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Tag Archives: Frank Capra
Platinum Blonde (1931) Frank Capra, Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams
Reporter Gallagher loves reporter Smith who marries Anne. Read More »
The Power of the Press (1928) Frank Capra, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jobyna Ralston, Mildred Harris
The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he’s sent out to cover a murder. Read More »
Long Pants (1927) Frank Capra, Harry Langdon, Gladys Brockwell, Alan Roscoe
Harry Shelby receives his first pair of long pants. Read More »
Rain or Shine (1930) Frank Capra, Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda, Joan Peers
After her father’s death, Mary Rainey takes over the Rainey Circus Read More »
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Frank Capra, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers Read More »
The Younger Generation (1929) Frank Capra, Jean Hersholt, Lina Basquette, Ricardo Cortez
Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. Read More »
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capra, James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving of himself to the people of Bedford Falls. Read More »
Here Comes the Groom (1951) Frank Capra, Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith
Pete Garvey, foreign correspondent, has been running an impromptu adoption agency for war orphans in Paris Read More »
Pocketful of Miracles (1961) Frank Capra, Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange
Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York City as old Broadway itself. Read More »
American Madness (1932) Frank Capra, Walter Huston, Pat O’Brien, Kay Johnson
It’s the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson’s bank want Dickson to merge with New York Trust and resign. He refuses. Read More »
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Frank Capra, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life – including playing the tuba in the town band. Read More »
Meet John Doe (1941) Frank Capra, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed “John Doe,” Read More »
Lady for a Day (1933) Frank Capra, Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee
Apple Annie is an indigent woman who has always written to her daughter in Spain that she is a member of New York’s high society. Read More »
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Frank Capra, Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Mortimer Brewster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes against marriage. Read More »