

Between 1979 and 1987, Warnes surpassed Frank Sinatra as the vocalist performing the most songs to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song ( four times ) and to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song ( three times ).

He returned to the Pennsylvania Academy to teach in 1876 as a volunteer after the opening of the school's new Frank Furness designed building, became a salaried professor in 1878, and rose to director in 1882.

After Yarborough's death in 1951 ( and therefore Romero's, who also died of a heart attack, as acknowledged on the December 27, 1951 episode " The Big Sorrow "), Friday was partnered with Sergeant Ed Jacobs ( December 27, 1951-April 10, 1952, subsequently transferred to the Police Academy as an instructor ), played by Barney Phillips ; Officer Bill Lockwood ( Ben Romero's nephew, April 17, 1952-May 8, 1952 ), played by Martin Milner ( with Ken Peters taking the role for the June 12, 1952 episode " The Big Donation "); and finally Frank Smith, played first by Herb Ellis ( 1952 ), then Ben Alexander ( September 21, 1952-1959 ).

Frank Capra received three Academy Awards for directing.

* Frank Marra: businessman, engineer, chairman of The Plastics Academy, received International Award for Business Management from Society of Plastics Engineers and Distinguished Service Award from the Society of the Plastics Industry