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One of the giants among directors, especially in the 1930's in American cinema, who won three Academy Awards and nominated for another two. Many of his movies is considered classics, while others became classics long after they were made.
This year we celebrate his birthdate 125 years ago in a little village, Bisacquino, outside Palermo on Sicily, Italy.
Frank Capra (1897-1991)
In 1903, when he was five, Capra's family emigrated to the United States, traveling in a steerage compartment of the steamship Germania, the least expensive way to make the passage. For Capra, the 13-day journey remained one of the worst experiences of his life.
The family settled in Los Angeles's East Side (today Lincoln Heights) on avenue 18, which Capra described in his autobiography as an Italian "ghetto".
Living at home with his siblings and mother, Capra was the only family member with a college education, yet he was the only one who remained chronically unemployed. After a year without work, seeing how his siblings had steady jobs, he felt he was a failure, which led to bouts of depression.
At 25, Capra took a job selling books written and published by American philosopher Elbert Hubbard. Capra recalled that he "hated being a peasant, being a scrounging new kid trapped in the Sicilian ghetto of Los Angeles. ... All I had was cockiness—and let me tell you that gets you a long way."
During his book sales efforts—and nearly broke—Capra read a newspaper article about a new movie studio opening in San Francisco. Capra phoned them saying he had moved from Hollywood, and falsely implied that he had experience in the budding film industry. Capra's only prior exposure in films was in 1915 while attending Manual Arts High School. The studio's founder, Walter Montague, was nonetheless impressed by Capra and offered him $75 to direct a one-reel silent film. Capra, with the help of a cameraman, made the film in two days and cast it with amateurs.
After a lot of other false starts he at last directed his first feature length movie.
Produced and starring silent superstar Harry Langdon, The Strong Man 1926 was huge success. Said to be Langdon's best.
Long Pants 1927 also staring and produced by Harry Langdon. A friction grew between Landon and Capra and Capra was fired, said to be the worst move ever by Langdon since his career went downhill from there.
For independent producer Robert Kane he made For the Love of Mike 1927, a silent romantic drama that might be good, we don't know since the movie is lost. Claudette Colbert made her film debut here. Capra himself considered it his first flop, that despite of the frictions of the Langdon movies they where huge hits.
Moving over to a small studio, Columbia Pictures, considered a poverty row studio at the time, he got a new sort of creative freedom and helped that studio to rise from poverty row to one of the big and important studious, Capra's part in that is important, but it took a few steps, one at a time.
That Certain Thing 1928 starring Viola Dana. This movie is not lost. Some prints survive, but are spread over the world.
So This is Love? 1928 another silent, starring Shirley Mason.
The Matinee Idol 1928, said to have been restored from pints found at Cinémathèque Française and Cineteca di Bologna in 1997. The movie was a huge hit in France since Bessie Love was a huge star there during the silent days.
The Way of the Strong 1928 was a silent crime drama. The film survives through a print held in the collection of Sony Pictures Entertainment (formerly called Columbia Pictures Entertainment)
Say it with Sables 1928 a drama that is considered lost, except a trailer.
Submarine 1928, action drama starring the man among men at the time Jack Holt.
This was Capra's first attempt to make an "A-picture". Released with a synchronized music score and sound effects.
The Power of the Press 1928, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as an aspiring newspaper reporter and Jobyna Ralston as a young woman suspected of murder.
In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The Younger Generation 1929 was made partly in sound.
It was Capra's first sound film. While mostly silent, the film has talking sequences, as well as a synchronized music score and sound effects.
The Donovan Affair 1929, a Pre-Code comedic murder-mystery.
Its original soundtrack, recorded on soundtrack discs, has been lost, although it has been recreated for live performances.
Flight 1929, adventure and aviation.
Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation.
It did very well at the box-office, even if critics were lukewarm. Largely forgotten today, Jack Holt was a box-office attraction once.
Ladies of Leisure 1930 starring Barbara Stanwyck.
When filming began, Capra quickly learned Stanwyck was unlike any actress he previously had directed. The success of the film made Stanwyck a star.
Rain or Shine 1930 started as a musical. Due to the public backlash against musical films (beginning in the latter part of the summer of 1930), all musical numbers were discarded before release. This move proved to be prudent as the film was a box office success, continuing the streak of hits Capra directed for the young Columbia Pictures studio.
Dirigible 1931 adventure movie focusing on the competition between naval fixed-wing and airship pilots to reach the South Pole by air.
It has been called marginally Science Fiction like. Capra later planned to make a fully science fictional movie but was never able to.
