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1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry TraversThis is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt guiding force of a bank in ... More
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2. It Happened One Night (1934)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Claire McDowell, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson ThomasFrank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling today. Claudette Colbert ... More
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3. You Can't Take It with You (1938)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller, Spring ByingtonMoss Hart and George S. Kaufman's whimsical Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play You Can't Take It With You was transformed into a paean to populism ... More
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4. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee, Beulah Bondi, Eugene Pallette, Harry CareyFrank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal) roles. The film opens as a ... More
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5. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, Edward Everett HortonArsenic and Old Lace is director Frank Capra's spin on the classic Joseph Kesselring stage comedy, which concerns the sweet old Brewster sisters ... More
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6. Lost Horizon (1937)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Ronald Colman, Edward Everett Horton, H.B. Warner, Jane Wyatt, Sam Jaffe, John Howard, MargoIt took British author James Hilton six weeks to write his visionary novel Lost Horizon. It took director Frank Capra two years-and half of his home ... More
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7. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglas Dumbrille, H.B. WarnerWhen a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by one Longfellow Deeds ... More
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8. Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell, Peter FalkDirector Frank Capra's last feature film, Pocketful of Miracles is a Technicolor remake of his 1933 film Lady for a Day. A barely recognizable Bette ... More
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9. Lady for a Day (1933)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, Ned SparksMay Robson plays Apple Annie, a slatternly Broadway apple peddler. Annie has a curious setup whereby she is able to finagle other street merchants ... More
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10. Platinum Blonde (1931)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Jean Harlow, Louise Closser Hale, Donald Dilloway, Reginald OwenA rather bleak comedy-drama from Frank Capra, Platinum Blonde basically starts where Capra's later and much more buoyant It Happened One Night (1934) ... More
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11. Meet John Doe (1941)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring ByingtonList of all editionsThe first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with the end of reporter Ann ... More
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12. State of the Union (1948)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Florence Auer, Spencer Tracy, Irving Bacon, Katharine Hepburn, Art Baker, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Adolphe Menjou, Tom FaddenList of all editionsFrank Capra's only MGM film, State of the Union was adapted by Anthony Veiller and Myles Connolly from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Howard ... More
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13. Broadway Bill (1934)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Helen Vinson, Douglas DumbrilleList of all editionsJust after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway Bill. Warner Baxter plays ... More
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14. Prelude to War (1942)
directed by Frank Capra
List of all editionsPrelude to War was the first entry in the US War Department's Why We Fight series, a group of seven morale-boosing documentaries supervised by Lt. ... More
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15. That Certain Thing (1928)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Aggie Herring, Viola Dana, Burr McIntosh, Ralph GravesList of all editionsDirector Frank Capra's first feature for Columbia Pictures, the silent That Certain Thing stars Viola Dana and Ralph Graves. Dana plays a poor girl ... More
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16. Divide and Conquer (1943)
directed by Frank Capra
List of all editionsDivide and Conquer was the third of Col. Frank Capra's government-ordained Why We Fight series. Using newsreel footage and animated maps, Capra ... More
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17. American Madness (1932)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Walter Huston, Pat O'Brien, Kay Johnson, Constance Cummings, Gavin Gordon, Robert EllisList of all editionsBank president Thomas Dickson (Walter Huston) has instituted a lending policy that shows great faith in ordinary people but which also irritates his ... More
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18. A Hole in the Head (1959)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Carolyn Jones, Thelma RitterList of all editionsAlthough the main character, Tony Manetta (Frank Sinatra), in this light comedy tends to tip the scales towards being unbelievably unrealistic, the ... More
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19. Know Your Enemy: Japan (1944)
directed by Frank Capra
List of all editionsDirector Frank Capra is deservedly well known not only for his triumphs in Hollywood, but for the Why We Fight series that he created for the U.S. ... More
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20. Riding High (1950)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford, Frances Gifford, Raymond WalburnList of all editionsAnxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an "A" picture on a modest ... More
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21. Here Comes the Groom (1951)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith, Franchot Tone, James BartonList of all editionsHere Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially relevant" as previous ... More
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22. The Power of the Press (1928)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Jobyna Ralston, Philo McCullough, Robert Edeson, Mildred Harris, Dell Henderson, Wheeler OakmanList of all editionsPresently unavailable for public reappraisal, the biting and cynical melodrama Power of the Press would seem to be a precursor to such Frank Capra ... More
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23. The Matinee Idol (1928)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Bessie Love, Johnnie Walker, Ernest Hilliard, Lionel Belmore, David MirFor many years considered a "lost" Frank Capra silent, The Matinee Idol was restored in the mid-1990s to very nearly its entire 60-minute length. ... More
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24. Long Pants (1927)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Harry Langdon, Gladys Brockwell, Al Roscoe, Alma Bennett, Priscilla Bonner, Frankie DarroList of all editionsFew comedies of the 1920s were as bizarre and surreal as Harry Langdon's Long Pants. Having recently come of age, small-town-boy Langdon aspires to ... More
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25. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
directed by Frank Capra
featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Gavin Gordon, Toshia Mori, Walter ConnollyList of all editionsThe Bitter Tea of General Yen is the oddest, least characteristic talkie effort of director Frank Capra. Barbara Stanwyck stars as the intended of an ... More







