Capra in a sentence

Liberty Films, the production company co-founded by Capra in 1945, went out of business after just one more release (Capra’s 1948 drama ).

Capra 1971, p. 289. Cohn and Capra chose to ignore the negative publicity and demands, and released the film as planned.

Capra and Langdon later had a falling out, and Capra was fired.

Capra directed a film for MGM during this period, but soon realized he "had much more freedom under Harry Cohn's benevolent dictatorship", where Cohn also put Capra's "name above the title" of his films, a first for the movie industry.

During his acceptance speech for the AFI award, Capra stressed his most important values: The art of Frank Capra is very, very simple: It's the love of people.

McBride 1992, p. 197. Capra wrote of this period and recalled the confidence that Cohn placed in Capra's vision and directing: I owed Cohn a lot – I owed him my whole career.

Tiomkin had worked on several of Capra's previous films, and was saddened that Capra decided to have the music pared or toned down, moved, or cut entirely.

When director Frank Capra and writer Robert Riskin adapted it for the screen in 1938, the film won the Best Picture Oscar and Capra won for Best Director.

And yet this Irish-American filmmaker has never received the sustained critical attention paid to such peers as John Ford and Frank Capra.

Capra knew that at least one heart has to be broken and others will mend.

Cosmic Creation, from left, Sarah Capra, Tegan Bullard, Laura Brainerd, Claudia LaGuardia, Lynsey Tamposi and Emma Lorusso, will perform three chakra themed dances.

Despite his reputation for mawkish sentiment, the real Capra was no naif.

Frank Capra's idealistic and picturesque presentation of America became the acclaimed director's signature trademark, which makes 1944's Arsenic and Old Lace such an atypical picture for the iconic director.

Frank (It’s A Wonderful Life) Capra and Howard (Scarface) Hawks were going to become engineers, Edith Head – costume designer and winner of eight Oscars – was a Spanish language teacher before dressing the likes of Grace Kelly and Kim Novak.

There’s even hip hop based brunches with live DJs,” Capra said.

Sharing insight into the Elmo and Rocco feud, a writer for named Jen Capra explained on that the stone's involvement in the series shows that even "your favorite furry red monster" who is "good and sweet" can express like frustration and anger.

This made Capra the perfect model for the American filmmaker: hard-working, individualistic, moral, and aspirational.

Frank Capra’s evergreen romcom all but invented the love-hate formula that’s one model for silver screen chemistry, hoicking up Colbert’s skirt to flash a leg when they need to hitch-hike, and dismantling Gable’s smarmy defences.

Her birthplace – Glens Falls, settled 1763 – was named “Hometown USA” in 1944, and boasts every Capra-esque, Rockwellian hallmark of the American dream.

It was his collaborations with the great Frank Capra that helped turn that perception around, with the pair working on movies such as You Can't Take It With YouMr.