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Liberty Films was an independent motion picture production company founded in California by Frank Capra and Samuel J. Briskin in April 1945. [1] It produced only two films, the Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946), originally released by RKO Radio Pictures , and the film version of the hit play State of the Union (1948), originally ...
Liberty Films was an independent motion picture production company founded in California by Frank Capra and Samuel J. Briskin in April 1945. The company produced only two films: the Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946), originally released by RKO Radio Pictures, and the film adaptation of the hit play State of the Union (1948 ...
Liberty Films was an independent motion picture production company founded in California by Frank Capra and Samuel J. Briskin in April 1945. [1] It produced only two films, the Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946), originally released by RKO Radio Pictures , and the film version of the hit play State of the Union (1948), originally ...
Liberty Films, probably the most heralded postwar independent production outfit, was the brainchild of Frank Capra who entered into a partnership with two other producer-directors, William Wyler and George Stevens. The founders of Liberty Films, with their spouces, at a party for General Omar Bradley.
May 24, 2024 · Liberty Films, founded in 1945 together with former Columbia chief producer Samuel J. Briskin and fellow directors William Wyler and George Stevens, was very short-lived; as early as 1947 it was sold to Paramount Pictures because of the failure of the film Life is Wonderful (1946), which, together with the subsequent The State of the Union ...
Technically, Liberty Films made one more movie after It's A Wonderful Life- the movie adaptation of the play State of the Union, also directed and co-produced by Capra alongside MGM and starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn, which came out in 1948.
Liberty Films was an independent film company owned by director Frank Capra and producer Samuel J. Briskin. The company produced two films; It's a Wonderful Life for RKO Radio Pictures, and State of the Union for MGM. Both films did poorly at the box office, which resulted in the company being bought by Paramount Pictures in 1947.