It had the biggest budget so far in Columbia history, costing a shocking $650,000!.
It was Capra's and Columbia's first film to be given prominence with a premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
The Miracle Woman 1931, a pre-code romance starring Barbara Stanwyck. Having grown cynical about religion, she teams up with a con man and performs fake miracles for profit.
Platinum Blonde 1931,starring Loretta Young, Robert Williams and Jean Harlow.
Though not as well known as Capra's later 1930's movies, the film's reputation has grown over the years. Though only a moderate success at the time.
Forbidden 1932 about a young librarian who falls in love with a married man while on a sea cruise, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Adolphe Menjou.
American Madness 1932 starring Walter Huston as a New York banker embroiled in scandal.
It was Capra's first collaboration with screenwriter Robert Riskin.
The film contains one zoom shot, which is notable for its use of the new three-element Cooke-Varo lens. OP hopes that means something to someone.
The Bitter Tea of General Yen 1933 starring Barbara Stanwyck and Nils Asther.
It was the first film to play at Radio City Music Hall upon its opening on January 6, 1933. It was also one of the first films to deal openly with interracial sexual attraction. It was a box-office failure upon it's release.
Lady for a Day 1933. A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day, based on Damon Runyon.
It was Capra's first Oscar nomination as a director, it was also nominated for a Best Picture Award, as was May Robson as Apple Annie.
It Happened One Night 1934, a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable).
In 1993, it was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
It was the first film to win the "Big Five" Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Writing).
Broadway Bill 1934, about a man's love for his thoroughbred race horse and the woman who helps him achieve his dreams. Capra disliked the final product, and in an effort to make it more to his liking, he remade the film in 1950.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936. A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
Capra won his second Oscar, and so far his biggest box-office hit.
A planned sequel, titled "Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington", became a Mr Smith instead.
Lost Horizon 1937. When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.
The film exceeded its original budget by more than $776,000 and took five years to earn back its cost. The serious financial crisis it created for Columbia Pictures damaged the partnership between Capra and studio head Harry Cohn.
In 1973, the AFI initiated a restoration of the film. The project was undertaken by the UCLA Film and Television Archive (under the supervision of Robert Gitt) and Columbia Pictures and took 13 years to complete. Although all 132 minutes of the original soundtrack were recovered, only 125 minutes of film could be found, so the seven minutes of missing film footage were replaced with a combination of publicity photos of the actors in costume taken during filming and still frames depicting the missing scenes.
You Can't Take It With You 1938, is about a man from a family of rich snobs who becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured, but decidedly eccentric family.
A critical and commercial success, the film received two Academy Awards from seven nominations: Best Picture and Best Director for Frank Capra.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 is about a newly appointed United States Senator who fights against a corrupt political system.
The film was controversial when it was first released, but successful at the box office, and it made James Stewart a major star.
Considered to be one of the greatest films of all time, the film was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1989, for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
It became the second-highest-grossing film of 1939 and was also the third highest-grossing film of the 1930's decade, only behind Gone with the Wind and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Columbia and Capra parted ways after this movie.
Meet John Doe 1941, which some consider Capra's most controversial movie. The film's hero, played by Gary Cooper, is a former baseball player now bumming around, lacking goals. He is selected by a news reporter to represent the "common man," to capture the imagination of ordinary Americans. It became a box-office hit.
Arsenic and Old Lace 1944, was a black comedy.
The contract with the play's producers stipulated that the film would not be released until the Broadway run ended. The original planned release date was September 30, 1942. The play was hugely successful, running for three and a half years, so the film was not released until 1944. It was a huge box office success.
During WWII directed several documentaries called Why We Fight 1942 to 1945.
After the war ended, along with directors William Wyler and George Stevens, Capra founded Liberty Films. Their studio became the first independent company of directors since United Artists in 1919 whose goal was to make films without interference by studio bosses. Intentions were good but only two movies was made, both directed by Capra. While not flops they didn't generate enough money to continue. Had they only known how popular one of them would become...
It's a Wonderful Life 1946.
The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his personal dreams in order to help others in his community and whose thoughts of suicide on Christmas Eve bring about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he touched and what the world would be like if he did not exist.
Theatrically, the film's break-even point was $6.3 million, about twice the production cost, a figure it did not come close to achieving on its initial release. Because of the film's disappointing sales, Capra was seen by some studios as having lost his ability to produce popular, financially successful films. It didn't make a loss though as some rumors have spread, it just didn't make enough.
State of the Union 1948 about a man’s desire to run for the nomination as the Republican candidate for President, and the machinations of those around him. Some call it a satire.
