User
Frank Capra
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birth date
1897-05-18
Day of Death
1991-09-03 (94)
Place of Birth
Bisacquino, Sicilia, Italia
Biography
Frank Russell Capra was a 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), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). His films often deal with rags-to-riches stories wich has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified".
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