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6 days ago · Frank Capra, American motion-picture director who was the most prominent filmmaker of the 1930s. His most-beloved films, many made during the Great Depression, were patriotic sentimental celebrations of the virtuous everymen who selflessly speak truth to power in pursuit of the common good.
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5 days ago · Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Frank Capra’s evergreen ode to American idealism, Mr Smith Goes to Washington has James Stewart playing the titular protagonist, a righteous man who takes ...
Jun 13, 2024 · Frank Capra: Mr America (2023) is an absorbing examination of a complicated man whose movies are regarded as simple life-affirming tracts. While the tone is largely laudatory, the 93-minute...
Jun 21, 2024 · Throughout his life’s work, the great director jostled with the push and pull of American ideals against the realities of American life. Here was a man who had been called a “little wop” by a major magazine at the height of his career.
Apr 11, 2024 · He could not be more mistaken. To his rescue comes the white-haired Clarence Odbody, Angel Second Class, eager after hundreds of years to at last “get his wings.”. The movie is celebrated for its wholesome virtues and old-fashioned American values.
Jun 12, 2024 · Meet the man behind the myth of the American dream. From It Happened One Night to Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Frank Capra was nothing short of legendary in the world of filmmaking and entertainment.
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6 days ago · Much clearer is Capra’s celebration of the strength of the American character, though it can be seen as both intensely patriotic and chauvinistic in its embrace of American exceptionalism.
