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.

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 ".

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

Lewis occasionally handed directing reins to Frank Tashlin, who directed several of his productions, including It's Only Money ( 1962 ) and Who's Minding the Store?

Styne established his own dance band, which brought him to the notice of Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began a collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn, with whom he wrote many songs for the movies, including " It's Been a Long, Long Time " (# 1 for 3 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1945 ), " Five Minutes More ," and the Oscar-winning " Three Coins in the Fountain ".

* Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra ( 1946 ), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder ( 1944 ), Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli ( 1944 ), Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles ( 1941 )," The Great Dictator directed by Charlie Chaplin ( 1940 ).

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.

" Reclaiming the Real: It's a Wonderful Life ( Frank Capra, 1946 )".

* The Making of " It's A Wonderful Life " Frank Capra Online at Eeweems. com

His talent went beyond the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( reworked in 1962 from a song Anka wrote earlier called " Toot Sweet " which had been rewritten with lyrics and recorded by Annette Funicello in 1959 as " It's Really Love ") since Anka composed Tom Jones ' biggest hit record " She's a Lady " and wrote the English lyrics to " My Way ", Frank Sinatra's signature song sung by many well known artists.

He currently stars as Frank Reynolds on the FX sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

In 2006, DeVito joined the cast of the FX Networks television series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as Frank Reynolds.

It's an example of Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie School of Architecture and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Frank Capra directed the classic movie It's a Wonderful Life in 1946.

The song " Misery Loves Company " was based on the Stephen King novel Misery, while " Now It's Dark " was inspired by the David Lynch film Blue Velvet, specifically the behavior of the sexually depraved, self-asphyxiating, murderous sociopath Frank Booth, as played by Dennis Hopper.

* " Molly Dear It's You I'm After " w. Frank Wood m. Henry E. Pether

The sentimental tone and decency of ordinary men as heroes was influenced by films of Frank Capra, like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), Meet John Doe ( 1941 ) and It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ).

A later example is the Frank Capra movie, It's a Wonderful Life where the main character George Bailey is shown by a guardian angel the city of Pottersville, which was George Bailey's hometown of Bedford Falls as it would have been if he had never existed.

* 1946: It's a Wonderful Life, by Frank Capra ( voice of l ' autista di taxi )

During the early planning for his film It's a Wonderful Life, director Frank Capra considered Fields for the role of Uncle Billy, which eventually went to Thomas Mitchell.

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " B +" rating, praising Cruise's performance: " It's with Cruise as Frank T. J. Mackey, a slick televangelist of penis power, that the filmmaker scores his biggest success, as the actor exorcises the uptight fastidiousness of Eyes Wide Shut ... Like John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, this cautiously packaged movie star is liberated by risky business ".

Over the course of working together, Frank becomes enamored of the plain-spoken, honest, tomboyish Annie and, as they travel to Minneapolis, Minnesota on a train, he explains to her what " love " is (" They Say It's Wonderful ").