The film was Capra's only project for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was also the second and final film to be made by Liberty Films before it dissolved in 1951.
He directed two projects for Paramount, both starring Bing Crosby. It saved Capra financially, and a Crosby movie never lost money.
Riding High 1950 based on the same story as Broadway Bill.
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Here Comes the Groom 1951 is about a foreign correspondent who has five days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" won an Oscar.
By 1952, at the age of 55, Capra effectively retired from Hollywood filmmaking; he shifted to working with the California Institute of Technology, his alma mater, to produce educational films on science topics.
From 1952 to 1956, Capra produced four science-related television specials in color for The Bell System Science Series: Our Mr. Sun 1956, Hemo the Magnificent 1957, The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays 1957, and Meteora: The Unchained Goddess 1958. These educational science documentaries were popular favorites for school science classrooms for around 30 years.
A Hole in the Head 1959.
Frank Sinatra portrays a lowlife dreamer named Tony whose old friend Jerry Marks (Keenan Wynn), now a rich man, expresses interest in his plan to build a Disneyland in Florida (the film predates Walt Disney World by 12 years)—until Jerry notices that Tony seems too desperate when the latter cheers for a dog upon which he's bet heavily.
While only a modest success it gave the world the Oscar winning song "High Hopes".
Pocketful of Miracles 1961 based on the same story Capra once made as Lady for a Day. Capra bought the rights from Columbia and sold the idea to United Artists. Originally hoping Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Dean Martin and even Jackie Gleason would accept the lead, but when Glenn Ford offered to go in financially he got the role, and Ford wanted Bette Davis as Apple Annie, resulting in eternal bickering between Ford and Davis that Capra stayed out of.
Early role for Ann-Margret who won a Golden Globe, as did Glenn Ford.
In the mid-1960's he worked on pre-production for an adaptation of Martin Caidin's novel "Marooned", but he felt he could not make the movie on the $3 million budget he was given, and abandoned the project. (A film adaptation was finally made in 1969, directed by John Sturges with an $8 million budget.).
Capra's final film, Rendezvous in Space 1964, was an industrial film made for the Martin Marietta Company and shown at the 1964 New York World's Fair. It was exhibited at the New York Hall of Science after the Fair ended.
Published in 2000
Published in 2011
Thanks for watching!
Opinions of all kinds are welcome!
I know this became too long!
This year we celebrate his birthdate 125 years ago in a little village, Bisacquino, outside Palermo on Sicily, Italy.
Frank Capra (1897-1991)
In 1903, when he was five, Capra's family emigrated to the United States, traveling in a steerage compartment of the steamship Germania, the least expensive way to make the passage. For Capra, the 13-day journey remained one of the worst experiences of his life.
The family settled in Los Angeles's East Side (today Lincoln Heights) on avenue 18, which Capra described in his autobiography as an Italian "ghetto".
Living at home with his siblings and mother, Capra was the only family member with a college education, yet he was the only one who remained chronically unemployed. After a year without work, seeing how his siblings had steady jobs, he felt he was a failure, which led to bouts of depression.
At 25, Capra took a job selling books written and published by American philosopher Elbert Hubbard. Capra recalled that he "hated being a peasant, being a scrounging new kid trapped in the Sicilian ghetto of Los Angeles. ... All I had was cockiness—and let me tell you that gets you a long way."
During his book sales efforts—and nearly broke—Capra read a newspaper article about a new movie studio opening in San Francisco. Capra phoned them saying he had moved from Hollywood, and falsely implied that he had experience in the budding film industry. Capra's only prior exposure in films was in 1915 while attending Manual Arts High School. The studio's founder, Walter Montague, was nonetheless impressed by Capra and offered him $75 to direct a one-reel silent film. Capra, with the help of a cameraman, made the film in two days and cast it with amateurs.
After a lot of other false starts he at last directed his first feature length movie.
Produced and starring silent superstar Harry Langdon, The Strong Man 1926 was huge success. Said to be Langdon's best.
Long Pants 1927 also staring and produced by Harry Langdon. A friction grew between Landon and Capra and Capra was fired, said to be the worst move ever by Langdon since his career went downhill from there.
For independent producer Robert Kane he made For the Love of Mike 1927, a silent romantic drama that might be good, we don't know since the movie is lost. Claudette Colbert made her film debut here. Capra himself considered it his first flop, that despite of the frictions of the Langdon movies they where huge hits.
Moving over to a small studio, Columbia Pictures, considered a poverty row studio at the time, he got a new sort of creative freedom and helped that studio to rise from poverty row to one of the big and important studious, Capra's part in that is important, but it took a few steps, one at a time.
