Frank Capra (1897 - 1991)

Sicilian-born American film director.

* May 18, 1897 Bisacquino, Sicily, Italy
 as Francesco Rosario Capra
 September 3, 1991 La Quinta, California



Vintage magazines

Photoplay, November 1930

Books by Frank Capra

Frank Capra
The Name Above the Title
New York, 1971

Books on Frank Capra

Eric Smoodin Regarding Frank Capra Eric Smoodin
Regarding Frank Capra, Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930-1960
Durham and London, 2004

Leland Poague (ed.) Frank Capra Leland Poague (ed.)
Frank Capra, Interviews
Jackson, 2004

Joseph McBride Frank Capra Joseph McBride
Frank Capra, The Catastrophe of Success
2000

Victor Scherle and William Turner Levy The Complete Films of Frank Capra Victor Scherle and William Turner Levy
The Complete Films of Frank Capra
New York - Secaucus, NJ, 1992

Barbara Bowman Master space Barbara Bowman
Master space, Film images of Capra, Lubitsch, Sternberg, and Wyler
New York, 1992

Lee Lourdeaux Italian and Irish Filmmakers in America Lee Lourdeaux
Italian and Irish Filmmakers in America, Ford, Capra, Coppola, and Scorsese
Philadelphia, 1990

Raymond Carney
American Vision, The Films of Frank Capra
Cambridge, 1986

Allen Estrin
The Hollywood Professionals, Volume 6 Capra, Cukor, Brown
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1980

Brian Geoffrey Rose
An Examination of Narrative Structure in Four Films of Frank Capra
New York, 1980

Chuck Maland
Frank Capra
Boston, 1980

Victor Scherle and William Turner Levy
The Films of Frank Capra
Secaucus, N.J., 1977

Charles J. Maland
American visions, the films of Chaplin, Ford, Capra, and Welles, 1936-1941
New York, 1977

Richard Glatzer and John Raeburn (eds.)
Frank Capra, The Man and His Films
Ann Arbor, 1975

Leland Poague
The Cinema of Frank Capra, An Approach to Film Comedy
South Brunswick, N.J., 1975

Donald C. Willis
The Films of Frank Capra
Metuchen, N.J., 1974

James R. Silke
Frank Capra, "One Man - One Film"
Washington, D.C., 1971

Richard Griffith
Frank Capra
London, [1950]

Books with substantial mentioning of Frank Capra

David Fantle and Tom Johnson Hollywood heyday David Fantle and Tom Johnson
Hollywood heyday, 75 candid interviews with golden age legends
Jefferson, North Carolina, 2018

Jonathan J. Cavallero
Hollywood's Italian American filmmakers, Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino
Urbana, 2011

George Stevens, Jr (ed.)
Conversations with the great moviemakers of Hollywood's golden age at the American Film Institute
New York, 2006

John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh
The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers, Volume I
New York, NY, 2002

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 2. Directors
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Andrew Sarris (editor) The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia Andrew Sarris (editor)
The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia
Detroit - New York - Toronto - London, 1998

Andrew Sarris You ain't heard nothin' yet Andrew Sarris
"You ain't heard nothin' yet", the American talking film ; history & memory ; 1927 - 1949
New York, Oxford, 1998

Duane Byrge, Robert Milton Miller The Screwball Comedy Films Duane Byrge, Robert Milton Miller
The Screwball Comedy Films, A History and Filmography, 1934-1942
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1991

Ann Lloyd (ed.) Movies of the Thirties Ann Lloyd (ed.)
Movies of the Thirties
London, 1983

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1983, A Survey of 1982 Films
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1983

Richard Koszarski
Hollywood Directors, 1914-1940
New York, 1976

Stanley Hochman (ed.)
A Library of Film Criticism, American Film Directors
New York, 1974

Books with an entry on Frank Capra

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Kay Weniger Das große Personenlexikon des Films Kay Weniger
Das große Personenlexikon des Films, Erster Band. A-C
Berlin, 2001

Glenn Mitchell A-Z of Silent Film Comedy Glenn Mitchell
A-Z of Silent Film Comedy, An Illustrated Companion
London, 1998

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1992, A Survey of the Films of 1991
Pasadena, Ca; Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Articles on Frank Capra

Vito Zagarrio, Re-Visioning Frank Capra, in: Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, and Art Simon (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film, Malden, MA, Oxford, Chichester, 2012

Charles Wolfe, Mapping Why We Fight, Frank Capra and the US Army Orientation Film in World War II, in: Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, and Art Simon (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film, Malden, MA, Oxford, Chichester, 2012

Joseph McBride, Capra Before He Became 'Capraesque', in: Sight & Sound, nr. 12, 2010 pp. 44-49

María Elena de las Carreras Kuntz, The Catholic Vision in Hollywood: Ford, Capra, Borzage and Hitchcock, in: Film History, vol. 14, 2002 pp. 121-135