21. It's A Wonderful Life: Frank Capra's Dark Side - Interesting Ideas Looked at in context, frank capra s It s A Wonderful Life is not the feelgood movie it s made out to be. http://www.interestingideas.com/ii/capra.htm

It's a pretty grim life, actually All is not so rosey in It's A Wonderful Life When Frank Capra died, it was inevitable that It's a Wonderful Life would be trotted out to demonstrate his life-affirming, joyous love of people. The film is It's a Wonderful Life would not have been in the public domain for so many years and thus would not have become, during the '80s, as omnipresent as Christmas carols and shopping days til Xmas. Granted, it might have joined Miracle on 34th St. and Christmas Carol as beloved, but once a year, holiday movie traditions. But because TV stations were able for so long to repeat it at no cost, it became a Christmas classic ad nauseum Yet reading It's a Wonderful Life as wholesomely heart-warming takes uncritically the notion that it celebrates the triumph of small-town sweetness over impersonal modernity. Far from being the feel-good movie of 1947, It's a Wonderful Life is in fact one of Capra's most relentlessly depressing works. The film's framing story indeed draws on the backward-looking myth of the small town favored by Hollywood's not-notably rural filmmakers. But as with the Wizard of Oz This picture of the corruption and the death of small-town society is equaled in film only by Orson Welles' Magnificent Ambersons , a movie given big head start by novelist Booth Tarkington, who specialized in chronicling the corrosive effects of modernization.

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24. Studio Head Frank Capra Jr. Dies - USATODAY.com frank capra Jr., a producer who helped build a major television and movie studio and whose father directed the Christmas classic It s A Wonderful Life, http://asp.usatoday.com/community/utils/idmap/30521696.story

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25. Frank Capra Director An American Icon Maybe there really wasn t an America, maybe it was only frank capra. (Quoted in McBride s frank capra The Catastrophe of Success, page 655. ) http://www.angelfire.com/my/mighty8thlh/capra.html

COLONEL, FRANK CAPRA (DIRECTOR) "AN AMERICAN ICON" "Each man's life touches so many other lives, and when he isn't around he leaves an awful hole." ~Frank Capra, "It's a Wonderful Life" "Maybe there really wasn't an America, maybe it was only Frank Capra." -John Cassavetes (Capra was asked where he would have ended up if he had not become a film director): "With [Dr. Edwin] Hubble. As an astronomer. I could study the stars and the planets forever. I always wanted to know why, why... Pictures changed my mind. I was too far along in the movie business. But when I go back to [Capra's college] Caltech now and hear about things I'm not familiar with, like black holes, goddamn! I get mad. How the hell I ever refused that I don't know... But it seems like motion pictures have a terrible hold on me. I don't know what it is..." (Quoted in McBride's Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success, page 655. ) Best known for his movie "It's a Wonderful Life," starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. Inititually "It's a Wondeful Life" was ignored for years. It is now an enduring classsic with a message of hope, love and forgiveness.

26. Producer Frank Capra Jr. Dies At 73 - Entertainment News, Obituary, Media - Vari frank capra Jr., the producer son of director frank capra who helped establish the film business in North Carolina, died Dec. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117978076.html

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President EUE/Screen Gems Studios-North Carolina In 1983, while on a location shoot, Frank Capra, Jr. fell in love. He fell in love with Wilmington, N.C. Its comfortable weather, beautiful countryside and warm people were more than enough to entice him to stay. The result was the creation of what is today the largest motion picture studio east of Hollywood. As President of EUE/Screen Gems Studios North Carolina, Frank takes an active role in every project including becoming an active member of the thriving film community he helped to establish. He started a Film Studies program and teaches classes at the University of N.C.-Wilmington. He has also opened the studios to the public by offering tours. He sits on numerous boards, including the Executive Committee of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the National Board of the Directors Guild of America and the North Carolina Governor's Film Council. True, he's the son of one of Hollywood's best known movie directors, but Frank has placed his own mark on the world as well. His love for his chosen career spans more than four decades, and his accomplishment stretch as far back as 1956 when he served as the second Assistant Director on Dennis the Menace. His work spans television, TV movies and feature film including wide screen and IMAX formats. A short list of major projects include: Gunsmoke, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Escape from New York, Firestarter, and Executive Producer of Death Before Dishonor.

