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Frank Capra
Frank Russell Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an 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), Lost Horizon (1937), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr....
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It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night is an 1934 American comedy with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter ...
Initial release date:
- 1934
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Runtime:
- 105 min (63 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 325,000 (US$)
It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and loosely based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern.
The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man whose imminent...
Initial release date:
- 1946
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 130 min (78 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 3,180,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Frank Capra, based on the story Opera Hat by Clarence Budington Kelland that appeared in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post. It stars Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first...
Initial release date:
- 1936
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Runtime:
- 115 min (69 hs )
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Lost Horizon
Lost Horizon is a 1937 American drama-fantasy film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same title by James Hilton.
The film exceeded its original budget by more than $776,000, and it took five...
Initial release date:
- Mar 2, 1937
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 132 min (79.2 hs )
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an American 1939 comedy/drama film starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra – his last film for Columbia Pictures, the studio where he made...
Initial release date:
- 1939
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Runtime:
- 129 min (77.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 1,500,000 (US$)
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 film directed by Frank Capra based on a play of the same name by Joseph Kesselring. The script was adapted by Julius J. Epstein. Capra actually filmed the movie in 1941, but it was not released until 1944, after the...
Initial release date:
- Sep 23, 1944
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 118 min (70.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 1,120,175 (US$)
Meet John Doe
Meet John Doe is a 1941 comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The film, about a "grassroots" political campaign, created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist and pursued by a wealthy...
Initial release date:
- May 3, 1941
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Runtime:
- 122 min (73.2 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Prelude to War
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Office of War Information (OWI) and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers...
Initial release date:
- May 27, 1943
Runtime:
- 53 min (32 hs )
Produced by:
State of the Union
State of the Union is a 1948 film adaptation written by Myles Connolly and Anthony Veiller of the Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay play of the same title. Directed by Frank Capra and starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, the film is Capra's...
Initial release date:
- Apr 30, 1948
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 111 min (66.6 hs )
Screenplay by:
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Broadway Bill
Broadway Bill is a horse-racing comedy film from 1934, directed by Frank Capra and starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy. In the UK the film was released as Strictly Confidential. The film was one of Capra's personal favourites, and he remade it...
Initial release date:
- Oct 31, 1934
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Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
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The Negro Soldier
The Negro Soldier was a 1944 propaganda film produced by the United States War Department encouraging African-Americans to join the armed forces and otherwise help the war effort.
The film begins with a scene of people arriving at a black church on...
Initial release date:
- 1944
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Runtime:
- 43 min (26 hs )
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You Can't Take It With You
You Can't Take It With You (1938) is a comedy film directed by Frank Capra adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The cast includes James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore and Edward...
Initial release date:
- Aug 23, 1938
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 126 min (75.6 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 1,644,736 (US$)
