Frank Capra

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Platinum Blonde (1931): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams…; Breezy comedy about a young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must…
Miracle Woman, The (1931): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy; Barbara Stanwyck teams with dir. Frank Capra for this captivating pre–Code film about a preacher's daughter who becomes disillusioned by the…
American Madness (1932): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Walter Huston; Vivid parable in which Walter Huston portrays a bank president facing the threat of commercial failure during the Great Depression.
Bitter Tea of General Yen, The (1933): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck; Barbara Stanwyck plays an American missionary in Shanghai who comes to fall in love with her Chinese warlord abductor. Eloquent, sensual cinema with…
It Happened One Night (1934): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert; The first film to win all five major Oscars is the classic story of an East–end boy who goes about winning the heart and changing the snobbish…
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur; Archetypal screwball comedy stars Gary Cooper as Mr. Deeds, a country hick who arrives in New York to collect a 20 million dollar inheritance, which…
Lost Horizon (1937): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton…; Wonderful fantasy adventure about five people who find sanctuary in a Tibetan Valley where good health, peace and longevity reign. A haunting and…
You Can't Take It with You (1938): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. James Stewart, Jean Arthur; Sentimental comedy from the James Stewart/Frank Capra camp, and something of a classic. Wealthy, straight–laced Jimmy falls for Jean Arthur,…
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. James Stewart, Jean Arthur; Another brilliant comic parable from Frank Capra, in the wake of MR. DEEDS. The endearing Jimmy Stewart plays a young idealist who discovers the…
Meet John Doe (1941): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan…; Always partial to a ripe political parable, dir. Capra has Barbara Stanwyck leading hickster Gary Cooper around by the nose on a national goodwill…
Why We Fight (Prelude to War, Tunisian Victory, Know Your Enemy: Japan, War Comes to America, Battle of China, Battle of Britain, Divide and Conquer) (1943-1945): Dir. Frank Capra; Old boy Frank Capra directed seven raging propaganda films between ARSENIC AND OLD LACE and IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE for the rhetorically–dubbed…
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, Raymond Massey; Renowned black farce features a frenzied Cary Grant trying to convince his two elderly aunts that their habit of poisoning lonely old men, out of…
It's a Wonderful Life (1946): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. James Stewart; A down–on–his–luck Jimmy Stewart is rescued from suicide by a Guardian Angel who shows him the virtues of his life gone by. This…
State of the Union (1948): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Angela Lansbury; An idealistic industrialist is urged to run for President, but finds uncomfortable compromises are required on both a political and marital level.…
Hole in the Head, A (1959): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker…; One of dir. Capra's (IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE) final efforts stays true to the redemptive themes of his classic works. Sinatra runs a threadbare…
Pocketful of Miracles (1961): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Ann-Margret, Bette Davis, Glenn Ford…; Frank Capra's final film (and Ann–Margret's debut) is an appealing remake of his earlier LADY FOR A DAY, in which the poverty–stricken…

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