Frank Capra — Director (26)
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Submarine (1928) IMDb TMDB
Submarine
director: Frank Capra actor: Jack Holt / Dorothy Revier …
other title: Femmine del mare / Submarino
Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends acrimoniously. However, things change when one the men is in a submarine trapped beneath the ocean and the other, a diver, is sent down on a rescue mission.
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The Matinee Idol (1928) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Matinee Idol
director: Frank Capra actor: Bessie Love / Johnnie Walker …
other title: Il teatro di Minnie / Bessie à Broadway …
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.
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Ladies of Leisure (1930) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ladies of Leisure
director: Frank Capra actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Lowell Sherman …
other title: Femmine di lusso / Femmes de luxe …
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
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Forbidden (1932) IMDb TMDB
Forbidden
director: Frank Capra actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Adolphe Menjou …
other title: Proibito / Sehnsucht ohne Ende …
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. Lulu has a baby but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. Things get complicated when the editor gets the dirt on Bob, but also wants to marry Lulu.
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Platinum Blonde (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Platinum Blonde
director: Frank Capra actor: Jean Harlow / Robert Williams …
other title: La donna di platino / Vor Blondinen wird gewarnt …
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
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Lady for a Day (1933) IMDb TMDB
Lady for a Day
director: Frank Capra actor: Warren William / May Robson …
other title: Signora per un giorno / Milionária por Um Dia …
Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows up, Louise is led to believe that her mother is a society matron called Mrs. E. Worthington Manville. Annie worries that her lie is in danger of being uncovered when she learns that Louise is sailing to New York with her new fiancé and his nobleman father.
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American Madness (1932)
American Madness
director: Frank Capra actor: Walter Huston / Pat O'Brien …
other title: La follia della metropoli / Der Tag, an dem die Bank gestürmt wurde …
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
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The Strong Man (1926) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Strong Man
director: Frank Capra actor: Harry Langdon / Priscilla Bonner …
other title: La grande sparata / L'Athlète incomplet …
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. He becomes infatuated with her by long distance. After the war, the young Belgian journeys to America as assistant to a theatrical "strong man", Zandow the Great (Arthur Thalasso). While in America, he searches for Mary Brown... and he finds her, just as word comes that Zandow is incapacitated and the little nebbish must go on stage in his place.
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Dirigible (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Dirigible
director: Frank Capra actor: Jack Holt / Ralph Graves …
other title: Das Luftschiff / Le dirigeable …
Dirigible commander Jack Braden and Navy pilot 'Frisky' Pierce fight over the glory associated with a successful expedition to the South Pole and the love of beautiful Helen, Frisky's wife. After Braden's dirigible expedition fails, Frisky tries an expedition by plane. Unfortunately he crashes and strands his party at the South Pole. Braden must decide between a risky rescue attempt by dirigible and remaining safely at home with Helen.
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Rain or Shine (1930) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Rain or Shine
director: Frank Capra actor: Joe Cook / Louise Fazenda …
other title: Luci del circo / Pasa el circo
Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band of ragged shoeleather performers.
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Meet John Doe (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Meet John Doe
director: Frank Capra actor: Gary Cooper / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: Arriva John Doe! / Vi Behøver Hinanden …
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer (1943) WikiData IMDb Douban NeoDB
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
director: Frank Capra / Anatole Litvak actor: Knox Manning / Murray Alper …
other title: Diviser pour régner / Why We Fight 3: Divide y conquistarás
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.
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Why We Fight: Prelude to War (1942)
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
director: Frank Capra / Anatole Litvak actor: Walter Huston / Max Schmeling …
other title: Preludio alla guerra / Pourquoi nous combattons : Prélude à la guerre …
Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II. This film examines the differences between democratic and fascist states.
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Arsenic and Old Lace
★ 6.2 (5 ratings) director: Frank Capra actor: Cary Grant / Priscilla Lane …
other title: Arsenico e vecchi merletti / Arsenik og gamle kniplinger …
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby — killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
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Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain (1943) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
director: Frank Capra / Anthony Veiller … actor: Walter Huston / Frieda Inescort …
other title: La bataille d’Angleterre / Why We Fight 4: La batalla de Inglaterra …
The fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series of seven propaganda films, which made the case for fighting and winning the Second World War. It was released in 1943 and concentrated on the German bombardment of the United Kingdom in anticipation of Operation Sea Lion, the planned German invasion.