To hear Frank tell it (in a take maybe, just one frame from
reality), he was the one who innovated the "Me Director - Me
picture!" approach. And he was in, way before the golden haze and
daze settled. After a poverty-stricken childhood, an earnestly
fought and acquired education as a chemical engineer and a total
fluke as entrance to the art of "film." In fact he directed
successfully the first time he laid eyes on a movie set, only later
backing up to learn the rudiments. . . everything from watering
DeMille-type elephants to writing "toppers" for Sennett jokes. And
then he met Columbia's "Germ of the Ocean," Harry Cohn, traded
insults and settled into directing. He was the first into no makeup
for the actors and the foremost in the creation of "Lost Horizon."
He was a cocky, arrogant commander of his elements, subject to no
man, particularly Cohn, and he ended up directing documentaries for
the President and the likes of Sinatra and Crosby. His life was
more epic and memorable than his films, and his hot-shot
remembrances may place him somewhat near to, if not next to, the
immortals. (Kirkus Reviews)
Although Frank Capra (1897-1991) is best known as the director of
It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It
with You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Arsenic and Old Lace, and
It's a Wonderful Life, he was also an award-winning documentary
filmmaker as well as a behind-the-scenes force in the Director's
Guild, the Motion Picture Academy, and the Producer's Guild. He
worked with or knew socially everyone in the movie business from
Mack Sennett, Chaplin, and Keaton in the silent era, through the
illustrious names of the golden age. He directed Clark Gable, Jimmy
Stewart, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Jean
Harlow, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, and others. Reading his
autobiography is like having Capra sitting in your living room,
regaling you with his anecdotes. In The Name Above the Title he
reveals the deeply personal story of how, despite winning six
Academy Awards, he struggled throughout his life against the
glamors, vagaries, and frustrations of Hollywood for the creative
freedom to make some of the most memorable films of all time.
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