Frank Capra
Director, Actor
- 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…