#frank capra

oldhollywoodpicturebook:

“What many movie buffs don’t know is that George Bailey’s bleak Christmas Eve was actually shot during a series of 90-degree days in June and July in 1946 on RKO’s ranch in Encino, California. The days were so hot that Capra gave the cast and crew a day off during filming to recover from heat exhaustion. In the famous scene on the bridge, before he saves Clarence the angel from the dark, swirling waters below, a suicidal George Bailey is clearly sweating — although Jimmy Stewart’s wonderful acting convinces us that fear and dread might well be the reason for that.”

Behind the scenes of It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

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20th-century-man:

Priscilla Lane, Cary Grant / publicity still for Frank Capra’s Arsenic and Old Lace(1944)

365filmsbyauroranocte:

Films watched in 2021.

96:Forbidden (Frank Capra, 1932)

★★★★★★★☆☆☆

“If you love him and he loves you, what else matters?”

classicfilmblr:

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) dir. Frank Capra

The prairies, and wind leaning on the tall grass, lazy streams down in the meadows, angry little midgets of water up in the mountains. Cattle moving down the slope, against the sun. Campfires and snowdrifts. Everybody ought to have some of that, sometime in his life.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) dir. Frank Capra

filmgifs:

This is the first time I’ve ever been alone with a man.

It Happened One Night (1934) dir. Frank Capra

crudupbilly:

CLAUDETTECOLBERT & CLARK GABLE
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT(1934),dir. Frank Capra.

michaelcorleones:

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
1944, dir Frank Capra

You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading “the land of the free” in history books. Then they get to be men, they forget even more.
JAMES STEWART inMR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)

petersonreviews:

FromLost Horizon (1937), dir. by Frank Capra

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

wehadfacesthen:

James Stewart on the set of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939)

Clark GableandClaudette ColbertinIt Happened One Night(1934)