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Meet John Doe (1941) Greatest Films www.filmsite.org and www.greatestfilms.org With descriptive review commentaries and background history on many classic, landmark films in cinematic history, especially American/Hollywood films. Including posters, Academy Awards history, film genres, film terms, film history by decade, trivia, and lots of lists of 'best' films, stars, scenes, quotes, resources, etc. Buy This Film Meet John Doe (1941) is Frank Capra's wonderful, message-laden populist melodramatic tale about the common man. The sentimental, hard-hitting film is often grouped into a populist trilogy of Capra films about American individualism - associated with Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) , although it is generally considered the weakest of the three. The socially-conscious film was Capra's first independent film production - and a departure from his traditional, twelve year association with Columbia Studios and tyrannical studio head Harry Cohn during the 30s. It was much more serious than his previous 'Capra-corn' comedic efforts, such as It Happened One Night (1934) and You Can't Take It With You (1938) The screenplay, written by screenwriter Robert Riskin, was derived from a 1939 film treatment, titled

29. Frank Capra - Films As Director:, Other Films: The critical stock of frank capra has fluctuated perhaps more wildly than that of any other major director. During his peak years, the 1930s, he was adored http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Bu-Co/Capra-Frank.html

// nothing @import "../css/default.css"; Film Reference Directors Bu-Co Frank Capra Nationality: American. Born: Bisaquino, Sicily, 18 May 1897; emigrated with family to Los Angeles, 1903. Education: Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles; studied chemical engineering at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, graduated 1918. Family: Career: Frank Capra Wyler, and George Stevens, 1945 (sold to Paramount, 1948). Awards: Oscar for Best Director, for It Happened One Night , 1934, for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town , 1936, and , 1938; Distinguished Service Medal, U.S. Armed Forces, 1945; D.W. Griffith Award, Directors Guild of America, 1958; honorary doctorates, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1971, and Carthage College, Wisconsin, 1972; American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, 1982. Died: 3 September 1991, in La Quinta, California. Films as Director: The Strong Man (+ co-sc) Long Pants For the Love of Mike That Certain Thing So This Is Love The Matinee Idol The Way of the Strong Say It with Sables (+ co-story); Submarine The Power of the Press The Swim Princess The Burglar The Younger Generation The Donovan Affair Flight (+ dialogue) Ladies of Leisure Rain or Shine Dirigible The Miracle Woman Platinum Blonde Forbidden (+ sc);

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If you would like to be sent an e-mail when this site updates, click here! It's free! DIRECTOR OF "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE" AND "IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT" and others MR.SMITH WASHINGTON Dec 29, 12:30 AM Eastern MR.DEEDS GOES TOWN Dec 31, 6:00 PM Eastern POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES Jan 18, 1:45 PM Eastern MR.SMITH WASHINGTON Feb.11, 3:30 AM Eastern NEWS FILMS BIO BOOKS ... CONTACT PUBLISHER: Another Frank Capra offers a new interpretation of the great hollywood director beyond the patriotic sentimentalist or the cynical opportunist that he has been taken for. Often cast as a cinematic simpleton or primitive, Capra's exploitation of the stylistic and narrative resources of cinema was, in fact, extremely self-conscious and adventurous in ways typical of artistic modernism. His modernism is also evident in his repeated and strong identification with female characters. Informed by recent work in genre theory and feminist psychology, Another Frank Capra shows Capra to be a "proto-feminist" director whose feminism has been entirely neglected by previous critics. UPDATED December 21, 2007

31. Frank Capra TV Listings - Find Frank Capra On TV | TV-Now.com Find frank capra TV Listings, Bio and more from TVNow.com. http://www.tv-now.com/stars/capraf.html

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32. Why It Hurts To Watch Frank Capra's It s the time of year for everyone s favorite holiday rerun, frank capra s 1946 classic, It s a Wonderful Life. Americans have been watching this film for http://hnn.us/articles/1846.html

It's a Wonderful Life @import url("/css/style.css"); HNN History News Network Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too. Newsletter Submissions ... FAQs Search HNN: Breaking News Departments News HNN Articles Hot Topics Roundup ... Log In Why It Hurts to Watch Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life By Vince Nobile Mr. Nobile is Professor of History, Chaffey College. In a matter of weeks, Americans will engage in the Christmas ritual of visiting Bedford Falls, U.S.A., home to George and Mary Bailey, Uncle Billy, Bert and Ernie, Violet Bicks, and mean Henry Potter. It's the time of year for everyone's favorite holiday rerun, Frank Capra's 1946 classic, It's a Wonderful Life . Americans have been watching this film for more than half a century, but have long ago abandoned its message. In his time, Frank Capra was a persistent advocate for core cultural values. Today, conservatives and new Democrats alike bemoan the absence of core values, though I doubt they want to adopt those of Bedford Falls. It’s A Wonderful Life George Bailey is Capra's consummate peoples' hero using his money and his business only as a way of helping family, friends, and community. Herein lie the essence of Capra's Americanism and his model for generating a wonderful lifea people's capitalism. Such a capitalism exists when one's commitment to giving takes priority over self; when the well being of the self is rooted in the well being of the community, and when the profit motive is employed to meet societal needs, rather than stock dividends. Like many Depression era Americans, Capra had little faith left in the promises of laissez-faire (i.e., the pursuit of self-interest as parent to the common good). What is good for Potter is emphatically not good for Bedford Falls.

