This autobiography is about 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.
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For those who know Frank Capra only through his movie "It's a Wonderful Life," this autobiography of the famous director will reveal a man of unsurpassed ego who could have broken his arm patting himself on the back. Frank Capra The Name Frank Capra was one of the small minority of really good guys, as demonstrated over and over in his autobiography: The Name Above the Title. In the thick of the bitter Hollywood striving from a very early age, we're treated to a picture of a nice guy finishing first, and that while he was still a very young man.
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THE NAME ABOVE THE Although Frank Capra () 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-scene force in the Director's Guild, the Motion Picture Academy, and the Producer's Guild.
Frank Capra in “The Name Although Frank Capra () 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.
Explore the fascinating life The art of Frank Capra is very, very simple: It's the love of people. Add two simple ideals to this love of people: the freedom of each individual, and the equal importance of each individual, and you have the principle upon which I based all my films. Capra expanded on his visions in his autobiography, The Name Above the Title.