| International Standard Book Number |
9780063291133
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063291134
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| Personal Name |
Wasson, Sam, author
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| Title Statement |
Frank Capra : a life / Sam Wasson.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
739 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliograhphical references and index.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Frank Capra, the director of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It Happened One Night, and, supremely, It's a Wonderful Life remains one of the great chroniclers of the American heart, how we love, lead, dream, hope, and fight for our individuality. But Frank Capra was a more complex artist than is usually reckoned and a more complicated man than anyone knows. As his most famous collaborator Jimmy Stewart put it, "the best Frank Capra story is the story of his own life. It's got more highs and lows than a roller coaster. It's heartwarming. It's kind of hard to believe, really. And it could only happen in America." Like many great American stories, this story begins in Ellis Island where a penniless family of Sicilian immigrants arrives in 1903. Frank Capra's life goes on to take in the explosive growth of Southern California and the film industry, the depths of the Depression, the enormity of the Second World War, and America's uneasy post-war as an empire riven by a loss of unity. It is a life as shot through with both "moonbeams" and melancholy as that of his greatest creation, George Bailey. Capra is both the exemplar of American ideals, as in his truly vital work for Roosevelt's war effort, and of American failings, as in his informing during the McCarthy period." -- jacket flap.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Capra, Frank, 1897-1991.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Immigrants Italy Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Motion picture producers and directors Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General.
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