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It Happened One Night (1934) was the first movie to win all five major Academy Awards: best film, director (Capra), screenplay (Robert Riskin), actor (Clark Gable) and actress (Claudette Colbert). Served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1935 to 1939. An Army colonel during World War II, he made a series of ...
22 de mar. de 1997 · Although Frank Capra (1897 1991) is best known as the director of It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Arsenic and Old Lace, and It's a Wonderful Life, he was also an award-winning documentary filmmaker as well as a behind-the-scene force in the Director's Guild, the Motion Picture Academy, and the Producer's Guild.
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4 de sept. de 1991 · He was 94 years old and lived in La Quinta, Calif., a suburb of Palm Springs. He died in his sleep, said his son Tom, executive producer of NBC's "Today" show in New York. Mr. Capra, the son of ...
Frank Capra (May 5, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian-American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s. Capra directed a total of 36 feature-length films (34 of which are known to survive) and 16 documentary films during his lifetime.
18 de jun. de 2018 · In later years, Frank Capra made an important contribution to Caltech—a part of his 1,100-acre Red Mountain ranch in San Diego County. The ranch house and its five adjoining acres were acquired by Caltech to be used as a retreat by campus organizations, including the Caltech Y. Caltech honored Capra with its Distinguished Alumni Award in 1966 ...
19 de may. de 2024 · Capra's Filmography; Brief Biography of Frank Capra. Frank Capra's work has become so well-known and respected that it is today used as a yardstick by which critics and the public measure a certain type of purely American film comedy. Capra was born in Bisacquino, Sicily, on May 18, 1897, and immigrated to the United States when he was five.
3 de sept. de 1991 · Frank Capra was born in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, on May 18, 1897, the youngest of Salvatore and Sarah Nicolas Capra's seven children. His father was a fruitgrower. When Frank was six years old his family left Sicily for the United States, ending up in Los Angeles, California. Capra fought to go to college against his parents' wishes, working ...
