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Tag Archives: Frank Capra
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 »
Forbidden (1932) Frank Capra, Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Read More »
The Matinee Idol (1928) Frank Capra, Bessie Love, Johnnie Walker, Ernest Hilliard
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. Read More »
Submarine (1928) Frank Capra, Irvin Willat, Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, Ralph Graves
Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. Read More »
Broadway Bill (1934) Frank Capra, Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Comedy, Drama
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Read More »
The Strong Man (1926) Frank Capra, Harry Langdon, Priscilla Bonner, Gertrude Astor, Comedy
A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from “Mary Brown”, an American girl he has never met. Read More »
The Miracle Woman (1931) Frank Capra, Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy, Drama, Romance
After Florence Fallon’s father dies unappreciated in the church where he preached for many years, she becomes embittered and loses faith. Read More »
That Certain Thing (1928) Frank Capra, Viola Dana, Ralph Graves, Burr McIntosh, Comedy, Drama
Molly Kelly wants to marry a millionaire. When she runs into Andy Charles, heir to a restaurant fortune, she jumps at the chance and marries him. Andy’s father if furious and disinherits them. Andy tries his hand at ditch digging to support his wife, but that doesn’t work out.
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