That Certain Thing 1928 starring Viola Dana. This movie is not lost. Some prints survive, but are spread over the world.
So This is Love? 1928 another silent, starring Shirley Mason.
The Matinee Idol 1928, said to have been restored from pints found at Cinémathèque Française and Cineteca di Bologna in 1997. The movie was a huge hit in France since Bessie Love was a huge star there during the silent days.
The Way of the Strong 1928 was a silent crime drama. The film survives through a print held in the collection of Sony Pictures Entertainment (formerly called Columbia Pictures Entertainment)
Say it with Sables 1928 a drama that is considered lost, except a trailer.
Submarine 1928, action drama starring the man among men at the time Jack Holt.
This was Capra's first attempt to make an "A-picture". Released with a synchronized music score and sound effects.
The Power of the Press 1928, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as an aspiring newspaper reporter and Jobyna Ralston as a young woman suspected of murder.
In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The Younger Generation 1929 was made partly in sound.
It was Capra's first sound film. While mostly silent, the film has talking sequences, as well as a synchronized music score and sound effects.
The Donovan Affair 1929, a Pre-Code comedic murder-mystery.
Its original soundtrack, recorded on soundtrack discs, has been lost, although it has been recreated for live performances.
Flight 1929, adventure and aviation.
Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation.
It did very well at the box-office, even if critics were lukewarm. Largely forgotten today, Jack Holt was a box-office attraction once.
Ladies of Leisure 1930 starring Barbara Stanwyck.
When filming began, Capra quickly learned Stanwyck was unlike any actress he previously had directed. The success of the film made Stanwyck a star.
Rain or Shine 1930 started as a musical. Due to the public backlash against musical films (beginning in the latter part of the summer of 1930), all musical numbers were discarded before release. This move proved to be prudent as the film was a box office success, continuing the streak of hits Capra directed for the young Columbia Pictures studio.
Dirigible 1931 adventure movie focusing on the competition between naval fixed-wing and airship pilots to reach the South Pole by air.
It has been called marginally Science Fiction like. Capra later planned to make a fully science fictional movie but was never able to.
It had the biggest budget so far in Columbia history, costing a shocking $650,000!.
It was Capra's and Columbia's first film to be given prominence with a premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
The Miracle Woman 1931, a pre-code romance starring Barbara Stanwyck. Having grown cynical about religion, she teams up with a con man and performs fake miracles for profit.
Platinum Blonde 1931,starring Loretta Young, Robert Williams and Jean Harlow.
Though not as well known as Capra's later 1930's movies, the film's reputation has grown over the years. Though only a moderate success at the time.
Forbidden 1932 about a young librarian who falls in love with a married man while on a sea cruise, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Adolphe Menjou.
American Madness 1932 starring Walter Huston as a New York banker embroiled in scandal.
It was Capra's first collaboration with screenwriter Robert Riskin.
The film contains one zoom shot, which is notable for its use of the new three-element Cooke-Varo lens. OP hopes that means something to someone.
The Bitter Tea of General Yen 1933 starring Barbara Stanwyck and Nils Asther.
It was the first film to play at Radio City Music Hall upon its opening on January 6, 1933. It was also one of the first films to deal openly with interracial sexual attraction. It was a box-office failure upon it's release.
Lady for a Day 1933. A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day, based on Damon Runyon.
It was Capra's first Oscar nomination as a director, it was also nominated for a Best Picture Award, as was May Robson as Apple Annie.
It Happened One Night 1934, a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable).
In 1993, it was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
It was the first film to win the "Big Five" Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Writing).
Broadway Bill 1934, about a man's love for his thoroughbred race horse and the woman who helps him achieve his dreams. Capra disliked the final product, and in an effort to make it more to his liking, he remade the film in 1950.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936. A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
Capra won his second Oscar, and so far his biggest box-office hit.
A planned sequel, titled "Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington", became a Mr Smith instead.
Lost Horizon 1937. When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.
The film exceeded its original budget by more than $776,000 and took five years to earn back its cost. The serious financial crisis it created for Columbia Pictures damaged the partnership between Capra and studio head Harry Cohn.
In 1973, the AFI initiated a restoration of the film. The project was undertaken by the UCLA Film and Television Archive (under the supervision of Robert Gitt) and Columbia Pictures and took 13 years to complete. Although all 132 minutes of the original soundtrack were recovered, only 125 minutes of film could be found, so the seven minutes of missing film footage were replaced with a combination of publicity photos of the actors in costume taken during filming and still frames depicting the missing scenes.