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34. Frank Capra Son frank capra, Jr. (producer, EUE Screen Gems, b. 1934, d. 19Dec-2007 prostate cancer) Daughter Lulu. University BS Chemical Engineering, http://www.nndb.com/people/459/000032363/

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35. Frank Capra Biography | Encyclopedia Of World Biography frank capra biography, including 5 pages of information on the life of frank capra. http://www.bookrags.com/biography/frank-capra/

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LOST HORIZON F court Lawrence Russell Lost Horizon (1937) star. Ronald Colman (Robert Conway), Jane Wyatt (Sondra), John Howard (George Conway), Edward Everett Horton (Lovett), Isabel Jewell (Gloria), Thomas Mitchell (Barnard), Margo (Maria), H.B. Warner (Chang), Sam Jaffe (High Lama) Columbia Pictures Five people are kidnapped when escaping a local revolution in Baskul, China. Instead of being flown to Shanghai, the DC 2 continues east into the mountains beyond Tibet where it runs out of fuel and crashes in the snowy mountain coll of an unknown Himalayan range. The mysterious hijacker dies in the cockpit, the passengers survive... but what could their fate be other than a frozen, anonymous death? Out of the dead light of the endless snow a party of rescuers materialize, led by the enigmatic Chang, who, it appears, has been expecting them. Explanations are left for another time. The five passengers are roped together like slaves and led across the treacherous mountain precipices to a cave, which opens like a dream onto the verdant valley country of Shangri-La. In fact, as the five are led to the "Lamasery" a chic modernist villa straight off the drawing board of a Frank Lloyd Wright, situated high in the mountains above the Valley of the Blue Moon and the reason for their kidnapping is slowly revealed, one might be excused for thinking that these characters were actually killed in the plane crash and that Shangri-La is to be their version of heaven. The idealism of James Hilton's story is yet another in the tradition of closed utopian societies, although the underlying despair of its bourgeois Buddhism is very much a symptom of the 1930s. World economic Depression, the rise of Fascism, technological warfare, ethnic persecution, the rejection of "benign" colonialism and the Christian ethic, were reasons for anxiety among liberals in the western democracies... an anxiety that

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39. Wesleyan Cinema Archives: The Frank Capra Collection frank capra s work has become so wellknown and respected that it is today used as a yardstick by which critics and the public measure a certain type of http://www.wesleyan.edu/cinema/collections/capra.htm

Cinema Archives Collections > Frank Capra Wesleyan Cinema Archives The Frank Capra Collection 1897-1991; Director, Producer, Author "I want my archive to be available to all the people who have enjoyed my movies. I have nothing to hide from anyone. Let people make of these things what they will, because what they will make of them will tell us not only who I am, but who and what they are. I've saved these things because I've had a wonderful life, enjoyed it, and I believe in people and trust them." Brief biography of Frank Capra Description of the collection Capra's filmography Brief Biography of Frank Capra Frank Capra's work has become so well-known and respected that it is today used as a yardstick by which critics and the public measure a certain type of purely American film comedy. Capra was born in Bisacquino, Sicily, on May 18, 1897, and immigrated to the United States when he was five. He earned an engineering degree at the California Instuitute of Techology in 1918 (then known as Throop College of Technology) and then began a long and successful film career . After working for Mack Sennett as gag writer and director, he went to work at

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THE SIMPP RESEARCH DATABASE COBBLESTONE ENTERTAINMENT What is SIMPP? About the Archive Contact the Author Charlie Chaplin ... Order Information Frank Capra - Director at Columbia Pictures. ( Aberdeen collection ). To purchase Aberdeen photos for reprint purposes click here Frank Capra—Independent Profile The Rise of the Producer-Directors in Classic Hollywood Excerpt from Hollywood Renegades by J. A. Aberdeen Perhaps the most significant challenge to the studio system was the rise of the producer-director. In contrast to the considerable authority of the pre-Hollywood era film directors like D. W. Griffith and Thomas Ince, most of the directors at the major studios in the 1920s and 1930s were reduced to hired-hands. The studio system by its very nature had compartmentalized and restricted the role of the director, and concentrated the creative power in the hands of the film executives who oversaw production from script to editing. As the studio system itself was strained by the economic chaos of the early 1930s, some directors demanded, and received, greater creative freedom at the studios. Directors who had a strong artistic vision, but who also were commercially reliable, worked their way out of mere contract-director status, to head their own semi-autonomous units at the major studios—Frank Capra, John Ford Howard Hawks , Gregory La Cava, Ernst Lubitsch, Leo McCarey , Mervyn Le Roy, Tay Garnett, William Wellman, and Cecil B. DeMille. As producer-directors, their work seemed to show a continuity of style, and allowed their films to transcend the studio assembly-line.

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