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Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). His films often deal with rags-to-riches stories wich has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified".
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Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). His films often deal with rags-to-riches stories wich has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified".
It Happened One Night
1934
Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). His films often deal with rags-to-riches stories wich has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified".
Gender
Male
Birthday
May 18, 1897
Died
September 3, 1991
Birthplace
Bisacquino, Sicilia, Italia
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It Happened One Night
1934
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
Five Came Back
2017
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
Another Romance of Celluloid
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The Screen Director
1951
Why We Fight
2005
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1919
Dear Mr. Gable
1968
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
1938
Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
1932
Frank Capra: Mr. America
2023
Hollywood's Second World War
2019
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life'
1990
The Men who Made the Movies: Frank Capra
1973
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