Frank Capra
Directing

Frank Capra

Born 18 May 1897 · Bisacquino, Sicilia, Italia · Died 3 September 1991

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".

Known for

It's a Wonderful Life
It Happened One Night
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Arsenic and Old Lace
You Can't Take It with You
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Meet John Doe
Lost Horizon
Pocketful of Miracles
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Lady for a Day
Westward the Women
Rendezvous in Space
Pocketful of Miracles
A Hole in the Head
Hemo the Magnificent
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays
Our Mr. Sun
The Fallbrook Story
Here Comes the Groom
Westward the Women
Riding High
State of the Union
It's a Wonderful Life
Know Your Enemy: Japan
War Comes to America
Here Is Germany
Your Job in Germany
Our Job in Japan
Two Down and One to Go
Arsenic and Old Lace
Why We Fight: The Battle of China
Tunisian Victory
The Negro Soldier
Attack in the Pacific
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Meet John Doe
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
You Can't Take It with You
Lost Horizon
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
It Happened One Night
Broadway Bill
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Lady for a Day
American Madness
Forbidden
Platinum Blonde
The Miracle Woman
Dirigible
Rain or Shine
Ladies of Leisure
The Younger Generation
Flight
The Donovan Affair
The Matinee Idol
That Certain Thing
The Power of the Press
Submarine
The Way of the Strong
The Swim Princess
The Burglar
Say It with Sables
So This Is Love
Long Pants
Fiddlesticks
For the Love of Mike
His First Flame
The Strong Man
Saturday Afternoon
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
The Iron Nag
Sneezing Beezers
The Wild Goose Chaser
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Good Morning, Nurse
Lucky Stars
Boobs in the Wood
Little Robinson Corkscrew
Riders of the Purple Cows
All Night Long
Fulta Fisher's Boarding House
The Italian Warship Libia
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
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