You Can't Take It With You 1938, is about a man from a family of rich snobs who becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured, but decidedly eccentric family.
A critical and commercial success, the film received two Academy Awards from seven nominations: Best Picture and Best Director for Frank Capra.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 is about a newly appointed United States Senator who fights against a corrupt political system.
The film was controversial when it was first released, but successful at the box office, and it made James Stewart a major star.
Considered to be one of the greatest films of all time, the film was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1989, for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
It became the second-highest-grossing film of 1939 and was also the third highest-grossing film of the 1930's decade, only behind Gone with the Wind and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Columbia and Capra parted ways after this movie.
Meet John Doe 1941, which some consider Capra's most controversial movie. The film's hero, played by Gary Cooper, is a former baseball player now bumming around, lacking goals. He is selected by a news reporter to represent the "common man," to capture the imagination of ordinary Americans. It became a box-office hit.
Arsenic and Old Lace 1944, was a black comedy.
The contract with the play's producers stipulated that the film would not be released until the Broadway run ended. The original planned release date was September 30, 1942. The play was hugely successful, running for three and a half years, so the film was not released until 1944. It was a huge box office success.
During WWII directed several documentaries called Why We Fight 1942 to 1945.
After the war ended, along with directors William Wyler and George Stevens, Capra founded Liberty Films. Their studio became the first independent company of directors since United Artists in 1919 whose goal was to make films without interference by studio bosses. Intentions were good but only two movies was made, both directed by Capra. While not flops they didn't generate enough money to continue. Had they only known how popular one of them would become...
It's a Wonderful Life 1946.
The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his personal dreams in order to help others in his community and whose thoughts of suicide on Christmas Eve bring about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he touched and what the world would be like if he did not exist.
Theatrically, the film's break-even point was $6.3 million, about twice the production cost, a figure it did not come close to achieving on its initial release. Because of the film's disappointing sales, Capra was seen by some studios as having lost his ability to produce popular, financially successful films. It didn't make a loss though as some rumors have spread, it just didn't make enough.
State of the Union 1948 about a man’s desire to run for the nomination as the Republican candidate for President, and the machinations of those around him. Some call it a satire.
The film was Capra's only project for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was also the second and final film to be made by Liberty Films before it dissolved in 1951.
He directed two projects for Paramount, both starring Bing Crosby. It saved Capra financially, and a Crosby movie never lost money.
Riding High 1950 based on the same story as Broadway Bill.
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Here Comes the Groom 1951 is about a foreign correspondent who has five days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" won an Oscar.
By 1952, at the age of 55, Capra effectively retired from Hollywood filmmaking; he shifted to working with the California Institute of Technology, his alma mater, to produce educational films on science topics.
From 1952 to 1956, Capra produced four science-related television specials in color for The Bell System Science Series: Our Mr. Sun 1956, Hemo the Magnificent 1957, The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays 1957, and Meteora: The Unchained Goddess 1958. These educational science documentaries were popular favorites for school science classrooms for around 30 years.
A Hole in the Head 1959.
Frank Sinatra portrays a lowlife dreamer named Tony whose old friend Jerry Marks (Keenan Wynn), now a rich man, expresses interest in his plan to build a Disneyland in Florida (the film predates Walt Disney World by 12 years)—until Jerry notices that Tony seems too desperate when the latter cheers for a dog upon which he's bet heavily.
While only a modest success it gave the world the Oscar winning song "High Hopes".
Pocketful of Miracles 1961 based on the same story Capra once made as Lady for a Day. Capra bought the rights from Columbia and sold the idea to United Artists. Originally hoping Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Dean Martin and even Jackie Gleason would accept the lead, but when Glenn Ford offered to go in financially he got the role, and Ford wanted Bette Davis as Apple Annie, resulting in eternal bickering between Ford and Davis that Capra stayed out of.
Early role for Ann-Margret who won a Golden Globe, as did Glenn Ford.
In the mid-1960's he worked on pre-production for an adaptation of Martin Caidin's novel "Marooned", but he felt he could not make the movie on the $3 million budget he was given, and abandoned the project. (A film adaptation was finally made in 1969, directed by John Sturges with an $8 million budget.).
Capra's final film, Rendezvous in Space 1964, was an industrial film made for the Martin Marietta Company and shown at the 1964 New York World's Fair. It was exhibited at the New York Hall of Science after the Fair ended.
Published in 2000
Published in 2011
Thanks for watching!
Opinions of all kinds are welcome!
I know this became too long!