1995
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21 hours ago · Frank Capra's political satire, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, stars James Stewart as a naive but honest newly appointed Senator, Jefferson Smith, who fights against the corruption within the ...
1 day ago · This came as a welcome surprise to Frank Capra and others involved with its production. "It's the damnedest thing I've ever seen", Capra told The Wall Street Journal in 1984. "The film has a life of its own now, and I can look at it like I had nothing to do with it.
5 days ago · The screenplay had uncredited contributions from Robert Riskin, a defining voice at the studio through the eight films he wrote for Frank Capra, the director who almost single-handedly hoisted Columbia from its Poverty Row origins to a “minor-major” that punched above its weight artistically.
21 hours ago · General George C. Marshall asked legendary producer-director Frank Capra to make a series of films for Americans explaining to every citizen why the nation, however reluctantly, had to defeat global fascism. With Marshall’s full support, Capra produced the “Why We Fight” series.
2 days ago · In "It's a Wonderful Life," James Stewart delivers one of his greatest performances in this timeless Christmas classic from Frank Capra. Bailey is a hero because he's relatable.
1 day ago · The setting is far from the America Frank Capra created to boost morale as the country barreled towards World War II -- a war that began 400 years after the first tribute was paid to Charles V.
3 days ago · Fonda and James Stewart became household names for their many portrayals of salt-of-the-earth American everyman heroes taking on powerful vested interests – Stewart particularly in his Frank ...
