# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-capra
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:34:47.266Z

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name: "Frank Capra"
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description: "He spent the 1930s winning Oscars and turning screwball comedies into civic religion — then made a movie about a suicidal small-town banker that flopped so hard it nearly ended his career, only to become the most replayed fable in American Christmas culture decades after he stopped directing."
tagline: "Italian-born American film director (1897–1991)"
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birthDate: "1897-05-18"
deathDate: "1991-09-03"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Francesco Rosario Capra arrived from Italy at five and grew up in Los Angeles, the rags-to-riches arc that would later define his films. Through the 1930s he became one of Hollywood's most influential directors, pulling three Best Director Oscars from six nominations with It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. World War II pulled him into the U.S. Army Signal Corps, where he produced the Why We Fight propaganda series. When he returned, the tide turned: It's a Wonderful Life bombed on release in 1946, his output slowed through the 1950s, and he retired from filmmaking by the mid-1960s. In the decades that followed, critics came back to It's a Wonderful Life and reassessed — the film that marked his decline became his most enduring.