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Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
HollywoodSeries1974Inkpot AwardAward1973
The American Film Institute Salute to ...Series
The Men Who Made the MoviesSeries, 19731970Golden Plate AwardAward1968
The Dick Cavett ShowSeries1959
A Hole in the HeadFilm, Director, Producer1956
The Bell System Science SeriesSeries, Director1951
Here Comes the GroomFilm, Director, Producer1946
It's a Wonderful LifeFilm, Director, Writer1944
Arsenic and Old LaceFilm, Director, Producer1942
Why We Fight: Prelude to WarFilm, Director1941
Meet John DoeFilm, Director, Producer1939Academy Award for Best DirectorAward1938
You Can't Take It with YouFilm, Director, Producer1937Academy Award for Best DirectorAward1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to TownFilm, Director, Producer1935Academy Award for Best DirectorAward1933
Lady for a DayFilm, Director, Producer1931
Platinum BlondeFilm, Director, Producer1928
So This Is LoveFilm, Director1922
Fulta Fisher's Boarding HouseFilm, Director1897Born18 May 1897Also in Deutsch
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Colonel Frank Capra (right) of the US Army Signal Corps confers with Captain Roy Boulting of the British Army Film Unit on the editing of the film 'Tunisian Victory' in February 1944. D18377
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Frank Capra in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (trailer)In their own words 1
, I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
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FBFive Came Back
HY1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
WFWhy We Fight
PMPocketful of MiraclesAHA Hole in the Head
OSOur Mr. Sun
WWWestward the WomenHGHere Comes the Groom
SUState of the UnionILIt's a Wonderful Life
KJKnow Your Enemy: Japan
WAWar Comes to AmericaALArsenic and Old Lace
TSThe Negro Soldier
WCWhy We Fight: The Battle of China
TVTunisian Victory
WRWhy We Fight: The Battle of Russia
WSWhy We Fight: The Nazis Strike
WBWhy We Fight: The Battle of Britain
WCWhy We Fight: Divide and ConquerWWWhy We Fight: Prelude to WarMDMeet John Doe
MWMr. Smith Goes to WashingtonYYYou Can't Take It with You
LHLost HorizonMTMr. Deeds Goes to Town
INIt Happened One Night
BBBroadway BillLDLady for a Day
TYThe Bitter Tea of General Yen
FOForbidden
AMAmerican MadnessPBPlatinum Blonde
TWThe Miracle Woman
LLLadies of Leisure
TIThe Matinee IdolSLSo This Is Love
TMThe Strong Man
TTTramp, Tramp, TrampFHFulta Fisher's Boarding House157 credits on file
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TIThe Century of Icons
FBFive Came BackHOHollywoodTTThe American Film Institute Salute to ...TMThe Men Who Made the MoviesTSThe Dick Cavett ShowTSThe Bell System Science SeriesAwards
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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.
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